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  • Their Angry Creed

    by Herbert Purdy ...
    Forty-five years after women's liberationists first laid down their challenge, chanting 'Women demand equality!' and 'I'm a second-class citizen', their narratives are now so universally accepted that few people dare speak truth to the power in the land that feminism has undoubtedly become. However, this book does just that.ÂOpening with a startling revelation in 2014 by Mallory Millett, sister of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    And the Rise of Women

    by Hanna Rosin ...
    Essential reading for our times, as women are pulling together to demand their rights— A landmark portrait of women, men, and power in a transformed world.“Anchored by data and aromatized by anecdotes, [Rosin] concludes that women are gaining the upper hand." –The Washington PostMen have been the dominant sex since, well, the dawn of mankind. But Hanna Rosin was the first to notice that this long ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

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    by Alice Walker ...
    A collection of early personal and political essays from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple.Includes a new letter written by the authorWhat is a womanist? Alice Walker sets out to define the concept in this anthology of early essays and other nonfiction pieces. As she outlines it, a womanist is a person who prefers to side with the oppressed: with women, with people of color, ... Read more

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  • Little Black Book

    by Otegha Uwagba ...
    ‘Little Black Book is THE book of the year for working women with drive’ Refinery 29The essential career handbook for creative working women.‘A compact gem’ StylistLittle Black Book: A Toolkit For Working Women is the modern career guide every creative woman needs, whether you’re just starting out or already have years of experience. Packed with fresh ideas and no-nonsense practic... ... Read more

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  • Existentialism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Thomas Flynn ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Existentialism was one of the leading philosophical movements of the twentieth century. Focusing on its seven leading figures, Sartre, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty and Camus, this Very Short Introduction provides a clear account of the key themes of the movement which emphasized individuality, free will, and personal responsibility in the modern world. Drawing in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Trainwreck

    The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear . . . and Why

    by Sady Doyle ...
    “Smart ... compelling ... persuasive .” —New York Times Book ReviewShe’s everywhere once you start looking: the trainwreck.She’s Britney Spears shaving her head, Whitney Houston saying “crack is whack,” and Amy Winehouse, dying in front of millions. But the trainwreck is also as old (and as meaningful) as feminism itself.From Mary Wollstonecraft—who, for decades after her death, was more famous ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Modern Feminist Theory

    An Introduction

    by Jennifer Rich ...
    An explication of the major contributions to feminist theory in the late Twentieth Century, covering Initial Articulations of the 'Woman' Problem (Virginia Woolf; Simone de Beauvoir), Radical Feminism (Kate Millett; Shulamith Firestone; Radicalesbians; Mary Daly), Black Feminism (Audre Lorde; Alice Walker; Patricia Hill Collins), French Feminism (Luce Irigaray; Hélène Cixous; Monique Wittig; Julia ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Calypso Jews

    Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination

    Series series Literature Now
    In original and insightful ways, Caribbean writers have turned to Jewish experiences of exodus and reinvention, from the Sephardim expelled from Iberia in the 1490s to the "Calypso Jews" who fled Europe for Trinidad in the 1930s. Examining these historical migrations through the lens of postwar Caribbean fiction and poetry, Sarah Phillips Casteel presents the first major study of representations ... Read more

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  • Yearning

    Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

    by bell hooks ...
    For bell hooks, the best cultural criticism sees no need to separate politics from the pleasure of reading. Yearning collects together some of hooks's classic and early pieces of cultural criticism from the '80s. Addressing topics like pedagogy, postmodernism, and politics, hooks examines a variety of cultural artifacts, from Spike Lee's film Do the Right Thing and Wim Wenders's film Wings of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Women in Western Political Thought

    In this pathbreaking study of the works of Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, and Mill, Susan Moller Okin turns to the tradition of political philosophy that pervades Western culture and its institutions to understand why the gap between formal and real gender equality persists. Our philosophical heritage, Okin argues, largely rests on the assumption of the natural inequality of the sexes. Women cannot ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process

    Feminist Reflections

    Series series Transformations
    Feminist research is informed by a history of breaking silences, of demanding that women’s voices be heard, recorded and included in wider intellectual genealogies and histories. This has led to an emphasis on voice and speaking out in the research endeavour. Moments of secrecy and silence are less often addressed. This gives rise to a number of questions. What are the silences, secrets, omissions ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • PUSSY

    by Nikki Erin ...
    Free flow poetry detailing the multi faceted life of people with pussies and all that that entails. From sex and masturbation to periods and pubic hair, nothing is off limits here. ... Read more

    $8.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus