Third-Wave Feminism
Top 10 Third-Wave Feminism
: The Handmaid's Tale, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics, Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference, Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family, Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant,...
Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
| Author | bell hooks |
| ISBN | 0896086283 |
Acclaimed cultural critic bell hooks offers an open-hearted and welcoming vision of gender, sexuality, and society in this inspiring and accessible volume. In engaging and provocative style, bell hooks introduces a popular theory of feminism rooted in common sense and the wisdom of experience....
Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It
| Author | Kate Harding |
| ISBN | 0738217026 |
Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s arrest. Congressman Todd Akin’s “legitimate” gaffe. The alleged rape crew of Steubenville, Ohio. Sexual violence has been so prominent in recent years that the feminist term “rape culture” has finally entered the mainstream. But what, exactly, is it? And...
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
| Author | Patricia Hill Collins |
| ISBN | 0415924847 |
In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In
Black Feminist Thought,
Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American...
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
| Author | Cordelia Fine |
| ISBN | 0393068382 |
It’s the twenty-first century, and although we tried to rear unisex children--boys who play with dolls and girls who like trucks--we failed. Even though the glass ceiling is cracked, most women stay comfortably beneath it, and everywhere we hear about vitally important “hardwired” differences...
Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family
The inspiring true story of a transgender girl, her identical twin brother, and an ordinary American family’s extraordinary journey to understand, nurture, and celebrate the uniqueness in us all, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning science reporter for The Washington Post
When Wayne...
Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
| Author | Linda Bacon |
| ISBN | 1933771585 |
Fat isn't the problem. Dieting is the problem. A society that rejects anyone whose body shape or size doesn’t match an impossible ideal is the problem. A medical establishment that equates "thin" with "healthy" is the problem. Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight by Linda...
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
| Author | Lindy West |
| ISBN | 0316348406 |
Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible--like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you--writer and humorist Lindy West quickly discovered that she was anything but.
From a painfully shy childhood in which she tried, unsuccessfully,...
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...
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
| Author | Danielle L. McGuire |
Groundbreaking, controversial, and courageous, here is the story of Rosa Parks and Recy Taylor—a story that reinterprets the history of America's civil rights movement in terms of the sexual violence committed against black women by white men.
Rosa Parks was often described as a sweet...
How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir
| Author | Amber Dawn |
| ISBN | 1551525003 |
As raw and fiery as its author, How Poetry Saved My Life is a powerful account of survival and the transformative power of literature.
Amber Dawn's acclaimed first novel Sub Rosa, a darkly intoxicating fantasy about a group of magical prostitutes who band together to fend off bad johns in a fantastical...
| Author | Rebecca Solnit |
| ISBN | 1608463869 |
In her comic, scathing essay “Men Explain Things to Me,” Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don’t, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works,...
Sex for One: The Joy of Selfloving
| Author | Betty Dodson |
| ISBN | 0517886073 |
A friend handed this to me as she was packing her apartment. She read it for a sexuality class in college, and said it was a good read. I'll admit, Betty Dodson approaches the topic with the idea of liberating masturbation and allowing people to realize that self love is healthy and nothing to be ashamed...
Bad Dyke: Salacious Stories from a Queer Life
| Author | Allison Moon |
| ISBN | 0983830975 |
Furry-style fox hunts, breaking into waterparks, and masturbating in trees. It’s all just part of the queer life of author Allison Moon.
This collection of 18 sexy, touching memoirs celebrates the humor and tenderness of falling in and out of love and in and out of bed.
"Allison...
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe
| Author | Kij Johnson |
| ISBN | 0765386518 |
When a student from the Ulthar Women's College goes missing with her dreaming lover, Vellitt Boe journeys across the dreamlands to find a way to the waking world to bring her back. With a cat in tow, will Vellitt be able to find Clarie Jurat?
Ghouls, ghasts, and gugs, oh my! The Dream-Quest of Vellitt...
| Author | Marilyn Wann |
| ISBN | 0898159954 |
Fat? Chunky? Less than svelte? So what! In this hilarious and eye-opening book, fat and proud activist/zinester Marilyn Wann takes on Americas' biggest fear—worse than the fear of public speaking or nuclear weapons—our fear of fat.Statistics tell us that about a third of Americans are fat, and...
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
| Author | Audre Lorde |
| ISBN | 0895941414 |
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's literary and philosophical personae. These essays explore and illuminate the roots of Lorde's intellectual development and her deep-seated and longstanding concerns about ways of increasing empowerment...
