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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* sex
* trans
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La mala costumbre
Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer
Pageboy
Stag Dance
Detransition, Baby
Hijab Butch Blues
The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny
The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
Bring the House Down
The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
Scream With Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism, 1968-1980
Night Night Fawn
Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson
Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
Mit Männern leben: Überlegungen zum Pelicot-Prozess
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
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
Men Explain Things to Me
Stone Butch Blues
A Room of One’s Own
Bad Feminist
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
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The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodWe Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirBad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Women & Gender Studies
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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

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

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