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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 14 books in this booklist
£12.99 paperback (2024) - ISBN 13: 9780349702629 | ISBN 10: 0349702624
Weaving together narratives that celebrate the triumph of Black female resistance, Catherine Joy White takes us on a unique journey through the eyes of positive and inspiring disruptors. Throughout history, acts of defiance have taken place ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780753559215 | ISBN 10: 0753559218
Radio 4 Book of the Week WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2021 What will you sacrifice for the truth? Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own gov ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780241994573 | ISBN 10: 0241994578
A powerful and commanding account of the life of trailblazing political activist Angela Davis. Edited by Toni Morrison and first published in 1974, An Autobiography is a classic of the Black Liberation era which resonates just as powerfully toda ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781474611381 | ISBN 10: 1474611389
Simone de Beauvoir borrowed her lover’s bike to cycle around Paris in the 1940s, instantly falling in love with the freedom it gave her (even when an accident caused her to lose a tooth). Alice Hawkins, a factory worker from Leicester, pedal-powere ... more
View book details£14.99 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781788738842 | ISBN 10: 1788738845
Enslaved West Indian women had few opportunities to record their stories for posterity. Yet from their dusty footprints and the umpteen small clues they left for us to unravel, there's no question that they earned their place in history. Pick any Car ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780735225190 | ISBN 10: 0735225192
A memoir by the celebrated singer-songwriter and social activist Ani DiFranco. In her new memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Ani DiFranco recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom, combining personal expression, the power of ... more
View book details£16.99 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529325607 | ISBN 10: 1529325609
Since the release of her first, career-defining solo album Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos has been one of the music industry’s most enduring and ingenious artists. From her unnerving depiction of sexual assault in “Me and a Gun” to her post-9/11 ... more
View book details£14.99 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781785942983 | ISBN 10: 1785942980
Put yourself in their shoes. In 2007, Stacey Dooley was a twenty-something working in fashion retail. She was selected to take part in the BBC series Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts which saw her live and work alongside Indian factory workers making c ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781608463909 | ISBN 10: 1608463907
"Clara Zetkin's arguments in support of women workers contain a logic which can be effectively employed today in defense of strong affirmative action programs, not only for women but for the racially and nationally oppressed as well... Her analysis o ... more
View book details£2.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780552172066 | ISBN 10: 0552172065
A bite-sized guide to making change happen and the story behind the No More Page 3 campaign, written by its founder. Change doesnt just happen. It starts with the idea that something could be different, could be better. It starts with a pe ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780956240163 | ISBN 10: 095624016x
Claudia Jones was a smart, politically-wise, brilliant, transnational feminist, Pan Africanist theorist and cultural activist who brought together in her speeches and writings the politics that is now seen as a necessary way of intersecting a variet ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781604862003 | ISBN 10: 1604862009
A radical feminist history and street art resource for inspired readers! This book combines short biographies with striking and usable stencil images of thirty women activists, anarchists, feminists, freedom-fighters and visionaries. It of ... more
View book details£17.99 hardback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780195342055 | ISBN 10: 0195342054
When reviewing the great figures of feminism, few would call to mind the creator of the Cosmo Girl, but as Jennifer Scanlon argues in her fascinating biography Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown, the longtime editor of Cosmopolit ... more
View book details£19.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781558615311 | ISBN 10: 1558615318
This powerful memoir by international anti-FGM activist Fadumo Korn portrays both her life-altering transformation after she undergoes a brutal female circumcision at the age of seven and her journey to recovery and empowerment. As a feisty nomad, Fa ... more
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