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The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism

10 best books like The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism (Vivien Labaton): Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women's Liberation Movement, In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution, Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild, To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism, Listen Up: Voices From the Next Feminist Generation, Jane Sexes It Up: True Confessions of Feminist Desire, The War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back, Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade, The Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion, Abortion & Life

Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women's Liberation Movement
AuthorRosalyn Baxandall
Today's women are so comfortable in their authority that they often forget to credit the women's liberation movement of the 1960s and '70s for paving the way—from the kitchen to the boardroom, from sexual harassment to self-defense, from cheerleading on the sidelines to playing center on the team....
In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution
AuthorSusan Brownmiller
ISBN0385314868
Male-only admissions policies. Back-alley abortions. The pervasive belief that rape was a woman's fault. These were the shocking conditions that stirred students, mothers, businesswomen, and grandmothers to activism in the latter half of the twentieth century. In this stirring memoir, Susan...
Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild
AuthorDeborah Siegel
ISBN1403973180
Contrary to clichés about the end of feminism, Deborah Siegel argues that younger women are reliving the battles of its past, and reinventing it--with a vengeance. From feminist blogging to the popularity of the WNBA, girl culture is on the rise. A lively and compelling look back at the framing of one...
To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism
AuthorRebecca Walker
ISBN0385472625
Determined to extend the boundaries of feminism to embrace social, political, and economic equality for all humanity, these twenty-one exciting young activists and thinkers recast the concepts of feminism to reflect their own personal experiences and beliefs. Inspired by activist and writer...
Listen Up: Voices From the Next Feminist Generation
AuthorBarbara Findlen
ISBN1878067613
this was one of the best, most inclusive feminist anthologies i’ve come across! i have been feeling kind of isolated lately, because i have been feeling like every feminist/pro-woman thing i say gets challenged, debated, mocked, etc, even when i’m not looking for a debate. reading this book basically...
Jane Sexes It Up: True Confessions of Feminist Desire
AuthorMerri Lisa Johnson
ISBN1568581807
In Jane Sexes It Up, 20 young, progressive feminists reflect on the limitations they think are imposed by establishment feminism on their bodies and their behavior. In these essays, headed up by editor Merri Lisa Johnson’s “Generation X Does the Sex Wars,” the writers confess their seemingly...
The War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back
AuthorGloria Feldt
ISBN0553382926
Accessible and impassioned, here is an eye-opening look at the right wing strategy to reverse the gains American women have made over the past 50 years. The War on Choice chronicles the actions being taken at the highest levels of government to turn back the clock on women's rights.

With the...
Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade
AuthorRickie Solinger
ISBN0415908949
Rickie Solinger provides the first published analyses of maternity home programs for unwed mothers from 1945 to 1965, and examines how nascent cultural and political constructs such as the "population bomb" and the "sexual revolution" reinforced racially-specific public policy initiatives....
The Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion
AuthorAngela Bonavoglia
ISBN1568581882
Every day in America, abortion providers and the women who need them are in danger. First published ten years ago, this collection of 25 powerful stories from contributors both famous and ordinary, privileged and poor, provides often harrowing insights into what happens when women are denied the...
Abortion & Life
AuthorJennifer Baumgardner
ISBN1933354593
“In her role as author and activist, Jennifer Baumgardner has permanently changed the way people think about feminism . . . and will shape the next hundred years of politics and culture.”—The Commonwealth Club of California, hailing Baumgardner as one of Six Visionaries for the Twenty-First...
Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice
AuthorLoretta J. Ross
ISBN0896087298
“If you have come to help me, please go away. But, if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, let us work together.”—Lila Watson, Aboriginal Activist

