Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan
10 best books like Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan (Mikiso Hane): When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace, Journey Home, Days of War Nights of Love: Crimethink for Beginners, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women, Government, A Russian Gentleman, Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America, And Then, Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
| Author | Patrisse Khan-Cullors |
| ISBN | 1250171083 |
A poetic and powerful memoir about what it means to be a Black woman in America—and the co-founding of a movement that demands justice for all in the land of the free.
Raised by a single mother in an impoverished neighborhood in Los Angeles, Patrisse Khan-Cullors experienced firsthand the...
Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace
| Author | Jessica Bennett |
| ISBN | 0062439790 |
Part manual, part manifesto, a humorous yet incisive guide to navigating subtle sexism at work—a pocketbook Lean In for the Buzzfeed generation that provides real-life career advice and humorous reinforcement for a new generation of professional women.
It was a fight club—but without...
| Author | Yoshiko Uchida |
| ISBN | 0689716419 |
A Japanese-American family return to their ordinary life after being relocated during World War II. After their release from an American concentration camp, a Japanese-American girl and her family try to reconstruct their lives amidst strong anti-Japanese feelings which breed fear, distrust,...
Days of War Nights of Love: Crimethink for Beginners
i havent read it in a while, its funny to me, the folks who foam at the mouth, hating on the crimethinc. kids, and the fan club who take this book as gospel. the funniest thing about the whole thing is that i doubt the authors even give this book the creedence that either of those groups do. i gave 5 stars for what...
Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women
| Author | Sarah Bessey |
| ISBN | 1476717575 |
Written with poetic rhythm, a prophetic voice, and a deeply biblical foundation, this loving yet fearless book urges today’s church to move beyond man-made restrictions and fully welcome women’s diverse voices and experiences.
A freedom song for the church.
Sarah Bessey...
In the 1930s B. Traven wrote an epic of the birth of the Mexican revolution in what have become known as the "Jungle Novels." Government is the first of the six novels that comprise the series.
Depicting the political corruption that infected even the smallest villages in Mexico, the novel tells...
| Author | Sergei Aksakov |
| ISBN | 0192815733 |
At the center of this chronicle of Russian provincial life in the reign of Catherine the Great stands the patriarchal figure of the author's grandfather, Stepan Mikhailovich. A man of great natural dignity, imbued with respect for tradition and love of the land, he is also despotic and virtually illiterate....
| Author | Ellen Chesler |
| ISBN | 1416540768 |
Ellen Chesler's 1992 biography of Margaret Sanger is acclaimed as definitive and is widely used and cited by scholars and activists alike in the fields of women's health and reproductive rights.
Chesler's substantive new Afterword considers how Sanger's life and work hold up in light of...
| Author | Natsume Sōseki |
| ISBN | 0939512823 |
And Then, ranked as one of Soseki Natsume's most insightful and stirring novels, tells the story of Daisuke, a young Japanese man struggling with his personal purpose and identity, as well as the changing social landscape of Meiji-era Japan. As Japan enters the 20th century, ancient customs give way...
Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai
| Author | Kokichi Katsu |
| ISBN | 0816512566 |
A series of picaresque adventures set against the backdrop of a Japan still closed off from the rest of the world, Musui's Story recounts the escapades of samurai Katsu Kokichi. As it depicts Katsu stealing, brawling, indulging in the pleasure quarters, and getting the better of authorities, it also...
