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Bibliography

Radical Political Action
from Boston Review: a Political and Literary Forum

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Oxford Bibliographies
Search here for scholarly recommendations of books and articles on topics of your interest.
Below is an example: Feminist Political Thought or Sojourner Truth.

Oxford Bibliographies offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on specific topics in a growing range of subject areas. There are at least 50 specific topical bibliographies in each subject area. Each of these features an introduction to the topic. Bibliographies are browsable by subject area and are keyword searchable.

The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory by Lisa Disch (Editor); Mary Hawkesworth (Editor)
Published: 2016

The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory provides an overview of the analytical frameworks and theoretical concepts feminist theorists have developed to challenge established knowledge. Leading feminist theorists, from around the globe, provide in-depth explorations of a diverse array of subject areas, capturing a plurality of approaches.
The Oxford Handbook of Transnational Feminist Movements by Rawwida Baksh (Editor); Wendy Harcourt (Editor)
Published: 2015

The Handbook illustrates how feminist theory and praxis have contributed to international knowledge production and policy on women’s rights and gender equality, and to transnational social change processes.
The Oxford Handbook of U. S. Women's Social Movement Activism by Holly J. McCammon (Editor); Verta Taylor (Editor); Jo Reger (Editor); Rachel L. Einwohner (Editor)
Published: 2017

The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Women’s Social Movement Activism provides both a detailed and extensive examination of the wide range of U.S. women’s collective efforts, as well as a broad overview of the scholarship on women’s social movement struggles.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought by F. Abiola Irele (Editor); Biodun Jeyifo (Editor)
Published: 2010

The work aims at an understanding of the intellectual traditions and civilizations of sub-Saharan Africa for the general reader, as well as for the specialist, but with a minimum of technical language.
Black Intellectual Thought in Modern America
Location: BOWDOIN E185.89.I56 B55 2017
Published: 2017

Feminism
essay by Ula Y. Taylor in Black Women in American, 2nd edition
Feminism and Race in the U.S.
from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy