Feminism

Böcker i denna genre utmanar patriarkala maktstrukturer och förespråkar jämställdhet genom personliga berättelser, kulturkritik och revolutionära idéer. Dessa passionerade verk sträcker sig från klassiska manifest till moderna memoarer och utforskar intersektionella frågor som kroppsuppfattning, sexualitet, utbildning, teknik och kvinnors föränderliga roller i samhället.

Feminism Boksammanfattningar

L'ironie des contes de fées

av Marie Paquet • 2025

Days at a shelter, nights at a club, and a carpenter who intends to stay.

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📖 Women's Fiction 💕 Healing Romance 🏠 Found Family 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 💔 Wounded Heroine

L'ironie des contes de fées

Days at a shelter, nights at a club, and a carpenter who intends to stay.

av Marie Paquet 2025 319 sidor

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📖 Women's Fiction 💕 Healing Romance 🏠 Found Family 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 💔 Wounded Heroine

Clutch

av Emily Nemens • 2026

Five college friends reunite in Palm Springs, each hiding a crisis beneath her polished surface.

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🖤 Female Friendship 🏜️ College Reunion 🔄 Midlife Crisis 💼 Ambitious Women 🎭 Ensemble Cast

Clutch

Five college friends reunite in Palm Springs, each hiding a crisis beneath her polished surface.

av Emily Nemens 2026 400 sidor

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🖤 Female Friendship 🏜️ College Reunion 🔄 Midlife Crisis 💼 Ambitious Women 🎭 Ensemble Cast

The Agency for Scandal

av Laura Wood • 2023

A Victorian wallflower spy falls for a duke who never notices her, until their missions collide.

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🔍 Women Spy Ring 🎭 Secret Identity ❤️ Slow Burn Romance 💍 Fake Relationship 👑 Class Differences

The Agency for Scandal

A Victorian wallflower spy falls for a duke who never notices her, until their missions collide.

av Laura Wood 2023 528 sidor

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🔍 Women Spy Ring 🎭 Secret Identity ❤️ Slow Burn Romance 💍 Fake Relationship 👑 Class Differences

Los seres queridos

av Berta Dávila • 2022

An unexpected pregnancy forces a mother to confront the ambivalence she has never spoken aloud.

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🖊️ Autofiction 🔀 Fragmented Narrative 🫂 Ambivalent Motherhood 🌑 Postpartum Depression 👵 Intergenerational Women

Los seres queridos

An unexpected pregnancy forces a mother to confront the ambivalence she has never spoken aloud.

av Berta Dávila 2022 106 sidor

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🖊️ Autofiction 🔀 Fragmented Narrative 🫂 Ambivalent Motherhood 🌑 Postpartum Depression 👵 Intergenerational Women

The Wolf Den

av Elodie Harper • 2021

In Pompeii's most notorious brothel, an enslaved woman learns that freedom costs more than coin.

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🏛️ Ancient Pompeii 🖤 Gritty Historical ⛓️ Enslaved Protagonist 🤝 Female Solidarity ✊ Feminist Historical

The Wolf Den

In Pompeii's most notorious brothel, an enslaved woman learns that freedom costs more than coin.

av Elodie Harper 2021 464 sidor

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🏛️ Ancient Pompeii 🖤 Gritty Historical ⛓️ Enslaved Protagonist 🤝 Female Solidarity ✊ Feminist Historical

Resurrecting Wounds

av Shelly Rambo • 2017

The risen Christ kept his wounds. Why theology erased them, and what that cost.

3.94

🩹 Trauma Theology 🕊️ Feminist Theology 🤲 Collective Healing 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 📖 Biblical Interpretation

Resurrecting Wounds

The risen Christ kept his wounds. Why theology erased them, and what that cost.

av Shelly Rambo 2017 196 sidor

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🩹 Trauma Theology 🕊️ Feminist Theology 🤲 Collective Healing 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 📖 Biblical Interpretation

Russia's Fate Through Russian Eyes

av Heyward Isham • 2019

Russians who dismantled communism discovered that building its replacement was the harder half.

