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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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
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Charlotte Brontë
If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend.
Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

Dorothy L. Sayers
A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a member of a large, mixed family with a lot of male friends? I replied that, on the contrary, I was an only child and had practically never seen or spoken to any men of my own age till I was about twenty-five. "Well," said the man, "I shouldn't have expected a woman (meaning me) to have been able to make it so convincing." I replied that I had cope ...more
Dorothy L. Sayers, Are Women Human? Penetrating, Sensible and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

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