NUS Women's Campaign for Women's History Month

This March, we are collaborating with the NUS Women's Campaign for Women's History Month 2019. The NUS Women's Campaign work to represent and advocate on behalf of Women Students across Further and Higher Education in the UK.

They are doing amazing work, including improving access, tackling sexual harassment and violence in Further and Higher Education, delivering activist workshops for a Stop and Scrap of Universal Credit, running panel events on Black Women in Academia, and launching an ‘End Detention Now’ resource to help students mobilise against detention centres.

NUS Women's Campaign are also hosting an evening of music, poetry, and conversation on March 15th at SOAS Students' Union, in support of Imkaan. Imkaan are a UK-based, Black feminist organisation, and the only national second-tier women’s organisation dedicated to addressing violence against Black and minoritised women and girls. Tickets are now available on a sliding scale, and purchasable here.

For Women's History Month, they've curated an extensive new reading list, recommending books on a range of feminist topics, from reproductive justice, to the prison-industrial complex, to sex work, disability and gender, food and fatness, indigenous feminism and more! You can access this resource here.

These key feminist Verso titles are 40% OFF throughout the month of March! Use the code womcam to activate the discount. We hope this provides a good start for your feminist education!

Sale ends on Sunday, March 31, 2019 at 11:59pm EST. Please note this is UK ONLY.

From three of the organizers of the International Women’s Strike: a manifesto for when “leaning in” is not enough

A powerful document of theday-to-day realities of Black women in Britain

Groundbreaking examination of the birth, development and impact of Feminist consciousness

A radical Latina perspective on race, liberation, and identity

A founding text of transnational feminism

How the law harms sex workers—and what they want instead

With race and the police once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America’s giants of black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or power

Inside This Place, Not of It reveals some of the most egregious human rights violations within women’s prisons in the United States. Here, in their own words, thirteen narrators recount their lives leading up to incarceration and their harrowing struggle for survival once inside.

A pocket colour manifesto for a new futuristic feminism

An examination of how mainstream feminism has been mobilized in support of racist measures

“An important contribution to debates around sex and work ... deserves to be read.” – Nina Power

“A key figure of the second wave.”– Melissa Benn, The Guardian

Charts the history of women's liberation and calls for a revitalized feminism.

A narrative history of the movement that turned “Orientals” into Asian Americans

All books on this reading list are 40% off until Sunday, March 31 at 11:59pm EST.

Feminism for the 99%

by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya and Nancy Fraser

Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, healthcare, climate change, border policing; not the issues you ordinarily hear feminists talking about. But don’t these issues impact the vast majority of wome...

Heart Of The Race

by Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie and Suzanne Scafe

Introduction by Lola Okolosie

Heart of the Race is a powerful corrective to a version of Britain’s history from which black women have long been excluded. It reclaims and records black women’s place in that history, documenting...

Woman's Consciousness, Man's World

by Sheila Rowbotham

A groundbreaking contribution to debates on women's oppression and consciousness, and the connections between socialism and feminism. Examining feminist consciousness from various vantage points - ...

De Colores Means All of Us

by Elizabeth Sutherland Martînez

Foreword by Angela Davis

Introduction by Karma R. Chavez

Elizabeth Martínez’s unique Chicana voice arises from over thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women’s liberation, and Latina/o empowerment. In De Colores Means All of Us,...

Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World

by Kumari Jayawardena

Foreword by Rafia Zakaria

For twenty-five years, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World has been an essential primer on the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history of women’s movements in Asia and the Midd...

Revolting Prostitutes

by Juno Mac and Molly Smith

How the law harms sex workers - and what they want insteadDo you have to endorse prostitution in order to support sex worker rights? Should clients be criminalized, and can the police deliver justi...

If They Come in the Morning

by Angela Davis

The trial of Angela Davis is remembered as one of America's most historic political trials, and no one can tell the story better than Davis herself. Opening with a letter from James Baldwin to Ange...

Inside This Place, Not of It

by Voice of Witness

Foreword by Michelle Alexander

Inside This Place, Not of It reveals some of the most egregious human rights violations within women’s prisons in the United States. In their own words, the thirteen narrators in this book recount ...

The Xenofeminist Manifesto

by Laboria Cuboniks

The Xenofeminist Manifesto is an attempt to articulate a feminism fit for the twenty-first century. Unafraid of exploring the potentials of technology, exploring both oppressive and emancipatory po...

Separate and Dominate

by Christine Delphy

Translated by David Broder

Feminist Christine Delphy co-founded the journal Nouvelles questions féministes with Simone de Beauvoir in the 1970s and became one of the most influential figures in French feminism. Today, Delp...

Playing the Whore

by Melissa Gira Grant

The sex industry is an endless source of prurient drama for the mainstream media. Recent years have seen a panic over "online red-light districts," which supposedly seduce vulnerable young women ...

Women, Resistance and Revolution

by Sheila Rowbotham

This classic book provides a historical overview of feminist strands among the modern revolutionary movements of Russia, China and the Third World. Sheila Rowbotham shows how women rose against t...

Fortunes of Feminism

by Nancy Fraser

Second Wave feminism emerged as a struggle for women’s liberation and took its place alongside other radical movements. But feminism’s subsequent immersion in identity politics coincided with a dec...

Serve the People

by Karen L. Ishizuka

Foreword by Jeff Chang

The political ferment of the 1960s produced not only the Civil Rights Movement but others in its wake: women's liberation, gay rights, Chicano power, and the Asian American Movement. Here is a defi...