This extensive volume of feminist literature edited by Roxane Gay includes selected writings by ancient, historic, and more recent feminist voices such as Henricus Cornelius Agrippa, Sara Ahmed, Dorothy Allison, Anna Julia Cooper, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Mona Eltahawy, Leslie Feinberg, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Cherríe Moraga, Eileen Myles, and the Guerrilla Girls. Through this nine-part anthology, Gay presents multicultural perspectives, ecofeminism, feminism and disability, feminist labor, gender perspectives, and Black feminism. Through The Portable Feminist Reader, readers have the opportunity to explore the state of American feminism in all its complexity and history, and the ways in which feminist thought and literature continue to expand. “More than anything, this feminist reader is not a fortress; it is not an end point,” writes Gay in the introduction. “It is the beginning of what I hope will be a vibrant and vigorous conversation about historical and contemporary feminist thought. This is a text that embraces contradiction and complexity.”
