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.
Deep Deception: The story of the spycop network, by the women who uncovered the shocking truth by Alison, Belinda, Helen Steel, Lisa, Naomi
Groomed. Gaslighted. Ghosted. They thought they’d found their soulmate. They had no idea he was spying on them. This is the story of five women whose lives were stolen by state-sponsored spies, and who, one by one, uncovered the shocking truth.
Pornography: Men Possessing Women by Andrea Dworkin
This strongly argued feminist case against pornography stirred tremendous controversy when published in 1979, and has lost none of its bite. Dworkin lobbies for municipal statutes declaring pornography a violation of women’s civil rights, insists that pornography links sex and violence by incorporating violent domination of women as a key element of sexual fantasy.
Sex Dolls, Robots and Woman Hating: The Case for Resistance by Caitlin Roper
Exposes the inherent misogyny in the trade. From doll owners enacting violence and torture on their dolls, men choosing their dolls over their wives, dolls made in the likeness of specific women and the production of child sex abuse dolls, sex dolls and robots pose a serious threat to the status of women and girls.
Cut: FGM in Britain Today by Hibo Wardere
FGM in the UK has gone undocumented for too long and now that’s going to change. Devastating, empowering and informative, this book brings to life a clash of cultures at the heart of contemporary society and shows how female genital mutilation is a very British problem.
Pimp State: Sex, Money and the Future of Equality by Kat Banyard
Prostitution is just work, porn is fantasy, demand is inevitable; so fully legalise the sex trade and it can be made safe. Kat Banyard contends that these are profoundly dangerous myths. Sexual consent is not a commodity, objectification and abuse are inherent to prostitution, and the sex trade poses a grave threat to the struggle for women’s equality.
Men Who Hate Women: From incels to pickup artists, the truth about extreme misogyny and how it affects us all by Laura Bates
Imagine a world in which a vast network of incels and other misogynists are able to operate, virtually undetected. These extremists commit deliberate terrorist acts against women. Vulnerable teenage boys are groomed and radicalised. You don’t have to imagine that world. You already live in it.
“He Chose Porn over Me”: Women Harmed by Men Who Use Porn by Melinda Tankard Reist (Editor)
Shattering the popular myth that porn is harmless, the personal accounts of 25 brave women in He Chose Porn over Me reveal the real-life trauma experienced by women at the hands of their porn-consuming partners; men who were supposed to care for them.