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Jenny Ellison shines a spotlight on Canadian women as they combat the social issues they face by being overweight, during the years 1977 – 1997. She uses interviews and publications from that time to create an inspiring work of historical …
Being Fat: Women, Weight and Feminist Activism in Canada by Jenny Ellison Read more »
We are currently heavily reliant on donations to be able to fund library expenses. As people are struggling with the cost of living crisis, we are losing more donations, whilst also facing a vast increase in the service charge for …
Warm space @ The Feminist Library – can you donate? Read more »
When critical of the colonisation of bodies, animals, land- all life- even when through an intersectional feminist approach, how these capitalist, extractive and exploitative subjectivities came to be are more often that not taken as history, rather than as historical. …
Silvia Federici’s Witches, witch-hunting, and women; a book review Read more »
Best known for co-authoring The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain, Stella Dadzie, in her most recent contribution to women’s history, A Kick In The Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance, offers the reader a rich insight into …
This handbook is an excellent abolition resource that I encourage everyone to read if they are able to. It provides a thorough and engaging education on abolition, in an accessible and informative format. Moore provides an excellent tool for anyone …
Anthologies are a curious thing. On the one hand, they can be fairly passive objects. Coffee table books to adorn the home, sitting dormant, waiting hopefully to be picked up by visitors. Or neutral-coloured, heavy tomes that you might buy …
The How: Notes on the Great Work of Meeting Yourself is filled with flowery, poetic, lyrical language which makes for a smooth and enjoyable experience. However, while the writing is accomplished and indicative of Yrsa Daley-Ward’s poetry, it is not an entirely productive or …
The How: Notes on the Great Work of Meeting Yourself – Yrsa Daley-Ward Book Review Read more »
Watch Karoline Leitgeb’s video review of Mariame Kaba’s book here “We do this ’til we free us” is a collection of interviews, speeches and writings by and with abolitionist activist Mariame Kaba. In beautiful and poignant language Kaba explores …
We do this ’til we free us – Mariame Kaba Book Review Read more »
Thank you to all of your orders from our online shop! Any orders that have been received during the past couple of weeks will be posted out on the 9th January. In the meantime, if you’re thinking about ordering anything …
Saturday 3 December @ 1:00pm – 3:30pm Join us at The Feminist Library as Aasiya Lodhi, leads participants through discussion points examining how Black feminist activists and Black actresses have been promoted or obscured in mainstream British culture and …
Reclaiming a Lost Past: Black British Women, Visibility and the BBC Read more »
