50 Books like Feminist Theory

Feminism Is for Everybody

by bell hooks • 2000

Feminism is about ending sexism, not fighting men. A primer that opens the door to everyone.

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🤝 Intersectional Feminism 🗣️ Consciousness Raising 🩺 Reproductive Rights 💄 Beauty Standards 👶 Feminist Parenting

Feminism Is for Everybody 96%

Feminism is about ending sexism, not fighting men. A primer that opens the door to everyone.

by bell hooks 2000

4.16

29k+ ratings

🤝 Intersectional Feminism 🗣️ Consciousness Raising 🩺 Reproductive Rights 💄 Beauty Standards 👶 Feminist Parenting

Women, Race, & Class

by Angela Y. Davis • 1981

From abolition to abortion, the women's movement has a race problem it has never solved.

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🖤 Black Feminism 🧩 Intersectionality 🏥 Reproductive Justice 🏠 Domestic Labor 🌱 Abolitionist Roots

Women, Race, & Class 96%

From abolition to abortion, the women's movement has a race problem it has never solved.

by Angela Y. Davis 1981

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35k+ ratings

🖤 Black Feminism 🧩 Intersectionality 🏥 Reproductive Justice 🏠 Domestic Labor 🌱 Abolitionist Roots

White Feminism

by Koa Beck • 2021

Individual success or collective liberation: the choice mainstream feminism keeps getting wrong.

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🕰️ Feminist History 📢 Mainstream Feminism 🧩 Intersectionality 💼 Corporate Feminism 🏗️ Movement Building

White Feminism 95%

Individual success or collective liberation: the choice mainstream feminism keeps getting wrong.

by Koa Beck 2021

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2k+ ratings

🕰️ Feminist History 📢 Mainstream Feminism 🧩 Intersectionality 💼 Corporate Feminism 🏗️ Movement Building

Against White Feminism

by Rafia Zakaria • 2021

Feminism cast brown women as victims to play savior. The script is colonial, and still running.

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🔀 Intersectional Feminism 🪞 White Feminism Critique 📚 Feminist Theory ⛓️ Colonialism And Gender 🦸‍♀️ White Saviorism

Against White Feminism 95%

Feminism cast brown women as victims to play savior. The script is colonial, and still running.

by Rafia Zakaria 2021

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5k+ ratings

🔀 Intersectional Feminism 🪞 White Feminism Critique 📚 Feminist Theory ⛓️ Colonialism And Gender 🦸‍♀️ White Saviorism

White Tears/Brown Scars

by Ruby Hamad • 2020

White women's tears aren't vulnerability. They're a weapon, and purity is its shield.

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🧬 White Feminism Critique 🤝 Intersectional Feminism ⚖️ Racialized Patriarchy 📜 Colonial Legacies 🔗 Systemic Oppression

White Tears/Brown Scars 95%

White women's tears aren't vulnerability. They're a weapon, and purity is its shield.

by Ruby Hamad 2020

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13k+ ratings

🧬 White Feminism Critique 🤝 Intersectional Feminism ⚖️ Racialized Patriarchy 📜 Colonial Legacies 🔗 Systemic Oppression

Ain't I a Woman

by bell hooks • 1981

White feminism fought for women; black freedom fought for manhood. Neither saw black women.

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🖤 Black Feminism 🧊 White Feminism Critique ⛓️ Slavery's Legacy 🔗 Racism And Sexism 🧠 Black Political Thought

Ain't I a Woman 95%

White feminism fought for women; black freedom fought for manhood. Neither saw black women.

by bell hooks 1981

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🖤 Black Feminism 🧊 White Feminism Critique ⛓️ Slavery's Legacy 🔗 Racism And Sexism 🧠 Black Political Thought

Where We Stand

by bell hooks • 2000

Feminism and antiracism won't succeed until they confront the thing they most ignore: class.

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🤝 Intersectional Feminism 🏛️ Class Analysis ✊🏾 Black Feminism 💸 Poverty In America 🏚️ Housing Discrimination

Where We Stand 95%

Feminism and antiracism won't succeed until they confront the thing they most ignore: class.

by bell hooks 2000

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3k+ ratings

🤝 Intersectional Feminism 🏛️ Class Analysis ✊🏾 Black Feminism 💸 Poverty In America 🏚️ Housing Discrimination

We Real Cool

by bell hooks • 2003

Slave-era patriarchy, street culture, and the wound of black masculinity: why only love heals.

