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 Help by Kathryn StockettThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggDivine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca WellsLittle Women by Louisa May Alcott
Best Adult Female Friendship Books
708 books — 1,195 voters
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingThe Golden Compass by Philip PullmanSabriel by Garth NixElla Enchanted by Gail Carson LevineGraceling by Kristin Cashore
Best Heroine in a Fantasy Book
1,490 books — 1,795 voters

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 Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Best Feminist Science Fiction/Fantasy
704 books — 633 voters
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Progressive Reads
1,069 books — 724 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

Audre Lorde
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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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

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