🔄 Post-Soviet Transition 🇷🇺 Russian Society 🎙️ Oral History 🤝 Civil Society 🌱 Generational Change

Russia's Fate Through Russian Eyes

Russians who dismantled communism discovered that building its replacement was the harder half.

av Heyward Isham 2019 448 sidor

🔄 Post-Soviet Transition 🇷🇺 Russian Society 🎙️ Oral History 🤝 Civil Society 🌱 Generational Change

La tresse

av Laetitia Colombani • 2017

Three women in three countries battle caste, ruin, and cancer, linked by a braid of hair.

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⛓️ Caste System 🎀 Cancer Story 🤱 Maternal Sacrifice 🧵 Artisan Tradition 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Business

La tresse

Three women in three countries battle caste, ruin, and cancer, linked by a braid of hair.

av Laetitia Colombani 2017 224 sidor

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⛓️ Caste System 🎀 Cancer Story 🤱 Maternal Sacrifice 🧵 Artisan Tradition 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Business

Poor Things

av Alasdair Gray • 1992

A drowned woman, rebuilt with an infant's brain, awakens to a world trying to own her.

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📜 Victorian Pastiche ✊ Feminist Revision 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 📖 Competing Narratives ⚗️ Scientific Hubris

Poor Things

A drowned woman, rebuilt with an infant's brain, awakens to a world trying to own her.

av Alasdair Gray 1992 317 sidor

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📜 Victorian Pastiche ✊ Feminist Revision 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 📖 Competing Narratives ⚗️ Scientific Hubris

How Not to Disappear

av Clare Furniss • 2015

A pregnant teen drives her great-aunt across England to outrun dementia and unearth family secrets.

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🏠 Generational Drama 🤰 Teen Pregnancy 🤝 Unlikely Friendship 💔 Intergenerational Trauma 🚗 Road Trip Journey

How Not to Disappear

A pregnant teen drives her great-aunt across England to outrun dementia and unearth family secrets.

av Clare Furniss 2015 416 sidor

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🏠 Generational Drama 🤰 Teen Pregnancy 🤝 Unlikely Friendship 💔 Intergenerational Trauma 🚗 Road Trip Journey

Hazel Says No

av Jessica Berger Gross • 2025

A bookish teen starts over in rural Maine, where the principal's interest goes beyond academics.

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🎗️ MeToo Fiction 🏘️ Small Town Scandal 💔 Family In Crisis ✍️ Writing As Healing 👩‍👧 Mother Daughter Bond

Hazel Says No

A bookish teen starts over in rural Maine, where the principal's interest goes beyond academics.

av Jessica Berger Gross 2025 352 sidor

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🎗️ MeToo Fiction 🏘️ Small Town Scandal 💔 Family In Crisis ✍️ Writing As Healing 👩‍👧 Mother Daughter Bond

The Cows

av Dawn O'Porter • 2016

Train camera exposes a mother; viral shame entangles a childfree blogger and a grieving woman.

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🎥 Viral Shaming 🩺 Bodily Autonomy 👩‍👧 Complicated Motherhood 👭 Unlikely Sisterhood 🖤 Grief And Obsession

The Cows

Train camera exposes a mother; viral shame entangles a childfree blogger and a grieving woman.

av Dawn O'Porter 2016 400 sidor

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🎥 Viral Shaming 🩺 Bodily Autonomy 👩‍👧 Complicated Motherhood 👭 Unlikely Sisterhood 🖤 Grief And Obsession

White Chrysanthemum

av Mary Lynn Bracht • 2018

A haenyeo sacrifices herself to save her sister from a soldier, vanishing into a military brothel.

