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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 39 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Can We All Be Feminists? by June Eric-Udorie (Editor)
    Can We All Be Feminists? - by June Eric-Udorie (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780349009889 | ISBN 10: 0349009880

    "The intersectional feminist anthology we all need to read" (Bustle), edited by a remarkable and inspiring nineteen-year-old activist who the BBC named one of 100 "inspirational and influential women" of 2016.   Why is it difficult for so many wom ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Guilty Feminist by Deborah Frances-White
    The Guilty Feminist - by Deborah Frances-White

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780349010120 | ISBN 10: 0349010129

    In 2015 I described myself as 'guilty feminist' for the first time. My goals were noble but my concerns were trivial. I desperately wanted to close the pay gap, but I also wanted to look good sitting down naked.   A funny, joyful, frank and inspir ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fight Like A Girl by Clementine Ford
    Fight Like A Girl - by Clementine Ford

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786073631 | ISBN 10: 1786073633

    An incendiary debut taking the world by storm, Fight Like A Girl is an essential manifesto for feminists new, old and soon-to-be. Online sensation and fearless feminist heroine, Clementine Ford is a beacon of hope and inspiration to thousands of w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults by Laurie Penny
    Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults - by Laurie Penny

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781408881583 | ISBN 10: 1408881586

    "I can't really think of another writer who so consistently and bravely keeps thinking and talking and learning and trying to make the world better"(Caitlin Moran) Smart and provocative, witty and uncompromising, this collection of Laurie Penn ... more

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  • Cover image of book Attack of the 50 Ft. Women: How Gender Equality Can Save the World! by Catherine Mayer
    Attack of the 50 Ft. Women: How Gender Equality Can Save the World! - by Catherine Mayer

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780008191146 | ISBN 10: 000819114x

    Cometh the hour, Cometh the women.   In this inspirational book, the co-founder of the Women’s Equality Party sets out compelling evidence for the social and economic benefits of gender equality and lays bare the mechanisms holding wome ... more

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  • Cover image of book Everywoman: One Woman
    Everywoman: One Woman's Truth About Speaking the Truth - by Jess Phillips

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786090065 | ISBN 10: 1786090066

    Shortlisted for the Parliamentary Book Awards 2017: the perfect book for International Women's Day.   If you’re thinking, ‘Jess, who?’ then I’m glad that there was something about ‘Everywoman’ and ‘truth’ that caught your eye. ... more

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  • Cover image of book You Sad Feminist by Megan Beech
    You Sad Feminist - by Megan Beech

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781911570103 | ISBN 10: 1911570102

    How do you feel empowered when depression leaves you powerless? How do you promote self-esteem when your internal critic always shouts the loudest? How do you change the world when you can't get out of bed?   In the second collection by t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear... And Why by Sady Doyle
    Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear... And Why - by Sady Doyle

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781612196480 | ISBN 10: 1612196489

    She’s everywhere once you start looking for her: 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 a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mother of All Questions: Further Feminisms by Rebecca Solnit
    The Mother of All Questions: Further Feminisms - by Rebecca Solnit

    £12.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781783783557 | ISBN 10: 1783783559

    Following on from the success of Men Explain Things to Me comes a new collection of essays in which Rebecca Solnit opens up a feminism for all of us: one that doesn't stigmatize women's lives, whether they include spouses and children or not; that br ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pimp State: Sex, Money and the Future of Equality by Kat Banyard
    Pimp State: Sex, Money and the Future of Equality - by Kat Banyard

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571278237 | ISBN 10: 057127823x

    Never before have prostitution, strip clubs and pornography been as profitable, widely used or embedded in mainstream culture as they are today. How society should respond to the rise of the sex trade is shaping up to be one of the Twenty-First Centu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West
    Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman - by Lindy West

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784295547 | ISBN 10: 178429554x

    A laugh-out-loud feminist memoir from one of the boldest new voices on the web.  'Women are told, from birth, that it's our job to be small: physically small, small in our presence, and small in our impact on the world. We're supposed to spen ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Womb of Her Own: Women
    A Womb of Her Own: Women's Struggle for Sexual and Reproductive Autonomy - by Ellen L.K. Toronto, Joann Ponder, Kristin Davisson and Maurine Kelber Kelly

    £31.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781138194977 | ISBN 10: 1138194972

    Gender and body-based distinctions continue to be a defining component of women’s identities, both in psychoanalytic treatment and in life. Although females have made progress in many areas, their status within the human community has remained unst ... more

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  • Cover image of book Everywoman: One Woman
    Everywoman: One Woman's Truth About Speaking the Truth - by Jess Phillips

    £14.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786330772 | ISBN 10: 1786330776

    If you’re thinking, ‘Jess, who?’ then I’m glad that there was something about ‘Everywoman’ and ‘truth’ that caught your eye.   Or you might already know me as that gobby MP who has a tendency to shout about the stuff I care abo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed
    Living a Feminist Life - by Sara Ahmed

    £24.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780822363194 | ISBN 10: 0822363194

    In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work.  Building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship in particular, Ahmed offe ... more

