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• An Unexpected Life

  a Memoir

  Steinem, Gloria,

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  Before she became a feminist leader, Gloria Steinem was a curious child: going on road trips with her itinerant father, caring for her mother, and devouring every book she could find. In An Unexpected Life , Steinem reflects on the unlikely…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Gloria Steinem

  Sánchez Vegara, Ma Isabel (María Isabel),

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  Gloria Steinem realised from a young age that the general attitude towards women was different to the way people behaved towards men. After spending some time abroad, she became passionate about grassroot activism. This manifested into her work with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Life on the Road

  Steinem, Gloria,

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  In vivid stories that span an entire career, Steinem writes about her time on the campaign trail, from Bobby Kennedy to Hillary Clinton; her early exposure to social activism in India, and the decades spent organizing ground-up movements in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rise, Girl, Rise

  Our Sister-friend Journey. Together for All.

  Steinem, Gloria,

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  In this bold anthem, feminist organizer and bestselling author Gloria Steinem and Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee share their parallel journeys as activists. Their dual paths have inspired a friendship empowered by the principles of equality,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Gloria Steinem

  on Integrity, Empathy & Authenticity

  Blackwell, Geoff,

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  Steinem looks back on the formative lessons of her life, including how her unconventional childhood shaped her worldview, why listening and empathy are the guiding principles in her work, and why laughter is the key to freedom.

• The Truth Will Set You Free, but First It Will Piss You Off

  Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion

  Steinem, Gloria,

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  Covering topics from relationships ('Many are looking for the right person. Too few are looking to be the right person.') to patriarchy ('Men are liked better when they win. Women are liked better when they lose. This is how patriarchy is enforced…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Moving Beyond Words

  Steinem, Gloria

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  Steinem invents ``Dr. Phyllis Freud,'' founder of psychoanalysis, who proved that men's lack of wombs make them terminally envious and whose theories serve as a semi-scientific rationale for men's lower status in a matriarchal society. An interview…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Women's Liberation!

  Feminist Writings That Inspired a Revolution & Still Can

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  Fifty years on, in the age of #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, second-wave feminist visionary and radical writing is as relevant and urgently needed as ever, ready to inspire a new generation of feminists. Activists and writers Alix Kates Shulman and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Last Days at Hot Slit

  the Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin

  Dworkin, Andrea,

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  Dworkin's timely collection of her writing showcases the prescience of her analyses: of the genocidal character of sexual violence; of the devastating nihilism of white male supremacy, and of the toll it takes--especially on those who resist....…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Shirley Chisholm

  Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics

  Curwood, Anastasia Carol, 1974-

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  Chisholm spent her formative years moving between Barbados and Brooklyn, and the development of her political orientation did not follow the standard narratives of the civil rights or feminist establishments. Rather, Chisholm arrived at her Black…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Shirley Chisholm

  Champion of Change

  Allen, Tonya, Dr.,

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  Shirley Chisholm was a shero, a born leader, and a pioneer for women and Black people in America. She was an educator in her early career and later entered politics becoming the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress, the first…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sister Outsider

  Essays and Speeches

  Lorde, Audre

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  In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Zami

  a New Spelling of My Name

  Lorde, Audre

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  Zami is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde's work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her. Lorde brings…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Feminine Mystique

  Friedan, Betty

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  Landmark, groundbreaking, classic—these adjectives barely do justice to the pioneering vision and lasting impact of The Feminine Mystique. Published in 1963, it gave a pitch-perfect description of "the problem that has no name": the insidious…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Angela Davis

  An Autobiography

  Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-

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  Davis describes her journey from a childhood on Dynamite Hill in Birmingham, Alabama, to one of the most significant political trials of the century: from her political activity in a New York high school to her work with the U.S. Communist Party,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Abolition. Feminism. Now.

  Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-

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  Feminist organizing by marginalized populations such as queer, anticapitalist, and non-white women, has pushed for abolition as a response to forms of state and interpersonal gender and sexual violence, but have largely been erased from this…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Inside the Second Wave of Feminism

  Boston Female Liberation, 1968-1972 : An Account by Participants

  Rosenstock, Nancy,

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  Boston Female Liberation member Nancy Rosenstock expertly weaves together the reflections of her fellow-activists, describing how they became feminists, recounting the breadth of their organizing work, and linking their achievements and experience…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Separate Roads to Feminism

  Black, Chicana, and White Feminist Movements in America's Second Wave

  Roth, Benita

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  Roth explores the ways that feminist movements emerged from the Civil Rights/Black Liberation movement, the Chicano movement, and the white left, and the processes that supported political organizing decisions made by feminists. She traces the…Read moreRead more of this annotation