Most books can be ordered online at News from Nowhere Radical and Community Bookshop, which is run by a women’s cooperative. When available we have linked to NFN and otherwise to bookshop.org. Other booksellers are available.
End of Equality by Beatrix Campbell [9780857421135]
Among liberal thinkers, there is an optimistic belief that men and women are on a cultural journey toward equality. But observation and evidence tell us that in many ways this progress has stopped – and in some cases even reversed. Beatrix Campbell, argues that even as the patriarchy has lost some of its legitimacy, new inequalities are emerging in our culture.
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by
From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplaces, and the media. Invisible Women reveals how in a world built for and by men we are systematically ignoring half of the population, often with disastrous consequences.
Do It Like a Woman … and Change the Worldby
Doing anything ‘like a woman’ used to be an insult. Now, as the women in this book show, it means being brave, speaking out, and taking risks, changing the world one step at a time.
Drawing extensively on her own experiences and her deep understanding of the often masked realities of sexual politics, here is one remarkable author’s exploration of what it means to be a woman now – an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists.
Drawing liberally from history, literature and popular culture, past and present, Germaine Greer’s searing examination of women’s oppression is at once an important social commentary and a passionately argued masterpiece of polemic.
Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Women’s Trauma Against Them by Dr
Women have long been pathologized, locked up and medicated for not conforming to whichever norms or stereotypes are expected of them in that time and space. Sexy But Psycho is a challenging and uncomfortable book which seeks to explore the way professionals and society at large pathologize and sexualise women and girls.
Sexual Politicsby
Identifying patriarchy as a socially conditioned belief system masquerading as nature, Millett demonstrates in detail how its attitudes and systems penetrate literature, philosophy, psychology, and politics. A new introduction to this edition draws attention to some of the forms patriarchy has taken recently in consolidating its oppressive and dangerous control.
Everyday Sexismby
‘From being harassed and wolf-whistled at on the street, to discrimination in the workplace and serious sexual assault, it is clear that sexism had become normalised. But Bates inspires women to lead a real change and writes this ‘extremely powerful book that could, and should, win hearts and minds right across the spectrum’ (Financial Times).
Fix the System, Not the Womenby
Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. For not demanding a seat at the table. For not overcoming the odds that are stacked against them. This distracts us from the real problem: the failings and biases of a society that was not built for women.
Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminismby
Mary Daly’s Intergalactic Introduction explores her process as a Crafty Pirate on the Journey of Writing Gyn/Ecology and reveals the autobiographical context of this “Thunderbolt of Rage” that she first hurled against the patriarchs in 1979 and hurled again in the Re-Surging Movement of Radical Feminism in the Be-Dazzling Nineties.
Not Dead Yet: Feminism, Passion and Women’s Liberation ed by Renate Klein & Susan Hawthorne [9781925950328]
Fifty-six women who participated in the Women’s Liberation Movement from the 1960s onwards describe how they have contributed in multitudinous ways across politics, the arts, health, education, environmentalism, economics and science and created wonderfully rebellious activism.