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The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,586,478 ratings — published 1985
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.19 — 49,760 ratings — published 1949
Women Who Run With the Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 104,384 ratings — published 1992
The Feminine Mystique (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.88 — 32,278 ratings — published 1963
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 46 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.39 — 343,962 ratings — published 2012
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.22 — 286,333 ratings — published 1929
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 32,141 ratings — published 1990
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 185,457 ratings — published 2019
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 121,518 ratings — published 2014
Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,237 ratings — published 2008
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 30,286 ratings — published 2000
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,334,399 ratings — published 1963
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,453 ratings — published 1991
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 393,339 ratings — published 1892
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.59 — 37,223 ratings — published 1981
The Vagina Monologues (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.87 — 39,211 ratings — published 1996
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.88 — 10,722 ratings — published 1998
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,991 ratings — published 1984
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 28,042 ratings — published 1792
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.82 — 91,037 ratings — published 2014
The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,842 ratings — published 2009
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 64,838 ratings — published 2016
Women & Power: A Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 40,911 ratings — published 2017
Full Frontal Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,058 ratings — published 2007
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.51 — 20,487 ratings — published 1981
The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.94 — 17,097 ratings — published 2015
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.94 — 271,520 ratings — published
Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,616 ratings — published 1972
The Red Tent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.21 — 646,507 ratings — published 1997
When God Was a Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.98 — 8,153 ratings — published 1976
The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,784 ratings — published 1997
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 642,462 ratings — published 2012
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 66,638 ratings — published 2020
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,976 ratings — published 2008
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,170 ratings — published 1975
Gender Trouble. Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,704 ratings — published 1989
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.69 — 235,116 ratings — published 1899
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 9,920 ratings — published 1981
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.67 — 144,836 ratings — published 2003
America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,950 ratings — published 2004
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.50 — 90,709 ratings — published 2017
Herland (The Herland Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.48 — 28,428 ratings — published 1915
The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,474 ratings — published 1987
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.96 — 117,206 ratings — published 2016
All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,672 ratings — published 2016
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.14 — 834,488 ratings — published 2010
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,681 ratings — published 2009
Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.79 — 5,250 ratings — published 1989
Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,622 ratings — published 1994
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.45 — 9,500 ratings — published 1984
“We preach body confidence, but we live in a culture that doesn’t quite know what to do with a woman who actually likes the way she looks. It’s considered arrogant and even unfeminine. Think of the recent hit One Direction song that made the claim that a woman was beautiful precisely because she didn’t know she was beautiful. We need to question a culture that tells women they must be beautiful to be loved, but that they shouldn’t actually feel beautiful or we’ll find them conceited.”
― Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women
― Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women
“When female stories are muted, we are teaching our kids that their dignity is second class and the historical accounts of their lives [are] less relevant. This lowered value carries over when women face sexual objectification and systemic brutalization from inside and outside the community.”
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