A New York Times Bestseller A dynamic and strikingly relevant look at a feminist canon as
expansive rather than definitive A Penguin Classic One of Library Journal's Best Books of
the Year For Roxane Gay a feminist canon is subjective and always evolving. A feminist canon
represents a long history of feminist scholarship embraces skepticism and invites robust
discussion and debate. 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 American feminism 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.
