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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 285 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,222 ratings — published 1989
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 212 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.39 — 337,975 ratings — published 2012
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.18 — 48,659 ratings — published 1949
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 158 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,512,799 ratings — published 1985
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 11,583 ratings — published 2010
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.22 — 273,640 ratings — published 1929
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 120,487 ratings — published 2014
The Feminine Mystique (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,693 ratings — published 1963
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 31,648 ratings — published 1990
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.83 — 89,545 ratings — published 2014
The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 115 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.95 — 17,026 ratings — published 2015
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.27 — 9,242 ratings — published 2007
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,406 ratings — published 2000
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 177,741 ratings — published 2019
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 — 5,238 ratings — published 2008
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.59 — 35,970 ratings — published 1981
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 — 8,767 ratings — published 2009
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,127 ratings — published 1984
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 27,612 ratings — published 1792
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.51 — 19,949 ratings — published 1981
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 33,097 ratings — published 2003
The Vagina Monologues (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.87 — 38,874 ratings — published 1996
Women Who Run With the Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 100,361 ratings — published 1992
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.03 — 6,396 ratings — published 1994
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.67 — 10,260 ratings — published 2005
Undoing Gender (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,353 ratings — published 2004
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 — 4,254 ratings — published 2014
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.88 — 10,697 ratings — published 1998
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.45 — 9,289 ratings — published 1984
Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,832 ratings — published 2000
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,150 ratings — published 1975
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 231,497 ratings — published 1969
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 9,864 ratings — published 1981
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 26,357 ratings — published 1976
Stone Butch Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.55 — 38,625 ratings — published 1993
How to Be a Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.71 — 110,708 ratings — published 2011
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 — 3,276 ratings — published 2008
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,817 ratings — published 1993
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,279,984 ratings — published 1963
Full Frontal Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,059 ratings — published 2007
Female Masculinity (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,749 ratings — published 1998
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 669,791 ratings — published 2002
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.50 — 89,621 ratings — published 2017
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.56 — 15,006 ratings — published 2004
Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.67 — 16,183 ratings — published 2011
Transgender History (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,832 ratings — published 2008
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,573 ratings — published 1990
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 64,328 ratings — published 2016
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 377,800 ratings — published 1892
Women & Power: A Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 40,137 ratings — published 2017
“She opened Myrtle's bureau drawers, investigating her underwear. Some of it was silk, quality stuff, but to Nettie most of the good things looked old. The same was true of the dresses hung on her side of the closet. Nettie went on to the bathroom, where she inventoried the pills in the medicine cabinet, and from there to the sewing room, where she admired the dolls. A nice house. A lovely house. Too bad the man who lived here was a piece of shit.”
― Needful Things
― Needful Things
“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
