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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 44 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Everything
    Everything's Trash, But It's Okay - by Phoebe Robinson

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781914344015 | ISBN 10: 1914344014

    Everything's Trash, But It's Okay is a timely essay collection on gender, race, dating, and the dumpster fire that is our world and provides a candid perspective for a generation that has had the rug pulled out from under it too many times to count.& ... more

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  • Cover image of book Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown
    Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture - by Sherronda J. Brown

    £16.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781623177102 | ISBN 10: 1623177103

    For readers of Ace and Belly of the Beast: A Black queer feminist exploration of asexuality–and an incisive interrogation of the sex-obsessed culture that invisibilizes and ignores asexual and A-spec identity.  Everything you know about sex ... more

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  • Cover image of book Freedom is A Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis
    Freedom is A Constant Struggle - by Angela Y. Davis

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241994603 | ISBN 10: 0241994608

    From the Author of Women, Race and Class, this is a timely provocation that examines the concept of attaining freedom in light of our current world conflicts.  In these newly collected essays, interviews and speeches, world-renowned activist an ... more

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  • Cover image of book Don
    Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender and the Body - by Savala Nolan

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781911648437 | ISBN 10: 1911648438

    A powerful and provocative collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between society’s most charged, politicised, and intractably polar spaces — between black and white, rich and poor, thin and fat.   The twelve essa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot by Mikki Kendall
    Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot - by Mikki Kendall

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781526622709 | ISBN 10: 152662270x

    All too often the focus of mainstream feminism is not on basic survival for the many, but on increasing privilege for the few.   Meeting basic needs is a feminist issue. Food insecurity, the living wage and access to education are feminist issue ... more

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  • Cover image of book White Tears / Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Colour by Ruby Hamad
    White Tears / Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Colour - by Ruby Hamad

    £16.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781398703087 | ISBN 10: 1398703087

    'How is it that we have been so conditioned to privilege the emotional comfort of white people?'  White tears possess a potency that is rarely acknowledged or commented upon, but they have long been used as a dangerous and insidious tool agai ... more

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  • Cover image of book Don
    Don't Touch My Hair - by Emma Dabiri

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780141986289 | ISBN 10: 014198628x

    Straightened. Stigmatized. 'Tamed'. Celebrated. Erased. Managed. Appropriated. Forever misunderstood. Black hair is never 'just hair'.  This book is about why black hair matters and how it can be viewed as a blueprint for decolonisation ... more

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  • Cover image of book When I Dare to Be Powerful by Audre Lorde
    When I Dare to Be Powerful - by Audre Lorde

    £5.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780241473153 | ISBN 10: 0241473152

    'Women so empowered are dangerous' Written with a 'black woman's anger' and the precision of a poet, these searing pieces by the groundbreaking writer Audre Lorde are a celebration of female strength and solidarity, and a cry to speak out agains ... more

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  • Cover image of book Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene A. Carruthers
    Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements - by Charlene A. Carruthers

    £11.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780807039823 | ISBN 10: 0807039829

    A manifesto from one of America’s most influential activists which disrupts political, economic, and social norms by reimagining the Black Radical Tradition.  Drawing on Black intellectual and grassroots organizing traditions, including the Hai ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone by Minna Salami
    Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone - by Minna Salami

    £14.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786995261 | ISBN 10: 1786995263

    In Sensuous Knowledge, Minna Salami draws on Africa-centric, feminist-first and artistic traditions to help us rediscover inclusive and invigorating ways of experiencing the world afresh.   Combining the playfulness of a storyteller with the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
    Sister Outsider - by Audre Lorde

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241410509 | ISBN 10: 0241410509

    'The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep.'  The revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those 'outside the circle of this society's definition of accep ... more

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  • Cover image of book Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
    Women, Race & Class - by Angela Y. Davis

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241408407 | ISBN 10: 0241408407

    Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation.   Tracin ... more

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  • Cover image of book To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe by Akwugo Emejulu and Francesca Sobande (Editors)
    To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe - by Akwugo Emejulu and Francesca Sobande (Editors)

    £18.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780745339474 | ISBN 10: 0745339476

    In a divided continent, Black women and women of colour come together to undertake creative resistances and imagine radical new futures.   This book brings together activists, artists and scholars of colour to show how Black feminism and Afro ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown
    Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good - by adrienne maree brown

    £14.00   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781849353267 | ISBN 10: 1849353263

    How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life?   Author and editor adrienne maree brown finds the ans ... more

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  • Cover image of book Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
    Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower - by Brittney Cooper

    £13.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781250112880 | ISBN 10: 1250112885

    So what if it’s true that Black women are mad as hell? They have the right to be. In the Black feminist tradition of Audre Lorde, Brittney Cooper reminds us that anger is a powerful source of energy that can give us the strength to keep on fighting ... more

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  • Cover image of book Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets by Feminista Jones
    Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets - by Feminista Jones

    £11.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780807055373 | ISBN 10: 0807055379

    A treatise of Black women’s transformative influence in media and society, placing them front and center in a new chapter of mainstream resistance and political engagement.  In Reclaiming Our Space, social worker, activist, and cultural com ... more

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  • Cover image of book Zami: A New Spelling of my Name by Audre Lorde
    Zami: A New Spelling of my Name - by Audre Lorde

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241351086 | ISBN 10: 0241351081

    If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.   A little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem. Around her, a heady swirl of passers-by, car horns, kerosene lamps, the stock ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Master by Audre Lorde
    The Master - by Audre Lorde

    £2.00   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241339725 | ISBN 10: 0241339723

    From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on the power of women, poetry and anger are filled with darkness and light.  Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the ic ... more

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  • Cover image of book Feminist Freedom Warriors by Linda E. Carty and Chandra Talpade Mohanty (Editors)
    Feminist Freedom Warriors - by Linda E. Carty and Chandra Talpade Mohanty (Editors)

    £15.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781608468973 | ISBN 10: 1608468976

    A collection of compelling narratives highlighting the struggles of feminist warriors whose voices are too often marginalized.   Feminist Freedom Warriors tells the stories of women of color from the Global South, weaving together cross-generation ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Girls Rock! Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth. by Beverly Bond (Editor)
    Black Girls Rock! Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth. - by Beverly Bond (Editor)

    £20.00   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781501157929 | ISBN 10: 1501157922

    From the award-winning entrepreneur, culture leader, and creator of the BLACK GIRLS ROCK! movement comes an inspiring and beautifully designed book that pays tribute to the achievements and contributions of black women around the world.  Fueled b ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, & Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins
    This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, & Feminist in (White) America - by Morgan Jerkins

    £10.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780062666154 | ISBN 10: 0062666150

    Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2018 by Esquire, Elle, Vogue, Nylon, The Millions, Refinery29, the Huffington Post, Book Riot, Bitch Media, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, Vol 1. Brooklyn, and Paperback Paris.  From one of the fie ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dear Ijeawele: Or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    Dear Ijeawele: Or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions - by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    £5.00   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780008275709 | ISBN 10: 000827570x

    From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today – written as a letter to a friend.   I have some suggestions for how to raise Chizalum. But remember that you might do ... more

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  • Cover image of book Aphro-Ism: Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism, and Black Veganism from Two Sisters by Aph Ko and Syl Ko
    Aphro-Ism: Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism, and Black Veganism from Two Sisters - by Aph Ko and Syl Ko

    £17.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781590565551 | ISBN 10: 159056555x

    In this lively, accessible, and provocative collection, Aph and Syl Ko provide new theoretical frameworks on race, advocacy for nonhuman animals, and feminism.   Using popular culture as a point of reference for their critiques, the Ko sister ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Crunk Feminist Collection by Brittney C. Cooper, Susana M. Morris, and Robin M. Boylorn (Editors)
    The Crunk Feminist Collection - by Brittney C. Cooper, Susana M. Morris, and Robin M. Boylorn (Editors)

