An accessible tour of feminist thinking through Indian debates on the family, the body, sexuality, desire and the law.
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An accessible tour of feminist thinking through Indian debates on the family, the body, sexuality, desire and the law.
The founding argument for women's education and rational equality with men.
Examines the impact of racism and sexism on Black women, and feminism's blind spots.
Black feminismFeminist theoryUSAEnglish206 pages
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Cynthia Enloe
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Shows how international politics depends on women's work, from banana plantations to military bases.
Fatima Mernissi
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A pioneering study of sexuality, space and power between women and men in Morocco and Muslim thought.
Patricia Hill Collins
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Sets out Black women's knowledge as a standpoint and the 'matrix of domination' of race, gender and class.
Argues that misogyny is the system that polices and punishes women who challenge male dominance.
Feminist theoryPhilosophyUSAEnglish368 pages
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Afiya Shehrbano Zia
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Makes the case for secular feminist politics in Pakistan against the scholarly turn to religious agency.
An argument for women's freedom to take risks and make choices, against protection that becomes control.
Haideh Moghissi
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A critique of scholarship that treats Islamist movements as good for women, drawing on Iran after 1979.
A reader on the history and debates of Indian feminism, from colonial reform to contemporary politics.
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
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Collects Mohanty's essays, including 'Under Western Eyes', on decolonising feminism and building solidarity across borders.
A critique of white middle-class feminism and a call for a movement that starts from the margins.
A primer on the idea of gender and how it is produced in the family, at work and in culture. Part of the Theorizing Feminism series.
Argues that gender is performed rather than innate.
Queer theoryFeminist theoryUSAEnglish221 pages
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Shows how caste is kept in place by controlling women's sexuality, marriage and labour, and why caste and gender have to be studied together.
On how feminist theory is made in everyday life, from being a 'feminist killjoy' to building shelters for each other.
A clear introduction to how patriarchy works, drawing on Indian and global examples. Part of the Theorizing Feminism series.
Saba Mahmood
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An ethnography of the women's mosque movement in Cairo that challenges liberal feminist ideas of agency.
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
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Essays on how women are represented in Indian culture and politics, from sati to television and rape.
Questions feminism's reliance on law and rights through debates on abortion, sexual violence and the Uniform Civil Code.
Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
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Argues that gender was not a central organising category in Yorùbá society before colonialism.
A short introduction to the difference between sex and gender and why it matters.
How Bedouin women and men use short poems to voice feelings their code of honour forbids them to say.
A short, plain-spoken introduction to patriarchy, written for workshops and first-time readers.
Shilpa Phadke, Sameera Khan and Shilpa Ranade
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Argues that women's right to loiter in the city, without purpose or excuse, is the real test of their access to public space.
A wide-ranging reader of key writing from Indian women's studies and the women's movement.
