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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 280 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 19,833 ratings — published 1989
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 214 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.39 — 334,005 ratings — published 2012
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 203 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,886 ratings — published 1949
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 159 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,464,238 ratings — published 1985
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference (Hardcover)
by (shelved 151 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 11,491 ratings — published 2010
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 119,505 ratings — published 2014
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.22 — 266,725 ratings — published 1929
The Feminine Mystique (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,268 ratings — published 1963
The Beauty Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 31,285 ratings — published 1990
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.82 — 88,485 ratings — published 2014
The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 115 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.95 — 16,956 ratings — published 2015
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,755 ratings — published 2000
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.27 — 9,104 ratings — published 2007
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 172,654 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 — 5,235 ratings — published 2008
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.59 — 35,145 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 — 8,671 ratings — published 2009
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.53 — 41,474 ratings — published 1984
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 27,256 ratings — published 1792
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.51 — 19,539 ratings — published 1981
The Vagina Monologues (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.87 — 38,571 ratings — published 1996
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 31,355 ratings — published 2003
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.67 — 10,219 ratings — published 2005
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.03 — 6,377 ratings — published 1994
Women Who Run With the Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 97,885 ratings — published 1992
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 — 4,241 ratings — published 2014
Undoing Gender (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,327 ratings — published 2004
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.88 — 10,663 ratings — published 1998
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.44 — 9,150 ratings — published 1984
Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,825 ratings — published 2000
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,130 ratings — published 1975
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 9,831 ratings — published 1981
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 25,957 ratings — published 1976
Stone Butch Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.55 — 37,452 ratings — published 1993
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 225,468 ratings — published 1969
How to Be a Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.71 — 110,468 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 — 3,271 ratings — published 2008
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,783 ratings — published 1993
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,247,848 ratings — published 1963
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.50 — 88,918 ratings — published 2017
Full Frontal Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,047 ratings — published 2007
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 666,144 ratings — published 2002
Female Masculinity (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,724 ratings — published 1998
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.56 — 14,302 ratings — published 2004
Transgender History (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,735 ratings — published 2008
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 — 16,166 ratings — published 2011
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 63,710 ratings — published 2016
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,547 ratings — published 1990
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 367,291 ratings — published 1892
Women & Power: A Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 39,654 ratings — published 2017
“A Flock of Geese"
She often wondered
about the inexplicable deep sorrow that she feels
every time she sees a flock of geese flying in the sky …
Do the flying geese remind her that she has wasted her life
stuck in the trivialities of daily life?
Or perhaps the flying birds remind her
that she’s lost her ability to fly?
She thinks at times in sadness
how she wasted the years of her life
like a naïve bride dreaming about the ideal groom...
A bride planning the minutest details of her wedding,
not realizing, until her wings were clipped,
that the wedding, the groom, and the bride
are roles and illusions created by society
to counter the dangers of all those who wish to fly;
those who dream about creating new worlds
instead of getting hanged or strangulated
in a world created on their behalf by others …
As she hears the honking of another passing flock of geese
flying over her head as did the most beautiful years of her life
the birds awaken in her that uncontrollable itch to depart
to refuse the illusion of settling and stability
The illusion of the wedding and the groom
The illusion of all the wedding invitees
Who spend an entire night dancing, cheering, and celebrating
the clipping of her wings…
[Original poem published in Arabic on December 14, 2023 at ahewar.org]”
― Louis Yako”
―
She often wondered
about the inexplicable deep sorrow that she feels
every time she sees a flock of geese flying in the sky …
Do the flying geese remind her that she has wasted her life
stuck in the trivialities of daily life?
Or perhaps the flying birds remind her
that she’s lost her ability to fly?
She thinks at times in sadness
how she wasted the years of her life
like a naïve bride dreaming about the ideal groom...
A bride planning the minutest details of her wedding,
not realizing, until her wings were clipped,
that the wedding, the groom, and the bride
are roles and illusions created by society
to counter the dangers of all those who wish to fly;
those who dream about creating new worlds
instead of getting hanged or strangulated
in a world created on their behalf by others …
As she hears the honking of another passing flock of geese
flying over her head as did the most beautiful years of her life
the birds awaken in her that uncontrollable itch to depart
to refuse the illusion of settling and stability
The illusion of the wedding and the groom
The illusion of all the wedding invitees
Who spend an entire night dancing, cheering, and celebrating
the clipping of her wings…
[Original poem published in Arabic on December 14, 2023 at ahewar.org]”
― Louis Yako”
―
“Women are better teacher and better leader.”
― Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament
― Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament
