Women's Studies

First published three years ago before the print edition of Women Who Run with the Wolves made publishing history, this original audio edition quickly became an underground best seller....

Simone de Beauvoir’s essential masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of "woman", and a revolutionary exploration of inequality and otherness....

For bell hooks, the best cultural criticism sees no need to separate politics from the pleasure of reading. Yearning collects together some of hooks's classic and early pieces of cultural criticism from the '80s....

This audiobook narrated by Nancy Crane traces women’s journey to close the gender wage gap and sheds new light on the continued struggle to achieve equity between couples at home....

Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women is the story of Brooks’ intrepid journey toward an understanding of the women behind the veils.....

The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity....

Incisive, eclectic and politically engaged, Seeing like a Feminist is a bold and wide-ranging book that reorders contemporary society....

Carrie Gress argues that fifty years of radical feminism have had the opposite of the intended effect and have granted primacy of place to the traditionally male sphere of life, while simultaneously devaluing the typical attributes, virtues, and strengths of women....

Nancy Friday's taboo-shattering best seller My Secret Garden is the most popular and controversial book of women's sexual fantasies ever published. Women who feared their erotic fantasies called it scandalous. Women who recognized their own fantasies in its pages, rejoiced....

Artemis: The Indomitable Spirit in Everywoman, is a groundbreaking new audiobook that explores the archetype of the activist. Indomitable means untamed, unsubdued. It is the one-in-herself quality in girls and women who will not be victims, no matter what....

Picture this: You walk into a room and heads turn. Men can't help but be drawn to your magnetic presence. Your confidence radiates, your sensuality captivates, and your allure is undeniable....

Julia Serano shares her experiences and insights - both pre- and post-transition - to reveal the ways in which fear, suspicion, and dismissiveness toward femininity shape our societal attitudes toward trans women, as well as gender and sexuality as a whole....

The Bengalis are the third largest ethno-linguistic group in the world, after the Han Chinese and the Arabs. A quarter of a billion strong and growing, the community has produced three Nobel laureates, world-class scientists, legendary political leaders and revolutionaries....

How to Be an Elder presents the culmination of Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés' masterwork....

What is feminism?

In this short, accessible primer, Bell Hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. With her....

Get ready to encounter a book that will change your experience as a woman in a powerful new way....

This is the better-than-ever sequel to My Secret Garden, the first time in print that American women told their honest sexual fantasies without apology or shame. Nancy Friday got thousands of women to tell her what they'd never confided to their best friends, lovers, or husbands....

An empowering audiobook about standing your ground in dating, in marriage, in your career, and anywhere else....

As the world's attention traces the reluctant social advances in the Middle East, Princess Sultana and her female friends and family have stepped forward....

Sita, the beloved princess of Mithila, is one of the most revered women in Indian history; so well known, yet probably the least understood. At every crossroad of her life, she chose acceptance and grace over self-pity....

This is the story of Tenzin Palmo, the daughter of a fishmonger from London's East End who became a Tibetan nun....

In this widely acclaimed memoir ("Riveting, moving...a wonderful book" The New York Times Book Review), Katharine Graham tells her story—one that is extraordinary both for the events it encompasses and for the courage, candor, and dignity of its telling....

Radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to help us shape the futures we want....

The moving story of a woman's lifelong fight to do what she loves—despite repeatedly being told no or treated as less-than—Whistleblower is both a riveting listen and a source of inspiration for anyone seeking to stand up against inequality in their own workplace....

What does it mean, exactly, to be a Muslim woman in the West today? According to the media, it’s all about the burqa. Here’s what it’s really about.... 

May Day is the long-awaited collection from one of our best-loved poets and former Makar of Scotland, Jackie Kay. As the title suggests, these poems cast an eye over several decades of political activism, from the international solidarity of the Glasgow of Kay’s childhood, accompanying her parents’ Socialist campaigns, through the feminist, LGBT+ and anti-racist movements of the 80s and 90s, up to the present day when a global pandemic intersects with the urgency of Black Lives Matter.

With this volume, Roe v. Dobbs: The Past, Present and Future of a Constitutional Right of Abortion, we confront the remarkable beginning and end-once again, after a half-century-of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, shockingly overruled by the Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. The goal of this book is to bring together some of our nation's experts to share their views on whether there should be a constitutional right to abortion, and what the consequences of Dobbs might be.

W KRAJU, KTÓRY JEST ZNIEWOLONY, GDZIE LUDZIE WALCZĄ O BYT I O WOLNOŚĆ, GDZIE NIE WOLNO NAM MÓWIĆ PUBLICZNIE PO POLSKU, NIE MA MIEJSCA NA PRAWA KOBIET. POCZUŁAM, ŻE COŚ GWAŁTOWNIE ŚCISNĘŁO MNIE ZA GARDŁO. (...) WŁAŚNIE DO TAKIEGO NARODU, KTÓRY WALCZY O WOLNOŚĆ, NALEŻY SZCZEGÓLNIE MÓWIĆ O KOBIETACH. BO KOBIETA TO POTENCJAŁ. TO SIŁA I NIEZŁOMNOŚĆ. TO HART DUCHA. Warszawa, 1904 rok. Klara Tyszkowska, młoda feministka i aktywistka, buntuje się przeciwko tradycji oraz uciskowi carskiego reżimu. Jej życie skupia się wokół studiów na tajnym Latającym Uniwersytecie i pracy dla gazety "Bluszcz".

