16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence

Respect is... knowing violence against women is preventable.

The annual 16 Days of Activism campaign calls for the elimination of all forms of gender-based violence against women and girls. Learn more about the impact of gender-based violence with these titles and help create a world where women and girls are safe, respected and empowered.

Updated October 29, 2024
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The handmaid's tale
Atwood, Margaret
Paper Book
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships. She serves in the household of the Commander and his wife, and under the new social order she has only one purpose: once a month, she must lie on her back and pray that the...
Invisible women : exposing data bias in a world designed for men
Criado-Perez, Caroline
Paper Book
#1 International Bestseller "A rallying cry to fight back." --Sunday Times (London) Winner, 2019 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award Winner, 2019 Royal Society Science Book Prize
The mental load : a feminist comic
Emma
Paper Book
In her first book of comic strips, Emma reflects on social and feminist issues by means of simple line drawings, dissecting the mental load, i.e. all that invisible and unpaid organising, list-making and planning women do to manage their lives, and the lives of their family members. In her strips...
Miss Kim knows : and other stories
Cho, Nam-ju
Paper Book
Searing stories that critique the gender pressures and injustices rife in modern Korea from the author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 Eight women. Eight stories. One reality. A woman is born. A woman is filmed in public without consent. A woman suffers domestic violence. A woman is...
Rough : how violence has found its way into the bedroom and what we can do about it
Thompson, Rachel
Paper Book
**AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'S WOMEN'S HOUR** Rough is a revolutionary non-fiction work exploring the narratives of sexual violence that we don't talk about. A bad sexual experience. A grey area. Not rape but... A...
See what you made me do : power, control and domestic violence
Hill, Jess
Paper Book
A deeply researched mental abusebook from an award-winning journalist that uncovers the ways in which abusers exert control in the darkest--and most intimate--ways imaginable. A gripping and eye-opening exposé that courageously confronts the dangers society often turns a blind eye to. This...
The testaments
Atwood, Margaret
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE * The Testaments is a modern masterpiece, a powerful novel that can be read on its own or as a companion to Margaret Atwood's classic, The Handmaid's Tale. More than fifteen years after the events of...
The Time Has Come: Why Men Must Join the Gender Equality Revolution
Kaufman, Michael.
Paper Book
In the vein of Tim Wise's White Like Meand Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In, The Time Has Come --by co-founder of the White Ribbon campaign Michael Kaufman -- offers a plain-spoken and forthright look at why and how men must actively fight for gender equality. From founding...
Unshrinking : How to Fight Fatphobia
Kate Manne
Paper Book
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research to expose how size discrimination harms everyone, and how to combat it--from the acclaimed author of Down Girl and Entitled "An...
We Should All Be Feminists
Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The highly acclaimed, provocative essay on feminism and sexual politics--from the award-winning author of Americanah "A call to action, for all people in the world, to undo the gender hierarchy." --Medium<...
Wifedom : Mrs. Orwell's invisible life
Funder, Anna
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR * WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION FINALIST * This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century --and a probing consideration of what it means to be a wife and a writer in the modern world<...
Women talking
Toews, Miriam
Paper Book

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