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🥀 Comfort Women 🇰🇷 Korean Occupation 👯‍♀️ Separated Sisters 😔 Survivor's Guilt ⏳ Dual Timelines

White Chrysanthemum

A haenyeo sacrifices herself to save her sister from a soldier, vanishing into a military brothel.

av Mary Lynn Bracht 2018 320 sidor

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🥀 Comfort Women 🇰🇷 Korean Occupation 👯‍♀️ Separated Sisters 😔 Survivor's Guilt ⏳ Dual Timelines

Frida

av Hayden Herrera • 1983

Two hundred self-portraits, one body in revolt. Frida Kahlo turned a lifetime of surgeries into art.

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📚 Artist Biographies 🎨 Mexican Modernism 🖼️ Self-Portraiture 🩺 Illness And Creativity 👩‍🎨 Female Artists

Frida

Two hundred self-portraits, one body in revolt. Frida Kahlo turned a lifetime of surgeries into art.

av Hayden Herrera 1983 528 sidor

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📚 Artist Biographies 🎨 Mexican Modernism 🖼️ Self-Portraiture 🩺 Illness And Creativity 👩‍🎨 Female Artists

Laws of Love and Logic

av Debra Curtis • 2026

Raised on saints and science, she loved a wounded boy. One Rhode Island night stole their tomorrow.

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💘 First Love ⏳ Decades-Spanning Romance 👭 Sister Bond 💰 Class Divide 🏘️ Small Town New England

Laws of Love and Logic

Raised on saints and science, she loved a wounded boy. One Rhode Island night stole their tomorrow.

av Debra Curtis 2026 320 sidor

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💘 First Love ⏳ Decades-Spanning Romance 👭 Sister Bond 💰 Class Divide 🏘️ Small Town New England

Validation Is For Parking

av Nicole Kalil • 2022

Confidence isn't a reward for achievement. It starts with the promises you keep to yourself.

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🤝 Feminist Self-Help 🔒 Self-Trust 🪤 Perfectionism Trap 🧠 Overthinking Trap 💭 Inner Critic

Validation Is For Parking

Confidence isn't a reward for achievement. It starts with the promises you keep to yourself.

av Nicole Kalil 2022 157 sidor

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🤝 Feminist Self-Help 🔒 Self-Trust 🪤 Perfectionism Trap 🧠 Overthinking Trap 💭 Inner Critic

The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht

av Susan Dalgety • 2024

Scotland tried to erase the word woman from law. Ordinary women fought back, and a government fell.

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Politics 🧬 Gender Critical Feminism 🏳️‍⚧️ Transgender Politics 🌱 Grassroots Activism 🏛️ Institutional Capture

The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht

Scotland tried to erase the word woman from law. Ordinary women fought back, and a government fell.

av Susan Dalgety 2024 288 sidor

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Politics 🧬 Gender Critical Feminism 🏳️‍⚧️ Transgender Politics 🌱 Grassroots Activism 🏛️ Institutional Capture

Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women

av Jayne Ann Krentz • 1992

What if romance novels carry a code that literary culture has never learned to read?

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📚 Romance Genre Studies ✊ Feminist Literary Criticism 🌀 Jungian Archetypes ✍️ Romance Writing Craft 👁️ Female Gaze

Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women

What if romance novels carry a code that literary culture has never learned to read?

av Jayne Ann Krentz 1992 200 sidor

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📚 Romance Genre Studies ✊ Feminist Literary Criticism 🌀 Jungian Archetypes ✍️ Romance Writing Craft 👁️ Female Gaze

Mother Mary Comes to Me

av Arundhati Roy • 2025

She fled her mother at eighteen with a knife. The woman who survived became the writer.

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🖋️ Literary Memoir 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds 🇮🇳 Indian Memoir 💔 Family Dysfunction ✍️ Becoming A Writer

Mother Mary Comes to Me

She fled her mother at eighteen with a knife. The woman who survived became the writer.

av Arundhati Roy 2025 331 sidor

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🖋️ Literary Memoir 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds 🇮🇳 Indian Memoir 💔 Family Dysfunction ✍️ Becoming A Writer

Milkman

av Anna Burns • 2018

A young woman is stalked by a paramilitary man, and neighbors blame her for the attention.

