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The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,564,767 ratings — published 1985
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.19 — 49,309 ratings — published 1949
Women Who Run With the Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 103,089 ratings — published 1992
The Feminine Mystique (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.88 — 32,122 ratings — published 1963
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 45 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.39 — 342,049 ratings — published 2012
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.22 — 282,345 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 — 31,974 ratings — published 1990
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 182,706 ratings — published 2019
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 121,237 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 — 5,236 ratings — published 2008
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,998 ratings — published 2000
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,439 ratings — published 1991
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 388,093 ratings — published 1892
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,837 ratings — published 1981
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,318,018 ratings — published 1963
The Vagina Monologues (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.87 — 39,074 ratings — published 1996
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.88 — 10,714 ratings — published 1998
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,756 ratings — published 1984
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 27,899 ratings — published 1792
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.82 — 90,598 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 — 8,821 ratings — published 2009
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 64,713 ratings — published 2016
Women & Power: A Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 40,720 ratings — published 2017
Full Frontal Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,061 ratings — published 2007
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.51 — 20,350 ratings — published 1981
The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.95 — 17,068 ratings — published 2015
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.94 — 271,189 ratings — published
Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,481 ratings — published 1972
When God Was a Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,958 ratings — published 1976
The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,783 ratings — published 1997
The Red Tent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.21 — 644,135 ratings — published 1997
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 66,264 ratings — published 2020
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 639,925 ratings — published 2012
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,945 ratings — published 2008
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,160 ratings — published 1975
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,569 ratings — published 1989
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.69 — 233,873 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 — 9,906 ratings — published 1981
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.67 — 144,166 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 — 4,943 ratings — published 2004
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.50 — 90,345 ratings — published 2017
Herland (The Herland Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.47 — 27,881 ratings — published 1915
The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,437 ratings — published 1987
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 — 17,648 ratings — published 2016
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 829,476 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 — 5,678 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 — 5,098 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 — 2,618 ratings — published 1994
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.45 — 9,431 ratings — published 1984
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 13,961 ratings — published 1987
“The story of women in antiquity should be told now, not only because it is a legitimate aspect of social history, but because the past illuminates contemporary problems in relationships between men and women. ... It is most significant to note the consistency with which some attitudes toward women and the roles women play in Western society have endured through the centuries.”
― Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity
― Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity
“Great artistic works are often based on solving several psychological problems simultaneously. In literature this is often accomplished by splitting apart the conflict and assigning each aspect to a different character. Marjie Rynearson, for instance, wrote an award-winning play, Jenny, about the meeting and reconciliation of two women: the mother of a murder victim and the mother of the murderer. Within the dialogue between the two characters she sought to resolve two sets of problems: the rage and grief of the victim's mother, and the horror, guilt, and grief of the murderer's mother. She worked on the play for several years, and only when it was finished did she realize that through it she was struggling to resolve her feelings about the suicide of her best friend. Rynearson had simultaneously been, in effect, both the friend of the victim and the friend of the perpetrator of the killing. The power of the work lay in its simultaneous resolution of conflicting problems.”
― What's Holding You Back 8 Critical Choices For Women's Success
― What's Holding You Back 8 Critical Choices For Women's Success
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