Welcome to the Feminist Library’s online Bookshop! We sell a rotating selection of digital and paper zines, artist prints, new and used books, periodicals, bags, t-shirts and badges. Please note: when purchasing you will be redirected to our online shop. Please then select your item from the list, choosing the correct size and postage if applicable.
You can also support the Feminist Library by visit us on bookshop.org – you can find reading lists from our volunteers, and browse the wide selection across the whole site. If you enter with our link or choose our bookshop from the map, the Feminist Library will receive 30% of any purchase across the site!
Rachael House is a UK artist who makes events, objects, performance, drawings and zines. Events have been curtailed over the past years, and drawing has taken centre stage, with her first book, Resistance Sustenance Protection, published in May 2021.
Rachael House’s work focuses on feminist and queer politics and resistant histories/herstories, aiming to reach as many like-minded people as possible, inside and outside of the art world. She uses humor, personal engagement and events to draw in those who may not be like-minded too – she recruits.
Alongside and as part of her fine art practice she makes zines. In the 1990s she was part of the international queerzine scene. Today, her zines are in museum and university archives and feature in academic and art books.
£48.69 including tracked and signed UK delivery. For international orders please email shop@feministlibrary.co.uk to arrange delivery.
100% Cotton tote bag with screen printed design. Great for carrying all your feminist books.
£9.50 including UK postage
£14.50 including postage to EU
A beautifully crafted zine by Rachael House with drawings of cats and their queers
£4.50 (including UK postage and packaging)
Treat yourself to a beautifully designed
Feminist Library scarf! These are limited edition and were designed by artist Tabea Nehme for Women’s Euros 2022.
£28.45 including UK postage.
Printed Queer Zine D
ictionary
116 pages
To celebrate Pride we are making available our wonderful Queer Dictionary Zine, available for the first time in printed form!
This new publication from the Feminist Library has contributions from over 40 artists exploring the idea of a ‘queer dictionary’ through original artworks and texts. Within these pages you’ll find illustrations, poetry, reclaimed words, but – most importantly – a space to exist within a queer, feminist family.
So, why a queer dictionary? As we know, language is important (fabulous). Language defines how we are categorised and treated by society, as constructed political beings. Language is slippery. It is reshaped over space and time as words and worlds evolve beyond their original conception. This reshaping is our power. We will continue to struggle and support each other as we strive to be defined how we choose, and we hope this (very queer) dictionary acts as a source of strength, reminding you (us) that we’re here together, as a queer community.
£13.50 including UK postage
Gift Friends Membership – Choose your donation amount
A perfect gift for the feminist in your life! Be a shero and make someone you love a Friend of the Library. Give them all the benefits of Friends membership – special offers, event invitations and a 15% discount in the Feminist Library Book Shop. Your friend will receive a personalised digital membership card. The Library will receive a monthly or annual donation in their name.
Minimum donation £1 per month/£12 per year. Suggested levels £3 per month/£36 per year upwards.
Poster Prints
An archival quality giclée of our rebooted dragon logo, on 240gsm paper with a bright white smooth matte finish. Delivered wrapped in tissue paper in a triangular cardboard tube for protection – plastic-free packaging.
A4: £15
A3: £18
Including UK postage
Extra postage:
Europe/USA: £4 Rest of World: £9
Fine Art Bamboo Print
Limited edition of 50
Limited edition feminist prints by Eva Megias, aka Pops Comix. Giclée printed on environmentally friendly 290gsm 90% bamboo fibre museum-quality paper – acid and lignin free for long-lasting colour depth. Delivered wrapped in tissue paper in a hardback envelope – plastic-free packaging.
£26
Including UK postage
Europe/USA: £3
Rest of world: £10
Fine Art Bamboo Print
Limited edition of 50
Limited edition feminist prints by Eva Megias, aka Pops Comix. Giclée printed on environmentally friendly 290gsm 90% bamboo fibre museum-quality paper – acid and lignin free for long-lasting colour depth. Delivered wrapped in tissue paper in a hardback envelope – plastic-free packaging.£26
Including UK postage
Europe/USA: £3
Rest of world: £10
Feminism is For Everybody Print
By Lucie Russell of Drawing People Together
Fine art bamboo print
Limited edition of 25
This beautiful illustration is inspired by bell hooks beloved classic Feminism is for Everybody. A giclée fine art print on 290gsm Hahnemühle Bamboo paper, which will preserve the life of your print while being environmentally friendly.
