Popular European Feminism Books
Find feminism books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (37)
Austria2.
A Feminist Theory of Violence : A Decolonial Perspective by Françoise Vergès EN
FranceDescription:
The State will not protect us from gender violence. Our feminism must be anti-racist and decolonial, and must fight for everyone's safety
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Romania
Moldova5.
Empty Wardrobes by Maria Judite de Carvalho EN
PortugalDescription:
A previously untranslated classic of Portuguese feminist literature originally published in 1978, Carvalho's Empty Wardrobes introduces English-speaking readers to a forgotten and underappreciated woman writer a la recent publishing sensations Lucia Berlin, Natalia Ginzburg, Ingeborg Bachmann, Silvina Ocampo, and Armonia Somers. Empty Wardrobes is a tightly plotted, highly entertaining read, that, thanks to an ingenious detached narrative technique (one that makes the plot all the more fun to revisit and rethink), is both darkly humorous and devastatingly true.
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En ze leefden nog by Elisabeth Lucie Baeten NL
BelgiumDescription:
Een baanbrekend sprookjesboek voor een nieuwe generatie kinderen én hun ouders.
Er was eens een boek vol prachtige verhalen
over prinsessen die hun leven eindelijk zelf mogen bepalen.
Geen van hen wanhopig, stil of naar een prins op zoek,
prinsessen doen lekker wat ze willen in dit sprookjesboek.
Ariël wil geen ballet, maar liever waterpolo doen.
Doornroosje is veel te moe voor een ongevraagde zoen.
Wist je dat Rapunzel haar lange haren soms best haat?
En het Beest van Belle is misschien wel om een goede reden kwaad.
Dit boek toont aan meisjes, jongens, iedereen die ... continue
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Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex by Oksana Stefanivna Zabuz︠h︡ko EN
UkraineDescription:
Called "the most influential Ukrainian book for the 15 years of independence," Oksana Zabuzhko's Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex became an international phenomenon when it shot to number one on the Ukrainian bestseller list and remained there throughout the 1990s. The novel is narrated in first-person streams of thought by a sharp-tongued poet with an irreverently honest voice. She is visiting professor of Slavic studies at Harvard and her exposure to American values and behaviors conspires with her yearning to break free from Ukrainian conventions. In her despair over a recently ended affair, she ... continue
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Fleabag : The Scriptures by Phoebe Waller-Bridge EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
The complete Fleabag. Every Word. Every Side-eye. Every Fox. Order your own sacred text: Fleabag: The Scriptures includes new writing from Phoebe Waller-Bridge alongside the filming scripts and the never-before-seen stage directions from the Emmy and BAFTA winning series.
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Frida Kahlo und die Farben des Lebens : Roman by Caroline Bernard DE
GermanyDescription:
„Ich bin eine Revolution!“ Frida Kahlo. Mexiko, 1925: Frida will Ärztin werden, ein Unfall macht dies zunichte. Dann verliebt sie sich in das Malergenie Diego Rivera. Mit ihm taucht sie in die Welt der Kunst ein, er ermutigt sie in ihrem Schaffen – und er betrügt sie. Frida ist tief verletzt, im Wissen, dass Glück nur geborgt ist, stürzt sie sich ins Leben. Die Pariser Surrealisten liegen ihr genauso zu Füßen wie Picasso und Trotzki. Frida geht ihren eigenen Weg, ob sie mit ihren Bildern Erfolge feiert oder den Schicksalsschlag einer Fehlgeburt hinnehmen muss – doch dann wird sie vor eine Ents... continue
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I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman EN
Description:
Discover the haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic tale of female friendship and intimacy set in a deserted world. Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus? Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. But, as the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl - the fortieth prisoner - sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be t... continue