Popular North American Feminism Books
Find feminism books written by authors from North America for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (41)
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Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú y así me nació la conciencia by Elizabeth Burgos, Rigoberta Menchú, Elisabeth Burgos-Debray ES
Country: North America / 
Guatemala
Guatemala
Description:
Este libro recoge los conocimientos que Rigoberta Menchú tiene y trasmite a la etnóloga Elizabeth Burgos sobre las costumbres y creencias de la comunidad en la que nació y el proceso que la hizó comenzar la lucha por la emancipación., así como la vida, historia y leyendas de los indígenas de Guatemala.
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Mondhitze by Gioconda Belli DE
Country: North America / 
Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Description:
"Mondhitze", der neue Roman der lateinamerikanischen Kultautorin Gioconda Belli, handelt von den Geheimnissen, Erfahrungen und Abenteuern einer Frau um die Fünfzig. Oder davon, wie der Verlust der physischen Fruchtbarkeit auch der Beginn einer persönlichen Revolution sein kann.
Emma ist eine attraktive Arztgattin aus Nicaragua, und sie hat etwas gegen die unschöne Rolle, die einer reiferen Frau von der Gesellschaft zugedacht wird. Da ihr Körper erste Zeichen des Alterns zu zeigen beginnt, packt sie die Panik. An einem besonders schwarzen Tag voller negativer Geda... continue
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My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
2000: Bright, ambitious fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. 2017: Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa. Now Vanessa finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain silent, firm in the belief that her teenage self willingly engaged in this relationship, or redefine herself and the events of her past. But how can Vanessa reject her first love, the man who fundamentally transformed her and has been a persistent presence in her life? -- adapted from jacke... continue
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Nice White Ladies by Jessie Daniels EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
An acclaimed expert illuminates the distinctive role that white women play in perpetuating racism, and how they can work to fight it In a nation deeply divided by race, the "Karens" of the world are easy to villainize. But in Nice White Ladies, Jessie Daniels addresses the unintended complicity of even well-meaning white women. She reveals how their everyday choices harm communities of color. White mothers, still expected to be the primary parents, too often uncritically choose to send their kids to the "best" schools, collectively leading to a return to segregation. She addresses a feminism t... continue
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Octavia's Brood : Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements by Walidah Imarisha, Adrienne Maree brown EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing speculative fiction. Organizers and activists envision, and try to create, such worlds all the time. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown have brought twenty of them together in the first anthology of short stories to explore the connections between radical speculative fiction and movements for social change. The visionary tales ofOctavia’s Brood span genres—sci-fi, fantasy, horror, magical realism—but all are united by an attempt to inject a healthy dose of imagination and innovation into our ... continue
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Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • The beloved first novel featuring Olive Kitteridge, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of My Name is Lucy Barton and the Oprah’s Book Club pick Olive, Again “Fiction lovers, remember this name: Olive Kitteridge. . . . You’ll never forget her.”—USA Today “Strout animates the ordinary with astonishing force.”—The New Yorker One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post Book World, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, People, Entertainment Weekly, The... continue
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Report from Planet Midnight by Nalo Hopkinson EN
Country: North America / 
Jamaica
Jamaica
Description:
Via a collection of science fiction and fantasy tales, an outspoken author uses fictional characters and situations to comment on race and gender issues. Original.
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Sister Outsider : Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
The fourteen essays and speeches collected in this work, several of them published for the first time, span almost a decade of this Black lesbian feminnist's work. Lorde is unflinching in her observations and is lucid and clarifying in her coverage of a range of essential topics.
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Sobre la grama : poemas by Gioconda Belli ES
Country: North America / Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Description:
Sobre la Grama fue un desvelo de novedad poética en la Nicaragua de 1972. Una joven autora, Gioconda Belli, se desnudaba en blanco y negro con una fresca naturalidad y honestidad. Una revolución poética para su país dentro de en un contexto con una significativa presencia de otras poetas profundamente implicadas en la causa nacional y revolucionaria. Este libro fue merecedor del premio de poesía nicaragüense Mariano Fiallos Gil. Belli se recrea en la expresión de la feminidad y la pasión. Juega con el arte de rebuscar entre las profundidade... continue
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Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel EN
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Still Born, Guadalupe Nettel's fourth novel, treats one of the most consequential decisions of early adulthood - whether or not to have children - with the intelligence and originality that have won her international acclaim. Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family. Laura has taken the drastic decision to be sterilized, but as time goes by Alina becomes drawn to the idea of becoming a mother. When Alina's daughter survives childbirth - after a diagnosis that predicted the opposite - a... continue