Queer Femininity and Brown JouissanceReimagines black and brown sensuality to develop new modes of knowledge production In Sensual Excess, Amber Jamilla Musser imagines epistemologies of sensuality that emerge from fleshiness. To do so, she works against the framing of black and brown bodies as...

An engaging illustrated history of feminism from antiquity through third-wave feminism, featuring Sappho, Mary Magdalene, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sojourner Truth, Simone de Beauvoir, and many others. The history of feminism? The right to vote, Susan B. Anthony, Gloria Steinem, white pantsuits? Oh, but there's so...

Winner of an English PEN Award 2021 In this sharp intervention, authors Luci Cavallero and Veronica Gago defiantly develop a feminist understanding of debt, showing its impact on women and members of the LGBTQ+ community and examining the relationship between debt and social reproduction....

From an award-winning and “stunningly talented” writer, reflections on the line between sexual freedom and sexual exploitation (Samantha Irby, New York Times–bestselling author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life). Women’s sexuality is often used as a weapon against them. In this refreshing,...

Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages, the era that bridged the ancient world and modern society, to...

'Simply put, feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.' So begins Feminism is for Everybody, a short, accessible introduction to feminist theory by one of its most influential practitioners. Designed to be read by all genders, this book provides both...

In this extraordinary debut novel, Laurie Weeks captures the freedom and longing of life on the edge in New York City. Ranting letters to Judy Davis and Sylvia Plath, an unrequited fixation on a straight best friend, exalted nightclub epiphanies, devastating morning-after hangovers — Zipper...

Lemons gleam in a bowl. Flowers fan out softly in a vase. A door swings open in a sparsely furnished room. What is contained in a still life – and what falls out of the frame? For women artists in the early twentieth century,...

PRE-ORDER NOW: 11ST SEPTEMBER 2025 For too long we have internalised the belief that our bodies are things to be looked at - instead of lived in.That it's embarrassing to fully express ourselves.That we cannot trust our desire.This book unpacks the many barriers women...

"Paloma Negra," Ana Castillo's mother sings the day her daughter leaves home, "I don't know if I should curse you or pray for you."Growing up as the intellectually spirited daughter of a Mexican Indian immigrant family during the 1970s, Castillo defied convention as a writer...

PRE-ORDER NOW: 27TH MARCH 2025 They thought they knew everything about us. The kind of women we were.It was a place for women. A remote farm tucked away in the Kent Downs. A safe space.When Iris - newly single and living at home with...

In this fascinating and insightful book, feminist curator Rachael Lennon provides an intimate and accessible examination of the history of marriage, with a focus on the UK. Wedded Wife tells a remarkable story of how this institution has developed from the ancient customs of the stone...

A classic of Italian feminist mafia literature about a gender-bending mafiosa and the writer who becomes obsessed with telling her storySicily, 1980 When she was just eight years old, Tina watched as her father, a member of Cosa Nostra, was murdered in cold blood....

A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People's Business Since the publication of her groundbreaking books Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society -- state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, women's rights post-Dobbs, online disinformation, and the limits...

Imagining Black Queer Genders From the dagger mistress Ezili Je Wouj and the gender-bending mermaid Lasiren to the beautiful femme queen Ezili Freda, the Ezili pantheon of Vodoun spirits represents the divine forces of love, sexuality, prosperity, pleasure, maternity, creativity, and fertility. And just...

The follow-up to the groundbreaking Black Queer Studies, the edited collection No Tea, No Shade brings together nineteen essays from the next generation of scholars, activists, and community leaders doing work on black gender and sexuality. Building on the foundations laid by the earlier...

A guide to the gender health gap revolution'Crucial reading for us all 'Stylist 'Remarkable, impressive and important' Maisie Hill, author of Period Power. 'Validates for women that their experiences are not all in their heads' Dr Sarah E. Hill, author of How the Pill...

A Queer-Feminist Theory Democracy in the Political Present 'Presentist democracy is without a people and without nation. Rather than regimes of borders and migration, its borders are sexism and racism, homo- and transphobia, colonialism and extractivism.'In the midst of the crises and threats to...

Combining sociological theory, fandom, and memoir, this experimental manifesto rejects dominant narratives about marginalized bodies. Combining feminist theories, X-Files fandom, and personal memoir, Enjoy Me among My Ruins draws together a kaleidoscopic archive of Juniper Fitzgerald’s experiences as a queer sex-working mother. Plumbing the...

In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work. Building on legacies of feminist of colour scholarship in particular, Ahmed offers a poetic and...

Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories Time Binds is a powerful argument that temporal and sexual dissonance are intertwined, and that the writing of history can be both embodied and erotic. Challenging queer theory's recent emphasis on loss and trauma, Elizabeth Freeman foregrounds bodily pleasure in...

A Critical Genealogy of Queer PerformanceThis is a very readable, useful and above all, deeply historical account of some of the defining tropes in art history and performance today. Written by world renowned feminist art historian, Amelia Jones, this genealogy is a key work...

Otherwise: Imagining queer feminist art histories is the first book to address queer feminist politics, methods and theories in relation to the visual arts, including new media, installation and performance art. Despite the crucial contribution of considerations of 'queer' to feminism in other disciplines...

The Queer Politics of the Prison State During the 1970s in the United States, hundreds of feminist, queer, and antiracist activists were imprisoned or became fugitives as they fought the changing contours of U.S. imperialism, global capitalism, and a repressive racial state. In Fugitive...

What is socialist feminism and why is it needed to fight the global rise of authoritarianism and fascism? Frieda Afary brings the insights gained through her study of feminist philosophy, her international activism and her work in community education as a public librarian in...

A multiple award-winning author, Sarah Waters is one of the most critically and commercially successful novelists writing today. In such novels as Fingersmith, Tipping the Velvet, Affinity and The Night Watch, her writing has played compellingly with popular and generic forms and narrative techniques...