1,785 books
—
3,099 voters
Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
Womens Studies Books
Showing 1-50 of 8,016
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,540,328 ratings — published 1985
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.19 — 48,968 ratings — published 1949
Women Who Run With the Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 101,726 ratings — published 1992
The Feminine Mystique (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,935 ratings — published 1963
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 45 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.39 — 340,002 ratings — published 2012
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.22 — 277,794 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 — 31,821 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 — 180,199 ratings — published 2019
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 120,880 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 28 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,722 ratings — published 2000
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,429 ratings — published 1991
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 383,178 ratings — published 1892
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,299,306 ratings — published 1963
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,425 ratings — published 1981
The Vagina Monologues (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.87 — 38,973 ratings — published 1996
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.88 — 10,710 ratings — published 1998
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,462 ratings — published 1984
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 27,758 ratings — published 1792
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.82 — 90,126 ratings — published 2014
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 64,559 ratings — published 2016
The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 8,801 ratings — published 2009
Women & Power: A Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 40,453 ratings — published 2017
Full Frontal Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,064 ratings — published 2007
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.51 — 20,170 ratings — published 1981
When God Was a Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,739 ratings — published 1976
The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.95 — 17,047 ratings — published 2015
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.94 — 270,888 ratings — published
Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,388 ratings — published 1972
The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,777 ratings — published 1997
The Red Tent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.21 — 641,560 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 — 65,865 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 — 636,976 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 — 55,898 ratings — published 2008
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,155 ratings — published 1975
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,412 ratings — published 1989
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.69 — 232,705 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 — 9,884 ratings — published 1981
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.67 — 143,423 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 — 4,933 ratings — published 2004
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.50 — 90,039 ratings — published 2017
Herland (The Herland Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.48 — 27,498 ratings — published 1915
The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,404 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 — 17,619 ratings — published 2016
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 825,076 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 — 5,668 ratings — published 2009
Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,619 ratings — published 1994
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.45 — 9,362 ratings — published 1984
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 13,854 ratings — published 1987
Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as womens-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 7,347 ratings — published 1970
“Misogyny was born of fear of women. It spawned the ideology of male superiority. But this was ideology, not statement of fact; as such, it could not be confirmed, but was open to constant doubt. Male status was not immutable. Myths of matriarchies and Amazons societies showed female dominance. Three of the eleven extant comedies of Aristophanes show women in successful opposition to men. ... These were the nightmares of victors: that someday the vanquished would arise and treat their ex-masters as they themselves had been treated.”
―
―
“Often, when I'm with her I have a tingling sensation of the present moment, even- or especially- when she reaches into her remarkable memory for tales of long-gone
times. She has always rejected the idea of eternity, and even the idea of living, like Wells and Gorky, for future generations, in favor of living in the here and now. "The most ferocious immanance," she called it... the hours of its operation mattered to her. She wished to know precisely when the water gushed and when it lay still. She watches the world and herself in the world (mind, body, feelings) with great intensity. "I always wanted to know myself before I die," she writes. "I worship time! I cherish it!" she told me now. "As a child, I felt it, the weight of time.”
― Ornament and Silence
times. She has always rejected the idea of eternity, and even the idea of living, like Wells and Gorky, for future generations, in favor of living in the here and now. "The most ferocious immanance," she called it... the hours of its operation mattered to her. She wished to know precisely when the water gushed and when it lay still. She watches the world and herself in the world (mind, body, feelings) with great intensity. "I always wanted to know myself before I die," she writes. "I worship time! I cherish it!" she told me now. "As a child, I felt it, the weight of time.”
― Ornament and Silence
The following shelves are listed as duplicates of this shelf:
women-s-studies and womensstudies