Gender studies, gender groups Books

Birthing Liberation presents reproductive justice as the pathway to equity and the birthplace of liberation.Sabia C. Wade, renowned radical doula and educator,speaks to the intersections of systemic issues-such as access to health care, house...

Featuring dozens of interviews with the cast and crew, fans of the franchise, film scholars, former and current cheerleaders, fellow filmmakers, and more.Gabrielle Union, Kirsten Dunst, and Eliza Dushku have all risen to fame since their performances in...

A nostalgia-packed, star-studded anthology featuring contributors such as Kristen Arnett, Yumi Sakugawa, Myriam Gurba, and others exploring the lasting impact of Ann M. Martin's beloved Baby-Sitters Club seriesIn 1986, the first-ever meeting of the...

Nora Ephron was one of the most popular, accomplished, and beloved writers in American journalism and film.Nora Ephron: A Biographyis the first comprehensive portrait of the Manhattan-born girlwho forged a path of her own, earning accolades and adoration...

"Moving, multifaceted, and deeply human...as eye-opening as it is compelling"-Cecile Richards, author ofMake TroubleAt a time where reproductive rights are at risk, these vital stories of diverse individuals serve as a reminder of the...

North American Guild of Beer Writers Best Book 2022Dismiss the stereotype of the bearded brewer.It's women, not men, who've brewed beer throughout most of human history. Their role as family and village brewer lasted for hundreds of thousands of...

Niloofar Rahmani was born in 1991 in Kabul, Afghanistan, just a few years after the Soviets left. During the rise of the Taliban, her father took his young family to Pakistan, where they lived for nine years as refugees. Then, after the 9/11 terrorist...

Lupente showcases five outstanding contemporary artists in an elegant and absorbing package. This volume - the first in our ongoingFlesk Artist Showcaseseries - features Julia Blattman, a premier visual-development artist working in the animation...

What does it take for women to succeed in a male-dominated world? The Grit Factor.At age nineteen, Shannon Huffman Polson became the youngest woman ever to climb Denali, the highest mountain in North America. She went on to reach the summits of Mt...

The best articles HBR has published on gender and women in leadership and in the workplace.The best articles on gender in the workplace, all in one place. A resource for leaders who want to see change, no matter their own gender identity. Includes both...

Look around your office. Turn on the TV. Incompetent leadership is everywhere, and there's no denying it.There's also no denying that women make up only a tiny handful of senior leaders worldwide. In this provocative book, author Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic...

Why the gender gap persists and how we can close itWomen have made up roughly half of the college-educated workforce for years, and before the onset of the economic crisis of 2020, the gap between the percentage of women and the percentage of men in the...

One of the great political friendships of the modern world, as told through key moments that shaped the twenty-first centuryToday, we know US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel as two of the world's most influential leaders,...

If you hate your job and want change, the starting point is with you! Get unstuck, move past boredom, and discover how to flourish at work. This book is for anyone stuck in a rut, burned out, or just plain tired.Has your career plateaued? Do you...

Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2020Women play all the time with the great power that's been conferred upon us: it's fun to think about reproducing. Or not reproducing. Or walking around in a sweet little dress with a round belly...

What does it mean to risk all for your beliefs? How do you fight an enemy in your midst? We Go Where They Go recounts the thrilling story of a massive forgotten youth movement that set the stage for today's anti-fascist organizing in North America. When...

Margrit Schiller was an early member of the Red Army Faction, the West German urban guerrilla group. In 1971 she was captured and charged with a murder she did not commit, and upon her release she returned to the underground, being captured again in...

For over sixty years, Selma James has been organizing from the perspective of unwaged women who, with their biological and caring work, reproduce the whole human race-whatever else they do. This work goes on almost unnoticed everywhere, in every culture...

Written between 1974 and 2016, Revolution at Point Zero collects four decades of research and theorizing on the nature of housework, social reproduction, and women's struggles on this terrain-to escape it, to better its conditions, to reconstruct it in...

More than ever, the 'body' is today at the centre of radical and institutional politics. Feminist, antiracist, trans and ecological movements all look at the body as a ground of confrontation with the state and a vehicle for transformative social...

Silvia Federici is one of the most important contemporary theorists of capitalism and feminist movements. In this collection of her work spanning over twenty years, she provides a detailed history and critique of the politics of the commons from a...

We are witnessing a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, including new witch hunts. This surge of violence has occurred alongside an expansion of capitalist social relations. In this new work that revisits some of the main...

In this groundbreaking coloring book you'll meet boys who bake and hug; girls who build drum sets and fix stuff; children who are tender, intense, vulnerable, courageous, zany, and gentle. This coloring book is for them and everyone who has ever wanted...

Inspired by the legacy of radical and queer black feminists of the 1970s and '80s, Revolutionary Mothering places marginalized mothers of color at the center of a world of necessary transformation. The challenges we face as movements working for racial,...

