Want to start reading nonfiction to expand your knowledge of feminism? Here are four books that will help you develop your intersectional sense of feminism in history. While there are amazing contemporary nonfiction books out there, let's not forget the women who paved the way. 

 

1. A Vindication for the Rights of Woman 
by Mary Wollstonecraft

Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity, and instead laid out the principles of emancipation: (read more...)

 

2. Sister Outsider
by Audre Lorde

The revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those 'outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women'. Uncompromising, angry and yet full of hope, this collection of her essential prose - essays, speeches, letters, interviews - explores race, sexuality, poetry, friendship, the erotic and the need for female solidarity, (more...)

 

3. Women, Race and Class
by Angela Y. Davis

Angela Y. Davis is a political activist, scholar, author, and speaker. She is an outspoken advocate for the oppressed and exploited, writing on Black liberation, prison abolition, the intersections of race, gender, and class, and international solidarity with Palestine. She is the author of several books (more...)

 

4. A Room of One's Own
By Virginia Woolf
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‘What conditions are necessary for the creation of works of art?’ Security, confidence, independence, a degree of prosperity – a room of one’s own. All things denied to most women around the world living in Virginia Woolf’s time, and before her time, and since. (read more...)

 

These lovely editions are available at the shop and together are must read classics for every feminist.

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