Vibrant. Strong. Fierce. Undivided Rights captures the evolving and largely unknown activist history of women...
Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings
AuthorAlma M. García
ISBN0415918014
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Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image
AuthorOphira Edut
ISBN1580051081
Pick up a magazine, turn on the TV, and you'll find few women who haven't been fried, dyed, plucked, or tucked. In short, you'll see no body outlaws.
The writers in this groundbreaking anthology reveal a world where bodies come in all their many-splendored shapes, sizes, colors, and textures. In...
We Don't Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists
AuthorMelody Berger
ISBN1580051820
We Don’t Need Another Wave is a critique of the ways in which feminism is discussed in the mainstream media. Today’s young feminists are wary of being labeled. They are media-savvy, hyper-aware of being categorized and marginalized, and are here to tell the world that feminists are feminists —...
Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex, and Power
AuthorShira Tarrant
ISBN0415956560
Men Speak Out is a collection of essays written by and about pro-feminist men. In the essays, which feature original, lively and accessible prose, anti-sexist men make sense of their gendered experiences in today's culture.

The authors tackle the issues of feminism, growing up male, recognizing...
A Girl's Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings From The Girl Zine Revolution
AuthorKaren Green
ISBN0312155352
In the last decade, there has been an explosion in the production of zines.

On the forefront of this cut-and-paste revolution have been those zines made specifically by and for young women. The words and images that have come to define many young women's lives have long been overlooked and under...
It's So You: 35 Women Write about Personal Expression Through Fashion & Style
AuthorMichelle Tea
ISBN1580052150
It's So You explores the intersection between personal style and personal expression through lively personal essays by thirty-five top women writers—including two artists. In a culture that uses oppressive beauty standards to influence and determine what’s hot, how do women manage to find...
From Girls to Grrrlz: A History of Female Comics from Teens to Zines
AuthorTrina Robbins
ISBN0811821994
Boys aren't the only ones who read comics—girls do too! From Betty and Veronica to Slutburger and Art Babe, Girls to Grrrlz explores the amazing but true history of girl comics. Pop culture fans will delight in author Trina Robbinss chronological commentary (with attitude) on the authors, artists,...
Sexism in America: Alive, Well, and Ruining Our Future
AuthorBarbara J. Berg
ISBN1556527764
The news in 2008 was that women had taken huge strides forward. Feminists’ decades-long struggle finally seemed to be paying off, not only in boardrooms, classrooms, and kitchens but also at the very top—in presidential politics. But what is the truth behind the headlines?
In Sexism in America:...
Fight Like a Girl: How to Be a Fearless Feminist
AuthorMegan Seely
ISBN0814740014
View the Author's website! Seely, the youngest elected president of California's chapter of the National Organization for Women, combines her own story of third-wave feminism with an overview of the feminist movement and words to guide others. Third-wave feminists are aware of both the victories...
Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women's Reproduction in America
AuthorJeanne Flavin
ISBN0814727549
Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association; Sex and Gender Section
The Real Issue behind the Abortion Debate
An op-ed by Jeanne Flavin in the San Francisco Chronicle
2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
The intense policing of women's...
Women's Voices, Feminist Visions: Classic and Contemporary Readings
AuthorSusan M. Shaw
This introductory women's studies reader represents a wide range of classic, conceptual, and experiential writings. Chapter introductions provide background information on each chapter's topic, including explanations of key concepts and ideas and references to the subsequent reading selections....
Bitches, Bimbos, and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls' Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes
AuthorGuerrilla Girls
ISBN0142001015
Whatever life a woman leads, from biker chick to society girl, there's a stereotype she'll have to live down. The Guerrilla Girls, notorious for their outrageous take on women's issues, now tackle the maze of stereotypes that follow women from cradle to grave. With subversive use of information—and...
Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists
AuthorCourtney E. Martin
ISBN1580052851
When did you know you were a feminist? Whether it happened at school, at work, while watching TV, or reading a book, many of us can point to a particular moment when we knew we were feminists. In Click, editors Courtney E. Martin and J. Courtney Sullivan bring us a range of women—including Jessica Valenti,...
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