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🕊️ The Troubles 🧠 Stream Of Consciousness 👀 Obsessive Stalker 🗣️ Toxic Gossip 🎭 Unnamed Narrator

Milkman

A young woman is stalked by a paramilitary man, and neighbors blame her for the attention.

av Anna Burns 2018 352 sidor

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🕊️ The Troubles 🧠 Stream Of Consciousness 👀 Obsessive Stalker 🗣️ Toxic Gossip 🎭 Unnamed Narrator

Where the Girls Were

av Kate Schatz • 2026

Pregnant at seventeen, she's sent to a home where unwed mothers disappear into silence.

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🫄 Secret Pregnancy 🌉 1960s California 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Secrets 📋 Forced Adoption 🏠 Found Family

Where the Girls Were

Pregnant at seventeen, she's sent to a home where unwed mothers disappear into silence.

av Kate Schatz 2026 368 sidor

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🫄 Secret Pregnancy 🌉 1960s California 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Secrets 📋 Forced Adoption 🏠 Found Family

Single Mothers by Choice

av Jane Mattes • 1994

Becoming a mother alone: donors, adoption, and the practical groundwork that makes it last.

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👩‍👧 Solo Motherhood 🧬 Donor Conception 📋 Adoption Guides 🤱 Postpartum Preparation 🤝 Support Networks

Single Mothers by Choice

Becoming a mother alone: donors, adoption, and the practical groundwork that makes it last.

av Jane Mattes 1994 288 sidor

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👩‍👧 Solo Motherhood 🧬 Donor Conception 📋 Adoption Guides 🤱 Postpartum Preparation 🤝 Support Networks

Too Many Women?

av Marcia Guttentag • 1983

The sex ratio, not religion or ideology, has been the true driver of every sexual revolution.

4.20

🏛️ Historical Sociology 📊 Historical Demography 💔 Sexual Scarcity 💑 Courtship Dynamics 💍 Marriage Instability

Too Many Women?

The sex ratio, not religion or ideology, has been the true driver of every sexual revolution.

av Marcia Guttentag 1983 280 sidor

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🏛️ Historical Sociology 📊 Historical Demography 💔 Sexual Scarcity 💑 Courtship Dynamics 💍 Marriage Instability

The Black Woman

av Toni Cade Bambara • 1970

The 1970 anthology that told white feminists they were bourgeois and Black Power it was sexist.

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✊🏾 Black Feminism 🎯 Intersectional Feminism 🧨 Black Power 🩺 Reproductive Justice ⛓️ Anti-Capitalist Feminism

The Black Woman

The 1970 anthology that told white feminists they were bourgeois and Black Power it was sexist.

av Toni Cade Bambara 1970 352 sidor

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✊🏾 Black Feminism 🎯 Intersectional Feminism 🧨 Black Power 🩺 Reproductive Justice ⛓️ Anti-Capitalist Feminism

The Trauma of Caste

av Thenmozhi Soundararajan • 2022

Caste survived diaspora by hiding in the body. Its medicine is somatic, its demand abolition.

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✊🏿 Anticaste Thought 🌏 South Asian Diaspora 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🧘 Somatic Healing 🔓 Prison Abolition

The Trauma of Caste

Caste survived diaspora by hiding in the body. Its medicine is somatic, its demand abolition.

av Thenmozhi Soundararajan 2022 256 sidor

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✊🏿 Anticaste Thought 🌏 South Asian Diaspora 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🧘 Somatic Healing 🔓 Prison Abolition

The Guilt Pill

av Saumya Dave • 2025

A tech CEO and new mother takes an experimental pill to silence her guilt, then disappears.