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  • Cover image of book How to Raise a Feminist: Bringing Up Kids with the Confidence to Change the World by Allison Vale and Victoria Ralfs
    How to Raise a Feminist: Bringing Up Kids with the Confidence to Change the World - by Allison Vale and Victoria Ralfs

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781472137081 | ISBN 10: 1472137086

    A lively and irreverent celebration of a new wave of non-combative, arms-wide-open feminism-for-all.  'We are all equally fascinating, equally valuable, equally capable of altruism, equally able to change the world for the better. That's fem ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Crunk Feminist Collection by Brittney C. Cooper, Susana M. Morris, and Robin M. Boylorn (Editors)
    The Crunk Feminist Collection - by Brittney C. Cooper, Susana M. Morris, and Robin M. Boylorn (Editors)

    £21.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781558619432 | ISBN 10: 1558619437

    For the Crunk Feminist Collective, their academic day jobs were lacking in conversations they actually wanted to have — relevant, real conversations about how race and gender politics intersect with pop culture and current events. To address this v ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley
    The Geek Feminist Revolution - by Kameron Hurley

    £11.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780765386243 | ISBN 10: 0765386240

    The Geek Feminist Revolution is a collection of essays by double Hugo Award-winning essayist and fantasy novelist Kameron Hurley.   The book collects dozens of Hurley's essays on feminism, geek culture, and her experiences and insights as a genre ... more

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  • Cover image of book False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton by Liza Featherstone (Editor)
    False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton - by Liza Featherstone (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784784614 | ISBN 10: 1784784613

    Hillary Rodham Clinton is one of the most powerful women in world politics, and the irrational right-wing hatred of Clinton has fed her progressive appeal, helping turn her into a feminist icon. To get a woman in the White House, its thought, would ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Call Myself a Feminist: The View from Twenty-Five Women Under Thirty by Victoria Pepe
    I Call Myself a Feminist: The View from Twenty-Five Women Under Thirty - by Victoria Pepe

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780349008455 | ISBN 10: 0349008450

    Twenty-five girls and women under thirty tell us why they call themselves feminists. Punchy, bold, urgent. A book for our times. Is feminism still a dirty word? We asked twenty-five of the brightest, funniest, bravest young women what being a fem ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Book for Her by Bridget Christie
    A Book for Her - by Bridget Christie

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099590842 | ISBN 10: 0099590840

    Bridget Christie is a stand-up comedian, idiot and feminist. On the 30th of April 2012, a man farted in the Women's Studies Section of a bookshop and it changed her life forever.   A Book For Her details Christie's twelve years of anonymous t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lean Out by Dawn Foster
    Lean Out - by Dawn Foster

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910924020 | ISBN 10: 1910924024

    A Guardian Politics and Social Affairs Columnist Urges Women to Lean Out If 1% Are Leaning In, What are the Other 99% Supposed to Do?  The backlash against Sheryl Sandbergs business advice book, Lean In, began before it was even publish ... more

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  • Cover image of book Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates
    Everyday Sexism - by Laura Bates

    £10.00   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781471149207 | ISBN 10: 147114920x

    Women are standing up and #shoutingback. In a culture that's driven by social media, for the first time women are using this online space (@EverydaySexism www.everydaysexism.com) to come together, share their stories and encourage a new generation to ... more

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  • Cover image of book Women in Dark Times by Jacqueline Rose
    Women in Dark Times - by Jacqueline Rose

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408845165 | ISBN 10: 1408845164

    Jacqueline Rose's new book begins with three remarkable women: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; GermanJewish painter Charlotte Salomon, persecuted by family tragedy and Nazism; film icon and consummate performer Marilyn Monroe. Together t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She
    Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's Learned - by Lena Dunham

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780007515547 | ISBN 10: 0007515545

    Lena Dunham, acclaimed writer-director-star of HBO and Sky Atlantic's Girls and the award-winning movie Tiny Furniture, displays her unique powers of observation, wisdom and humour in this exceptional collection of essays. If I could take what ... more

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  • Cover image of book Being Gorgeous: Feminism, Sexuality and the Pleasures of the Visual by Jacki Willson
    Being Gorgeous: Feminism, Sexuality and the Pleasures of the Visual - by Jacki Willson

    £14.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780762845 | ISBN 10: 1780762844

    Being Gorgeous explores the ways in which extravagance, flamboyance and dressing up can open up possibilities for women to play around anarchically with familiar stereotypical tropes of femininity. This is protest through play - a pleasurable misbeha ... more

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  • Cover image of book Feminist Surveillance Studies by Rachel  E. Dubrofsky and Shoshana Amielle Magnet (Editors)
    Feminist Surveillance Studies - by Rachel E. Dubrofsky and Shoshana Amielle Magnet (Editors)

    £17.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780822358923 | ISBN 10: 0822358921

