women + feminism

Book Reviews

• Angela Carter: The Sadeian Woman
  And the Ideology of Pornography
• Clare Chambers: Against Marriage*
  An Egalitarian Defence of the Marriage-Free State
• Gillian Clark: Women in Late Antiquity*
  Pagan and Christian Lifestyles
• Patricia Buckley Ebrey: The Inner Quarters*
  Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period
• Paul Rakita Goldin: The Culture of Sex in Ancient China*
  - copulation imagery, Confucianism, and the politics of sexuality
• Shere Hite: Sexual Honesty
  By Women for Women
• Susanna Hoe: Travels in Tandem
  The Writing of Women and Men Who Travelled Together
• Justine Larbalestier: The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction
  - a feminist history, from the earliest magazines to the Tiptree Award
• Justine Larbalestier: Daughters of Earth
  Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century
• Ursula K. Le Guin: Dancing at the Edge of the World*
  Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
• Laura McClure: Spoken Like a Woman
  Speech and Gender in Athenian Drama
• Irmtraud Morgner: The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as Chronicled by Her Minstrel Laura**
  - socialist magical realism from East Germany
• Mary Nash: Defying Male Civilization
  Women in the Spanish Civil War
• Melanie Nolan: Breadwinning*
  New Zealand Women and the State
• Julie Phillips: James Tiptree, Jr.
  The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
• Marge Piercy: Woman on the Edge of Time**
  - parallel conflicts in a far-future utopia and a present mental hospital
• Olga Tokarczuk: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead**
  - three centuries ago Janina would have been burned as a witch
• Marilyn Yalom: Birth of the Chess Queen
  - powerful women and chess in medieval Europe

See also: sex

As well as explicitly feminist books, this category includes studies of women and gender more generally.