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🖤 Black Masculinity ⚪️ White Supremacy ✳️ Intersectionality ✊🏾 Black Feminism 🚹 Patriarchal Culture

We Real Cool 95%

Slave-era patriarchy, street culture, and the wound of black masculinity: why only love heals.

by bell hooks 2003

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1k+ ratings

🖤 Black Masculinity ⚪️ White Supremacy ✳️ Intersectionality ✊🏾 Black Feminism 🚹 Patriarchal Culture

Feminism for the 99%

by Cinzia Arruzza • 2019

Mainstream feminism wants more women at the top. Anticapitalist feminism wants no top at all.

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✊ Anticapitalist Feminism 🧹 Social Reproduction 🩺 Crisis Of Care 💼 Liberal Feminism Critique 🌍 Anti-Imperialist Politics

Feminism for the 99% 95%

Mainstream feminism wants more women at the top. Anticapitalist feminism wants no top at all.

by Cinzia Arruzza 2019

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8k+ ratings

✊ Anticapitalist Feminism 🧹 Social Reproduction 🩺 Crisis Of Care 💼 Liberal Feminism Critique 🌍 Anti-Imperialist Politics

Methodology of the Oppressed

by Chela Sandoval • 2000

The West just discovered fragmentation. The oppressed call it home, and they have a manual.

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408

🌍 Postcolonial Theory ✊🏽 Third World Feminism 🧠 Decolonizing Thought 🔍 Ideology Critique 📖 Semiotics And Power

Methodology of the Oppressed 95%

The West just discovered fragmentation. The oppressed call it home, and they have a manual.

by Chela Sandoval 2000

4.15

408 ratings

🌍 Postcolonial Theory ✊🏽 Third World Feminism 🧠 Decolonizing Thought 🔍 Ideology Critique 📖 Semiotics And Power

The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born

by Nancy Fraser • 2019

Progressive movements allied with finance, left working people behind, and the crisis isn't over.

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🏛️ Gramscian Analysis 💸 Neoliberalism Critique 🇺🇸 American Politics 🎭 Identity Politics ✊ Socialist Feminism

The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born Summary

The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born 94%

Progressive movements allied with finance, left working people behind, and the crisis isn't over.

by Nancy Fraser 2019

3.93

1k+ ratings

🏛️ Gramscian Analysis 💸 Neoliberalism Critique 🇺🇸 American Politics 🎭 Identity Politics ✊ Socialist Feminism

We Need New Stories

by Nesrine Malik • 2021

The stories we tell about free speech, gender, and national virtue protect power, not truth.

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996

🎭 Political Myths 📰 Media Criticism 🌐 Cultural Myths ⛓️ Systemic Inequality 🗣️ Free Speech Debates

We Need New Stories 94%

The stories we tell about free speech, gender, and national virtue protect power, not truth.

by Nesrine Malik 2021

4.02

996 ratings

🎭 Political Myths 📰 Media Criticism 🌐 Cultural Myths ⛓️ Systemic Inequality 🗣️ Free Speech Debates

How to Be Less Stupid About Race

by Crystal Marie Fleming • 2018

Racial ignorance is not innocent. A crash course in the history and theory that dismantle it.

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🏛️ Critical Race Theory ⚖️ Systemic Racism 📖 Racial Literacy ✊ Anti-Racism 🔀 Intersectionality

How to Be Less Stupid About Race Summary

How to Be Less Stupid About Race 94%

Racial ignorance is not innocent. A crash course in the history and theory that dismantle it.

by Crystal Marie Fleming 2018

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3k+ ratings

🏛️ Critical Race Theory ⚖️ Systemic Racism 📖 Racial Literacy ✊ Anti-Racism 🔀 Intersectionality

Full Frontal Feminism

by Jessica Valenti • 2007

Forty percent more likely to be poor: the numbers that prove feminism isn't done with you.

