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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Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas About Women
Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry
A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture
Mit Männern leben: Überlegungen zum Pelicot-Prozess
Love in Exile
Réinventer l'amour: Comment le patriarcat sabote les relations hétérosexuelles
Stai zitta. E altre nove frasi che non vogliamo sentire più
Das Ende der Ehe: Für eine Revolution der Liebe
Who’s Afraid of Gender?
Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
A Short History of Trans Misogyny
Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win
The Anxious Person's Guide to Non-Monogamy: Your Guide to Open Relationships, Polyamory and Letting Go
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
We Should All Be Feminists
The Second Sex
The Handmaid's Tale
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
Bad Feminist
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
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape
The Feminine Mystique by Betty FriedanBreaking the Bias of English by Vivian ProbstThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirSet the Night on Fire by Mike  DavisSexual Politics by Kate Millett
Second Wave Feminism
144 books — 64 voters
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette WintersonFun Home by Alison BechdelTwo or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy AllisonZami by Audre LordeLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren  Hough
Lesbian Memoirs
286 books — 142 voters

Fun Home by Alison BechdelThe Essential Dykes To Watch Out For by Alison BechdelLe bleu est une couleur chaude by Jul MarohAre You My Mother? by Alison BechdelBatwoman by Greg Rucka
Best Lesbian Graphic Novels
249 books — 233 voters
Hunger by Roxane GayYou Can't Buy Love Like That by Carol E. AndersonDear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSouth and West by Joan DidionThe Radium Girls by Kate  Moore
2017 Non-male Non-Fiction
246 books — 85 voters

The Will to Change by bell hooksRemaking Manhood by Mark  GreeneAngry White Men by Michael S. KimmelThe Macho Paradox by Jackson KatzGetting Off by Robert Jensen
Men and Masculinity
369 books — 107 voters


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