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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

  • Cover image of book This Thread of Gold: A Celebration of Black Womanhood by Catherine Joy White
    This Thread of Gold: A Celebration of Black Womanhood - by Catherine Joy White

    £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

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  • Cover image of book How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa
    How to Stand Up to a Dictator - by Maria Ressa

    £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

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  • Cover image of book An Autobiography by Angela Y. Davis
    An Autobiography - by Angela Y. Davis

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels by Hannah Ross
    Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels - by Hannah Ross

    £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

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  • Cover image of book A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance by Stella Dadzie
    A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance - by Stella Dadzie

    £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

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  • Cover image of book No Walls And The Recurring Dream: A Memoir by Ani DiFranco
    No Walls And The Recurring Dream: A Memoir - by Ani DiFranco

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Resistance: A Songwriter
    Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change and Courage - by Tori Amos

    £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

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  • Cover image of book On the Front Line with the Women Who Fight Back by Stacey Dooley
    On the Front Line with the Women Who Fight Back - by Stacey Dooley

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Clara Zetkin: Selected Writings by Clara Zetkin, Edited by Philip S. Foner, Foreword by Angela Y. Davis and Rosalyn
    Clara Zetkin: Selected Writings - by Clara Zetkin, Edited by Philip S. Foner, Foreword by Angela Y. Davis and Rosalyn

    £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

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  • Cover image of book How to Start a Revolution by Lucy-Anne Holmes
    How to Start a Revolution - by Lucy-Anne Holmes

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment by Carole Boyce Davies (Editor)
    Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment - by Carole Boyce Davies (Editor)

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Revolutionary Women: A Book of Stencils by Queen of the Neighbourhood Collective
    Revolutionary Women: A Book of Stencils - by Queen of the Neighbourhood Collective

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown by Jennifer Scanlon
    Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown - by Jennifer Scanlon

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival by Fadumo Korn and Sabine Eichhorst
    Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival - by Fadumo Korn and Sabine Eichhorst

    £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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