    £21.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781558619432 | ISBN 10: 1558619437

    For the Crunk Feminist Collective, their academic day jobs were lacking in conversations they actually wanted to have — relevant, real conversations about how race and gender politics intersect with pop culture and current events. To address this v ... more

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  • Cover image of book Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
    Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology - by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence

    £20.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780822362951 | ISBN 10: 0822362953

    The editors and contributors to Color of Violence ask: What would it take to end violence against women of color?  Presenting the fierce and vital writing of organizers, lawyers, scholars, poets, and policy makers, Color of Violence radically reposi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens and Mai’a Williams (Editors)
    Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines - by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens and Mai’a Williams (Editors)

    £15.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781629631103 | ISBN 10: 1629631108

    Inspired by the legacy of radical and queer black feminists of the 1970s and ’80s, Revolutionary Mothering places marginalized mothers of color at the center of a world of necessary transformation. The challenges we face as movements working for raci ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa (Editors)
    This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color - by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa (Editors)

    £21.50   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781438454382 | ISBN 10: 1438454384

    Bronze Medalist 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Anthologies CategoryFINALIST 2015 ForeWord INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award in the Anthologies Category  Updated and expanded edition of the foundational text of women of color feminism ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman by Michele Wallace
    Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman - by Michele Wallace

    £11.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781688212 | ISBN 10: 1781688214

    Originally published in 1978, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman caused a storm of controversy. Michele Wallace blasted the masculine biases of the black politics that emerged from the sixties. She described how women remained marginalized by ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Should All be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    We Should All be Feminists - by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    £5.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780008115272 | ISBN 10: 0008115273

    What does “feminism” mean today? That is the question at the heart of We Should All Be Feminists, a personal, eloquently-argued essay – adapted from her much-viewed Tedx talk of the same name – by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the award-winning author of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
    Bad Feminist - by Roxane Gay

    £13.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781472119735 | ISBN 10: 1472119738

    'Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink - all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I on ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fierce Angels: Living with a Legacy from the Sacred Dark Feminine to the Strong Black Woman by Sheri Parks
    Fierce Angels: Living with a Legacy from the Sacred Dark Feminine to the Strong Black Woman - by Sheri Parks

    £16.50   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781613745045 | ISBN 10: 1613745044

    The “Strong Black Woman” has been a part of mainstream culture for centuries, as a myth, a goddess, a positive role model, a stereotype, and as a burden. In Fierce Angels, Sheri Parks explores the concept of the Strong Black Woman, its influence on p ... 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 Still Brave: Legendary Black Women on Race and Gender by Edited by Stanlie M. James, Frances Smith Foster & Beverly Guy-Sheftall
    Still Brave: Legendary Black Women on Race and Gender - by Edited by Stanlie M. James, Frances Smith Foster & Beverly Guy-Sheftall

    £20.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781558616110 | ISBN 10: 155861611x

    Cheryl Clarke, Angela Davis, bell hooks, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Alice Walker — from the pioneers of black women’s studies comes Still Brave, the definitive collection of race and gender writings today.   Including Alice Walker’s ground ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
    Black Feminist Thought - by Patricia Hill Collins

    £19.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780415964722 | ISBN 10: 0415964725

    In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990, Patricia Hill Collins set out to ... more

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  • Cover image of book Making Space for Indigenous Feminism by Joyce Green (editor)
    Making Space for Indigenous Feminism - by Joyce Green (editor)

    £31.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781842779408 | ISBN 10: 1842779400

    The majority of scholarly and activist opinion by and about Indigenous women claims that feminism is irrelevant for them. Yet there is also an articulate, theoretically informed and activist constituency that identifies as feminist. This book is by a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Anna Julia Cooper, Visionary Black Feminist: A Critical Introduction by Vivian M May
    Anna Julia Cooper, Visionary Black Feminist: A Critical Introduction - by Vivian M May

