A real mix of voices, styles and stories to capture your own feminist imagination. Find something you like in this list of fantastic feminist books.
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We Should All Be Feminists
We Should All Be Feminists is a fantastic summary of the everyday sexism women face. You can easily connect to the scenarios Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie presents and will have experienced them yourself many times. She makes it easy to engage with her ideas and covers a range of topics including women’s choices, sexuality, gender norms, societal expectations and and everyday oppression.
*Find it at Waterstones for £5.99
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Feminists Don’t Wear Pink and other lies: Amazing Women on What The F-word Means to Them
Feminists Don’t Wear Pink (and other lies): Amazing women on what the F-word means to them is a collection of essays, stories, poems and everything in between. So many amazing women have contributed to this book, you will undoubtedly find something for you in there. Something inspiring, something connecting, something that resonates and so many things.
*Find it at Waterstones for £7.99
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How to Have Feminist Sex: A Fairly Graphic Guide
How to Have Feminist Sex: A Fairly Graphic Guide is indeed a wonderfully graphic guide to all things sexy and feminist. Flo Perry has illustrated the book from cover to cover in the most marvellous and inclusive way. You cannot help but learn, laugh and be galvanised into having the best sex of your life!
*Find it at Waterstones for £16.99
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Bad Feminist
In Bad Feminist Roxane Gay speaks to anyone who doesn’t adhere to all the rules of feminism and encourages you to embrace your own version of it. She calls herself a bad feminist and encourages you to be one too! Like most people, Gay says, she is full of contradictions, but being a bad feminist is better than no feminist at all.
*Find it at Waterstones for £13.99
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A Book for Her
In A Book for Her Bridget Christie talks about her feminism, her comedy and her life in the most intriguing and sometimes mind-bending ways. If you want to catch every joke you’ll have to pay attention, but fear not, you’ll be laughing along even when your not paying attention; there is a lot of comedy in this book (and a lot of feminism)!
*Find it at Waterstones for £9.99
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Women and Power
Women and Power by Mary Beard is an encouraging exploration of women and their relationship with power since antiquity. Beard highlights the historic underpinnings of power and the way women are still excluded from it today.
Beard uses examples from ancient Greece and brings us right up to women in politics in the 21st century.
*Find it at Waterstones for £6.99
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The Guilty Feminist
The Guilty Feminist is a brilliantly funny and illuminating guide to feminism, including the guilty version. Deborah Frances-White takes us on a feminist journey with plenty of funnies, some great interviews and of course some of the best I’m a feminist but’s in there!
*Find it at Waterstones for £8.99
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