The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service

7 best books like The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service (Laura Kaplan): The Need, Thick: And Other Essays, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, The Sweetness of Tears, Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power, The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

The Need

Author	Helen Phillips
ISBN	1982113162

When Molly, home alone with her two young children, hears footsteps in the living room, she tries to convince herself it’s the sleep deprivation. She’s been hearing things these days. Startling at loud noises. Imagining the worst-case scenario. It’s what mothers do, she knows.

But...

Thick: And Other Essays

Author	Tressie McMillan Cottom
ISBN	1620974363

Smart, humorous, and strikingly original thoughts on race, beauty, money, and more—by one of today's most intrepid public intellectuals

Tressie McMillan Cottom, the writer, professor, and acclaimed author of Lower Ed, now brilliantly shifts gears from running regression analyses...

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Author	Jenny Odell
ISBN	1612197493

This thrilling critique of the forces vying for our attention re-defines what we think of as productivity, shows us a new way to connect with our environment and reveals all that we’ve been too distracted to see about our selves and our world.

When the technologies we use every day collapse...

The Sweetness of Tears

Author	Nafisa Haji
ISBN	0061780103

From Nafisa Haji, author of the critically acclaimed novel, The Writing on My Forehead, comes The Sweetness of Tears, an emotional, deeply layered story that explores the far reaching effects of cultural prejudice, forbidden love, and hidden histories on a young woman and her family. A paperback...

Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power

Author	Pam Grossman
ISBN	1982100702

A whip-smart and illuminating exploration of the world’s fascination with witches from podcast host and practicing witch Pam Grossman (The Witch Wave), who delves deeply into why witches have intrigued us for centuries and why they’re more relevant now than ever.

When you think of a...

The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade

Author	Ann Fessler
ISBN	1594200947

A powerful and groundbreaking revelation of the secret history of the 1.5 million women who surrendered children for adoption in the several decades before Roe v. Wade

In this deeply moving work, Ann Fessler brings to light the lives of hundreds of thousands of young single American women...

Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

Author	Cinzia Arruzza
ISBN	1788734424

From three of the organisers of the International Women's Strike US: a manifesto for when 'leaning in' is not enough.

Recent years have seen the emergence of massive feminist mobilizations around the world, offering an alternative to the liberal feminism that has become the handmaiden of...