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six books are laying on a white sheet and one is in front of the other

Happy International Women’s Day I don’t often talk about my love of nonfiction books on her but here are some of my favourite feminist nonfiction literature I’ve read. I appreciate that some of these books are more fiction than nonfiction but I am hoping you’ll forgive me as I think they live really well together. I also have 4 more on my tbr.. have you read any of these? Or you have any recommendations?

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the book bad feminist by roxane gay is on a wooden table with pink lettering

If you follow Roxane Gay on Twitter, you probably already love her as much as I do. She’s forthright, unabashed, and gives voice to the best and worst of the little voices inside our heads. So, I picked up Bad Feminist – her 2014 essay collection – fully expecting to love it. After all, if she could cram so much into 280 characters, surely this book would be brimming with brilliance...

not that kind of girl by lena duhaman on a knitted surface

Let me start this with a confession: I've never seen an episode of "Girls." But I do feel like I know Lena Dunham. She's a feminist who's my age, who's consistently outspoken and honest about her experience with endometriosis (something I know very well). That was when I started paying...

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the book cover for unwell women

GT Alpina and Orator in use on the book jacket of Unwell Women by Elinor Cleghorn, 2021. From Penguin Random House: In Unwell Women, Elinor Cleghorn traces the almost unbelievable history of how medicine has failed women by treating their bodies as alien and other, often to per

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a sign on the grass that says we should all be feminists in red and yellow

I read We Should All Be Feminists while eating breakfast by myself at Zaftig's in Brookline. I was in Boston for a conference and relishing the chance to share a quiet meal with a book. Zaftig's is high on the list of things I miss about living in Boston –...

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