Best Feminism Books | Summaries & Audio

Feminism Book Summaries

Spells for Change

by Frankie Castanea • 2022

A witchcraft practice on your own terms: shadow work, self-care, and spells for real change.

4.12

500+

🔮 Modern Witchcraft 🌑 Shadow Work ✨ Spellcraft 🛁 Self-Care Rituals ⚡ Energy Work

Spells for Change

A witchcraft practice on your own terms: shadow work, self-care, and spells for real change.

by Frankie Castanea 2022 194 pages

4.12

500+ ratings

🔮 Modern Witchcraft 🌑 Shadow Work ✨ Spellcraft 🛁 Self-Care Rituals ⚡ Energy Work

White Feminism

by Koa Beck • 2021

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

4.24

2k+

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

White Feminism

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

by Koa Beck 2021 318 pages

4.24

2k+ ratings

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

Becoming Cliterate

by Laurie Mintz • 2017

64% of women orgasm vs 91% of men. The gap has one overlooked cause, and it's fixable.

4.26

2k+

🩺 Female Sexuality 📚 Sexual Education ✊ Feminist Sexuality 🔬 Sexual Anatomy 👐 Masturbation

Becoming Cliterate

64% of women orgasm vs 91% of men. The gap has one overlooked cause, and it's fixable.

by Laurie Mintz 2017 288 pages

4.26

2k+ ratings

🩺 Female Sexuality 📚 Sexual Education ✊ Feminist Sexuality 🔬 Sexual Anatomy 👐 Masturbation

Delusions of Gender

by Cordelia Fine • 2010

The brain science of gender difference, examined closely, collapses. A psychologist explains why.

4.08

11k+

🧠 Gender And Brain 🎯 Implicit Bias 🔄 Neuroplasticity 👶 Gender Socialization 🔍 Pseudoscience

Delusions of Gender

The brain science of gender difference, examined closely, collapses. A psychologist explains why.

by Cordelia Fine 2010 338 pages

4.08

11k+ ratings

🧠 Gender And Brain 🎯 Implicit Bias 🔄 Neuroplasticity 👶 Gender Socialization 🔍 Pseudoscience

Knowing Your Value

by Mika Brzezinski • 2011

Why you're paid less, and a direct approach to negotiating the salary you deserve.

3.80

4k+

🗣️ Career Negotiation ⚖️ Gender Pay Gap 🚧 Self-Sabotage 📢 Self-Promotion 💪 Confidence Building

Knowing Your Value

Why you're paid less, and a direct approach to negotiating the salary you deserve.

by Mika Brzezinski 2011 208 pages

3.80

4k+ ratings

🗣️ Career Negotiation ⚖️ Gender Pay Gap 🚧 Self-Sabotage 📢 Self-Promotion 💪 Confidence Building

The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe, 6500-3500 BC.

by Marija Gimbutas • 1982

Clay figurines from 7,000 years ago reveal a civilization that worshipped goddesses, not kings.

4.25

377

🏺 Prehistoric Europe 🌙 Goddess Worship 🔍 Ritual Archaeology ♀️ Matrifocal Societies 🌾 Fertility Cults

The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe, 6500-3500 BC.

Clay figurines from 7,000 years ago reveal a civilization that worshipped goddesses, not kings.

by Marija Gimbutas 1982 304 pages

4.25

377 ratings

🏺 Prehistoric Europe 🌙 Goddess Worship 🔍 Ritual Archaeology ♀️ Matrifocal Societies 🌾 Fertility Cults

Asking for It

by Kate Harding • 2014

Ninety-eight percent of rape reports are true. Why does the two percent dominate every conversation?

4.37

4k+

⚠️ Rape Culture 👉 Victim Blaming 🗯️ Rape Myths 🎓 Campus Sexual Assault ⚖️ Legal System Failure

Asking for It

Ninety-eight percent of rape reports are true. Why does the two percent dominate every conversation?

by Kate Harding 2014 326 pages

4.37

4k+ ratings

⚠️ Rape Culture 👉 Victim Blaming 🗯️ Rape Myths 🎓 Campus Sexual Assault ⚖️ Legal System Failure

Kabul Beauty School

by Deborah Rodriguez • 2007

Fleeing abuse, a hairdresser opens a Kabul beauty school that turns Afghan women into breadwinners.

3.67

25k+

🧕 Afghan Women 💰 Economic Independence 🔧 Vocational Training 🏚️ Post-Taliban Afghanistan 📖 Cultural Memoir

Kabul Beauty School

Fleeing abuse, a hairdresser opens a Kabul beauty school that turns Afghan women into breadwinners.

by Deborah Rodriguez 2007 288 pages

3.67

25k+ ratings

🧕 Afghan Women 💰 Economic Independence 🔧 Vocational Training 🏚️ Post-Taliban Afghanistan 📖 Cultural Memoir

I, Rigoberta Menchu / Who Is Rigoberta Menchu? by Rigoberta Menchu

by Rigoberta Menchú • 1984

Her brother was tortured. She learned Spanish and the Bible to build a peasant uprising.

3.86

6k+

🧱 Indigenous Resistance ✝️ Liberation Theology 🎙️ Testimonio Literature 🪶 Mayan Culture 🌽 Peasant Movements

I, Rigoberta Menchu / Who Is Rigoberta Menchu? by Rigoberta Menchu

Her brother was tortured. She learned Spanish and the Bible to build a peasant uprising.

by Rigoberta Menchú 1984

3.86

6k+ ratings

🧱 Indigenous Resistance ✝️ Liberation Theology 🎙️ Testimonio Literature 🪶 Mayan Culture 🌽 Peasant Movements

Ada's Algorithm

by James Essinger • 2013

In 1843, Ada Lovelace wrote the first computer program and imagined machines that compose music.

3.27

1k+

🖥️ Early Computing 🔬 Women In Science 📚 Scientific Biography ⚙️ Victorian Science 🏆 Unsung Pioneers

Ada's Algorithm

In 1843, Ada Lovelace wrote the first computer program and imagined machines that compose music.

by James Essinger 2013 256 pages

3.27

1k+ ratings

🖥️ Early Computing 🔬 Women In Science 📚 Scientific Biography ⚙️ Victorian Science 🏆 Unsung Pioneers

The Gospel According to Coco Chanel

by Karen Karbo • 2009

From orphan to icon: Chanel's lessons on style, money, love, and never needing permission.

3.53

3k+

🧵 Fashion Biography 👑 Iconic Women 🇫🇷 French Style 🎭 Self-Invention ✂️ Creative Independence

The Gospel According to Coco Chanel

From orphan to icon: Chanel's lessons on style, money, love, and never needing permission.

by Karen Karbo 2009 256 pages

3.53

3k+ ratings

🧵 Fashion Biography 👑 Iconic Women 🇫🇷 French Style 🎭 Self-Invention ✂️ Creative Independence

Adam and Eve After the Pill

by Mary Eberstadt • 2012

The sexual revolution promised freedom but delivered misery to women, children, and the poor.

3.95

500+

🏴 Sexual Revolution ✝️ Catholic Social Thought 🔗 Hookup Culture 🏛️ Cultural Conservatism 💔 Decline Of Marriage

Adam and Eve After the Pill

The sexual revolution promised freedom but delivered misery to women, children, and the poor.

by Mary Eberstadt 2012 175 pages

3.95

500+ ratings

🏴 Sexual Revolution ✝️ Catholic Social Thought 🔗 Hookup Culture 🏛️ Cultural Conservatism 💔 Decline Of Marriage

Sex Matters

by Mona Charen • 2018

Feminism won, yet women's happiness declined for fifty years. The data explains why.

