Social Justice & Women's Studies

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13 participants (715 books)

11 Dec 2024—31 Dec 2029

Overview

 Social Justice & Women's Studies

Reading is Resistance!

De-colonize your history references,  education, and bookshelves. 

Fight the patriarchy! 

Core values: 
  • Anti-ableism, 
  • Anti-racism & white supremacy, 
  • Anti-queerphobia & transphobia, 
  • Anti-misogyny & patriarchy, 
  • Anti-colonialism, 
  • Anti-monosexism, heterosexism, & cisgenderism, 
  • Pro-survivor & anti-abuse, 
  • Anti-capitalism, Harm reduction & trauma-informed responses

A journey through learning via books both fiction and nonfiction during the next five years.

"Women's Studies is a category of books that focuses on the experiences, perspectives, and contributions of women in society. It encompasses a wide range of topics, including gender roles, feminism, women's history, sexuality, and reproductive rights. The goal of Women's Studies is to promote a deeper understanding of the social, cultural, and political issues that affect women, and to empower women to challenge and change the status quo. Books in this category often offer critical analysis and insights into the ways in which gender intersects with other forms of oppression, such as race, class, and sexuality."

If you would like to do a book club with some of these reads or a Readalong, let me know via email at blreads@gmail.com, and I'll set it up. 

Challenge Books

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Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving by Celeste Headlee

Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving

Celeste Headlee

288 pages • 2020 • 20 editions

nonfiction business self help informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

392 pages • 2021 • 7 editions

nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger by Soraya Chemaly

Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

Soraya Chemaly

364 pages • 2018 • 23 editions

nonfiction essays feminism politics challenging informative inspiring medium-paced
They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom by Dena Takruri, Ahed Tamimi

They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom

Dena Takruri, Ahed Tamimi

288 pages • 2022 • 7 editions

nonfiction memoir emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross

ReVisioning American History #5

A Black Women's History of the United States

Daina Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross

288 pages • 2020 • 9 editions

nonfiction feminism history race challenging informative inspiring medium-paced
Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America by Laila Lalami

Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

Laila Lalami

208 pages • 2020 • 6 editions

nonfiction memoir politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre Mask

The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power

Deirdre Mask

336 pages • 2020 • 14 editions

nonfiction history sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Just Harvest: The Story of How Black Farmers Won the Largest Civil Rights Case against the U.S. Government by Greg A. Francis

Just Harvest: The Story of How Black Farmers Won the Largest Civil Rights Case against the U.S. Government

Greg A. Francis

239 pages • 2021 • 3 editions

nonfiction politics race informative reflective medium-paced
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot

Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

Michael Harriot

432 pages • 2023 • 4 editions

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative medium-paced
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Mariame Kaba, Kelly Hayes

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

Mariame Kaba, Kelly Hayes

220 pages • 2023 • 7 editions

nonfiction feminism politics race hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced