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
Throne of Glass by Sarah J. MaasCrown of Midnight by Sarah J. MaasThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsGraceling by Kristin CashoreDivergent by Veronica Roth
'I Am Woman Hear Me Roar'
1,899 books — 883 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsDivergent by Veronica RothThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodCinder by Marissa MeyerThe Host by Stephenie Meyer
Best Science Fiction With a Female Protagonist
1,426 books — 3,008 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Best Feminist Books
2,800 books — 3,749 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Jezebel's Books All Women Should Read
783 books — 1,400 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertPersepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Memoirs by Women
3,215 books — 3,265 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
1,369 books — 470 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

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would threaten the man. Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t ...more
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

Simone de Beauvoir
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself
Simone de Beauvoir

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