Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. This book is a collection of personal essays written by a multitude of brave, clever, strong, passionate women. As 50 women contributed to this book, I wish some pieces had been longer, because they did feel a bit rushed at times, and I didn't get as much out of them as I did from others.

Some of them you might know before you start reading - like Kiera Knightly, Emma Watson and Kat Dennings - others you will want to know after reading their story! There was no man-bashing, no listing of all the terrible things the patriarchy has ever done, but a simple message: women should be able to do anything they want without being judged and they shouldn't be ashamed of the things that go hand-in-hand with womanhood. Alaa Murabit's "Imposter Syndrome" was a startling look at how often even the most brilliant women are looked down upon and caused to doubt their own abilities. Often funny, sometimes surprising, and always inspiring, this book aims to bridge the gap between the feminist hashtag and the scholarly text by giving women the space to explain how they actually feel about feminism.

How do we raise a new generation and secure a prejudice free future, eradicating abuse, inequality and toxic masculinity? As a disabled black woman, the conversation with Lena Dunham in particular reminded me why I’m wary of (and ultimately stopped) listening to feminist content by white women. The 'girls are better than boys' and 'down with the patriarchy' -flavored spiel that underpinned on average at least two of our three weekly assemblies really didn't sit right with me - the men in my life were lovely and there was never any suggestion that I would be any less successful than my male counterparts so what was all the fuss about? As you are reading this, you are either a full-on feminist or thinking about it" ( Be a fun feminist - Nimco Ali p. I would recommend this to a number of people as it is very current in describing the different elements of feminism and incorporates so many topics relevant to the movement- FGM, periods, motherhood, weight, and many more!

As a girl I went to a highly academic all-girls school in Oxford and I traversed my teenage years fed up of with feminism. I really hope that the message in this book will influence this new wave of feminism and I highly recommend this book for all girls, everywhere! And I will give the book props for including, among other things, a transwoman, a disabled woman, and many non-white women, including women not from Europe or America. And "The Power of the Period" by Amika George was both an ode to that feminine miracle/curse and a plea for feminine hygiene products to be provided all women.

Some of the writings just went over my head entirely, leaving me sat there thinking “ok…but why did I just read that? It is still the absolute last thing I would recommend to newbie feminists for the main reason that a lot of these women didn't seem to know what feminism is themselves.

While there are things we can do in our individual lives to change things, it's important we recognise the bigger picture. Maybe it needed curating some more, or even just spread out in a slightly different way…but it quickly became a tad monotonous, which breaks my heart to say. However, from the way periods are described in some of these essays, I started to doubt whether I'd actually ever had a period or if I was just being stabbed by a ghost every month.An urgent and empowering collection of writing from 52 different women from all walks of life including Hollywood, activism and the arts. Feminists don’t wear pink (and other lies): Amazing women on what the F-word means to them is a selection of thought pieces written by 50 very different women, discussing feminism on their own terms. CWs: misogyny/sexism, mentions of rape, mentions of transphobia, description of genital mutilation, racism. Feminists truly believe that if we lived in a world without gender-based oppression, we'd all be so much happier - so, even if you're only joining for purely selfish reasons, we'd love to have you as part of the gang!