£34.50
Including UK recorded delivery
Europe/USA: £9
Rest of world: please contact shop@feministlibrary.co.uk for a quote.
Zines
Feminist Library Move Zine (Printed)
The story of how we saved the Feminist Library – yet again! A collaborative zine charting the Feminist Library’s fight for survival and journey to its new home in Peckham, South London. 40pp
£3.75 including UK postage
£5 including postage to Europe
Digital Zines
Over the last ten years we have produced a series of Feminist Library zines. These are now available to purchase digitally. Please note: after your purchase the zine will be emailed to you as a PDF.
Digital Queer Zine Dictionary £5
(free if unwaged, please email shop@feministlibrary.co.uk to request a copy)
122 pages
This new publication from the Feminist Library has contributions from over 30 artists exploring the idea of a ‘queer dictionary’ through original artworks and texts. Within these pages you’ll find illustrations, poetry, reclaimed words, but – most importantly – a space to exist within a queer, feminist family.
So, why a queer dictionary? As we know, language is important (fabulous). Language defines how we are categorised and treated by society, as constructed political beings. Language is slippery. It is reshaped over space and time as words and worlds evolve beyond their original conception. This reshaping is our power. We will continue to struggle and support each other as we strive to be defined how we choose, and we hope this (very queer) dictionary acts as a source of strength, reminding you (us) that we’re here together, as a queer community.
A document of how the Feminist Library was saved from closure during 2018-2020. 40pp.
Digital Women of Westminster Zine £3
Created in 2018 during the Library’s residency at Showroom Gallery. Reflections, histories and stories from Women and Non-Binary people connected to the Brough of Westminster. 28pp.
Digital I Call Myself a Feminist Because… Zine £3
The zine was produced as part of our Feminist Graphic Arts project in 2013, in collaboration with artists from all over the world. 40pp.
Digital Feminist Space Is… Zine £3
This zine was produced as part our Feminist Graphic Arts programme in 2014, in collaboration with artists from all over the world. 34pp.
Digital Aguas Internacionales Zine £3
Aguas Internacionales was created by the Feminist Library’s Spanish Book Club in 2020. It looks at the theme of power from women and non-binary migrant voices. 28pp.
Digital Care in a Pandemic Zine £0
A collaborative response to the theme of feminist Care, including drawings, poetry and writing. This zine is free to view online here. 40pp.
Books
A selection of the books available in our Feminist Library bookshop, now available to order online.
See Red Women’s Workshop: Feminist Posters 1974–1990
Paperback
A feminist silkscreen poster collective founded in London in 1974 by three former art students, the See Red Women’s Workshop grew out of a shared desire to combat sexist images of women and to create positive and challenging alternatives.
Written by See Red members, detailing the group’s history up until the closure of the workshop in 1990, and with a foreword by celebrated feminist historian Sheila Rowbotham, See Red Women’s Workshop features all of the collective’s original screenprints and posters
Price: £23 including UK shipping
£26 including EU shipping
Trans: A Memoir
Juliet Jacques
In July 2012, aged thirty, Juliet Jacques underwent sex reassignment surgery—a process she chronicled with unflinching honesty in a serialised national newspaper column. Trans tells of her life to the present moment: a story of growing up, of defining yourself, and of the rapidly changing world of gender politics. Fresh from university, eager to escape a dead-end job and launch a career as a writer, she navigates the treacherous waters of a world where, even in the liberal and feminist media, transgender identities go unacknowledged, misunderstood or worse. Revealing, honest,humorous, and self-deprecating, Trans includes an epilogue with Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?
£8.79 including UK postage
£10.79 including postage to Europe
Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory
Michele Wallace
Classic work of black feminism. First published in 1990, Michele Wallace’s Invisibility Blues is widely regarded as a landmark in the history of black feminism. Wallace’s considerations of the black experience in America include recollections of her early life in Harlem; a look at the continued underrepresentation of black voices in politics, media, and culture; and the legacy of such figures as Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Cade Bambara, Toni Morrison,and Alice Walker. Wallace addresses the tensions between race, gender, and society, bringing them into the open with a singular mix of literary virtuosity and scholarly rigour. Invisibility Blues challenges and informs with the plain-spoken truth that has made it an acknowledged classic.
