Most Read This Week In 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.

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Mit Männern leben: Überlegungen zum Pelicot-Prozess
Stai zitta. E altre nove frasi che non vogliamo sentire più
Love in Exile
Réinventer l'amour: Comment le patriarcat sabote les relations hétérosexuelles
Who’s Afraid of Gender?
Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry
Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win
The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
Das Ende der Ehe: Für eine Revolution der Liebe
Fix the System, Not the Women
Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas About Women
Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation
Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
A Short History of Trans Misogyny
Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood
Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
Dysphoria Mundi
Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women
The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality
Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist
Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality
Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism
Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net
Mad Wife: A Memoir
He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters
Posthuman Feminism
The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It
Man Enough: Undefining My Masculinity
Before Gender: Lost Stories from Trans History, 1850-1950
Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization
Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture
Godność, proszę: O transpłciowości, gniewie i nadziei
Quemar el miedo
Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy
Collapse Feminism: The Online Battle for Feminism's Future
Radius: A Story of Feminist Revolution
Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition
Bez wstydu. Sekspraca w Polsce
My, trans
Rebel Bodies: A guide to the gender health gap revolution
Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism
Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Women’s Trauma Against Them
The Power of Women: A Doctor's Journey of Hope and Healing
The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
Specchio delle mie brame: La prigione della bellezza
Transgender Marxism
Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood
Féminismes et pop culture
Maledetta sfortuna
The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism
To Raise a Boy: Classrooms, Locker Rooms, Bedrooms, and the Hidden Struggles of American Boyhood
Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism
Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film
White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind
The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing
We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities
Genderqueer Menopause: Navigating Menopause for Trans, Gender-Nonconforming, Genderfluid, and Other Queer-Bodied Folx
The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story
Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor
The Portable Feminist Reader (Penguin Classics)
Complicit: How Our Culture Enables Misbehaving Men
How to Understand Your Sexuality: A Practical Guide for Exploring Who You Are
Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss (Feminist Media Studies)
Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable
50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution
Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control
Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad
Birth Control: The Insidious Power of Men Over Motherhood
Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice
More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech
23 transmyyttiä : totta ja tarua transihmisistä
A Boob's Life: How America's Obsession Shaped Me... and You
Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance (Intersections, 18)
Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine
Responding to the Right: Brief Replies to 25 Conservative Arguments
Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America (Queer Ideas/Queer Action)
Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis
What Is a Woman?: One Man's Journey to Answer the Question of a Generation
In Transit: Being Non-Binary in a World of Dichotomies
Gender Euphoria
On Violence and On Violence Against Women
Here and Queer: A Queer Girl's Guide to Life
Complaint!
Brutta: Storia di un corpo come tanti
All Made Up: The Power and Pitfalls of Beauty Culture, from Cleopatra to Kim Kardashian
Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination
Why She Wrote: A Graphic History of the Lives, Inspiration, and Influence Behind the Pens of Classic Women Writers
We Need New Stories
The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance
Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender
New Handbook for a Post-Roe America: The Complete Guide to Abortion Legality, Access, and Practical Support
Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars: The Politics of Sex
Kto się boi gender? Prawica, populizm i feministyczne strategie oporu

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