Gender Studies

Gender studies is a field of interdisciplinary study which analyses race, ethnicity, sexuality and location. In gender studies, the term "gender" is used to refer to the social and cultural constructions of masculinities and femininities.

See also women's studies.
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New Releases Tagged "Gender Studies"

Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime
Moi les hommes, je les déteste
Love in Exile
Stai zitta. E altre nove frasi che non vogliamo sentire più
Who’s Afraid of Gender?
Réinventer l'amour: Comment le patriarcat sabote les relations hétérosexuelles
Beyond the Gender Binary
Das Ende der Ehe: Für eine Revolution der Liebe
Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts
Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
The Anxious Person's Guide to Non-Monogamy: Your Guide to Open Relationships, Polyamory and Letting Go
Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
We Should All Be Feminists
The Second Sex
The Handmaid's Tale
Bad Feminist
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
A Room of One’s Own
The Feminine Mystique
The Beauty Myth
Men Explain Things to Me
The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape
Women, Race & Class
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouThe Immigrant by Nery McMahonI Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiBlack Indian by Shonda BuchananThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Non Fiction/Memoirs by Women of Color
357 books — 69 voters
Paulyanna International Rent-boy by Paul Douglas LovellThe Las Vegas Madam by Jami RodmanThe Happy Hooker by Xaviera HollanderMattress Actress by Annika CleevePaid For by Rachel Moran
Sex Worker Memoirs
196 books — 107 voters

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
2,513 books — 3,516 voters

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers by Lillian FadermanBoots of Leather, Slippers of Gold by Elizabeth Lapovsky KennedySurpassing the Love of Men by Lillian FadermanThe Disappearing L by Bonnie J. MorrisCharity and Sylvia by Rachel Hope Cleves
Lesbian Herstory
150 books — 49 voters


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The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.
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