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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,639 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 — 9,424 ratings — published 2007
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,857 ratings — published 1993
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.19 — 49,511 ratings — published 1949
Undoing Gender (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,377 ratings — published 2004
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.34 — 35,358 ratings — published 2003
Stone Butch Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.56 — 40,015 ratings — published 1993
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,993 ratings — published 2010
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,997 ratings — published 1981
The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.39 — 511 ratings — published 1997
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 239,352 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 — 6,425 ratings — published 1994
Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,023 ratings — published 1998
The Argonauts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 58,664 ratings — published 2015
Transgender History (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,932 ratings — published 2008
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,574,511 ratings — published 1985
Female Masculinity (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,792 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 — 1,649 ratings — published 1997
Who’s Afraid of Gender? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,054 ratings — published 2024
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.16 — 30,124 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 — 4,789 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 — 5,587 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 — 3,097 ratings — published 2008
The Feminine Mystique (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 3.88 — 32,191 ratings — published 1963
She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 13,273 ratings — published 2003
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 26,788 ratings — published 1976
Genderqueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,244 ratings — published 2002
Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,518 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 — 14,154 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 — 6,453 ratings — published 2021
The Creation of Patriarchy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,640 ratings — published 1986
The Second Shift (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,537 ratings — published 1989
Sexual Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,994 ratings — published 1969
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,874 ratings — published 1984
Orlando (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 123,733 ratings — published 1928
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 3.82 — 90,806 ratings — published 2014
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.22 — 284,177 ratings — published 1929
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.45 — 9,462 ratings — published 1984
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 3.92 — 27,976 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 — 11,639 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 — 523 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 — 2,843 ratings — published 2000
Histories of the Transgender Child (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.37 — 347 ratings — published 2018
Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,057 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 4.45 — 886 ratings — published
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,571 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 — 2,207 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 4.18 — 351 ratings — published 1990
Females (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as gender-theory)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,702 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 — 18,870 ratings — published 2023
“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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“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