£18.99 including UK postage
£20.99 including postage to Europe
Beyond the Pale
White Women, Racism, and History
Vron Ware
Foreword by Mikki Kendall
Pioneering study of how ideas about white women have shaped the history of racism
How have ideas about white women figured in the history of racism? Vron Ware argues that they have been central, and that feminism has, in many ways, developed as a political movement within racist societies. Dissecting the different meanings of femininity and womanhood, Beyond the Pale examines the political connections between black and white women, both within contemporary racism and feminism, as well as in historical examples like the anti-slavery movement and the British campaign against lynching in the United States. Beyond the Pale is a major contribution to anti-racist work, confronting the historical meanings of whiteness as a way of overcoming the moralism that so often infuses anti-racist movements.
£18 including UK postage
£20 including postage to Europe
Beloved
Toni Morrison
Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe’s new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.
Hardback edition from Vintage.
£16.99 including UK postage
Grapevine Editions 001: Catherine Madden and Anthony Elliott
Folds interrogates the space between memory and reality. Drawing on journal entries, text messages, misremembered conversations and fragmented photographs to reconstruct old intimacies, it questions the way in which our memories of past relationships make up our identities, despite the fact that we are always reaching for something which no longer exists. Catherine Madden’s collage poetry and Anthony Elliott’s fractured analogue photographs work in dialogue to expose the violence, tenderness and loss laced through our romantic histories. The series explores the weight of the past on the present and asks us what we have left to hold onto in the aftermath of love.
This is a non-profit project and all proceeds go towards Grapevine Editions future commissions for artists and writers.
£6.25 including UK postage (delivery time 3-7 days)
£8.25 including Europe postage
Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms
Katy Deepwell (ed.)
International scholars and artists show how feminist art and activism can intervene in social processes. Representing a range of critical insights, perspectives and practices from artists, activists and academics, Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms reflects on the role of feminist interventions in the fields of contemporary art, the public sphere and politics.
£31.50 including UK postage
£34.50 including postage to Europe
The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
Shon Faye
Hardback
In this powerful new book, Shon Faye reclaims the idea of the ‘transgender issue’ to uncover the reality of what it means to be trans in a transphobic society. In doing so, she provides a compelling, wide-ranging analysis of trans lives from youth to old age, exploring work, family, housing, healthcare, the prison system and trans participation in the LGBTQ+ and feminist communities, in contemporary Britain and beyond.
£22.50 including UK postage
£25 including Europe postage
Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
Lola Olufemi
More than just a slogan on a t-shirt, feminism is a radical tool for fighting back against structural violence and injustice. Feminism, Interrupted is a bold call to seize feminism back from the cultural gatekeepers and return it to its radical roots.
Lola Olufemi explores state violence against women, the fight for reproductive justice, transmisogyny, gendered Islamophobia and solidarity with global struggles, showing that the fight for gendered liberation can change the world for everybody when we refuse to think of it solely as women’s work. Including testimonials from Sisters Uncut, migrant groups working for reproductive justice, prison abolitionists and activists involved in the international fight for Kurdish and Palestinian rights, Olufemi emphasises the link between feminism and grassroots organising.
Reclaiming feminism from the clutches of the consumerist, neoliberal model, Feminism, Interrupted shows that when ‘feminist’ is more than a label, it holds the potential for radical transformative work.
£10.99 including UK postage (delivery time 3-7 days)
£13.99 including Europe postage
Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
Lola Olufemi
Every broken window is a new opportunity. Every burnt ember is construction material.
A New Statesman Book of the Year 2021.
In these playful written experiments, Lola Olufemi navigates the space between what is and what could be. Weaving together fragmentary reflections in prose and poetry, this is an exploration of the possibility of living differently, grounded in black feminist scholarship and political organising.
£14.50 including UK postage
£17 including Europe postage
Miss Moti card
by Kripa Joshi
