Womens Studies

Women's studies, also known as feminist studies, is an interdisciplinary academic field which explores politics, society and history from an intersectional, multicultural women's perspective. It critiques and explores societal norms of gender, race, class, sexuality, and other social inequalities.

See also gender studies.
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New Releases Tagged "Womens Studies"

Transcendent: A Memoir
Transcendent: A Memoir
Labor: One Woman's Work
Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free
Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation
The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice
A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature
The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women
Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made
Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West
The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights
The Bible vs. Biblical Womanhood: How God's Word Consistently Affirms Gender Equality
Complicit: How Our Culture Enables Misbehaving Men
Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women
The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet
Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom
The Handmaid's Tale
The Feminine Mystique
The Second Sex
We Should All Be Feminists
Women Who Run With the Wolves
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story
A Room of One’s Own
Bad Feminist
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Books Written by Women Before 1960
529 books — 104 voters
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Best Books About Mistresses
465 books — 766 voters

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Women's History Written by Women
984 books — 199 voters
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Literature by Japanese Women
165 books — 163 voters

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Awesome Women of the Ancient World
476 books — 976 voters


Misogyny was born of fear of women. It spawned the ideology of male superiority. But this was ideology, not statement of fact; as such, it could not be confirmed, but was open to constant doubt. Male status was not immutable. Myths of matriarchies and Amazons societies showed female dominance. Three of the eleven extant comedies of Aristophanes show women in successful opposition to men. ... These were the nightmares of victors: that someday the vanquished would arise and treat their ex-masters ...more
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