Pat Mitchell | Seal Press, 2019 | Book
An intimate and inspiring memoir and call to action from Pat Mitchell. What makes Mitchell dangerous is her lifelong insistence on redefining power on her terms and leveraging that power to manifest a better world. She shares her own path to power, from a childhood spent on a cotton farm in the South to her impressive rise in media and global activism. Alongside revelatory interviews with other dangerous women, Mitchell takes us on a lively journey, sharing with readers intimate anecdotes about navigating the power paradigms of Washington, DC and Hollywood, traveling to war zones with Eve Ensler and Glenn Close, pressing Fidel Castro into making a historic admission about the Cold War and working closely with Ted Turner and Robert Redford.
Pat Mitchell | ideas.ted.com | Article
Eve Ensler | Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019 | Book
The Apology is, quite simply, amazing. Like millions of women, Eve Ensler has been waiting much of her lifetime for an apology. Sexually and physically abused by her father, she has struggled her whole life from this betrayal, longing for an honest reckoning from a man who is long dead. After years of work as an anti-violence activist, she decided she would wait no longer; an apology could be imagined, by her, for her, to her. Written by Eve from her father’s point of view in the words she longed to hear, The Apology is creating an entirely new and important global conversation about why apologies matter so deeply.
Suzanne Levine | Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 | Book
For more than 50 years, Bella Abzug championed the powerless and disenfranchised as an activist, congresswoman and leader. Presented in the voices of friends and foes, of those who knew, fought with and struggled alongside her, this oral biography is the first comprehensive account of a woman who was one of our most influential leaders.
Mary Robinson | Bloomsbury, 2018 | Book
An urgent call to arms by one of the most important voices in the international fight against climate change, sharing inspiring stories and offering vital lessons for the path forward. Powerful and deeply humane, Climate Justice is a stirring manifesto on one of the most pressing humanitarian issues of our time and a lucid, affirmative, and well-argued case for hope.
Kimberlé Crenshaw | The New Press, 2020 | Book
Drawing on black feminist and critical legal theory, Kimberlé Crenshaw developed the concept of intersectionality, a term she coined to speak to the multiple social forces, social identities and ideological instruments through which power and disadvantage are expressed and legitimized. In this comprehensive and accessible introduction to Crenshaw's work, readers will find key essays and articles that have defined the concept of intersectionality, collected together for the first time.