16 Days of Activism

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 September 8, 2023
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The handmaid's tale. [graphic novel]
Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939-
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...
On violence and on violence against women /
Rose, Jacqueline.
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...
See what you made me do : the dangers of domestic violence that we ignore, expla
Hill, Jess.
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 Eleanor, 1939-
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, has become a modern classic--and now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this...
We should all be feminists /
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-
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<...
Women talking.
Toews, Miriam, 1964-
A FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD: A transformative and necessary work--as completely unexpected as it is inspired--by the award-winning author of the bestselling novels All My Puny Sorrows and A Complicated Kindness. The sun rises on a quiet June...

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