Feminism

Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social justice for women. A fundamental concept underlying feminism is that women are an oppressed group, a reality that feminism seeks to highlight and fight against.
Books tagged 'Feminism' deal, directly or indirectly, with feminist philosophy.

See also gender studies.
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Adult Braces: Driving Myself Sane
Westward Women
Good Woman: A Reckoning – A Bold and Lyrical Feminist Memoir on Midlife Awakening and the Joy of Defying Expectations
The Lost Daughter of Sparta
Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas About Women
Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A '90s Rock Memoir
A Woman's Work: Reclaiming the Radical History of Mothering
Shut Up and Read: A Memoir from Harriett’s Bookshop
You Can't Catch Us: Lady Bird Johnson's Trailblazing 1964 Campaign Train and the Women Who Rode with Her
She Made Herself a Monster
We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America
One Bad Mother
A History of Scottish Witches: The Devil's Handmaidens
Starry and Restless: Three Women Who Changed Work, Writing, and the World
Love, Sivvy: A Novel Inspired by the Life, Letters, and Diaries of Young Sylvia Plath
Lessons in Chemistry
Lady Tremaine
Weyward
Comerás flores
Finding Me
The Secret Book Society
Molka
Bright Young Women
Slags
The Women on Platform Two
Finding My Way
Annie Bot
Los nombres propios
Como bestias
Fundamentally
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Golden Compass by Philip PullmanAlanna by Tamora PierceHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingCatching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Best Feminist Young Adult Books
1,325 books — 1,346 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Science Fiction Books by Female Authors
1,718 books — 1,565 voters

Bossypants by Tina FeyIs Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy KalingYes Please by Amy PoehlerLet's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny  LawsonAre You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler
Funny Women Memoirs
480 books — 1,620 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Best Books by Female Authors
1,370 books — 471 voters

We Should All Be Feminists
The Handmaid's Tale
A Room of One’s Own
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Bad Feminist
The Second Sex
Men Explain Things to Me
The Bell Jar
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Women, Race & Class
The Feminine Mystique
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
The Beauty Myth

Martha Gellhorn
I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters

The world was hers for the reading.
The world was hers for the reading.
Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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Women of the World We will be reading literary books by women from all over the world, whether originally written i…more
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Philosophy Femmes+ (Online Book Club) Bi-weekly feminist philosophy book club, starting with Donna Haraway's "Companion Species Manife…more
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costa rica bookclub 1. El valle de los caballos - Jean M. Auel 2. El segundo sexo - Simone de Beauvoir 3. I Who Have…more
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quarterly feminist book club based in Delft, NL
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