Kind of book
Politics & society
-
Sex and Social Justice
A collection of fifteen essays in two parts, Justice and Sex, defending a liberal feminism grounded in universal values. Nussbaum argues that liberalism, properly understood, is radical for…
Started by The EditorsReply first (no replies yet) -
The Feminine Mystique
A work of social criticism that grew out of a questionnaire Friedan sent to her Smith College classmates for their fifteenth reunion in 1957. It opens with 'the…
Started by The EditorsReply first (no replies yet) -
The Dialectic of Sex
A manifesto of radical feminism, subtitled The Case for Feminist Revolution and dedicated to Simone de Beauvoir. It sets out to do for sex what Marx and Engels…
Started by The EditorsReply first (no replies yet) -
Toward a Feminist Theory of the State
A work of political and legal theory that gathers and extends arguments MacKinnon developed through the 1980s. Part One sets feminism against Marxism: as work is central to…
Started by The EditorsReply first (no replies yet) -
Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
A work of moral and social philosophy that asks what misogyny is and why it persists in societies that officially accept equality. Manne rejects the 'naive conception' of…
Started by The EditorsReply first (no replies yet) -
The Right to Sex
A collection of six essays, subtitled Feminism in the Twenty-First Century; the title essay first appeared in the London Review of Books in 2018. 'The Conspiracy Against Men'…
Started by The EditorsReply first (no replies yet) -
Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
The first full-length book by the American writer and teacher bell hooks, the pen name of Gloria Jean Watkins, published in 1981. Its title echoes the question attributed…
Started by The EditorsReply first (no replies yet) -
Women, Race & Class
A history of the American women's movement read through race and class by the activist and philosopher Angela Davis. It begins with slavery, arguing that enslaved women were…
Started by The EditorsReply first (no replies yet) -
Black Feminist Thought
A study by an American sociologist, subtitled Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. Collins argues that Black women in the United States have produced a body of…
Started by The EditorsReply first (no replies yet) -
Our America
A short political essay that the Cuban poet and independence leader wrote in New York and published in January 1891, first in La Revista Ilustrada de Nueva York…
Started by The EditorsReply first (no replies yet)