"You will be a son, my daughter." With these stunning words Ukmina learned that she was to spend her childhood as a boy. In Afghanistan there is a widespread practice of girls dressing as boys to play the role of a son. These children are called "bacha...

Think punk was only a boys club? Read about the women who were the punk revolution!Women have been kicking against the pricks of music patriarchy since Sister Rosetta Tharpe first played the guitar riffs that built rock-n-roll. The explosion of punk sent...

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Francoise Hardy is best known in Europe for originating the famed "Y-Y" sound in pop music which began a cultural scene in the early 1960s. Her teenage success grew as she became a much-photographed fashion model and actress. Adored for her shy beauty...

In this exhaustive anthology, David Ensminger delves underground to explore the oft overlooked community of badass women who shaped the punk scene. There's a common thread of women being excluded and gatekept from the hardcore music scene, but...

An illuminating portrait of young LGBTQ people in China, the latest addition to the acclaimed photobook series celebrating LGBTQ communities around the worldSame-sex relationships have been an accepted part of Chinese culture for centuries. It was only...

Groundbreaking: An anthology without peer in the marketplace.Builds on Proven Success:Words of Fire has sold over 30,000 copies and set a standard for accessible engagement with the political thought of Black women; Mouths of Rain, endorsed by Words of...

This Is How the Heart Beats is a portrait by acclaimed photographer Jake Naughton of a group of East Africans who have fled unimaginable abuse in their homeland for the United States, following this community from its darkest moments to an uncertain...

As featured by The Daily Show, NPR, PBS, CBC, Time, VIBE, Entertainment Weekly and Well-Read Black GirlIncluded in Foreword Reviews Best Books of 2019, Entrepreneur magazine's Best Books of 2019 for Entrepreneurs and The Stack Podcast's 10 Favorite Reads...

Women, Magic, Wisdom: Explore a Japanese myth through the words and images of key scholars and artists.Alluring, nurturing, dangerous, and vulnerable the yamamba, or Japanese mountain witch, has intrigued audiences for centuries. What is it about the...

In these essays, Marcia simultaneously navigatesthe globe while carving out a second career as a travel writer for majormagazines, while navigating her own past and the bumpy and sometimes complicatedroad of midlife. Marcia's voice has quiet power,...

This reprint of a groundbreaking history that traces American women's struggle for freedom, equality and unity in the labor movement follows the triumphs and set backs of this fight from the early Colonial labor associations to the late twentieth century...

The Combahee River Collective, a path-breaking group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the antiracist and women's liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s. In this collection of essays and...

The dominant view of the Russian Revolution of 1917 is of a movement led byprominent men like Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky. Despite the demonstrations offemale workers for 'bread and herrings', which sparked the February Revolution, inmost historical...

Illegal. Unamerican. Disposable. In a nation with an unprecedented history of immigration, the prevailing image of those who cross our borders in search of equal opportunity is that of a drain. Grace Chang's vital account of immigrant women-who work as...

In 1972 Selma James set out a new political perspective. Her starting point was the millions of unwaged women who, working in the home and on the land, were not seen as "workers" and their struggles viewed as outside of the class struggle. Based on her...

We've been told that a vegetarian diet can feed the hungry, honor the animals, and save the planet. Lierre Keith believed in that plant-based diet and spent twenty years as a vegan. But in The Vegetarian Myth, she argues that we've been led astray--not...

Your career has good 'bones,' but it's looking a little rough around the edges. It's time to take stock and renovate your life by making strategic professional changes that help you achieve not only the job - but also the life - you want. In Career...

A window into the world of nineteenth-century California, from two women who experienced it firsthand.In the early years of California's statehood, Emily Brist Ketchum Bancroft (18341869) and Matilda Coley Griffing Bancroft (18481910) had front-row seats...

This provocative book exposes the intolerance of the transgender movement and explores the the troubles that arise when scientific realities are open to interpretation through a political lens--and the dangers we all face when when good-faith, fact-based...

A brief book by a well-known activist on the growing childfree movement, its many positive benefits and the conventional resistance with adopting this lifestyle.Verena Brunschweiger is no stranger to controversy. In her latest book, Do Childfree People...

When The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory by Carol J. Adams was published more than twenty years ago, it caused an immediate stir among writers and thinkers, feminists and animal rights activists alike. Never before had the...

"A shameless celebration of sexual freedom, Sex Witch encourages us to cultivate the potent, political powers we all possess within our hearts and minds and between our thighs." -- Kristen J. Solle, author of Witch Hunt, Cat Call, and Witches, Sluts,...

"A transcendent travelogue that guides readers through the history, places, and people of several of the many witch hunts and how their legacy continues to impact us today." -Pam Grossman, author of Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and...