The Portable Feminist Reader

Selected writings by ancient, historic, and more recent feminist voices include Henricus Cornelius Agrippa, Anna Julia Cooper, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Dorothy Allison, Leslie Feinberg, Eileen Myles, Mona Eltahawy, bell hooks, Sara Ahmed, Cherríe Moraga, Audre Lorde, The Guerrilla Girls, and many more.

With an introduction, headnotes, and an inspired list of multimedia recommendations, Roxane Gay presents multicultural perspectives, ecofeminism, feminism and disability, feminist labor, gender perspectives, and Black feminism.

Through the Portable Feminist Reader, readers explore the state of feminism in the United States, its successes and failures, and what feminism looks like in practice, as a complex, contradictory, personal and political, and ever-growing legacy of feminist thought. [Adapted from publishers’ description.]

ISBN: 9780143110392 | Penguin Classics

Praise

It’s up to all of us to remember why we devote a month to the accomplishments and sacrifices of women throughout history. This volume, featuring pieces from authors including Dorothy Allison, Eileen Myles and bell hooks, celebrates feminist scholarship and offers up a modern vision of the feminist canon. — The Seattle Times

With its capacious perspective, the collection speaks to a range of feminist concerns, past, present, and future. . . . A timely, spirited collection. — Kirkus Review

This book makes feminism urgent, perhaps more than ever before. . . . Worth picking up for Gay’s introspective yet inclusive introduction alone, this new collection provides accessible entry points into feminism and offers even advanced scholars new ways of viewing the complex, intersectional histories of feminist thought, literature, and action. — Starred Library Journal

This volume includes newer feminist classics chosen by the incomparable Roxane Gay. From Anna Julia Cooper and Cherríe Moraga to Mona Eltahawy and Sara Ahmed, the pieces here expand the canon just when we need it most. — Ms. Magazine