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New Handbook for a Post-Roe America: The Complete Guide to Abortion Legality, Access, and Practical Support By Robin Marty, Amanda Palmer (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Robin Marty, Amanda Palmer (Foreword by)
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ISBN: 9781644210581
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Published: Seven Stories Press - March 30th, 2021

A completely new edition of Robin Marty's bestselling manual on what to do now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned.


Handbook for a Post-Roe America By Robin Marty Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781609809492
Published: Seven Stories Press - January 15th, 2019

The end of Roe v. Wade is coming. How will you prepare? 


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All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation #1) By bell hooks Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780060959470
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - January 30th, 2018

A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy.  All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering.


An Abolitionist's Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World By Patrisse Cullors Cover Image
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Published: St. Martin's Press - January 25th, 2022

From the Co-Founder of the #BlackLivesMatter, a bold, innovative, and humanistic approach to being a modern-day abolitionist


Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption By Rafia Zakaria Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781324006619
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - August 17th, 2021

A radically inclusive, intersectional, and transnational approach to the fight for women’s rights.


Bodies on the Line: At the Front Lines of the Fight to Protect Abortion in America By Lauren Rankin Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781640094741
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Published: Counterpoint - April 5th, 2022

As the courts betray us and our leaders fail us, only we can keep each other safe.
 
In this powerful, empathetic look at abortion clinic escorting, “one of the most under-covered and crucial, lifesaving, rigorous forms of activism out there” (Rebecca Traister), Lauren Rankin offers real hope—and a real call to action for a post-Roe America.
 


Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom By Kathryn Kolbert, Julie F. Kay Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780306925634
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Published: Hachette Books - July 13th, 2021

From two lawyers at the forefront of the reproductive rights movement, this fully updated book shares bold strategies meant to help restore and expand reproductive and sexual rights.

Reproductive freedom has never been in more dire straits. Roe v. Wade protected abortion rights and Planned Parenthood v. Casey unexpectedly preserved them.


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Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds By Adrienne Maree Brown Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781849352604
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Published: AK Press - April 18th, 2017

In the tradition of Octavia Butler, radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want.


The Family Roe: An American Story By Joshua Prager Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780393247718
Published: W. W. Norton & Company - September 14th, 2021

Finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
Finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
One of NPR's Best Books of 2021
A New York Times Notable Book of 2021
One of TIME's 100 Must-Read Books of 2021


Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change By Angela Garbes Cover Image
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Published: Harper - May 10th, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

From the acclaimed author of Like a Mother comes a reflection on the state of caregiving in America, and an exploration of mothering as a means of social change.


On Violence and On Violence Against Women By Jacqueline Rose Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781250849373
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Published: Picador - May 17th, 2022

A blazingly insightful, provocative study of violence against women from the peerless feminist critic.


Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot By Mikki Kendall Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780525560562
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Published: Penguin Books - February 23rd, 2021

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER


The Woman They Could Not Silence: The Shocking Story of a Woman Who Dared to Fight Back By Kate Moore Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781728242576
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Published: Sourcebooks - February 22nd, 2022

From the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes another dark and dramatic but ultimately uplifting tale of a forgotten woman whose inspirational journey sparked lasting change for women's rights and exposed injustices that still resonate today.


Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America By Ijeoma Oluo Cover Image
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Published: Seal Press - November 9th, 2021

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, an  “illuminating” (New York Times Book Review) history of white male identity.

What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power?


We Are Called to Be a Movement By William Barber Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781523511242
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Published: Workman Publishing Company - June 9th, 2020

It's time for everyone who cares about the state of our nation to heed the call and join forces to redeem the soul of America.

It's time to come together and renounce the politics of rejection, division, and greed.


Think Like a Feminist: The Philosophy Behind the Revolution By Carol Hay Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781324020271
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - March 8th, 2022

An audacious and accessible guide to feminist philosophy—its origins, its key ideas, and its latest directions.


The Second Sex By Simone De Beauvoir, Constance Borde (Translated by), Sheila Malovany-Chevallier (Translated by) Cover Image
By Simone De Beauvoir, Constance Borde (Translated by), Sheila Malovany-Chevallier (Translated by)
$19.00
ISBN: 9780307277787
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Published: Vintage - May 3rd, 2011

The essential masterwork that has provoked and inspired generations of men and women. “From Eve’s apple to Virginia Woolf’s room of her own, Beauvoir’s treatise remains an essential rallying point, urging self-sufficiency and offering the fruit of knowledge.” —Vogue


The Mother of All Questions By Rebecca Solnit Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781608467402
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Published: Haymarket Books - March 7th, 2017

In a timely follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers indispensable commentary on women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the gender binary, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more.


A Bigger Sky: Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism By Pamela Weiss Cover Image
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Published: North Atlantic Books - July 14th, 2020

Reimagining Buddhism through a feminine lens: A powerful memoir of healing, strength, and spiritual awakening.


Abolition. Feminism. Now. By Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners Cover Image
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Published: Haymarket Books - January 18th, 2022

As a politic and a practice, abolition increasingly shapes our political moment -- halting the construction of new jails and propelling movements to divest from policing.