    Questions of gender, race, class, and sexuality have largely been left unexamined in surveillance studies. The contributors to this field-defining collection take up these questions, and in so doing provide new directions for analyzing surveillance. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Separate and Dominate: Feminism and Racism After the War on Terror by Christine Delphy, translated by David Broder
    Separate and Dominate: Feminism and Racism After the War on Terror - by Christine Delphy, translated by David Broder

    £14.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781688809 | ISBN 10: 178168880x

    An examination of how mainstream feminism has been mobilized in support of racist measures.  Feminist Christine Delphy co-founded the journal Nouvelles questions fministes with Simone de Beauvoir in the 1970s and became one of the most influ ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Vagenda: A Zero Tolerance Guide to the Media by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett and Holly Baxter
    The Vagenda: A Zero Tolerance Guide to the Media - by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett and Holly Baxter

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784700430 | ISBN 10: 1784700436

    A funny, hard-hitting examination of women and the media, for anyone who has ever had niggling doubts about the sidebar of shame.   As students, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett and Holly Baxter spent a lot of time laughing at magazine pieces entitled t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Radical Feminism: Feminist Activism in Movement by Finn Mackay
    Radical Feminism: Feminist Activism in Movement - by Finn Mackay

    £19.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781137363572 | ISBN 10: 1137363576

    Feminist activism is enjoying a global resurgence. A new wave of feminists is taking to the streets in protest against rape, abuse, prostitution and inequality, and asserting a powerful new vision for women's liberation. The future of feminism has be ... more

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  • Cover image of book Voicing Demands: Feminist Activism in Transitional Contexts by Sohela Nazneen and Maheen Sultan
    Voicing Demands: Feminist Activism in Transitional Contexts - by Sohela Nazneen and Maheen Sultan

    £19.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780329673 | ISBN 10: 1780329679

    Voicing Demands is a collection of analytical narratives of what has happened to feminist voice, a key pathway to womens empowerment. These narratives depart from the existing debate on womens political engagement in formal institutions to examine ... more

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  • Cover image of book The End of Equality by Beatrix Campbell
    The End of Equality - by Beatrix Campbell

    £7.00   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780857421135 | ISBN 10: 0857421131

    Among liberal thinkers, there is an optimistic belief that men and women are on a cultural journey toward equality - in the workplace, on the street, and in the home. But observation and evidence both tell us that in many ways this progress has stopp ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Should All be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    We Should All be Feminists - by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    £5.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780008115272 | ISBN 10: 0008115273

    What does feminism mean today? That is the question at the heart of We Should All Be Feminists, a personal, eloquently-argued essay adapted from her much-viewed Tedx talk of the same name by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the award-winning author of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Femen by Femen and Galia Ackerman
    Femen - by Femen and Galia Ackerman

    £12.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780745683225 | ISBN 10: 0745683223

    'Ukraine is not a brothel!' This was the first cry of rage uttered by Femen during Euro 2012.   Bare-breasted and crowned with flowers, perched on their high heels, Femen transform their bodies into instruments of political expression through ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
    Bad Feminist - by Roxane Gay

    £13.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781472119735 | ISBN 10: 1472119738

    'Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink - all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I on ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Politics of the Body: Gender in a Neoliberal and Neoconservative Age by Alison Phipps
    The Politics of the Body: Gender in a Neoliberal and Neoconservative Age - by Alison Phipps

    £15.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780745648880 | ISBN 10: 0745648886

    The body is a site of impassioned, fraught and complex debate in the West today. In one political moment, left-wingers, academics and feminists have defended powerful men accused of sex crimes, positioned topless pictures in the tabloids as empowerin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Reclaiming the F Word by Catherine Redfern and Kristin Aune
    Reclaiming the F Word - by Catherine Redfern and Kristin Aune

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780326276 | ISBN 10: 1780326270

    Feminism is so last century. Surely in today's world the idea is irrelevant and unfashionable?   Wrong. Since the turn of the millennium a revitalised feminist movement has emerged to challenge these assumptions. Based on a survey of over a th ... more

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  • Cover image of book How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
    How to Be a Woman - by Caitlin Moran

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780091940744 | ISBN 10: 0091940745

    1913 Suffragette throws herself under the Kings horse. 1969 Feminists storm Miss World. NOW Caitlin Moran rewrites The Female Eunuch from a bar stool and demands to know why pants are getting smaller. Theres never be ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Equality Illusion: The Truth About Women & Men Today by Kat Banyard
    The Equality Illusion: The Truth About Women & Men Today - by Kat Banyard

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780571246274 | ISBN 10: 0571246273

    'Whoever says that prostitution is just ordinary work has never walked even a minute in my shoes, or any other girl that I know. Prostitution is actually a trap that most women believe for far too long'. Rebecca Saffer, former 'high-end call girl', i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fight Like a Girl: How to Be a Fearless Feminist by Megan Seely
    Fight Like a Girl: How to Be a Fearless Feminist - by Megan Seely

    £18.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780814740026 | ISBN 10: 0814740022

    A fearless vision for the future of feminism. By boldly detailing what is at stake for women and girls today, Megan Seely outlines the necessary steps to achieve true political, social and economic equity for all. Reclaiming feminism for a new genera ... more

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