Where is home for a feminist? ‘I carry “home” on my back,’ wrote poet and theorist Gloria Anzaldúa in Borderlands/La Frontera (1987), a protective response to the many layers of discrimination she experienced as a queer Chicana woman. ‘Home’, for Palestinian poet Fadwa Tuqan, writing in the 1970s, was a place of confinement, where women’s movements ‘strongly resembled those of domestic poultry’. The home has rarely been a safe place for women (never mind feminists), who have for millennia dared to ask for better accommodation. But in the Penguin Book of Feminist Writing, academic Hannah Dawson, who teaches the history of political thought at King’s College London, has built a vast home for six centuries’ worth of feminist writers – the ‘city of ladies’ that medieval author Christine de Pizan envisions in the anthology’s first extract. It is a glorious history of women’s struggle for liberation from 1405 to 2020, featuring rebellious feminists of all stripes, from the French revolutionary Olympe de Gouges to Kenyan Nobel Prize-winning environmentalist Wangari Maathai to the Russian punk rockers Pussy Riot.