    £31.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780415956437 | ISBN 10: 0415956439

    Vivian M. May explores the theoretical and political contributions of Anna Julia Cooper, a renowned Black feminist scholar, educator and activist whose ideas deserve far more attention than they have received. Drawing on Africana and feminist theory, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Womanist Reader: The First Quarter Century of Womanist Thought by Layli Philips (editor)
    The Womanist Reader: The First Quarter Century of Womanist Thought - by Layli Philips (editor)

    £39.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780415954112 | ISBN 10: 0415954118

    Comprehensive in its coverage, The Womanist Reader is the first volume to anthologize the major works of womanist scholarship. Charting the course of womanist theory from its genesis as Alice Walker’s African-American feminism, through Chikwenye Okon ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dynamics of African Feminism: Defining and Classifying African Feminist Literatures by Susan Arndt (editor)
    The Dynamics of African Feminism: Defining and Classifying African Feminist Literatures - by Susan Arndt (editor)

    £26.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780865438989 | ISBN 10: 0865438986

    In her book, Susan Arndt discusses and defines the nature of African feminism and African-feminist literatures. Taking account of African-feminist literatures’ heterogeneity as well, in a second step its varieties are discussed and grouped into a cla ... more

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  • Cover image of book From Homebreakers to Jailbreakers: Southall Black Sisters by Rahil Gupta (editor)
    From Homebreakers to Jailbreakers: Southall Black Sisters - by Rahil Gupta (editor)

    £20.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9781842774410 | ISBN 10: 1842774417

    Against all the odds, a poorly funded, radical women's group - Southall Black Sisters - has become synonymous with black British Feminism over the last 21 years. They have not merely offered welfare advice from their West London base, but have spear ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation by Gloria E. Anzaldua & Analouise Keating (editors)
    This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation - by Gloria E. Anzaldua & Analouise Keating (editors)

    £34.99   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780415936828 | ISBN 10: 0415936829

    More than twenty years after the groundbreaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back challenged feminists to envision new forms of communities, Anzaldua and Keating have brought together an ambitious new collection of over 80 original contributions o ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Angela Y. Davis Reader by Angela Y Davis (edited by Joy James)
    The Angela Y. Davis Reader - by Angela Y Davis (edited by Joy James)

    £30.99   paperback   (1998) - ISBN 13: 9780631203612 | ISBN 10: 0631203613

    For three decades, Angela Y. Davis has written on liberation theory and democratic praxis. Challenging the foundations of mainstream discourse, her analyses of culture, gender, capital, and race have profoundly influenced democratic theory, antiracis ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black British Feminism: A Reader by Heidi Safia Mirza
    Black British Feminism: A Reader - by Heidi Safia Mirza

    £36.99   paperback   (1997) - ISBN 13: 9780415152891 | ISBN 10: 0415152895

    Black British Feminism: A Reader is a unique collection of classic texts and new black feminist scholarship. Exploring postmodern themes of gendered and racialized exclusion, 'black' identity and social and cultural difference this volume provides an ... more

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  • Cover image of book Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980 by Kimberly Springer
    Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980 - by Kimberly Springer

    £18.99   paperback   (1995) - ISBN 13: 9780822334934 | ISBN 10: 0822334933

    The first in-depth analysis of the black feminist movement, Living for the Revolution fills in a crucial but overlooked chapter in African American, women’s, and social movement history. Through original oral history interviews with key activists and ... more

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    Ain't I a Woman: Black Women & Feminism - by bell hooks

    £18.99   paperback   (1983) - ISBN 13: 9780861043798 | ISBN 10: 0861043790

    In this classic study, bell hooks examines how black women, from the 17th century to the present day, were and are oppressed by both white men and black men and by white women. Illustrating her analysis with moving personal accounts, Ain't I a Woman ... more

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