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✊ Third-Wave Feminism 📚 Feminist 101 🛑 Rape Culture 🪞 Body Image ⚖️ Reproductive Justice

Full Frontal Feminism 94%

Forty percent more likely to be poor: the numbers that prove feminism isn't done with you.

by Jessica Valenti 2007

3.86

8k+ ratings

✊ Third-Wave Feminism 📚 Feminist 101 🛑 Rape Culture 🪞 Body Image ⚖️ Reproductive Justice

No Is Not Enough

by Naomi Klein • 2017

Chaos as political strategy: its roots in neoliberal failure, and the coalition that can defeat it.

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🏦 Political Economy ✊ Progressive Activism 🌀 Crisis Politics 🌍 Climate Justice 💸 Economic Inequality

No Is Not Enough 94%

Chaos as political strategy: its roots in neoliberal failure, and the coalition that can defeat it.

by Naomi Klein 2017

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11k+ ratings

🏦 Political Economy ✊ Progressive Activism 🌀 Crisis Politics 🌍 Climate Justice 💸 Economic Inequality

Manifesta

by Jennifer Baumgardner • 2000

The next wave is hot pink, unapologetic, and political: feminism didn't die, it changed its look.

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🌊 Third Wave Feminism 💋 Reclaiming Femininity ✊ Everyday Activism 🔍 Consciousness Raising 🤝 Intersectional Feminism

Manifesta 94%

The next wave is hot pink, unapologetic, and political: feminism didn't die, it changed its look.

by Jennifer Baumgardner 2000

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3k+ ratings

🌊 Third Wave Feminism 💋 Reclaiming Femininity ✊ Everyday Activism 🔍 Consciousness Raising 🤝 Intersectional Feminism

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

by Reni Eddo-Lodge • 2017

Britain's racism is structural, not personal. Why not seeing race protects the design.

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🔗 Structural Racism 🇬🇧 British Black Experience 🪞 White Privilege 🔀 Intersectional Feminism 🛠️ Anti-Racism Practice

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race Summary

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race 94%

Britain's racism is structural, not personal. Why not seeing race protects the design.

by Reni Eddo-Lodge 2017

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101k+ ratings

🔗 Structural Racism 🇬🇧 British Black Experience 🪞 White Privilege 🔀 Intersectional Feminism 🛠️ Anti-Racism Practice

Against Our Will

by Susan Brownmiller • 1975

Rape as terror, not desire: the 1975 argument that made sexual violence a political question.

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🛑 Sexual Violence 🏛️ Patriarchal Power ✊ Radical Feminism 🌊 Second Wave Feminism ⚖️ Feminist Legal Theory

Against Our Will 94%

Rape as terror, not desire: the 1975 argument that made sexual violence a political question.

by Susan Brownmiller 1975

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🛑 Sexual Violence 🏛️ Patriarchal Power ✊ Radical Feminism 🌊 Second Wave Feminism ⚖️ Feminist Legal Theory

Essential Labor

by Angela Garbes • 2022

The invisible labor of mothering holds up the economy. It could also remake it.

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🧹 Care Work 🤝 Intersectional Feminism ✊ Anti-Capitalist Feminism ⚖️ Reproductive Justice ♿ Disability Justice

Essential Labor 94%

The invisible labor of mothering holds up the economy. It could also remake it.

by Angela Garbes 2022

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3k+ ratings

🧹 Care Work 🤝 Intersectional Feminism ✊ Anti-Capitalist Feminism ⚖️ Reproductive Justice ♿ Disability Justice

Living a Feminist Life

by Sara Ahmed • 2017

Feminism starts with a bodily sensation of wrongness. Living it means refusing to keep the peace.

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📖 Feminist Theory 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Feminism 🏛️ University Politics ✋ Political Refusal 🏠 Everyday Resistance

Living a Feminist Life 94%

Feminism starts with a bodily sensation of wrongness. Living it means refusing to keep the peace.

by Sara Ahmed 2017

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📖 Feminist Theory 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Feminism 🏛️ University Politics ✋ Political Refusal 🏠 Everyday Resistance

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism

by Kristen R. Ghodsee • 2018

East German women had more orgasms. The reason: they didn't need men's money.

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🧮 Feminist Economics 🔗 Political Economy 🏠 Unpaid Care Work 💰 Gender Wage Gap 🏛️ Welfare State

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism Summary

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism 93%

East German women had more orgasms. The reason: they didn't need men's money.

by Kristen R. Ghodsee 2018

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8k+ ratings

🧮 Feminist Economics 🔗 Political Economy 🏠 Unpaid Care Work 💰 Gender Wage Gap 🏛️ Welfare State

How to Be an Antiracist

by Ibram X. Kendi • 2019

Racist policies produce racist ideas, not ignorance. The only real options are complicity or action.

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🏗️ Structural Racism 📖 Modern Antiracism 📚 Critical Race Theory 🔀 Intersectionality ⚖️ Systemic Inequity

How to Be an Antiracist 93%

Racist policies produce racist ideas, not ignorance. The only real options are complicity or action.

by Ibram X. Kendi 2019

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120k+ ratings

🏗️ Structural Racism 📖 Modern Antiracism 📚 Critical Race Theory 🔀 Intersectionality ⚖️ Systemic Inequity

An Analysis of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique

by Elizabeth Whitaker • 2017

A 15-year reunion questionnaire exposed the misery no one was talking about, and a revolution began.

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✊ Second Wave Feminism 📖 Feminist Theory 🎓 Womens Studies ⚧️ Gender Roles 🏠 Domestic Ideology

An Analysis of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique Summary

An Analysis of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique 93%

A 15-year reunion questionnaire exposed the misery no one was talking about, and a revolution began.

by Elizabeth Whitaker 2017

3.49

43 ratings

✊ Second Wave Feminism 📖 Feminist Theory 🎓 Womens Studies ⚧️ Gender Roles 🏠 Domestic Ideology

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor • 2016

Police violence won't end with reform. The problem is the economic system behind the badge.

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🧱 Structural Racism ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 👮🏿 Police Violence 🫥 Colorblind Ideology 🏦 Capitalism And Racism

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation Summary

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation 93%

Police violence won't end with reform. The problem is the economic system behind the badge.

by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 2016

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2k+ ratings

🧱 Structural Racism ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 👮🏿 Police Violence 🫥 Colorblind Ideology 🏦 Capitalism And Racism

The Trouble with Diversity

by Walter Benn Michaels • 2006

The left traded class war for culture war, and the rich couldn't believe their luck.

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🏛️ Class Politics 💸 Economic Inequality 🏷️ Identity Politics 🏦 Neoliberalism Critique ⚖️ Wealth Redistribution

The Trouble with Diversity 93%

The left traded class war for culture war, and the rich couldn't believe their luck.

by Walter Benn Michaels 2006

3.59

516 ratings

🏛️ Class Politics 💸 Economic Inequality 🏷️ Identity Politics 🏦 Neoliberalism Critique ⚖️ Wealth Redistribution

Digital Dead End

by Virginia Eubanks • 2011

Access is not the problem. Power designs inequality into code, and the marginalized already know it.

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💻 Digital Inequality 🔬 Critical Technology Studies ✏️ Participatory Design 🏫 Popular Education 👩‍🔬 Feminist Epistemology

Digital Dead End 93%

Access is not the problem. Power designs inequality into code, and the marginalized already know it.

by Virginia Eubanks 2011

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72 ratings

💻 Digital Inequality 🔬 Critical Technology Studies ✏️ Participatory Design 🏫 Popular Education 👩‍🔬 Feminist Epistemology

Are Prisons Obsolete?

by Angela Y. Davis • 2003

Prisons are modern slavery, built for profit rather than safety. Reform only makes them stronger.

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⛓️ Prison Abolition 🏛️ Mass Incarceration 🕊️ Restorative Justice 🏭 Prison Industrial Complex ✊🏾 Black Feminism

Are Prisons Obsolete? 93%

Prisons are modern slavery, built for profit rather than safety. Reform only makes them stronger.

by Angela Y. Davis 2003

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31k+ ratings

⛓️ Prison Abolition 🏛️ Mass Incarceration 🕊️ Restorative Justice 🏭 Prison Industrial Complex ✊🏾 Black Feminism

Hegemony How-To

by Jonathan Smucker • 2017

Activist is a political dead end: it isolates movements, excuses sympathizers, cedes power.