Sexy Feminism: A Girl's Guide to Love, Success, and Style
| Author | Jennifer Keishin Armstrong |
| ISBN | 0547738307 |
Not your mother’s feminism! A humor-filled action plan for an accessible, cool, and, yes, even sexy brand of 21st-century feminism
A Mariner Original Paperback
Feminism can still seem like an abstract idea that is difficult to incorporate into our hectic, media-saturated,...
Lessons from the Fat-O-Sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body
| Author | Kate Harding |
| ISBN | 0399534970 |
From the leading bloggers in the fat-acceptance movement comes an empowering guide to body image- no matter what the scales say.
When it comes to body image, women can be their own worst enemies, aided and abetted by society and the media. But Harding and Kirby, the leading bloggers in the "fatosphere,"...
Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love & Fashion
| Author | Virgie Tovar |
| ISBN | 1580054382 |
In this fun, fresh, fat-positive anthology, fat activist and sex educator Virgie Tovar brings together voices from an often-marginalized community to talk about and celebrate their lives. Hot & Heavy rejects the idea that being thin is best, instead embracing the many fabulous aspects of being...
Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future
| Author | Jennifer Baumgardner |
| ISBN | 0374526222 |
A powerful indictment from within of the current state of feminism, and a passionate call to arms
From Lilith Fair to Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the WNBA--everywhere you look, girl culture is clearly ascendant. Young women live by feminism's goals, yet feminism itself is undeniably at a crossroads;...
| Author | Esther D. Rothblum |
| ISBN | 0814776310 |
Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in Psychology
Winner of the 2010 Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Edited Volume in Women's Studies from the Popular Culture Association
We have all seen the segments on television news shows: A fat...
| Author | Jennifer Baumgardner |
| ISBN | 0374528659 |
From the authors of Manifesta, an activism handbook that illustrates how to truly make the personal political.
Grassroots is an activism handbook for social justice. Aimed at everyone from students to professionals, stay-at-home moms to artists, Grassroots answers the perennial question:...
Two Whole Cakes: How to Stop Dieting and Learn to Love Your Body
| Author | Lesley Kinzel |
| ISBN | 1558617930 |
In the age of The Biggest Loser and the “war on obesity,” we’re pressured to conform to certain body standards at any cost. Sure, everyone should eat right and get exercise, but what if you do that and you still don’t fit into the clothes at the mall?
In Two Whole Cakes, Fatshionista...
| Author | Meredith Russo |
| ISBN | 1250078407 |
A new kind of big-hearted novel about being seen for who you really are.
Amanda Hardy is the new girl in school. Like anyone else, all she wants is to make friends and fit in. But Amanda is keeping a secret, and she's determined not to get too close to anyone.
But when she meets sweet, easygoing...
| Author | Rebecca Jane Weinstein |
| ISBN | 1475261837 |
If there are two subjects that are universally fascinating and rife with controversy, they are sex and fat. Though our culture is obsessed with both, the two commingling are sometimes seen as offensive, obscene, or even grotesque. Fat people are not viewed as sexual beings. Of course, this perception...
| Author | Dianne Sylvan |
| ISBN | 0738707619 |
When you look in the mirror, do you see a Goddess? For anyone who's experienced a "fat day" or wished a doctor could make them younger, Wiccan Dianne Sylvan speaks candidly about overcoming body hatred and offers a spiritual path back to Divine femininity.
Sharing her own struggles with poor...
| Author | Abigail C. Saguy |
| ISBN | 0199857083 |
The United States, we are told, is facing an obesity epidemic-a "battle of the bulge" of not just national, but global proportions-that requires drastic and immediate action. Experts in the media, medical science, and government alike are scrambling to find answers. What or who is responsible for...
Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism (PB)
| Author | Patricia Hill Collins |
In this book, Patricia Hill Collins explores the question of why racism has persisted in the United States despite the elimination of legal discrimination. Specifically, she focuses on how popular culture and media replicate, resist, and reproduce old and new forms of discrimination through their...
| Author | Patricia Hill Collins |
| ISBN | 1592130925 |
Amazing book about the complexities and relationship between nationalism, racism and feminism in the USA. Whether the reader has little background in social justice issues or is an academic in the field, the book offers interesting insights into race and gender issues that women of colour have to...
| Author | Ani DiFranco |
| ISBN | 1583228233 |
“She’s got the gift of lyrical precision—nothing cuts to the core quite like the resolution of DiFranco rhyme.”—Billboard
With eight Grammy nominations, a gold record, and sales of over 4.5 million, Ani DiFranco is one of America’s most fiercely independent and beloved musicians,...
