Laura Bates. Sourcebooks, $14.99 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-4022-7314-8
Indiana State literature professor Bates details her remarkable work teaching Shakespeare to inmates, an experience that proved momentous for both teacher and students. Invoking lessons from previous volunteer work at prisons in her native Chicago,...
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Laura Bates. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $15.99 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-1-250-10018-4
Sexism as it exists today in Western culture is a normal, everyday experience in the lives of women, according to Bates. She knows this from personal experience as well as from the thousands of women who have shared their experiences through the...
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Laura Bates. Sourcebooks Fire, $17.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-7282-0673-8
Bates’s powerful debut roars with feminist themes and #MeToo awareness. Grieving the death of her father, 16-year-old Anna Clark and her mother move from England to a Scottish fishing village to distance themselves from online slut-shaming that...
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Laura Bates. Sourcebooks, $28.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4642-3436-1
Cyber-brothels staffed by sex dolls, submissive AI girlfriends, and deepfake porn are just some of the ways that new tech is being put to misogynistic use, according to this eye-popping exposé. Feminist activist Bates (Men Who Hate Women) shatters...
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Laura Bates. Sourcebooks, $28.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-7282-3624-7
Bates (The Burning), founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, examines “women-hating” online communities and their impact on real-world sexism and sexual violence in this distressing yet familiar exposé. According to Bates, the “manosphere” includes “
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