Feminism

Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social justice for women. A fundamental concept underlying feminism is that women are an oppressed group, a reality that feminism seeks to highlight and fight against.
Books tagged 'Feminism' deal, directly or indirectly, with feminist philosophy.

See also gender studies.
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Where the Girls Were
Honeysuckle
Adult Braces: Driving Myself Sane
The Sisters of Book Row
Good Woman: A Reckoning
The Lost Daughter of Sparta
Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas About Women
A Woman's Work: Reclaiming the Radical History of Mothering
Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A '90s Rock Memoir
You Can't Catch Us: Lady Bird Johnson's Trailblazing 1964 Campaign Train and the Women Who Rode with Her
Shut Up and Read: A Memoir from Harriett’s Bookshop
She Made Herself a Monster
We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America
One Bad Mother
A History of Scottish Witches: The Devil's Handmaidens
Lessons in Chemistry
Lady Tremaine
A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides
Comerás flores
Weyward
Finding Me
Bright Young Women
Slags
Adult Braces: Driving Myself Sane
The Secret Book Society
Fundamentally
The Women on Platform Two
Finding My Way
Annie Bot
The Hounding
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingThe Golden Compass by Philip PullmanSabriel by Garth NixElla Enchanted by Gail Carson LevineGraceling by Kristin Cashore
Best Heroine in a Fantasy Book
1,489 books — 1,794 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsDivergent by Veronica RothThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodCinder by Marissa MeyerThe Host by Stephenie Meyer
Best Science Fiction With a Female Protagonist
1,424 books — 3,004 voters

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. MaasCrown of Midnight by Sarah J. MaasThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsGraceling by Kristin CashoreDivergent by Veronica Roth
'I Am Woman Hear Me Roar'
1,899 books — 883 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Best Books by Female Authors
1,369 books — 470 voters

We Should All Be Feminists
The Handmaid's Tale
A Room of One’s Own
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Bad Feminist
The Second Sex
Men Explain Things to Me
The Bell Jar
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Women, Race & Class
The Feminine Mystique
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
The Beauty Myth

Abigail Adams
If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.
Abigail Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

Irina Dunn
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
Irina Dunn

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