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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Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

Jose Antonio Vargas

256 pages • 2018 • 13 editions

nonfiction history memoir politics challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves by J.B. MacKinnon

The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves

J.B. MacKinnon

384 pages • 2021 • 14 editions

nonfiction sociology informative reflective medium-paced
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

Alice Wong

331 pages • 2020 • 12 editions

nonfiction essays sociology emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Feminism is for Everybody by bell hooks

Feminism is for Everybody

bell hooks

123 pages • 2000 • 34 editions

nonfiction feminism politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

bell hooks

205 pages • 2003 • 32 editions

nonfiction feminism gender psychology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

bell hooks

8h 55m • 1981 • 26 editions

nonfiction feminism history race challenging informative inspiring slow-paced
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley

How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

Jason Stanley

240 pages • 2018 • 42 editions

nonfiction history philosophy politics informative medium-paced
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson

Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

Heather Cox Richardson

288 pages • 2023 • 5 editions

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion by Gabrielle Stanley Blair

Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion

Gabrielle Stanley Blair

137 pages • 2022 • 17 editions

nonfiction feminism informative fast-paced
How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson

How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America

Heather Cox Richardson

272 pages • 2020 • 6 editions

nonfiction history politics informative reflective slow-paced