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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,314 ratings — published 1989
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 9,288 ratings — published 2007
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,825 ratings — published 1993
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 48,849 ratings — published 1949
Undoing Gender (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,358 ratings — published 2004
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.34 — 33,582 ratings — published 2003
Stone Butch Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.55 — 38,947 ratings — published 1993
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,188 ratings — published 1981
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,988 ratings — published 2010
The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.39 — 495 ratings — published 1997
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 233,065 ratings — published 1969
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 6,398 ratings — published 1994
Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,018 ratings — published 1998
The Argonauts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 57,941 ratings — published 2015
Transgender History (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,870 ratings — published 2008
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,525,867 ratings — published 1985
Female Masculinity (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,759 ratings — published 1998
My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,651 ratings — published 1997
Who’s Afraid of Gender? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,773 ratings — published 2024
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,567 ratings — published 2000
Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 4,636 ratings — published 2020
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,575 ratings — published 1990
Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,026 ratings — published 2008
The Feminine Mystique (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,815 ratings — published 1963
She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 13,210 ratings — published 2003
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 26,435 ratings — published 1976
Genderqueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,243 ratings — published 2002
Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,520 ratings — published 2006
The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 13,711 ratings — published 2021
Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 6,339 ratings — published 2021
The Creation of Patriarchy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,549 ratings — published 1986
The Second Shift (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,513 ratings — published 1989
Sexual Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,974 ratings — published 1969
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,295 ratings — published 1984
Orlando (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 120,900 ratings — published 1928
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 3.83 — 89,822 ratings — published 2014
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.22 — 275,547 ratings — published 1929
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.45 — 9,326 ratings — published 1984
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 3.92 — 27,691 ratings — published 1792
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 11,600 ratings — published 2010
Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 524 ratings — published 2007
Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,835 ratings — published 2000
Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,048 ratings — published 2019
American Teenager: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.46 — 829 ratings — published
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,468 ratings — published 2022
He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.57 — 2,161 ratings — published 2023
On Female Body Experience: "Throwing Like a Girl" and Other Essays (Studies in Feminist Philosophy)
by (shelved 2 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.17 — 343 ratings — published 1990
Females (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,611 ratings — published 2019
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 17,949 ratings — published 2023
Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 417 ratings — published 1987
“On weekdays, everyone would read Armistead Maupan's "Tales of the City," published as a novel in 1978. His leading character Michael "Mouse" Toliver, a clone-ish softie himself, laments the experience of meeting men– nice mustache, Levis, a starched khaki army shirt, strong– and trying to resist visiting the bathrooms, lest he encounter the giveaway, the fantasy-killer: face creams and shampoos for days." Mouse was only being wistful, but the underlying efemmophobia was pernicious on the scene. Masculinity can be something that gay men project onto one another, only to snatch it away at the first sign of inauthenticity. That they hadn't rolled out of bed looking ruggedly handsome, but required a beauty routine to get that way.”
― Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
― Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
“If sex is not just about reproduction, it is not just about genes, XY chromosomes, and hormones either. Sex is introduced to explain skeletal structure, mental aptitude, posture, emotional disposition, aesthetic preference, body fat, sexual orientation and responsiveness, athletic ability, social dominance, shape and weight, artistic ability. It is also supposed to explain any number of so-called "instincts", including the nesting instinct, the maternal instinct, and perhaps even the Budweiser instinct.”
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