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Feminism books

Below are the best books we could find on Feminism.

While feminism has traditionally been a social and political movement of women’s empowerment in a largely patriarchal world, it is fundamentally the belief in and work towards gender equality. Feminist movements have embraced varied ideologies and perspectives, exploring the complex impact that gendered hierarchy has with class, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender expression. The common theme is that when we remove the cultural hierarchy of gender, we not only remove social, political, economic, and personal limitations on women, nonbinary, and agender individuals, we remove limitations on men. When all genders have equal access to social spaces, institutional resources, and legal protections, everyone benefits.

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Salvation: Black People and Love

Written from both historical and cultural perspectives, Salvation takes an incisive look at the transformative power of love in the lives of African Americans. Whether talking about the legacy of slavery; relationships and marriage in Black life; the prose and poetry of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition

Becoming a Man is a “moving narrative [that] illuminates the joy, courage, necessity, and risk-taking of gender transition” (Kirkus Reviews). For fifty years P.

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Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

For bell hooks, the best cultural criticism sees no need to separate politics from the pleasure of reading. Yearning collects together some of hooks’s classic and early pieces of cultural criticism from the ’80s.

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Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth.

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.

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Power Moms: How Executive Mothers Navigate Work and Life

A retired Wall Street Journal editor and mother compares two generations of women—boomers and GenXers—to examine how each navigates the emotional and professional challenges involved in juggling managerial careers and families.

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The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth

This classic exploration of the Goddess through time and throughout the world draws on religious, cultural, and archaeological sources to recreate the Goddess religion that is humanity’s heritage.

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Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets and Advice for Living Your Best Life

In her hit Netflix comedy special Baby Cobra, an eight-month pregnant Ali Wong resonated so strongly that she even became a popular Halloween costume.

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Stand: A Memoir on Activism. A Manual for Progress. What Really Happens When We Stand on the Front Lines of Change.

What really happens on the front lines of change? For Kathryn Bertine, a former ESPN columnist and professional cyclist, advocating for gender equality wasn’t even on her radar in 2007. By 2017, everything changed.

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Regretting Motherhood: A Study

Women who opt not to be mothers are frequently warned that they will regret their decision later in life, yet we rarely talk about the possibility that the opposite might also be true—that women who have children might regret it.

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Moving Beyond Words. Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundries of Gender

From one of the most influential women in the country and bestselling author of Revolution from Within comes a collection of provocative, entertaining, mind-changing essays.

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