Archive of Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World

Must-read Verso classics for all students.

A certain revival of interest has been felt in recent years for Françoise d'Eaubonne and her theories. The dangers that she warned us of at the dawn of the 1970s—deforestation, nuclear danger, pollution, resource exhaustion—is of burning topicality.

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 Middle East. Kumari Jayawardena presents feminism as it originated in the Third World, erupting from the specific struggles of women fighting against colonial power, for education or the vote, for safety, and against poverty and inequality.

Feminist reading featuring Nancy Fraser, Nina Lakhani, Andrea Long Chu, Juno Mac and Molly Smith, Leta Hong Fincher, Sophie Lewis and Elizabeth Martínez.

Key titles from across Verso's many series and imprints.

Key titles on activism and global resistance, from movements for Black liberation and climate justice to labor organizing and anti-colonial struggles.

Shigraf Zahbi reports on misogyny in Modi's India.

The police have always been used as a tool for the social control of minority populations and to protect the power and property of the elite. A reading list that puts the call for the abolishment of the police in historical context.

Books that challenge the notion of empire and offer a history of anti-colonial, anti-racist struggle.

A reading list inspired by Black radicalism, featuring Julius Scott's The Common Wind as well as Angela Davis, Manning Marable, and W.E.B. Du Bois.