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⚡ Feminist Thriller 😔 Maternal Guilt 🏠 Immigrant Daughter 💻 Tech Startup World 📱 Social Media Age

The Guilt Pill

A tech CEO and new mother takes an experimental pill to silence her guilt, then disappears.

av Saumya Dave 2025 384 sidor

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⚡ Feminist Thriller 😔 Maternal Guilt 🏠 Immigrant Daughter 💻 Tech Startup World 📱 Social Media Age

The Hunger Artists

av Maud Ellmann • 1993

Why self-starvation is always a form of writing, from Irish hunger strikers to Kafka.

3.82

📖 Literary Criticism 🧠 Psychoanalysis 🗣️ Body Politics 🍽️ Eating Disorders ✍️ Writing The Body

The Hunger Artists

Why self-starvation is always a form of writing, from Irish hunger strikers to Kafka.

av Maud Ellmann 1993 160 sidor

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50 betyg

📖 Literary Criticism 🧠 Psychoanalysis 🗣️ Body Politics 🍽️ Eating Disorders ✍️ Writing The Body

La millonésima mujer

av Mercè Brey • 2024

Balance masculine and feminine energy, drop the invisible loads, and lead with authentic power.

4.50

🎭 Imposter Syndrome 🧠 Mental Load ⚖️ Gender Bias 🌟 Authentic Leadership 🌑 Shadow Work

La millonésima mujer

Balance masculine and feminine energy, drop the invisible loads, and lead with authentic power.

av Mercè Brey 2024 228 sidor

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2 betyg

🎭 Imposter Syndrome 🧠 Mental Load ⚖️ Gender Bias 🌟 Authentic Leadership 🌑 Shadow Work

The Ugly History of Beautiful Things

av Katy Kelleher • 2023

Roses, diamonds, silk: the things you covet most were built on suffering. And you already know it.

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🏺 Material Culture 🕵️ Hidden Histories ⛓️ Commodity Chains 🌍 Eco-Anxiety 💄 Beauty Standards

The Ugly History of Beautiful Things

Roses, diamonds, silk: the things you covet most were built on suffering. And you already know it.

av Katy Kelleher 2023 271 sidor

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🏺 Material Culture 🕵️ Hidden Histories ⛓️ Commodity Chains 🌍 Eco-Anxiety 💄 Beauty Standards

Progressive Myths

av Michael Huemer • 2024

The statistical case against ten progressive orthodoxies, from police racism to the gender pay gap.

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🎯 Political Polemics 📰 Media Criticism 🎓 Academic Capture 📊 Statistical Debunking 👮 Police And Race

Progressive Myths

The statistical case against ten progressive orthodoxies, from police racism to the gender pay gap.

av Michael Huemer 2024 277 sidor

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🎯 Political Polemics 📰 Media Criticism 🎓 Academic Capture 📊 Statistical Debunking 👮 Police And Race

A Mouthful of Air

av Amy Koppelman • 2022

She stopped her medication to breastfeed. The silence that followed was fatal.

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🤱 Postpartum Depression 🧠 Maternal Mental Health 🔗 Generational Trauma 🎭 Maternal Expectations 🤫 Societal Stigma

A Mouthful of Air

She stopped her medication to breastfeed. The silence that followed was fatal.

av Amy Koppelman 2022 1 sidor

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🤱 Postpartum Depression 🧠 Maternal Mental Health 🔗 Generational Trauma 🎭 Maternal Expectations 🤫 Societal Stigma

We Will Not Cancel Us

av Adrienne Maree Brown • 2020

Cancel culture mimics the prisons we oppose. Transformative justice offers a different path.

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🦋 Transformative Justice 📢 Cancel Culture Critique 🤝 Community Accountability ⛓️ Abolitionist Movement ✊🏽 Black Feminism

We Will Not Cancel Us

Cancel culture mimics the prisons we oppose. Transformative justice offers a different path.

av Adrienne Maree Brown 2020 88 sidor

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🦋 Transformative Justice 📢 Cancel Culture Critique 🤝 Community Accountability ⛓️ Abolitionist Movement ✊🏽 Black Feminism

Black Wings and Blind Angels

av Sapphire • 2000

She swallowed a photograph of her mother's betrayal, then wrote her way beyond the family curse.