3.71

331

🔍 Feminism Critique 🧬 Sex Differences 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 💍 Marriage Defense 🍸 Hookup Culture

Sex Matters

Feminism won, yet women's happiness declined for fifty years. The data explains why.

by Mona Charen 2018 320 pages

3.71

331 ratings

🔍 Feminism Critique 🧬 Sex Differences 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 💍 Marriage Defense 🍸 Hookup Culture

A Lab of One's Own

by Rita Colwell • 2020

Science claimed meritocracy. One woman's data proved otherwise, and forced the system to change.

4.24

500+

🔬 Gender Bias In Science 👩‍🔬 Women In Stem 🔗 Interdisciplinary Research 📊 Data-Driven Advocacy 🤝 Mentorship In Science

A Lab of One's Own

Science claimed meritocracy. One woman's data proved otherwise, and forced the system to change.

by Rita Colwell 2020 288 pages

4.24

500+ ratings

🔬 Gender Bias In Science 👩‍🔬 Women In Stem 🔗 Interdisciplinary Research 📊 Data-Driven Advocacy 🤝 Mentorship In Science

Not for Sale

by David Batstone • 2007

Slavery never ended. Thirty million people are still in chains, in the country next door.

4.24

1k+

💔 Human Trafficking 🧒 Child Soldiers 🔍 Investigative Journalism 🕸️ Criminal Networks 💸 Poverty And Exploitation

Not for Sale

Slavery never ended. Thirty million people are still in chains, in the country next door.

by David Batstone 2007 304 pages

4.24

1k+ ratings

💔 Human Trafficking 🧒 Child Soldiers 🔍 Investigative Journalism 🕸️ Criminal Networks 💸 Poverty And Exploitation

She

by Robert A. Johnson • 1976

A Greek myth maps feminine psychology. Four tasks. The last one takes you to the underworld.

3.88

3k+

🧠 Jungian Psychology 👩 Feminine Psychology 📖 Myth Interpretation 🏛️ Archetypal Psychology 🌱 Women's Development

She

A Greek myth maps feminine psychology. Four tasks. The last one takes you to the underworld.

by Robert A. Johnson 1976 96 pages

3.88

3k+ ratings

🧠 Jungian Psychology 👩 Feminine Psychology 📖 Myth Interpretation 🏛️ Archetypal Psychology 🌱 Women's Development

Sacred Success

by Barbara Stanny • 2014

Women learn to shrink their ambition and avoid their money. The counter-curriculum, in four rules.

4.23

361

💰 Financial Empowerment 🧠 Money Mindset 👑 Feminine Power 🌌 New Thought Prosperity 📖 Course In Miracles

Sacred Success

Women learn to shrink their ambition and avoid their money. The counter-curriculum, in four rules.

by Barbara Stanny 2014 272 pages

4.23

361 ratings

💰 Financial Empowerment 🧠 Money Mindset 👑 Feminine Power 🌌 New Thought Prosperity 📖 Course In Miracles

Flawless

by Elise Hu • 2023

Korea's beauty industry perfected skincare and the feeling you will never stop fixing yourself.

4.04

2k+

🧴 Korean Beauty Culture 💄 Beauty Standards 👁️ Lookism 🪞 Body Image 🛒 Consumerism Critique

Flawless

Korea's beauty industry perfected skincare and the feeling you will never stop fixing yourself.

by Elise Hu 2023 310 pages

4.04

2k+ ratings

🧴 Korean Beauty Culture 💄 Beauty Standards 👁️ Lookism 🪞 Body Image 🛒 Consumerism Critique

Pixel Flesh

by Ellen Atlanta • 2024

Beauty culture promised freedom and delivered algorithms. The empowerment was always a sales pitch.

3.98

2k+

💄 Beauty Culture ✊ Body Politics 📱 Social Media Harm 🍽️ Diet Culture Critique 🌍 Racialized Beauty

Pixel Flesh

Beauty culture promised freedom and delivered algorithms. The empowerment was always a sales pitch.

by Ellen Atlanta 2024 384 pages

3.98

2k+ ratings

💄 Beauty Culture ✊ Body Politics 📱 Social Media Harm 🍽️ Diet Culture Critique 🌍 Racialized Beauty

Rethinking Sex

by Christine Emba • 2022

Consent was meant to be enough. It isn't. Why sex needs an older, more demanding rule.

