THIS IS HOW WE COME BACK STRONGER Contributors on the Feminist Books That Made Them
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).
Ain’t I a Woman by bell hooks
—Layla F. Saad
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
—Juli Delgado Lopera
Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
—Yomi Adegoke
Waterlily by Ella Cara Deloria
—Sarah Eagle Heart
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
—Lauren Bravo
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
—Stella Duffy, Natalie A. Carter, and Kerry Hudson
Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein
—Fox Fisher
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
—Melissa Cummings-Quarry
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
—Natalie A. Carter
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
—Virgie Tovar and Layla F. Saad
This Is How We Come Back Stronger, edited by Feminist Book Society
—The FP staff