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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Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II
Healing Wounds: A Vietnam War Combat Nurse's 10-Year Fight to Win Women a Place of Honor in Washington, D.C.
No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce
Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net
Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win
Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star
Wanderers: A History of Women Walking
Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry
Bad Friend: How Women Revolutionized Modern Friendship
Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity
Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis
The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice
The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet
A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West
The Handmaid's Tale
The Feminine Mystique
The Second Sex
We Should All Be Feminists
Women Who Run With the Wolves
The Beauty Myth
The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story
A Room of One’s Own
Bad Feminist
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
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
Me... Jane by Patrick McDonnellThe Librarian of Basra by Jeanette WinterBrave Girl by Michelle MarkelWhat to Do About Alice? by Barbara KerleyI Dissent by Debbie Levy
Picture Books About Outstanding Women
708 books — 173 voters

The Daughter of Kurdland by Widad AkreyiThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankFemales of Valor by Widad AkreyiZoroastrians' Fight for Survival by Widad AkreyiRoots of To-Be Templars by Widad Akreyi
Women's History Month
441 books — 80 voters

Kitchen by Banana YoshimotoConvenience Store Woman by Sayaka MurataOut by Natsuo KirinoThe Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko OgawaA Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Literature by Japanese Women
158 books — 152 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 — 3,515 voters


When female stories are muted, we are teaching our kids that their dignity is second class and the historical accounts of their lives [are] less relevant. This lowered value carries over when women face sexual objectification and systemic brutalization from inside and outside the community.
Aurin Squire

Catharine A. MacKinnon
In other words, for purposes of sex discrimination law, to be a woman means either to be like a man or like a lady. We have to meet either the male standard for males or the male standard for females.
Catharine A. MacKinnon, Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law

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