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The battle for gender equality gained momentum in recent years. Yet, the past year has demonstrated places where change is still needed.
Such as the global increase in domestic abuse during the lockdown. The need for radical feminism, as shown by the Black Lives Matter movement.
According to the Equalities and Human Rights Commission chairman, discrimination and social inequality cannot be affected by what happens in courthouses or assemblies. Instead, this is affected by how we all behave.
7 Classic Books on Equality
Here is our list of the best gender equality books you should be reading if you’ve been looking for motivation in the struggle for gender equality.
1- Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami
This literary release, described as “breathtaking” by Haruki Murakami, is a must-read for feminist literature fans. Mieko Kawakami paints a progressive image of contemporary Japanese workers’ womanhood.
However, she tells the poignant stories of three women struggling to survive in a community where the system stacked against them.
2- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood’s magnificent dystopia is set in a future America. Women are restricted to their reproductive utility, which will be incomplete without a listing on any list of the best feminist books.
Thanks to the Television adaptation, the book, which now seems frighteningly prescient in today’s political environment, will also be followed by a sequel, The Testaments, in September 2019.
3-The Other Slavery
First Nations citizens in the United States were among the first to be exploited, humiliated, and oppressed.
However, Andrés Reséndez’s book The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Tale of Indian Slavery in America will make you reconsider everything you learned in high school about the United States background.
The Other Slavery is a disturbing history of the first genocide and slavery in the United States. It focuses attention on the slavery of America’s native population and claiming that slavery, not disease or brutality.
What destroyed the people who are already living here when the European settled?
4- The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
This groundbreaking, Nobel Prize-winning book, written in 1962. It introduces taboo topics to the fore, including female sexuality, bodily functions, and mental disorder.
While struggling with her mental wellbeing, Anna, a journalist, attempts to compile the notebooks in which she has documented her life’s experiences into a coherent whole in a final, glorious notebook.
5- The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates
Melinda Gates has worked relentlessly for the last two decades. Just to come up with solutions for the world’s most vulnerable people.
Her inspiring experience has shown one unmistakable truth: you must avoid putting women down if you want to improve society.
The Moment of Lift is a collection of Melinda’s lessons to be learned and the incredible stories of some of the people she’s encountered.
It discusses the most important issues facing women around the world today.
6- We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
This short story is based on a TEDx talk given by the author in 2012, and it discusses how we need to educate our children accordingly, both daughters and sons, to proceed to build a more just environment for everyone.
This is a succinct, possibly the best, and wonderfully written novel. So illustrated by Chimamanda’s observations of gender inequality during her life, and at just 52 pages.
So, there is no excuse not to read it.
7- Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
Mikki Kendall looks specifically at the validity of the new women’s rights movement in her scathing series of essays, arguing that this has consistently failed to meet the needs of all but a few females.
Hood Feminism is an undeniable critique of a movement in turmoil. This is reflecting on her encounters with hunger, crime, and hypersexualization.
As well as incisive observations on democracy, pop culture, psychological health stigma, and much more.
Kendall has published a powerful clarion call to everyone would-be feminists to carry out the real mission of the revolution in thought and action in this incredible debut.
Wrapping It Up!!!
Equality. It can sound as if there is a promised land that is just out of control.
Thinking back on history, though, it’s amazing to see just how far we’ve come.
Readers will begin to envision how we could arrive at a much fairer, more just future through all the powerful stories of these books and memoirs.