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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Boys will be boys : power, patriarchy and toxic masculinity
Ford, Clementine
Paper Book
  'The most important thing you'll read this year' Elle  The incendiary new book about toxic masculinity and misogyny from Clementine Ford, author of the bestselling feminist manifesto, Fight Like A Girl. Boys Will Be Boys answers the question Clementine Ford is...
The handmaid's tale
Atwood, Margaret
Paper Book
The stunning graphic novel adaptation * A must-read and collector's item for fans of "the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction" (New York Times).   Look for The Testaments, the sequel to The Handmaid's Tale   In Margaret...
In control : dangerous relationships and how they end in murder
Monckton Smith, Jane
Paper Book
BLOWS ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIPS OUT OF THE WATER...A GAME-CHANGER. - Caitlin MoranPOWERFUL BOOK OFFERS STRATEGIES FOR INTERVENTION THAT WOULD SAVE LIVES - The IndependentA woman is killed by her partner or ex-partner every four days in the UK. Domestic homicide is...
Invisible women : 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 (Illustrator)
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...
On violence and on violence against women
Rose, Jacqueline
Paper Book
A blazingly insightful, provocative study of violence against women from the peerless feminist critic. Why has violence, and especially violence against women, become so much more prominent and visible across the world? To explore this question, Jacqueline Rose tracks the...
Rough : how violence has found its way into the bedroom and what we can do about it
Thompson, Rachel
Paper Book
'2021's most important book about sex.' Stylist 'You need to read this.' Mashable A bad sexual experience. A grey area. Not rape but... A violation - these are...
See what you made me do : the dangers of domestic violence that we ignore, explain away, or refuse to see
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 face fatphobia
Manne, Kate.
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
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
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 a novel
Toews, Miriam
Paper Book

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