Gender

Gender is a set of characteristics distinguishing between male and female or masculine and feminine, particularly in the cases of men and women. Depending on the context, the discriminating characteristics vary from sex to social role to gender identity, with a distinction drawn between biological sex and gender as a role.

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Give Her Credit: The Untold Account of a Women's Bank That Empowered a Generation
The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny
La mala costumbre
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
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Pageboy
Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson
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We Are Green and Trembling
Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women
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Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
The Second Sex
We Should All Be Feminists
The Handmaid's Tale
The Left Hand of Darkness
Middlesex
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
Gender Queer: A Memoir
Men Explain Things to Me
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
Bad Feminist
Stone Butch Blues
A Room of One’s Own
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Gay Fiction by Men
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1,365 books — 468 voters

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Matriarchal Societies in Fiction
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Dorothy L. Sayers
Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.
Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

Gavin de Becker
Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death.
Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

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