Books like The Erotic Silence of the American Wife by Dalma Heyn

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie redefines feminism for the 21st century, drawing on her experiences and TL;DER sexual politics, urging everyone to embrace feminist principles.

An intimate exploration of social class, marital conflict, and romantic desire set in early twentieth‑century England.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali chronicles her journey from a Muslim household in Somalia to becoming a outspoken critic of Islam and a Dutch politician, navigating the challenges of faith, freedom, and refugee identity.

A groundbreaking memoir that blends personal narrative with rigorous theory, charting Maggie Nelson’s queer romance, pregnancy, and the politics of love and family.

Sexual Politics examines how patriarchal bias shapes culture and literature, exploring gender roles, power structures, and social ethics in modern contexts.

"This study of illicit sexuality in medieval England explores links between marriage and sex, law and disorder, and property and power. Some medieval Englishwomen endured rape or were kidnapped for forced marriages, yet most ravished women were married and many 'wife-thefts' were not forced kidnappings but cases of adultery fictitiously framed as abduction by abandoned husbands. In pursuing the themes of illicit sexuality and non-normative marital practices, this work analyses the nuances of the key Latin term raptus and the three overlapping offences that it could denote: rape, abduction and adultery. This investigation broadens our understanding of the role of women in the legal system; provides a means for analysing male control over female bodies, sexuality and access to the courts; and reveals ways in which female agency could, on occasion, manoeuvre around such controls"--