3.61

1k+

🧭 Sexual Ethics 📱 Hookup Culture ⚖️ Consent Critique 😞 Sexual Dissatisfaction 👫 Heterosexual Dynamics

Rethinking Sex

Consent was meant to be enough. It isn't. Why sex needs an older, more demanding rule.

by Christine Emba 2022 256 pages

3.61

1k+ ratings

🧭 Sexual Ethics 📱 Hookup Culture ⚖️ Consent Critique 😞 Sexual Dissatisfaction 👫 Heterosexual Dynamics

Poser

by Claire Dederer • 2010

Yoga undid her. Here is why a Seattle mother spent years trying to nail a backbend.

3.57

6k+

👩‍👧 Modern Motherhood 🧘‍♀️ Mom Perfectionism 💔 Generational Divorce 🧘 Yoga Memoir ✍️ Art And Motherhood

Poser

Yoga undid her. Here is why a Seattle mother spent years trying to nail a backbend.

by Claire Dederer 2010 352 pages

3.57

6k+ ratings

👩‍👧 Modern Motherhood 🧘‍♀️ Mom Perfectionism 💔 Generational Divorce 🧘 Yoga Memoir ✍️ Art And Motherhood

The Underground Girls of Kabul

by Jenny Nordberg • 2014

Afghan families disguise daughters as sons for survival and status, but puberty calls a halt.

4.11

14k+

🇦🇫 Afghanistan Culture 👦 Son Preference 🚫 Gender Nonconformity 🎭 Gender As Performance 🤫 Quiet Resistance

The Underground Girls of Kabul

Afghan families disguise daughters as sons for survival and status, but puberty calls a halt.

by Jenny Nordberg 2014 350 pages

4.11

14k+ ratings

🇦🇫 Afghanistan Culture 👦 Son Preference 🚫 Gender Nonconformity 🎭 Gender As Performance 🤫 Quiet Resistance

Unshrinking

by Kate Manne • 2024

Dieting fails almost everyone; the real threat to fat people is stigma, not fat itself.

4.16

2k+

🧡 Fat Acceptance 🍽️ Diet Culture ⚖️ Weight Stigma 🔗 Intersectionality 🗣️ Body Politics

Unshrinking

Dieting fails almost everyone; the real threat to fat people is stigma, not fat itself.

by Kate Manne 2024 320 pages

4.16

2k+ ratings

🧡 Fat Acceptance 🍽️ Diet Culture ⚖️ Weight Stigma 🔗 Intersectionality 🗣️ Body Politics

The Queen V

by Jackie Walters • 2020

She treats thousands of vaginas. Here's what she wishes every woman knew about her own.

4.16

203

👩‍⚕️ Women's Health 🔥 Sexual Wellness 📖 Body Literacy 💋 Libido And Desire 🌿 Natural Self-Care

The Queen V

She treats thousands of vaginas. Here's what she wishes every woman knew about her own.

by Jackie Walters 2020 290 pages

4.16

203 ratings

👩‍⚕️ Women's Health 🔥 Sexual Wellness 📖 Body Literacy 💋 Libido And Desire 🌿 Natural Self-Care

Let Me Speak

by Domitila Barrios de Chungara • 1978

Dead by 35, paid pennies: a Bolivian miner's wife on why women's liberation requires revolution.

4.25

424

🗣️ Testimonio ⛏️ Mining Communities ✊ Socialist Feminism 🪧 Worker Organizing ⚒️ Class Struggle

Let Me Speak

Dead by 35, paid pennies: a Bolivian miner's wife on why women's liberation requires revolution.

by Domitila Barrios de Chungara 1978 236 pages

4.25

424 ratings

🗣️ Testimonio ⛏️ Mining Communities ✊ Socialist Feminism 🪧 Worker Organizing ⚒️ Class Struggle

Democracy and Social Ethics

by Jane Addams • 1902

Democracy is a social ethic requiring cross-class mixing and mutual understanding.

3.94

170

🕰️ Progressive Era 💡 American Pragmatism ⚖️ Social Ethics 🤝 Cross-Class Empathy 🎗️ Philanthropy Reform

Democracy and Social Ethics

Democracy is a social ethic requiring cross-class mixing and mutual understanding.

by Jane Addams 1902 88 pages

3.94

170 ratings

🕰️ Progressive Era 💡 American Pragmatism ⚖️ Social Ethics 🤝 Cross-Class Empathy 🎗️ Philanthropy Reform

Manifesting Justice

by Valena E. Beety • 2022

Wrongful convictions target women and queer people differently. A legal method to fight back.

4.33

126

⚖️ Wrongful Convictions 🔄 Criminal Justice Reform 🫂 Restorative Justice 🔗 Mass Incarceration 🕊️ Innocence Movement

Manifesting Justice

Wrongful convictions target women and queer people differently. A legal method to fight back.

by Valena E. Beety 2022 402 pages

4.33

126 ratings

⚖️ Wrongful Convictions 🔄 Criminal Justice Reform 🫂 Restorative Justice 🔗 Mass Incarceration 🕊️ Innocence Movement

Daughters of the Samurai

by Janice P. Nimura • 2015

Japan sent three girls to America for a decade. They came home unable to speak Japanese.

3.90

2k+

⛩️ Meiji Japan 📚 Women's Education 🔄 Reverse Culture Shock 🌏 Cultural Exchange 👥 Group Biography

Daughters of the Samurai

Japan sent three girls to America for a decade. They came home unable to speak Japanese.

by Janice P. Nimura 2015 336 pages

3.90

2k+ ratings

⛩️ Meiji Japan 📚 Women's Education 🔄 Reverse Culture Shock 🌏 Cultural Exchange 👥 Group Biography

Sensual Faith

by Lyvonne Briggs • 2023

Religion taught you your body was sinful. A pastor's guide to reclaiming it as sacred ground.

4.17

174

🏛️ Purity Culture Critique 🧘🏾 Embodied Spirituality ✝️ Womanist Theology 💔 Religious Deconstruction 🔥 Sacred Sexuality

Sensual Faith

Religion taught you your body was sinful. A pastor's guide to reclaiming it as sacred ground.

by Lyvonne Briggs 2023 210 pages

4.17

174 ratings

🏛️ Purity Culture Critique 🧘🏾 Embodied Spirituality ✝️ Womanist Theology 💔 Religious Deconstruction 🔥 Sacred Sexuality

Helen Keller

by Tanya Savory • 2017

One word at a water pump. Then Radcliffe, socialism, and a lifelong fight for the marginalized.

4.41

⚖️ Disability Rights 📚 Special Education 🤝 Teacher-Student Bonds 🌹 American Socialism 🗳️ First-Wave Feminism

Helen Keller

One word at a water pump. Then Radcliffe, socialism, and a lifelong fight for the marginalized.

by Tanya Savory 2017 122 pages

4.41

17 ratings

⚖️ Disability Rights 📚 Special Education 🤝 Teacher-Student Bonds 🌹 American Socialism 🗳️ First-Wave Feminism

A Return to Modesty

by Wendy Shalit • 1998

The sexual revolution's casualties are women, and the way back is the virtue it mocked.

3.79

1k+

🔄 Sexual Revolution Critique 🛡️ Protecting Girlhood 🧱 Emotional Boundaries 🚫 Hookup Culture ⚧️ Sex Differences

A Return to Modesty

The sexual revolution's casualties are women, and the way back is the virtue it mocked.

by Wendy Shalit 1998 304 pages

3.79

1k+ ratings

🔄 Sexual Revolution Critique 🛡️ Protecting Girlhood 🧱 Emotional Boundaries 🚫 Hookup Culture ⚧️ Sex Differences

The Natashas

by Victor Malarek • 2011

Post-Soviet women became a global commodity. The traffickers who trade them wear badges, not masks.

