Feminist Next Door's Top Book Recommendations

Want to know what books Feminist Next Door recommends on their reading list? We've researched interviews, social media posts, podcasts, and articles to build a comprehensive list of Feminist Next Door's favorite book recommendations of all time.

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A transformative book urging twenty-first century-women to embrace their anger and harness it as a tool for lasting personal and societal change.

Women are angry, and it isn’t hard to figure out why.

We are underpaid and overworked. Too sensitive, or not sensitive enough. Too dowdy or too made-up. Too big or too thin. Sluts or prudes. We are harassed, told we are asking for it, and asked if it would kill us to smile. Yes, yes it would.

Contrary to the rhetoric of popular “self-help” and an entire lifetime of being told otherwise, our rage is one of the...
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Abir GhattasThat moment when @schemaly likes your posts! @Jafrasha & I started #HammamTalks a women talk-show inspired by Soraya Chemaly's work and her great book "Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger". https://t.co/D5PFRdfvMR (Source)

April WenselCompassion can be fierce! Women’s anger can be a powerful force for good. “Anger is the emotion that best protects us against danger, unfairness, and injustice…” For more on this, check out @GreaterGoodSC’s article about the book Rage Becomes Her. https://t.co/SIwBbm7mmF (Source)

Feminist Next Door@sheologian @LucieGarciaP Fantastic book @schemaly (Source)

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Imagine a world where your phone is too big for your hand, where your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body, where in a car accident you are 47% more likely to be seriously injured, where every week the countless hours of work you do are not recognised or valued. If any of this sounds familiar, chances are that you're a woman.

Invisible Women shows us how, in a world largely built for and by men, we are systematically ignoring half the population. It exposes the gender data gap – a gap in our knowledge that is at the root of perpetual, systemic discrimination against...
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Asher WolfTell me your best thing today. Mine was an amazing book and greeting card arrived in the post from the wonderful @MmeEmmeline https://t.co/GpEs2lg037 (Source)

Nicola SturgeonGreat to meet the inspirational @CCriadoPerez this morning. I know the FM Advisory Council on Women and Girls are looking forward to hearing her speak about her groundbreaking book #InvisibleWomen https://t.co/rMoon1j8Cv (Source)

Adam Wagner@CCriadoPerez @MumsnetTowers I love this - the book, Poppy, the mug - it's so well composed! (Source)

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