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Feb 21, 2024 · The best feminist books for 2024 are: Best feminist book overall – ‘We Should All Be Feminists’ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: £6.23, Amazon.co.uk. Best feminist novel – ‘Girl, Woman ...
Jun 19, 2023 · 10 books every feminist should read. From Gloria Steinem's memoir to the works of Audre Lorde, we round up the feminist titles to inspire and galvanise. From the seminal texts that kick-started ...
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- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. A gold-standard of feminist fiction and now a critically acclaimed TV series, The Handmaid’s Tale follows Offred, a member of the fertile, female servant class that is treated as breeding stock by an oppressive, near-future society — all in the name of replenishing the diminished population.
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. When Alcott told the story of Jo, Beth, Meg, and Amy in 1868, she may not have intended to write a feminist book; nevertheless, Little Women has danced its way into the hearts of feminists for generations.
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. Plath’s seminal novel tells the story of Esther Greenwood’s descent into mental illness in astute and haunting prose.
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. Morrison’s debut novel immerses us in the tragic, torn life of Pecola Breedlove — a poor, young black girl living in 1940s Ohio.
- Asking For It by Louise O’Neill
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Deathless Girls by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
- Angela Carter’s Book of Wayward Girls and Wicked Women, Edited by Angela Carter
- The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton
- The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
- The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish
- The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Dialectic of The Flesh by Roz Kaveney
- Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
Celebrated YA author O’Neill tells a devastating story of sexual violence and victim blaming, in this novel that was also turned into a highly rated play.
A classic of feminist fiction, The Handmaid’s Taletells the story of Offred, a woman treated as nothing more than breeding stock by an oppressive, fundamentalist society.
This contemporary Gothic novel reimagines the ‘dark sisters’ from Dracula, giving these two new vampires a voice that they never had in Bram Stoker’s original novel.
This collection of stories, edited by a titan of feminist fiction, celebrates women who defy labels like ‘likeable’, ‘pleasant’ or ‘nice’, and instead go for ‘cunning’, ‘clever’ and ‘interesting’.
Dhonielle Clayton’s debut novel, a fantasy story set in a world where appearances can magically be changed, isn’t just a gripping adventure – it’s also a sharp takedown of the dangers of the beauty industry.
This narrative nonfiction book deals with a groundbreaking battle to protect workers’ rights, health and safety. When the young women working for the Radium Dial Corporation in the early 20th century began to show signs of radiation poisoning, they started a legal battle for compensation that led to major changes in employers’ legal responsibilitie...
This very early feminist novel (and proto sci-fi story) was written by the Duchess of Newcastle in 1666, and follows the adventures of a woman who travels to an alien, utopian world.
Another early feminist classic, The Yellow Wallpapertells the story of a woman slowly undergoing a breakdown following extreme confinement as treatment for postnatal depression – and, frighteningly, was based on the author’s own experiences.
Roz Kaveney’s poems are well worth a read, and Dialectic of the Fleshis a beautiful exploration of queer and trans existence through verse.
A quintessential lesbian coming-of-age story, Rubyfruit Jungleis a novelised telling of Rita Mae Brown’s own experiences as a young lesbian leaving home and setting out as a filmmaker. As I mentioned at the start of this post, feminism is such a huge and wide-ranging subject that this list only makes up a fraction of the great feminist books out th...
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Jan 1, 2012 · August 19, 2024. We Should All Be Feminists is a very short non-fiction book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie about how all of us should do better to ensure that there is equality of gender. This book hit on some very important topics. Even today, society expects that men and women will conform to gender norms.
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Mar 1, 2024 · Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya and Nancy Fraser. This trio of authors, who helped organize the International Women’s Strike in the U.S., attempt to ...
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Feb 13, 2021 · Viking Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot, by Mikki Kendall. Now 66% Off. $9 at Amazon. In Hood Feminism: Notes From the Women That a Movement Forgot, writer and feminist ...
