Gender Studies

   A daughter of Isis: the early life of Nawal El Saadawi, in her own words

   By Nawal El Saadawi

 

 

 

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   A fly girl's guide to university

   Compiled and edited by Odelia Younge

 

 

 

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   Against White Feminism

   By Rafia Zakaria

 

 

 

 

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   Bad girls of the Arab world

   Edited by Nadia Yaqub and Rula Quawas

 

 

 

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   Believing women in Islam: unreading patriarchal interpretations of the Qur'an

   By Asma Barlas

 

 

 

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   Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China

   By Leta Hong Fincher 

 

 

 

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Yurie's pick:

   ブラックボックス = Black box

   By 伊藤詩織 (Shiori Ito)

 

 

 

'While the Me Too movement was quickly gaining prominence around the world, in Japan it seemed like society would continue on as it always had. However, this changed when Shiori Ito spoke up about her experience being assaulted by a prestigious journalist who was on close terms with Prime Minister Abe. Her memoir exposes Japan's prejudiced legal system which undermines, shuns and shames victims. It took two years for her case to be taken to court, only for the charges against Yamaguchi to be suddenly dropped. Instead of being made a hero for her bravery, Ito was ridiculed by the media and even threatened. Nevertheless, Ito kept fighting for justice, not only for herself, but for all victims and for the future generation. Ito was one of the key figures which shook the country into realising how relevant the Me Too movement is. The book was translated into English in 2021.'

Yurie is the Subject Librarian for Economics, Finance & Management, Politics, and International Relations & Diplomacy.

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   Black and Female

   By Tsitsi Dangarembga

 

 

 

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   Black Teacher

   By Beryl Gilroy

 

 

 

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Carlos's pick:

   Celestial Bodies

   By Jokha Alharthi, translated by Marilyn Booth

 

 

 

'Alharthi is an Omani author, and, with this novel, won the Best Omani Novel Award in 2010. Moreover, this was also the first novel translated from Arabic to win the Man Booker International Prize (2019).'

Carlos is the interim Digitisation Manager for Special Collections.

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   Confession of the lioness

   By Mia Couto and translated by David Brookshaw

 

 

 

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Jeremy's pick:

   Convenience store woman

   By Sayaka Murata and translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori

 

 

 

 

Jeremy is the Weekend Librarian.

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Kam's pick:

   Coolie Woman

   By Gaiutra Bahadur

 

 

 

 

Kam is a Reader Assistant.

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   Diva nation: female icons from Japanese cultural history

   Edited by Laura Miller and Rebecca Copeland

 

 

 

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   Empress of the east: how a European slave girl became queen of the Ottoman Empire

   By Leslie P. Peirce

 

 

 

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   Fatima Meer: Memories of love and struggle

   By Fatima Meer

 

 

 

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   Feminism, Interrupted     

   By Lola Olufemi

 

 

 

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   Feminist Rani: India's most powerful voices on gender equality

   Edited by Shaili Chopra, Meghna Pant

 

 

 

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David's pick:

   Fireworks

   By Angela Carter

 

 

 

 

'All of Angela Carter's books are amazing, but this is the only one that relates to SOAS [Japan, where she lived for two years]. Throughout her work she challenged misogyny, centred female characters, giving them agency at the time usually reserved for men. Despite dying tragically young, she inspired many writers and creatives.'

David is the Subject Librarian for Anthropology and Linguistics.

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   Fix the system, not the women

   By Laura Bates

 

 

 

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   Gender, sexuality and feminism in Pakistani Urdu writing

   By Amina Yaqin 

 

 

 

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   Girls of Riyadh

   By Rajaa Alsanea and translated by Rajaa Alsanea and Marilyn Booth

 

 

 

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   Josie Mpama/Palmer: get up and get moving

   By Robert R. Edgar

 

 

 

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Carly's pick:

   Know my name

   By Chanel Miller

 

 

 

'This is a book I think about all the time. Miller wrote this book to reclaim her identity after the traumatic experience living as 'Jane Doe' during the People v. Turner sexual assault trial. Not only is it an incredibly well-written memoir, but a testimony to strong women who have faced darkness and kept going.'

