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Gender Studies Books
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 276 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 19,420 ratings — published 1989
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 212 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.39 — 328,146 ratings — published 2012
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 201 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,053 ratings — published 1949
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 157 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,397,076 ratings — published 1985
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 118,744 ratings — published 2014
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 11,385 ratings — published 2010
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.22 — 257,424 ratings — published 1929
The Feminine Mystique (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.87 — 30,776 ratings — published 1963
The Beauty Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 30,921 ratings — published 1990
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.83 — 87,013 ratings — published 2014
The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 115 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.96 — 16,824 ratings — published 2015
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,033 ratings — published 2000
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.27 — 8,972 ratings — published 2007
Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,242 ratings — published 2008
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.59 — 34,248 ratings — published 1981
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 166,010 ratings — published 2019
The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,618 ratings — published 2009
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.53 — 40,732 ratings — published 1984
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 26,808 ratings — published 1792
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.50 — 19,065 ratings — published 1981
The Vagina Monologues (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.87 — 38,290 ratings — published 1996
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.03 — 6,363 ratings — published 1994
Women Who Run With the Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.11 — 94,754 ratings — published 1992
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.67 — 10,212 ratings — published 2005
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 29,486 ratings — published 2003
Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,227 ratings — published 2014
Undoing Gender (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,297 ratings — published 2004
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.89 — 10,638 ratings — published 1998
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.45 — 8,992 ratings — published 1984
Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,819 ratings — published 2000
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,116 ratings — published 1975
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 25,492 ratings — published 1976
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 9,764 ratings — published 1981
How to Be a Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.71 — 110,338 ratings — published 2011
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 218,207 ratings — published 1969
Stone Butch Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.54 — 36,264 ratings — published 1993
He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,272 ratings — published 2008
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,743 ratings — published 1993
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,205,635 ratings — published 1963
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.51 — 87,970 ratings — published 2017
Full Frontal Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,051 ratings — published 2007
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 662,094 ratings — published 2002
Female Masculinity (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,694 ratings — published 1998
Transgender History (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,646 ratings — published 2008
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.56 — 13,604 ratings — published 2004
Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.67 — 16,159 ratings — published 2011
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,517 ratings — published 1990
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 63,356 ratings — published 2016
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 353,802 ratings — published 1892
Women & Power: A Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 39,136 ratings — published 2017
“Behn's bifurcated tales of fortune and misfortune, The Forc'd Marriage and Oroonoko are, in turn, comedic and tragic. They are twin narratives of the development of modern patriarchy.”
― Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation
― Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation
“Women may not be simply human beings but positioned as human givers when it comes to the dominant men who look to them for various kinds of moral support, admiration, attention, and so on.”
― Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
― Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