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🧭 Movement Strategy 🗳️ Community Organizing 🧠 Gramscian Politics 📢 Narrative Strategy ⚡ Left Self-Critique

Hegemony How-To 93%

Activist is a political dead end: it isolates movements, excuses sympathizers, cedes power.

by Jonathan Smucker 2017

4.24

442 ratings

🧭 Movement Strategy 🗳️ Community Organizing 🧠 Gramscian Politics 📢 Narrative Strategy ⚡ Left Self-Critique

Feminism or Death

by Françoise d'Eaubonne • 1974

The planet is dying from male rule. A feminism content with equality won't save it.

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🌿 Ecofeminism ✊ Radical Feminism 🩺 Reproductive Justice 🏭 Patriarchy And Capitalism 💰 Anti-Capitalist Feminism

Feminism or Death 93%

The planet is dying from male rule. A feminism content with equality won't save it.

by Françoise d'Eaubonne 1974

3.55

187 ratings

🌿 Ecofeminism ✊ Radical Feminism 🩺 Reproductive Justice 🏭 Patriarchy And Capitalism 💰 Anti-Capitalist Feminism

Reveille for Radicals

by Saul D. Alinsky • 1946

Democracy requires organized conflict and leaders from the bottom. A 1946 manual, still unheeded.

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🤝 Community Organizing 🌱 Grassroots Democracy 👥 Indigenous Leadership 🎯 Self-Interest Politics ⚔️ Conflict As Catalyst

Reveille for Radicals 93%

Democracy requires organized conflict and leaders from the bottom. A 1946 manual, still unheeded.

by Saul D. Alinsky 1946

3.84

589 ratings

🤝 Community Organizing 🌱 Grassroots Democracy 👥 Indigenous Leadership 🎯 Self-Interest Politics ⚔️ Conflict As Catalyst

Teaching to Transgress

by bell hooks • 1994

Teaching as resistance: bell hooks demands a classroom that confronts power, not just transmits it.

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📚 Critical Pedagogy ✊🏿 Anti-Racist Education 🚺 Feminist Pedagogy 🌍 Multicultural Education 🌱 Holistic Education

Teaching to Transgress 93%

Teaching as resistance: bell hooks demands a classroom that confronts power, not just transmits it.

by bell hooks 1994

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13k+ ratings

📚 Critical Pedagogy ✊🏿 Anti-Racist Education 🚺 Feminist Pedagogy 🌍 Multicultural Education 🌱 Holistic Education

Le contrat racial

by Charles W. Mills • 2023

The social contract hid a racial one: whites as full persons, everyone else denied full personhood.

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🎓 Critical Race Theory 🧱 Structural Racism 👁️ Whiteness Studies 🏴 Colonialism 📜 Contract Theory

Le contrat racial 93%

The social contract hid a racial one: whites as full persons, everyone else denied full personhood.

by Charles W. Mills 2023

4.59

73 ratings

🎓 Critical Race Theory 🧱 Structural Racism 👁️ Whiteness Studies 🏴 Colonialism 📜 Contract Theory

Viral Justice

by Ruha Benjamin • 2022

The cure to systemic racism might be contagious: small everyday acts that replicate and spread.

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🕸️ Systemic Racism 🏥 Medical Racism 🤝 Community Organizing 🤲 Mutual Aid 🕊️ Restorative Justice

Viral Justice 93%

The cure to systemic racism might be contagious: small everyday acts that replicate and spread.

by Ruha Benjamin 2022

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🕸️ Systemic Racism 🏥 Medical Racism 🤝 Community Organizing 🤲 Mutual Aid 🕊️ Restorative Justice

Race Marxism

by James Lindsay • 2022

Critical race theory is Marxism rebuilt around race, and its goal is not reform but revolution.

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🏛️ Critical Theory 🗳️ Racial Politics ☭ Marxism 🪪 Identity Politics 🔍 Postmodernism

Race Marxism 93%

Critical race theory is Marxism rebuilt around race, and its goal is not reform but revolution.

by James Lindsay 2022

4.23

364 ratings

🏛️ Critical Theory 🗳️ Racial Politics ☭ Marxism 🪪 Identity Politics 🔍 Postmodernism

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • 2014

Genocide, not liberty, built America. The counterinsurgency tactics born here now circle the globe.

