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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Honey
The Forgotten Midwife
We Dance Upon Demons
When No One Else Will
Trad Wife
New Skin
A Perfect Hand
Not Your Final Girl
Said the Dead
Dear Monica Lewinsky
Wife Shaped Bodies
Femme Feral
The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie
The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own
The Fallen: The Magdalene Laundries and Ireland's Legacy of Silence
Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Lessons in Chemistry
Margo's Got Money Troubles
A Hymn to Life
The Secret Book Society
Weyward
Comerás flores
Molka
Finding Me
Enormous Wings
Bright Young Women
The Women on Platform Two
Slags
Honey
Annie Bot
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Best Feminist Books
2,863 books — 4,162 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'
1,901 books — 886 voters

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
1,497 books — 1,803 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
1,441 books — 3,106 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
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
The Bell Jar
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: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

Rebecca West
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
Rebecca West

Simone de Beauvoir
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself
Simone de Beauvoir

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