Belabored: A Vindication of the Rights of Pregnant Women By Lyz Lenz Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781541762831
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Published: Bold Type Books - August 11th, 2020

From the author of This American Ex-Wife comes an impassioned and entertaining defense of the autonomy, rights, and dignity of pregnant people

Lyz Lenz's writing can "make you cry in one paragraph and snort-laugh in the next" (Chloe Angyal, Vice News).


Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work By Jenny Brown Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781629636382
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Published: PM Press - April 1st, 2019

When House Speaker Paul Ryan urged U.S. women to have more children, and Ross Douthat requested “More babies, please,” they openly expressed what U.S. policymakers have been discussing for decades with greater discretion.


Choice Words: Writers on Abortion By Annie Finch (Editor), Audre Lorde (Contribution by), Dorothy Parker (Contribution by) Cover Image
By Annie Finch (Editor), Audre Lorde (Contribution by), Dorothy Parker (Contribution by)
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ISBN: 9781642591484
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Published: Haymarket Books - April 7th, 2020

With reproductive freedom under unprecedented attack, Choice Words, edited by poet Annie Finch, takes back the cultural conversation on abortion.


Communion: The Female Search for Love (Love Song to the Nation #2) By bell hooks Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780060938291
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - December 24th, 2002

“When truth teller and careful writer bell hooks offers a book, I like to be standing at the bookshop when it opens.” –Maya Angelou


Dollars for Life: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment By Mary Ziegler Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780300260144
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Published: Yale University Press - June 21st, 2022

A new understanding of the slow drift to extremes in American politics that shows how the anti-abortion movement remade the Republican Party
 
“A timely and expert guide to one of today’s most hot-button political issues.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
 
“A sober, knowledgeable scholarly analysis of a timely


I Know What's Best for You By Shelly Oria (Editor), Tommy Orange (Contribution by), R. O. Kwon (Contribution by) Cover Image
By Shelly Oria (Editor), Tommy Orange (Contribution by), R. O. Kwon (Contribution by)
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ISBN: 9781952119217
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Published: McSweeney's - June 7th, 2022

Edited by Shelly Oria--author and editor of Indelible in the Hippocampus--this explosive, intersectional collection of essays, fiction, poems, plays, and more, explores the universality of human reproductive experiences, as well as their distinct individuality.


Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty By Dorothy Roberts Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780679758693
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Published: Vintage - December 29th, 1998

Killing the Black Body remains a rallying cry for education, awareness, and action on extending reproductive justice to all women. It is as crucial as ever, even two decades after its original publication.
 


The Lie That Binds By Ilyse Hogue, Ellie Langford (Other) Cover Image
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Published: Strong Arm Press - July 22nd, 2020

Public support for the legal right to abortion in the United States is at an all-time high. Yet we're in the midst of an all-out assault on reproductive freedom, and Roe v. Wade is hanging on by a thread.


Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology By Deirdre Cooper Owens Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780820354750
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Published: University of Georgia Press - July 15th, 2018

The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental caesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistulae repairs primarily on poor and powerless women.


Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundation, Theory, Practice, Critique By Loretta Ross (Editor), Erika Derkas (Editor), Whitney Peoples (Editor) Cover Image
By Loretta Ross (Editor), Erika Derkas (Editor), Whitney Peoples (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781558614376
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Published: Feminist Press - November 14th, 2017

Practical tools and theoretical frameworks for understanding the fight for reproductive rights, from pregnancy to parenthood and beyond.Expanding the social justice discourse surrounding "reproductive rights" to include issues of environmental justice, incarceration, poverty, disability, and more, this crucial anthology explores the practical applications for activist thought on this ever-u


Rehearsals for Living By Robyn Maynard, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Ruth Wilson Gilmore (Foreword by) Cover Image
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Published: Haymarket Books - June 28th, 2022

A revolutionary collaboration about the world we're living in now, between two of our most important contemporary thinkers, writers and activists.


Salvation: Black People and Love (Love Song to the Nation #3) By bell hooks Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780060959494
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - December 18th, 2001

“A manual for fixing our culture…In writing that is elegant and penetratingly simple, [hooks] gives voice to some things we may know in our hearts but need an interpreter like her to process.”—Black Issues Book Review


Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Ordinary Abortion By Katie Watson Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780190051723
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Published: Oxford University Press, USA - September 15th, 2019

Winner of the NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language


The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having—or Being Denied—an Abortion By Diana Greene Foster, Ph.D Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781982141578
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Published: Scribner - June 1st, 2021

“If you read only one book about democracy, The Turnaway Study should be it. Why?


We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice By Mariame Kaba, Tamara K. Nopper (Editor), Naomi Murakawa (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Mariame Kaba, Tamara K. Nopper (Editor), Naomi Murakawa (Foreword by)
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ISBN: 9781642595253
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Published: Haymarket Books - February 23rd, 2021

A reflection on prison industrial complex abolition and a vision for collective liberation from organizer and educator Mariame Kaba.


You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion By Meera Shah Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781641603638
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Published: Chicago Review Press - September 1st, 2020

"Moving, multifaceted, and deeply human...as eye-opening as it is compelling” —Cecile Richards, author of Make Trouble 

At a time where reproductive rights are at risk, these vital stories of diverse individuals serve as a reminder of the importance of empathy, finding community and motivating advocacy 

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