Femininity

10 best books like Femininity (Susan Brownmiller): Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Good Son, Sexual Politics, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, The Day You Begin, All About Love: New Visions, The Long Take, On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Author	Ray Bradbury
ISBN	0380729407

A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying, Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show...

The Good Son

Author	You-Jeong Jeong
ISBN	0143131958

'The Talented Mr. Ripley meets The Bad Seed in this breathless, chilling psychological thriller by the bestselling novelist known as "Korea's Stephen King" Who can you trust if you can't trust yourself? Early one morning, twenty-six-year-old Yu-jin wakes up to a strange metallic smell, and a phone...

Sexual Politics

Author	Kate Millett
ISBN	0252068890

Revived Review to commemorate the passing of Kate Millett, Feminist critic, 1934-2017.

(Thanks to David Schaafsma for the gentle reminder.)

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Yes, it's Week Four of STRICTLY COME NOVELISTS

(note - this is the British version...

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Author	Hannah Arendt
ISBN	0143039881

Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann sparked a flurry of debate upon its publication. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s...

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Author

Jeanette Winterson

Alternate cover edition for 9780802135162

This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts.

At sixteen, Jeanette decides to...

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Author	Judith Butler
ISBN	0415389550

Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture. This is the text where Judith Butler began to advance the ideas that...

The Day You Begin

Author	Jacqueline Woodson
ISBN	0399246533

National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson and two-time Pura Belpre Illustrator Award winner Rafael Lopez have teamed up to create a poignant, yet heartening book about finding courage to connect, even when you feel scared and alone.

There will be times when you walk into a room
and...

All About Love: New Visions

Author	bell hooks
ISBN	0688168442

All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our private and public lives. In eleven concise chapters, hooks explains how our everyday notions of what it means to give and receive love often fail us, and how these ideals are established in early childhood....

The Long Take

Author	Robin Robertson
ISBN	1509846883

Walker, a young Canadian recently demobilised after war and his active service in the Normandy landings and subsequent European operations. Suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, and unable to face a return to his family home in rural Nova Scotia, he goes in search of freedom, change, anonymity...

On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life

Author	Sara Ahmed
ISBN	0822352362

What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher education, as well as her own experience of doing diversity work. Diversity is an ordinary even unremarkable...

The War Against Women

Author	Marilyn French
ISBN	0517136392

Bestselling author and feminist scholar Marilyn French has written a shocking and fascinating analysis of the history of women's political, cultural, physical, and economic repression that is as controversial as it is utterly convincing. In this stunning work of resarch, Ms. French creates a devastating...

Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights

Author	Molly Smith
ISBN	1786633604

You hear that selling sex is degrading; you hear that no one would ever choose to do it; you hear that it's dangerous; that women get abused and killed. You often hear, "There should be a law against it!" Or, perhaps just against the buyers. What do sex workers want? That's not something you hear asked very...