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The memoir of the youngest woman elected to Afghanistan's parliament, who denounced its warlords.

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.

Key essays that set out Dalit feminist theory and its challenge to both mainstream feminism and caste politics.

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.

A frank 1976 memoir of marriage, desire and writing.
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Frances S. Hasso
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A study of women in the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and how gender shaped their politics.
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
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On how surveillance and security reach into Palestinian homes, bodies and births in occupied East Jerusalem.

An illustrated history of movements for women's rights and feminism in India from 1800 to 1990.

Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
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Argues that gender was not a central organising category in Yorùbá society before colonialism.
Torunn Wimpelmann
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How the international push to end violence against women in Afghanistan played out in law, courts and politics.

Khawar Mumtaz and Farida Shaheed
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A history of the Pakistani women's movement, including the resistance to Zia-ul-Haq's Islamisation laws.