In this personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from her much-admired TEDx talk of the same name—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award-winning author of Americanah, offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first ...
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifest...
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieA few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a childhood friend, a new mother who wanted to know how to raise her baby girl to be a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie’s letter of response: fifteen invaluable sugg...
The Secret History of Wonder Woman
Jill LeporeWonder Woman, created in 1941, on the brink of World War II, is the most popular female superhero of all time. Aside from Superman and Batman, she has lasted the longest and commanded the most vast and wildly passionate following. Li...
Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own
Kate BolickA New York Times Book Review Notable Book"Whom to marry, and when will it happen—these two questions define every woman's existence."So begins Spinster, a revelatory and slyly erudite look at the pleasures and possibiliti...
Thoroughly updated and expanded, the second edition of A History of U.S. Feminisms is an introductory text that will be used as supplementary material for first-year women's studies students or as a brush-up text for more advanced stu...
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk...
Aubrey GordonFrom the creator of Your Fat Friend and co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people. Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What We Don’t Talk About When...
Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election Tha...
Rebecca TraisterBig Girls Don't Cry offers a startling appraisal of the 2008 presidential campaign and brilliantly demonstrates that it was transformative for American women and for the nation. The campaign for the presidency reopened some of the mos...
A Little F'd Up: Why Feminism Is Not ...
Julie ZeilingerYoung women today have a bad reputation, and for good reason: They're sexting their classmates, they spend more time on FaceBook than they do in class, and their appetite for material possessions and reality TV is matched only by thei...