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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 20 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa
    How to Stand Up to a Dictator - by Maria Ressa

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780753559215 | ISBN 10: 0753559218

    Radio 4 Book of the Week  WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2021  What will you sacrifice for the truth?  Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own gov ... more

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  • Cover image of book They Called Me a Lioness : A Palestinian Girl
    They Called Me a Lioness : A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom - by Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takruri

    £14.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780593134597 | ISBN 10: 0593134591

    A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates the daily struggles of life under occupation in this moving, deeply personal memoir.  “I cannot even begin to convey the clarity, the intensity, th ... more

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  • Cover image of book An Autobiography by Angela Y. Davis
    An Autobiography - by Angela Y. Davis

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780241994573 | ISBN 10: 0241994578

    A powerful and commanding account of the life of trailblazing political activist Angela Davis.  Edited by Toni Morrison and first published in 1974, An Autobiography is a classic of the Black Liberation era which resonates just as powerfully toda ... more

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  • Cover image of book Out of the Darkness: Greenham Voices 1981-2000 by Kate Kerrow and Rebecca Mordan
    Out of the Darkness: Greenham Voices 1981-2000 - by Kate Kerrow and Rebecca Mordan

    £20.00   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780750995177 | ISBN 10: 0750995173

    In 1981, a group of women marched from Cardiff to the Greenham Common RAF base in Newbury to protest the siting of US nuclear missiles on British soil. They formed what became the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp and stayed there for almost twenty ... more

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  • Cover image of book Idle Women on the Water: A Brick Throwin
    Idle Women on the Water: A Brick Throwin', Hijab-Wearin', Hairy-Legged, Space-Takin' Odyssey - by Candice Purwin

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781527268883 | ISBN 10: 1527268888

    Part manifesto, part social history and part travelogue in the form of a graphic novel, Idle Women On the Water tells the story of Idle Women and their mission to make space for women on the canals and tow paths of North West England.  Navigating ... more

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  • Cover image of book Do it Like a Woman... And Change the World by Caroline Criado-Perez
    Do it Like a Woman... And Change the World - by Caroline Criado-Perez

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781783787333 | ISBN 10: 1783787333

    In the last five years, the feminist movement has seen a radical upswell of energy and activism. We have been inspired by #LeanIn, we have found solidarity in #MeToo. We've pushed one another to be stronger and try harder.   Caroline Criado-Pe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Resistance: A Songwriter
    Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change and Courage - by Tori Amos

    £16.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529325607 | ISBN 10: 1529325609

    Since the release of her first, career-defining solo album Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos has been one of the music industry’s most enduring and ingenious artists. From her unnerving depiction of sexual assault in “Me and a Gun” to her post-9/11 ... more

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  • Cover image of book XOXY: A Memoir - Intersex Woman, Mother, Activist by Kimberly M Zieselman
    XOXY: A Memoir - Intersex Woman, Mother, Activist - by Kimberly M Zieselman

    £12.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781785928376 | ISBN 10: 1785928376

    Meet Kimberly, a regular suburban housewife and mother, whose discovery later in life that she was born intersex fuelled her to become an international human rights defender and globally-recognised activist.   Charting her intersex discovery a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Recollections Of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit
    Recollections Of My Non-Existence - by Rebecca Solnit

    £16.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781783785445 | ISBN 10: 1783785446

    In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco that would be her home for the next twenty-five years. There, she began to come to terms with the epidemic of violence against women around her, the street harassment that unsettled h ... 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 Jane Austen, The Secret Radical by Helena Kelly
    Jane Austen, The Secret Radical - by Helena Kelly

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781785781889 | ISBN 10: 178578188x

    "A sublime piece of literary detective work that shows us once and for all how to be precisely the sort of reader that Austen deserves."(Caroline Criado-Perez, Guardian) Almost everything we think we know about Jane Austen is wrong. Her novels do ... more

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  • Cover image of book See Red - Women
    See Red - Women's Workshop - Feminist Posters 1974-1990 - by See Red members, with a foreword by Sheila Rowbotham

    £19.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781909829077 | ISBN 10: 1909829072

    Founded in 1974, See Red Women’s Workshop grew out of a shared desire to combat sexist images of women and to create positive and challenging alternatives. Women from different backgrounds came together to make posters and calendars that tackled is ... more

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  • Cover image of book Clara Zetkin: Selected Writings by Clara Zetkin, Edited by Philip S. Foner, Foreword by Angela Y. Davis and Rosalyn
    Clara Zetkin: Selected Writings - by Clara Zetkin, Edited by Philip S. Foner, Foreword by Angela Y. Davis and Rosalyn

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781608463909 | ISBN 10: 1608463907

    "Clara Zetkin's arguments in support of women workers contain a logic which can be effectively employed today in defense of strong affirmative action programs, not only for women but for the racially and nationally oppressed as well... Her analysis o ... more

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  • Cover image of book How to Start a Revolution by Lucy-Anne Holmes
    How to Start a Revolution - by Lucy-Anne Holmes

    £2.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780552172066 | ISBN 10: 0552172065

    A bite-sized guide to making change happen and the story behind the No More Page 3 campaign, written by its founder.   Change doesnt just happen. It starts with the idea that something could be different, could be better. It starts with a pe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson by Barbara Ransby
    Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson - by Barbara Ransby

    £19.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780300205855 | ISBN 10: 0300205856

    Won Honorable Mention for the 2013 Southern California Book Festival, in the Biography/Autobiography category, sponored by JM Northern Media LLC.   Won an Honorable Mention for the 2013 New England Book Festival given by the JM Northern Media ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Unfinished Revolution: Voices from the Global Fight for Women
    The Unfinished Revolution: Voices from the Global Fight for Women's Rights - by Minky Worden

    £17.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781447307365 | ISBN 10: 1447307364

    Women's rights have progressed significantly in the last two decades, but major challenges remain in order to end global gender discrimination. The Unfinished Revolution: Voices from the Global Fight for Women's Rights outlines the recent history of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent by Laurie Penny
    Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent - by Laurie Penny

    £17.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780745332086 | ISBN 10: 0745332080

    In the space of a year, Laurie Penny has become one of the most prominent voices of the new left. This book brings together her diverse writings, showing what it is to be young, angry and progressive in the face of an increasingly violent and oppress ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dreaming of Baghdad by Haifa Zangana
    Dreaming of Baghdad - by Haifa Zangana

    £14.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781558616059 | ISBN 10: 1558616055

    In 1970s Iraq, the Ba'ath Party was at the height of its influence in the Middle East and popularity throughout the West. But a group of activists recognized the disastrous potential of the regime as its charismatic leader, Saddam Hussein, became mor ... more

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  • Cover image of book Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival by Fadumo Korn and Sabine Eichhorst
    Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival - by Fadumo Korn and Sabine Eichhorst

    £19.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781558615311 | ISBN 10: 1558615318

    This powerful memoir by international anti-FGM activist Fadumo Korn portrays both her life-altering transformation after she undergoes a brutal female circumcision at the age of seven and her journey to recovery and empowerment. As a feisty nomad, Fa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Feminist Groupwork by Sandra E Butler & Claire Wintram
    Feminist Groupwork - by Sandra E Butler & Claire Wintram

    £32.99   paperback   (1991) - ISBN 13: 9780803982109 | ISBN 10: 0803982100

    Feminist Groupwork explores the purposes, practice and effectiveness of groupwork with women, drawing upon the authors' own involvement in setting up and running community-based women's groups.   The book offers clear accounts of the structure ... more

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