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Feminist Bookshelf

A running list of the books that I own in my Google books library, current as of 1/1/2021. My goal this year is to read at least 24 books outside of textbooks and re-reads. As I work through them, this is where I'll come to unpack everything - a kinda sorta virtual book club.

  • A Girl's Guide to Joining the Resistance - Emma Gray
  • A Little F'ed Up: Why Feminism is Not a Dirty Word - Julie Zeilinger
  • All the Rebel Women: The Rise of the Fourth Wave of Feminism - Kira Cochrane
  • Bad Feminist - Roxanne Gay
  • Beyonce in Formation - Omise'eke Tinsley
  • Can We All Be Feminists - June Eric-Udorie
  • Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys. - Viv Albertine
  • Crafting with Feminism - Bonnie Burton
  • Feminism and Pop Culture
  • Feminism Is... - DK
  • Feminism is for Everybody - Bell Hooks
  • Feminism is Queer: The Intimate Connection Between Queer and Feminist Theory - Mimi Marinucci
  • Full Frontal Feminism - Jessica Valenti
  • Girl in a Band - Kim Gordon
  • Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism - Alison Piepmeier
  • Girls to the Front - Sara Marcus
  • Graffiti Grrlz - Jessica Nydia Pabon-Colon
  • Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World - Kelly Jensen
  • Hood Feminism - Mikki Kendall
  • Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl - Carrie Brownstein
  • Pussy Riot! - Pussy Riot
  • Reclaiming Our Space - Feminista Jones
  • The Art of Feminism - Helena Reckitt and Lucinda Gosling, Hilary Robinson, Amy Tobin, ...
  • The Riot Grrrl Collection - Lisa Darms
  • The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home - Arlie Hochschild
  • They Didn't See Us Coming - Lisa Levenstein
  • Unapologetic - Charlene Carruthers
  • Unladylike: A Field Guide to Smashing the Patriarchy and Claiming Your Space - Caroline Ervin
  • We Were Feminists Once - Andi Zeisler
  • Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive - Kristen J. Sollee

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