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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 285 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,410 ratings — published 1989
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 211 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.39 — 339,915 ratings — published 2012
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.19 — 48,956 ratings — published 1949
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 158 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,539,286 ratings — published 1985
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference (Hardcover)
by (shelved 154 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 11,605 ratings — published 2010
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.22 — 277,598 ratings — published 1929
The Feminine Mystique (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,930 ratings — published 1963
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 120,868 ratings — published 2014
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 31,808 ratings — published 1990
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.82 — 90,101 ratings — published 2014
The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 115 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.95 — 17,045 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 — 9,323 ratings — published 2007
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,708 ratings — published 2000
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 180,123 ratings — published 2019
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,409 ratings — published 1981
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 — 5,236 ratings — published 2008
The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,799 ratings — published 2009
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,456 ratings — published 1984
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 27,752 ratings — published 1792
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 34,073 ratings — published 2003
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.51 — 20,164 ratings — published 1981
The Vagina Monologues (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.87 — 38,969 ratings — published 1996
Women Who Run With the Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 101,676 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 — 6,404 ratings — published 1994
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.66 — 10,270 ratings — published 2005
Undoing Gender (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,362 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 — 4,261 ratings — published 2014
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.45 — 9,359 ratings — published 1984
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.88 — 10,709 ratings — published 1998
Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,840 ratings — published 2000
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,155 ratings — published 1975
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 234,714 ratings — published 1969
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 26,533 ratings — published 1976
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 9,885 ratings — published 1981
Stone Butch Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.55 — 39,242 ratings — published 1993
How to Be a Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.71 — 110,784 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 — 3,272 ratings — published 2008
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,298,535 ratings — published 1963
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,831 ratings — published 1993
Full Frontal Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,065 ratings — published 2007
Female Masculinity (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,765 ratings — published 1998
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 671,428 ratings — published 2002
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.50 — 90,021 ratings — published 2017
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.56 — 15,385 ratings — published 2004
Transgender History (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,888 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 — 16,186 ratings — published 2011
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 64,555 ratings — published 2016
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,577 ratings — published 1990
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 382,978 ratings — published 1892
Women & Power: A Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 40,439 ratings — published 2017
“The assumption that femininity is always structured by and performed for a male gaze fails to take seriously queer feminine desire. The radical feminist critiques of femininity also disregarded the fact that not all who are (seen as) feminine are women. Crucially, what is viewed as appropriately feminine is not only defined in relation to maleness or masculinity, but through numerous intersections of power including race, sexuality, ability, and social class. In other words, white, heterosexual, binary gender-conforming, able-bodied, and upper- or middle-class femininity is privileged in relation to other varieties. Any social system may contain multiple femininities that differ in status, and which relate to each other as well as to masculinity. As highlighted by “effeminate” gay men, trans women, femmes, drag queens, and “bad girls,” it is possible to be perceived as excessively, insufficiently, or wrongly feminine without for that sake being seen as masculine. Finally, the view of femininity as a restrictive yet disposable mask presupposes that emancipation entails departure into neutral (or masculine) modes of being. This is a tenuous assumption, as the construction of selfhood is entangled with gender, and conceptions of androgyny and gender neutrality similarly hinge on culturally specific ideas of masculinity and femininity.”
― Double Toil and Gender Trouble? Performativity and Femininity in the Cauldron of Esotericism Research
― Double Toil and Gender Trouble? Performativity and Femininity in the Cauldron of Esotericism Research
“Administrators grew wary of the emotional bonds that formed between [US military] men and Korean houseboys when bunking together. The paternal role taken on by soldiers was not conducive to military goals; they were there to fight a war, not act as fathers to Korean children, commanders argued. By taking up nurturing roles traditionally reserved for women, servicemen threatened the image of the military.”
― Framed by War: Korean Children and Women at the Crossroads of US Empire
― Framed by War: Korean Children and Women at the Crossroads of US Empire
