Alicia Garza

The story of how she responded to the persistent message that Black lives are of less value than white lives by galvanising people to create change.

Sophie Lewis

A provocative compendium of the feminisms that are not so feminist after all.

Assata Shakur

A 1988 autobiographical book written in Cuba where Shakur currently has political asylum.

Audre Lorde

A collection of essential essays and speeches exploring race, sexuality, poetry, friendship, the erotic and the need for female solidarity.

Breanne Fahs

The most comprehensive collection of feminist manifestos, chronicling our rage and dreams from the nineteenth century to today.

Sonali Deraniyagala

Unsentimental, frank memoir of the impacts of a disaster on one person’s life.

Bell Hooks

Examination of the effect of racism and sexism on Black women, the civil rights movement, and feminist movements from suffrage to the 1970s.

Brittney Cooper

A book that reminds us why eloquent rage keeps us all honest and accountable, and that women don't have to settle for less.

Caroline Criado Perez

An impressive range of case studies, stories and new research from across the world that shows how the world is designed for men.

Catherine Rottenberg

The book shows how leaning in self-determinedly sidelines collective efforts to secure equality.

Chiara Bottici

A call for a decolonial and deimperial position and for a renewed awareness of the somatic communism connecting all different life forms on the planet.

Erin Wunker

Erin Wunker holds her own as an eloquent, very necessary voice in the ongoing discourse on gender politics.

Francoise Verges

This powerful manifesto argues that feminists should no longer be accomplices of capitalism, racism, colonialism and imperialism.

Gioconda Belli

A memoir of the Nicaraguan revolution and Belli’s life, working secretly for the resistance until she had to flee the country and live in exile.

Keeanga-Yanahtta Taylor

A collection of reflections from a group of radical Black feminists.

Joan Wallach Scott

This landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a trenchant critique of women's history and gender inequality.

Judy Cox

The inspiring story of how Russian women threw off centuries of oppression to strike, organise, liberate themselves and ultimately try to build a new world based on equality and freedom for all.

Karla Slocum

Succinctly written text that explores the Black towns that thrived in Oklahoma during the Jim Crow years.

Katherine Angel

This book helps open up the discussion about consent.

Katherine McKittrick

A new powerful interpretation of Black women's geographic thought.

Katrine Marçal

An engaging takedown of the economics that shows us how different, how much better, things could be.

Kenya Hunt et al.

A collection of original essays on what it means to be black, a woman, a mother and a global citizen.

Kristen R. Ghodsee

This book is about the links between female sexual pleasure and politics.

Leigh Claire La Berge

A memoir that reflects on corporate America.

Leta Hong Fincher

A story of how the movement against patriarchy could reconfigure China and the world.

Liang Hong

A story that recounts the forces that are undermining rural areas, and the helplessness of the people who live there.

Maggie O’Farrell

A memoir of the near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined O’Farrell’s life.

Alex Bollen

Incredible investigation of social expectations about motherhood.

Nancy Fraser

The book charts the history of women’s liberation and calls for a revitalised feminism.

Nancy Folber

This book explains why the work of caring for others is under-valued and under-rewarded in today's global economy.

Nivedita Menon

Feminism is not about a moment of final triumph over patriarchy but about the gradual transformation of the social field.

Patricia Hill Collins

The book sets out to explore the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals and writers, both within the academy and without.

Rafia Zakaria

A radically inclusive, intersectional, and transnational approach to the fight for women’s rights.

Rebecca Solnit

A collection of essays on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women.

Sara Ahmed

An examination of what we can learn about power from those who complain about abuses of power.

Sarah M. Broom

A memoir about the inexorable pull of home and family in the aftermath of a disaster.

Shami Chakrabarti

A powerful, urgent and timely polemic on why women still need equality, and how we get there.

Sheila Rowbotham

A groundbreaking contribution to debates on women's oppression and consciousness, and the connections between socialism and feminism.

Shirley Chisholm

An amazing insight into how Shirley Chisholm grew from a young girl from Brooklyn, to become America's first African American congresswoman.

Silvia Federici

Published in 2004, the book is among the most important works to explore gender and the family during the primitive accumulation of capital.

Simone de Beauvoir

This seminal text is a historical account of women's disadvantaged position in society.

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

An extensive study of the role of Southern white women in the plantation economy and slave-market system.

Stella Dadzie

The story of the enslaved West Indian women in the struggle for freedom.

Stefan Bollman

A compelling selection of paintings, drawings, prints and photographs of women reading through the ages.

Svetlana Alexievich

This oral history of women in World War II chronicles the experiences of the Soviet women who fought on the front lines, on the home front, and in the occupied territories.

Veronica Gago

Leader of Latin America’s powerful new women’s movement rethinks the meaning of feminist politics.

Virginia Woolf

A key work of feminist literary criticism.