3.90

500+

🔗 Sex Trafficking 🕴️ Organized Crime 🗣️ Survivor Testimony ⚠️ Gender Violence 🏛️ Institutional Failure

The Natashas

Post-Soviet women became a global commodity. The traffickers who trade them wear badges, not masks.

by Victor Malarek 2011 320 pages

3.90

500+ ratings

🔗 Sex Trafficking 🕴️ Organized Crime 🗣️ Survivor Testimony ⚠️ Gender Violence 🏛️ Institutional Failure

Knowing Woman

by Irene Claremont de Castillejo • 1973

A woman's harshest inner critic can become her sharpest ally. The bridge is sincere dialogue.

4.16

140

🧠 Jungian Psychology 🏺 Feminine Archetypes 🌑 Shadow Work ⚡ Animus And Anima 🌙 Feminine Spirituality

Knowing Woman

A woman's harshest inner critic can become her sharpest ally. The bridge is sincere dialogue.

by Irene Claremont de Castillejo 1973 192 pages

4.16

140 ratings

🧠 Jungian Psychology 🏺 Feminine Archetypes 🌑 Shadow Work ⚡ Animus And Anima 🌙 Feminine Spirituality

The Upstairs Wife

by Rafia Zakaria • 2015

A family memoir that is also the history of Pakistan, seen from the women's quarters.

3.78

1k+

🧳 Partition Of India 🧕 Muslim Women 🏡 Family Memoir 🗳️ Women In Politics 🏛️ Pakistani Politics

The Upstairs Wife

A family memoir that is also the history of Pakistan, seen from the women's quarters.

by Rafia Zakaria 2015 264 pages

3.78

1k+ ratings

🧳 Partition Of India 🧕 Muslim Women 🏡 Family Memoir 🗳️ Women In Politics 🏛️ Pakistani Politics

Some Girls

by Jillian Lauren • 2010

At 18, she joined a harem. The pay was lavish; the real cost took years.

3.35

9k+

💋 Sex Work Memoirs 👑 Royal Insider Accounts 🪞 Objectification ✊ Female Agency 🍽️ Body Image

Some Girls

At 18, she joined a harem. The pay was lavish; the real cost took years.

by Jillian Lauren 2010 336 pages

3.35

9k+ ratings

💋 Sex Work Memoirs 👑 Royal Insider Accounts 🪞 Objectification ✊ Female Agency 🍽️ Body Image

The Street

by Ann Petry • 1946

Harlem, 1940s. A single mother rents a room. The super watches. The street waits.

4.27

13k+

🏙️ Social Realism 🖤 Black Womanhood ⛓️ Systemic Racism 🧹 Domestic Work 🎷 1940s Harlem

The Street

Harlem, 1940s. A single mother rents a room. The super watches. The street waits.

by Ann Petry 1946 435 pages

4.27

13k+ ratings

🏙️ Social Realism 🖤 Black Womanhood ⛓️ Systemic Racism 🧹 Domestic Work 🎷 1940s Harlem

The Wives

by Simone Gorrindo • 2024

She joined a hidden world of rules, waiting, and rivalries: the sisterhood of Army wives.

3.77

9k+

🏠 Military Spouses 💪 Invisible Labor 👭 Female Friendship ❤️ Marriage Under Pressure 🏛️ Institutional Critique

The Wives

She joined a hidden world of rules, waiting, and rivalries: the sisterhood of Army wives.

by Simone Gorrindo 2024 416 pages

3.77

9k+ ratings

🏠 Military Spouses 💪 Invisible Labor 👭 Female Friendship ❤️ Marriage Under Pressure 🏛️ Institutional Critique

Lo que sabe la señorita Kim

by Cho Nam-Joo • 2021

Korean women push back against the roles that erase them, one small defiance at a time.

3.73

7k+

📚 Interlinked Stories 🇰🇷 Contemporary Korea 👩‍💼 Invisible Labor 🧬 Generational Trauma 🏠 Caregiving Burden

Lo que sabe la señorita Kim

Korean women push back against the roles that erase them, one small defiance at a time.

by Cho Nam-Joo 2021 232 pages

3.73

7k+ ratings

📚 Interlinked Stories 🇰🇷 Contemporary Korea 👩‍💼 Invisible Labor 🧬 Generational Trauma 🏠 Caregiving Burden

The New Feminist Agenda

by Madeleine Kunin • 2012

Most rich nations mandate paid family leave. The US does not. A former governor on why.

3.76

119

🏛️ Work-Family Policy 🇩🇰 Nordic Social Model 🧒 Child Poverty 💰 Gender Wage Gap 👩‍👧 Working Mothers

The New Feminist Agenda

Most rich nations mandate paid family leave. The US does not. A former governor on why.

by Madeleine Kunin 2012 304 pages

3.76

119 ratings

🏛️ Work-Family Policy 🇩🇰 Nordic Social Model 🧒 Child Poverty 💰 Gender Wage Gap 👩‍👧 Working Mothers

Colonize This!

by Bushra Rehman • 2002

Mainstream feminism left out women of color. This generation explains how, and what comes next.

4.20

3k+

🔀 Intersectional Feminism ✊🏽 Women Of Color Feminism 📚 Feminist Anthologies 🪪 Racial Identity 🧭 Cultural Navigation

Colonize This!

Mainstream feminism left out women of color. This generation explains how, and what comes next.

by Bushra Rehman 2002 432 pages

4.20

3k+ ratings

🔀 Intersectional Feminism ✊🏽 Women Of Color Feminism 📚 Feminist Anthologies 🪪 Racial Identity 🧭 Cultural Navigation

Notes to Self

by Emilie Pine • 2018

She was good at going hungry. It was the one thing she could control.

4.10

20k+

📖 Confessional Memoir ✊ Bodily Autonomy 🍽️ Eating Disorders 🩹 Sexual Assault Recovery 🫥 Body Shame

Notes to Self

She was good at going hungry. It was the one thing she could control.

by Emilie Pine 2018 192 pages

4.10

20k+ ratings

📖 Confessional Memoir ✊ Bodily Autonomy 🍽️ Eating Disorders 🩹 Sexual Assault Recovery 🫥 Body Shame

The Once and Future Witches

by Alix E. Harrow • 2020

Three sisters reunite in a city that burns witches and summon a lost magic tower, hunted.

4.02

100k+

🕰️ Gaslamp Fantasy 🧙 Generational Magic 🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic Fantasy 📚 Hidden Library 🕮 Folkloric Fantasy

The Once and Future Witches

Three sisters reunite in a city that burns witches and summon a lost magic tower, hunted.

by Alix E. Harrow 2020 517 pages

4.02

100k+ ratings

🕰️ Gaslamp Fantasy 🧙 Generational Magic 🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic Fantasy 📚 Hidden Library 🕮 Folkloric Fantasy

Health and Safety

by Emily Witt • 2024

She found transcendence in raves and drugs, then captivity in her partner's mental collapse.

3.49

2k+

🧪 Drug Experimentation 🎶 Rave Culture 🏙️ Urban Gentrification 🗳️ Trump-Era Politics 💔 Abusive Relationships

Health and Safety

She found transcendence in raves and drugs, then captivity in her partner's mental collapse.

by Emily Witt 2024 264 pages

3.49

2k+ ratings

🧪 Drug Experimentation 🎶 Rave Culture 🏙️ Urban Gentrification 🗳️ Trump-Era Politics 💔 Abusive Relationships

Parisian Lives

by Deirdre Bair • 2019

Beckett gave her nothing. Beauvoir gave her rules. One woman wrote both biographies anyway.

