THIS IS HOW WE COME BACK STRONGER Contributors on the Feminist Books That Made Them

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THIS IS HOW WE COME BACK STRONGER is the pandemic book we’ve all been waiting for! Edited by Feminist Book Society and published in collaboration with And Other Stories, this must-read collection of essays, short fiction, and poetry responds to both the personal and political in this time of crisis and change.

We’re sharing a sneak peek at a section of the book that explores the feminist writer or book that most influenced the contributors. From bell hooks’s AIN’T I A WOMAN to Audre Lorde’s SISTER OUTSIDER, we’re loving these picks (and adding them to our cart).

 
 
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Ain’t I a Woman by bell hooks

—Layla F. Saad

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The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

—Juli Delgado Lopera

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Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins

—Yomi Adegoke

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Waterlily by Ella Cara Deloria

—Sarah Eagle Heart

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Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding

—Lauren Bravo

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The Color Purple by Alice Walker

—Stella Duffy, Natalie A. Carter, and Kerry Hudson

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Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein

—Fox Fisher

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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

—Melissa Cummings-Quarry

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

—Natalie A. Carter

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Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

—Virgie Tovar and Layla F. Saad

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This Is How We Come Back Stronger, edited by Feminist Book Society

—The FP staff

What feminist book made you? Let us know on twitter, @FeministPress

 
Lucia Brown