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🏚️ Settler Colonialism 🪶 Native American History 📚 Revisionist History 🕯️ Genocide Studies 🌱 Decolonial Thought

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Summary

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States 93%

Genocide, not liberty, built America. The counterinsurgency tactics born here now circle the globe.

by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 2014

4.37

21k+ ratings

🏚️ Settler Colonialism 🪶 Native American History 📚 Revisionist History 🕯️ Genocide Studies 🌱 Decolonial Thought

Read This to Get Smarter

by Blair Imani • 2021

Race is a 600-year-old invention. Gender is a spectrum. The unlearning you missed, in one primer.

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✊🏾 Anti-Racism ♿ Disability Justice 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Identity 🧩 Intersectionality 🧠 Unlearning Bias

Read This to Get Smarter 93%

Race is a 600-year-old invention. Gender is a spectrum. The unlearning you missed, in one primer.

by Blair Imani 2021

4.26

1k+ ratings

✊🏾 Anti-Racism ♿ Disability Justice 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Identity 🧩 Intersectionality 🧠 Unlearning Bias

Toward a Feminist Theory of the State

by Catharine A. MacKinnon • 1991

From rape to abortion: how the state enforces male dominance by writing male sexuality into law.

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✊ Radical Feminism ⚖️ Feminist Legal Theory 💋 Sexual Politics 🚺 Sex Equality Law 🚫 Anti-Porn Feminism

Toward a Feminist Theory of the State Summary

Toward a Feminist Theory of the State 93%

From rape to abortion: how the state enforces male dominance by writing male sexuality into law.

by Catharine A. MacKinnon 1991

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556 ratings

✊ Radical Feminism ⚖️ Feminist Legal Theory 💋 Sexual Politics 🚺 Sex Equality Law 🚫 Anti-Porn Feminism

The Mis-Education of the Negro

by Carter G. Woodson • 1933

America's most effective tool of racial control was never the police. It was the classroom.

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🏫 Black Education ✊ Racial Uplift ⛓️ Educational Oppression 🧠 Critical Consciousness 💰 Economic Self-Reliance

The Mis-Education of the Negro 93%

America's most effective tool of racial control was never the police. It was the classroom.

by Carter G. Woodson 1933

4.49

10k+ ratings

🏫 Black Education ✊ Racial Uplift ⛓️ Educational Oppression 🧠 Critical Consciousness 💰 Economic Self-Reliance

Lead from the Outside

by Stacey Abrams • 2018

The system wasn't built for outsiders. A tactical guide to hacking ambition, money, and power.

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✊🏽 Minority Leadership 🗳️ Political Ambition 🚧 Systemic Barriers 💰 Financial Literacy 😨 Fear As Fuel

Lead from the Outside 93%

The system wasn't built for outsiders. A tactical guide to hacking ambition, money, and power.

by Stacey Abrams 2018

4.24

7k+ ratings

✊🏽 Minority Leadership 🗳️ Political Ambition 🚧 Systemic Barriers 💰 Financial Literacy 😨 Fear As Fuel

In Search of Sisterhood

by Paula J. Giddings • 1988

Before it was two months old, this Black sorority was marching on Washington for women's votes.

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429

🏛️ Black Sororities 📜 Black Women's History 👥 Black Women's Clubs 🕊️ Racial Uplift ✊ Civil Rights Organizing

In Search of Sisterhood 93%

Before it was two months old, this Black sorority was marching on Washington for women's votes.

by Paula J. Giddings 1988

4.54

429 ratings

🏛️ Black Sororities 📜 Black Women's History 👥 Black Women's Clubs 🕊️ Racial Uplift ✊ Civil Rights Organizing

White Women

by Regina Jackson • 2022

Niceness, silence, white feminism: how white women uphold racism without raising their voices.