4.02

500+

🖋️ Literary Biography ✍️ Writing Craft ⚖️ Biography Ethics 🌸 Feminist Awakening ✊ Second Wave Feminism

Parisian Lives

Beckett gave her nothing. Beauvoir gave her rules. One woman wrote both biographies anyway.

by Deirdre Bair 2019 341 pages

4.02

500+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Biography ✍️ Writing Craft ⚖️ Biography Ethics 🌸 Feminist Awakening ✊ Second Wave Feminism

Kiss My Tiara

by Susan Jane Gilman • 2001

Earn more, eat more, apologize less. A loud, funny field guide for women done playing nice.

3.61

1k+

💅 Feminist Humor 😈 Irreverent Self-Help ✨ Body Positivity 🍕 Rejecting Diet Culture 💰 Financial Independence

Kiss My Tiara

Earn more, eat more, apologize less. A loud, funny field guide for women done playing nice.

by Susan Jane Gilman 2001 219 pages

3.61

1k+ ratings

💅 Feminist Humor 😈 Irreverent Self-Help ✨ Body Positivity 🍕 Rejecting Diet Culture 💰 Financial Independence

Party of One

by Meghan Keane • 2024

Singlehood is not a waiting room. A practical guide to building a fulfilling life on your own terms.

3.74

456

🧘 Solo Fulfillment 💬 Single Stigma 🧠 Emotional Regulation 🔄 Cognitive Reframing 🗣️ Self-Talk

Party of One

Singlehood is not a waiting room. A practical guide to building a fulfilling life on your own terms.

by Meghan Keane 2024 256 pages

3.74

456 ratings

🧘 Solo Fulfillment 💬 Single Stigma 🧠 Emotional Regulation 🔄 Cognitive Reframing 🗣️ Self-Talk

Text Me When You Get Home

by Kayleen Schaefer • 2018

How a parting ritual signaled that female friendship had become the true love story.

3.46

8k+

👯 Female Friendship 💞 Platonic Bonds 👩 Modern Womanhood ✍️ Feminist Memoir 📺 Media Representation

Text Me When You Get Home

How a parting ritual signaled that female friendship had become the true love story.

by Kayleen Schaefer 2018 288 pages

3.46

8k+ ratings

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The Care We Dream Of

by Zena Sharman • 2021

Health care was never built for queer and trans people. Here is what comes after.

4.37

211

🩺 Health Justice ⚖️ Transformative Justice 🤝 Mutual Aid ♿ Disability Justice ✊ Body Liberation

The Care We Dream Of

Health care was never built for queer and trans people. Here is what comes after.

by Zena Sharman 2021 272 pages

4.37

211 ratings

🩺 Health Justice ⚖️ Transformative Justice 🤝 Mutual Aid ♿ Disability Justice ✊ Body Liberation

بی‌حجاب

by Yasmine Mohammed • 2019

Married to Al Qaeda against her will, she fled. Then she watched liberals defend her captors.

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🕌 Leaving Islam 💍 Forced Marriage ⚠️ Islamic Fundamentalism 💔 Religious Trauma 🧠 New Atheism

بی‌حجاب

Married to Al Qaeda against her will, she fled. Then she watched liberals defend her captors.

by Yasmine Mohammed 2019 366 pages

4.36

2k+ ratings

🕌 Leaving Islam 💍 Forced Marriage ⚠️ Islamic Fundamentalism 💔 Religious Trauma 🧠 New Atheism

Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering

by Sarah J. Buckley • 2005

Why birth works best with fewer interventions: a physician explains the science and the strategy.

3.98

1k+

🌿 Natural Childbirth 🤱 Attachment Parenting 📋 Informed Consent 🍼 Breastfeeding Advocacy 🏠 Home Birth

Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering

Why birth works best with fewer interventions: a physician explains the science and the strategy.

by Sarah J. Buckley 2005 354 pages

3.98

1k+ ratings

🌿 Natural Childbirth 🤱 Attachment Parenting 📋 Informed Consent 🍼 Breastfeeding Advocacy 🏠 Home Birth

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