Carly is a Collections Assistant.

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   L'amande

   By Nedjma, translated by C. Jane Hunter

 

 

 

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   Making space for indigenous feminism

   Edited by Joyce Green

 

 

 

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   Many black women of this fortress

   By Kwasi Konadu

 

 

 

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   Memoirs of an early Arab feminist: the life and activism of Anbara Salam Khalidi

   By Anbara Salam Khalidi and translated by Tarif Khalidi

 

 

 

 

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   Negotiating dissidence: the pioneering women of Arab documentary

   By Stefanie Van de Peer

 

 

 

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   Nightbloom

   By Peace Adzo Medie

 

 

 

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   Not without a fight    

   By Ramla Ali

 

 

 

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   Our unions, our selves: the rise of feminist labor unions in Japan

   By Anne Zacharias-Walsh

 

 

 

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Brendan's pick:

   Parable of the sower

   By Octavia E. Butler 

 

 

 

Brendan is a Reader Assistant.

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   Race women internationalists: activist-intellectuals and global freedom struggles

   By Imaobong D. Umoren

 

 

 

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   Sex bomb: the life and loves of an Asian babe

   By Sadia Azmat

 

 

 

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   The art of feminism: images that shaped the fight for equality

   By Lucinda Gosling, Amy Tobin and Hilary Robinson

 

 

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   The first woman

   By Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

 

 

 

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   The life of Madie Hall Xuma

   By Wanda A. Hendricks

 

 

 

 

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   The mothers of Manipur: twelve women who made history

   By Teresa Rehman

 

 

 

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Hana's pick:

   The pillow book
   By Sei Shōnagon and translated by Meredith McKinney.

  

 

 

 

'A book of observations and musings recorded by Sei Shōnagon during her time as court lady to Empress Consort Teishi during the 990s and early 1000s in Heian-period Japan. The book was completed in the year 1002. In it she included lists of all kinds, personal thoughts, interesting events in court, poetry, and some opinions on her contemporaries.'

Also available in the original Japanese.

Hana is the Library Events and Outreach Manager.

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   The seven necessary sins for women and girls

   By Mona Eltahawy

 

 

 

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   The women who built the Ottoman world 

   By Muzaffer Özgüleş

 

 

 

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   Tomb of Sand

   By Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell

 

 

 

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   Untamed shrews: negotiating new womanhood in modern China

   By Shu Yang

 

 

 

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   Voices Amid Silence Series (無聲之聲. I, 無聲之聲. II, 無聲 之 聲. III)

   Various contributors

 

 

 

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   Waiting in the future for the past to come

   By Sabiha Khemir

 

 

 

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   Wake: the hidden history of women-led slave revolts

   By Rebecca Hall

 

 

 

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Manasi's pick:

   Why loiter? Women and risk on Mumbai streets

   By Shilpa Phadke, Sameera Khan, and Shilpa Ranade

 

 

 

'Why loiter? makes you think about how we inhabit public spaces as women and gender minorities. The book poses really interesting questions and invites us to imagine a utopia where we reclaim our public spaces through the mundane and everyday act of loitering.'

Manasi is a Reader Assistant. 

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   Woman at point zero

   By Nawal El Saadawi

 

 

 

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   Woman, Life, Freedom

   By Marjane Satrapi

 

 

 

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   Womansword: what Japanese words say about women

   By Kittredge Cherry

 

 

 

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   Women and the making of the Mongol Empire

   By Anne F. Broadbridge

 

 

 

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   Women in transnational history: connecting the local and the global

   Edited by Clare Midgley, Alison Twells and Julie Carlier

 

 

 

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   Women warriors and wartime spies of China

   By Louise Edwards

 

 

 

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   Women who blow on knots

   By Ece Temelkuran and translated by Alexander Dawe

 

 

 

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   Zainichi Korean women in Japan: voices

   By Jackie J. Kim-Wachutka

 

 

 

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