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✋ White Accountability 🔍 White Feminism Critique 🎭 Performative Allyship 🤫 Racial Silence 🦸 White Saviorism

White Women 93%

Niceness, silence, white feminism: how white women uphold racism without raising their voices.

by Regina Jackson 2022

4.46

5k+ ratings

✋ White Accountability 🔍 White Feminism Critique 🎭 Performative Allyship 🤫 Racial Silence 🦸 White Saviorism

Racism as Zoological Witchcraft

by Aph Ko • 2019

Racism is a ritual of consumption that devours animal and human bodies. Here's the exit strategy.

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⚖️ Critical Race Theory 🐾 Animal Studies 🧬 Human Animal Binary 🥬 Veganism And Race 🌑 Afro-Pessimism

Racism as Zoological Witchcraft 92%

Racism is a ritual of consumption that devours animal and human bodies. Here's the exit strategy.

by Aph Ko 2019

4.48

301 ratings

⚖️ Critical Race Theory 🐾 Animal Studies 🧬 Human Animal Binary 🥬 Veganism And Race 🌑 Afro-Pessimism

Cynical Theories

by Helen Pluckrose • 2020

How a philosophy that doubted all truth became an ideology that brooks no disagreement.

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🌀 Postmodernism 📖 Critical Theory 🏷️ Identity Politics 📚 Intellectual History 🎓 Academic Culture

Cynical Theories 92%

How a philosophy that doubted all truth became an ideology that brooks no disagreement.

by Helen Pluckrose 2020

4.10

6k+ ratings

🌀 Postmodernism 📖 Critical Theory 🏷️ Identity Politics 📚 Intellectual History 🎓 Academic Culture

Politics Is for Power

by Eitan D. Hersh • 2020

Political obsession is a spectator sport that cedes power to the people who actually organize.

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🏘️ Community Organizing ⚡ Power Building 📱 Slacktivism 📺 Media Criticism 🫂 Empathy In Politics

Politics Is for Power 92%

Political obsession is a spectator sport that cedes power to the people who actually organize.

by Eitan D. Hersh 2020

4.09

1k+ ratings

🏘️ Community Organizing ⚡ Power Building 📱 Slacktivism 📺 Media Criticism 🫂 Empathy In Politics

Consequences of Capitalism

by Noam Chomsky • 2020

The system that breeds inequality also engineers the discontent that threatens to bring it down.

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🏛️ Political Economy 📺 Media Criticism ✊ Anti-Capitalism 🏦 Neoliberalism 🗳️ Democratic Decline

Consequences of Capitalism 92%

The system that breeds inequality also engineers the discontent that threatens to bring it down.

by Noam Chomsky 2020

4.33

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Submission is trained, not born. Patriarchy teaches it through bodies, desire, and love.

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Submission is trained, not born. Patriarchy teaches it through bodies, desire, and love.

by Manon Garcia 2018

3.90

890 ratings

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#MeToo revealed the scaffolding of male entitlement. The dismantling depends on men.

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Women, Men, and the Whole Damn Thing Summary

Women, Men, and the Whole Damn Thing 92%

#MeToo revealed the scaffolding of male entitlement. The dismantling depends on men.

by David Leser 2021

4.02

460 ratings

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While King gave the speeches, she built the grassroots network that made the movement move.

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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement 92%

While King gave the speeches, she built the grassroots network that made the movement move.

by Barbara Ransby 2003

4.33

2k+ ratings

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Equality isn't just for women: a straight-talking guide for the guys who want in.

3.54

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♂️ Men And Feminism 🎭 Gender Stereotypes 🤝 Consent Culture 🔀 Intersectional Feminism 💼 Workplace Equality

The Guy's Guide to Feminism 92%

Equality isn't just for women: a straight-talking guide for the guys who want in.

by Michael Kaufman 2011

3.54

380 ratings

♂️ Men And Feminism 🎭 Gender Stereotypes 🤝 Consent Culture 🔀 Intersectional Feminism 💼 Workplace Equality

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How the word "meat" hides an animal, and the same logic hides violence against women.

4.00

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The Sexual Politics of Meat 92%

How the word "meat" hides an animal, and the same logic hides violence against women.

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4.00

5k+ ratings

🍃 Ecofeminism 📚 Feminist Theory 🐾 Animal Ethics 🍽️ Food Politics 🐄 Critical Animal Studies

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