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📝 Confessional Poetry 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🛑 Child Sexual Abuse 👮 Police Brutality 🩹 Healing From Trauma

Black Wings and Blind Angels

She swallowed a photograph of her mother's betrayal, then wrote her way beyond the family curse.

av Sapphire 2000 144 sidor

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📝 Confessional Poetry 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🛑 Child Sexual Abuse 👮 Police Brutality 🩹 Healing From Trauma

Remaking Modernity

av Julia Adams • 2004

Modernity was never a European solo act. Colonies, gender, and culture built it from the margins.

3.75

🏛️ Historical Sociology 📖 Social Theory 🏗️ State Formation 🌐 Multiple Modernities 🏴 Nationalism Studies

Remaking Modernity

Modernity was never a European solo act. Colonies, gender, and culture built it from the margins.

av Julia Adams 2004 632 sidor

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12 betyg

🏛️ Historical Sociology 📖 Social Theory 🏗️ State Formation 🌐 Multiple Modernities 🏴 Nationalism Studies

Her Body and Other Parties

av Carmen Maria Machado • 2017

Eight stories where misogyny is body horror: women fade, split, and haunt the lives they lost.

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🫀 Body Horror ✂️ Feminist Horror 🏠 Queer Domesticity ✊ Bodily Autonomy 🧠 Trauma And The Body

Her Body and Other Parties

Eight stories where misogyny is body horror: women fade, split, and haunt the lives they lost.

av Carmen Maria Machado 2017 248 sidor

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🫀 Body Horror ✂️ Feminist Horror 🏠 Queer Domesticity ✊ Bodily Autonomy 🧠 Trauma And The Body

Doing It All

av Ruby Russell • 2024

The nuclear family was built for capitalism, not kids. Single mothers are exposing a better way.

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🧑‍🧒 Single Motherhood 💰 Care Economy ☭ Marxist Feminism 🖤 Black Feminism 🏠 Nuclear Family Critique

Doing It All

The nuclear family was built for capitalism, not kids. Single mothers are exposing a better way.

av Ruby Russell 2024 336 sidor

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🧑‍🧒 Single Motherhood 💰 Care Economy ☭ Marxist Feminism 🖤 Black Feminism 🏠 Nuclear Family Critique

厌女：日本的女性嫌恶

av Chizuko Ueno • 2010

The emperor's throne and the family kitchen run on the same misogynist script. Here is why.

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🇯🇵 Japanese Feminism 🏗 Structural Misogyny ⚖ Sexual Double Standards 👥 Homosociality 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Conflict

厌女：日本的女性嫌恶

The emperor's throne and the family kitchen run on the same misogynist script. Here is why.

av Chizuko Ueno 2010 281 sidor

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🇯🇵 Japanese Feminism 🏗 Structural Misogyny ⚖ Sexual Double Standards 👥 Homosociality 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Conflict

Our Hideous Progeny

av C.E. McGill • 2023

Frankenstein's great-niece stitches life from fossils, but rivals will kill to steal her creation.

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🧟 Frankenstein Retelling 🔬 Victorian Women In Science ⚡ Scientific Hubris 🦴 Monstrous Creation 🏠 Found Family

Our Hideous Progeny

Frankenstein's great-niece stitches life from fossils, but rivals will kill to steal her creation.

av C.E. McGill 2023 400 sidor

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🧟 Frankenstein Retelling 🔬 Victorian Women In Science ⚡ Scientific Hubris 🦴 Monstrous Creation 🏠 Found Family

Le Harem du roi

av Djaïli Amadou Amal • 2024

A modern woman's marriage shatters when her husband becomes king and tradition demands a harem.

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📖 Polygamy Critique 👁️ First Wife Perspective 🌍 West African Fiction 🇨🇲 Cameroon Literature 🌿 Quiet Dignity

Le Harem du roi

A modern woman's marriage shatters when her husband becomes king and tradition demands a harem.

av Djaïli Amadou Amal 2024 288 sidor

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📖 Polygamy Critique 👁️ First Wife Perspective 🌍 West African Fiction 🇨🇲 Cameroon Literature 🌿 Quiet Dignity

A Kiss from Mr Fitzgerald

av Natasha Lester • 2016

She funds her medical degree by dancing on Broadway; the doctors won't let her in.

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👩‍⚕️ Women In Medicine 🤰 Obstetrics History 🕰️ 1920s America 🚺 Defying Gender Norms ⛓️ Systemic Sexism

A Kiss from Mr Fitzgerald

She funds her medical degree by dancing on Broadway; the doctors won't let her in.

av Natasha Lester 2016 400 sidor

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👩‍⚕️ Women In Medicine 🤰 Obstetrics History 🕰️ 1920s America 🚺 Defying Gender Norms ⛓️ Systemic Sexism

Make Your Way Home

av Carrie R. Moore • 2025

From Florida marshes to Appalachia, Black lives searching for a home that trauma can't touch.

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274

🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 👩🏿 Black Womanhood 🫀 Embodied Trauma 🏚️ American South ⚫ Racial Violence

Make Your Way Home

From Florida marshes to Appalachia, Black lives searching for a home that trauma can't touch.

av Carrie R. Moore 2025 336 sidor

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🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 👩🏿 Black Womanhood 🫀 Embodied Trauma 🏚️ American South ⚫ Racial Violence

Diversity, Oppression, and Change

av Flavio Francisco Marsiglia • 2015

Culture-blind social work is Eurocentric. Real practice begins inside the client's culture.

3.83

✊ Anti-Oppressive Practice 🌍 Cultural Humility 🔀 Intersectionality 🏥 Health Equity 📖 Narrative Therapy

Diversity, Oppression, and Change

Culture-blind social work is Eurocentric. Real practice begins inside the client's culture.

av Flavio Francisco Marsiglia 2015 448 sidor

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30 betyg

✊ Anti-Oppressive Practice 🌍 Cultural Humility 🔀 Intersectionality 🏥 Health Equity 📖 Narrative Therapy

Body Respect

av Linda Bacon • 2014

BMI standards were written by the weight-loss industry, and dieting trains your body to gain weight.

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🔬 Weight Science 🍽️ Diet Culture ⚖️ Weight Stigma 🧘 Mindful Eating 🍏 Intuitive Eating

Body Respect

BMI standards were written by the weight-loss industry, and dieting trains your body to gain weight.

av Linda Bacon 2014 232 sidor

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🔬 Weight Science 🍽️ Diet Culture ⚖️ Weight Stigma 🧘 Mindful Eating 🍏 Intuitive Eating

The Empire Strikes Back

av Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies • 1982

How Britain's 1970s slump was exploited to criminalize black youth and justify a police state.

4.30

🇬🇧 British History 📚 Cultural Studies 🌍 Postcolonial Britain 🏛️ State Racism 💰 Racial Capitalism

The Empire Strikes Back

How Britain's 1970s slump was exploited to criminalize black youth and justify a police state.

av Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies 1982 324 sidor

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10 betyg

🇬🇧 British History 📚 Cultural Studies 🌍 Postcolonial Britain 🏛️ State Racism 💰 Racial Capitalism

The Secret Female Hormone

av Kathy C. Maupin • 2013

Women's most abundant hormone isn't estrogen. Its loss at 40 explains the fatigue doctors dismiss.

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🧬 Bioidentical Hormones 🕰️ Hormonal Aging 👩 Midlife Women ⚖️ Medical Sexism 🔬 Functional Medicine

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