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
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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
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