Molti uomini sono soggetti a pesanti condizionamenti sociali, e il primo e forse più pesante di tutti è quello che li illude di essere fuori da ogni condizionamento, liberi di agire e di decidere grazie al loro libero arbitrio. Nel sistema educativo occidentale già ai bambini viene raccontato che nella vita possono fare tutto, essere ciò che vogliono, a patto di ‘credere nei propri sogni’, o espressioni simili dal tipico valore di luogo comune.

Fortes, intrigantes, resistentes. Os mitos femininos ao longo dos séculos contam um pouco acerca de todas as mulheres. Suas histórias não são diferentes do que vemos hoje: são contos de amor, beleza, ciúme, dominação, revolta. Em mundos governados por homens, as divindades e personagens míticas femininas levantaram as vozes para se impor e conquistar seus espaços.

Oggi a un'adolescente basta aprire Instagram per imbattersi in riflessioni femministe (o pseudofemministe), risparmiandosi la necessità di unirsi a un collettivo o a un gruppo di autocoscienza. Brand di abbigliamento si improvvisano femministi e producono magliette in serie con frasi inneggianti al girl power. Pagine social e piattaforme digitali graficamente accurate alternano post o storie motivazionali a inserzioni pubblicitarie. Innumerevoli servizi immateriali propongono corsi sull'empowerment, sulla valorizzazione femminile, su come rendere piú women friendly il proprio business.

Franziska Setare Koohestani bezeichnet sich selbst als »Hairy Queen«. Und zwar nicht nur, weil sie seit jeher mit starkem Haarwuchs zu kämpfen hat, sondern weil sie erhobenen Hauptes aus diesem Kampf hervortritt. Schon in der Grundschule schickten ihre iranischen Tanten ihr Bleichcreme nach Deutschland, um den Oberlippenbart zu beseitigen. Seitdem folgten etliche Versuche sowohl der Haarentfernung als auch der Haarwuchs-Akzeptanz.

By addressing the perennial human issues at the heart of witchcraft - construction of enmity and intertwined fate - these narrative accounts also illuminate older witch beliefs revealed in witchcraft trial documents. Making Witches shows that in storytelling communities with a rich legacy of witch lore, witch tradition has endured well into the twentieth century.

In The Time of My Life, celebrated music journalist Andrea Warner excavates the layers of Dirty Dancing, from its anachronistic, chart-topping soundtrack, to Baby and Johnny’s chemistry, to Bergstein’s political intentions, to the abortion subplot that is more relevant today than ever. The film’s remarkable longevity would never have been possible if it was just a throwaway summer fling story. It is precisely because of its themes—deeply feminist, sensitively written—that we, over 30 years later, are still holding our breath during that last, exhilarating lift.

A harrowing dual memoir that braids the story of a Chinese-American woman’s search for identity with the dramatic tale of her great-aunt, who was born at the turn of the century in tradition-bound China and went on to become Vice President of China’s first women’s bank.

Every mom wants to be a good parent—but if you’ve found yourself burned out and overwhelmed trying to be “the perfect mom,” you’re not alone. “We get handed a rulebook of motherhood without realizing it,” says Erica Djossa. “That rulebook comes with an invisible load—a world of mental and physical tasks that keeps us pushing toward perfection while barely being able to breathe.” With Releasing the Mother Load, this renowned parenting specialist shares a guide to help you break free from the crushing burden of unrealistic expectations and reclaim the joy of motherhood.

In a heartbreaking yet hopeful collection of personal essays and prose poems, blending the confessional, political, and literary, Kai Cheng Thom dives deep into the questions that haunt social movements today. With the author's characteristic eloquence and honesty, I Hope We Choose Love proposes heartfelt solutions on the topics of violence, complicity, family, vengeance, and forgiveness.

Simone de Beauvoir affranca la donna dallo status di minore che la obbliga a essere l’Altro dall’uomo, senza avere a sua volta il diritto né l’opportunità di costruirsi come Altra. Con veemenza passa in rassegna i ruoli attribuiti dal pensiero maschile alla donna – sposa, madre, prostituta, vecchia – e i relativi attributi – narcisista, innamorata, mistica.

"Delitto passionale. Raptus. Gelosia. Depressione. Scatto d'ira. Tragedia familiare. Perché lei lo ha lasciato, chattava su Facebook, non lo amava più, non cucinava bene, lavorava, non lavorava. Nascondendo la vittima, le cronache finiscono con l'assolvere l'omicida: una vecchia storia, nata in tempi lontani e ancora viva fra noi. Per questo bisogna imparare a parlare di femminicidio. Tutti, non solo media. Dobbiamo farlo noi. Dobbiamo trovare le parole." Con un’introduzione inedita di Loredana Lipperini.

Emmeline Clein's own history of disordered eating began when she was just twelve. In Dead Weight, alongside her own experience and through the stories of other women – famous figures from across time and popular culture, and girls she's known and loved – she traces the medical and cultural history of anorexia, bulimia, orthorexia and binge eating disorder.