Gender Studies

Gender studies is a field of interdisciplinary study which analyses race, ethnicity, sexuality and location. In gender studies, the term "gender" is used to refer to the social and cultural constructions of masculinities and femininities.

See also women's studies.
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Love in Exile
Mit Männern leben: Überlegungen zum Pelicot-Prozess
Who’s Afraid of Gender?
Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
Das Ende der Ehe: Für eine Revolution der Liebe
Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
Réinventer l'amour: Comment le patriarcat sabote les relations hétérosexuelles
Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality
Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood
A Short History of Trans Misogyny
Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win
Man Enough: Undefining My Masculinity
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
We Should All Be Feminists
The Second Sex
The Handmaid's Tale
Bad Feminist
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
A Room of One’s Own
The Feminine Mystique
The Beauty Myth
Men Explain Things to Me
The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodWe Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirBad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Women & Gender Studies
1,463 books — 547 voters

Fun Home by Alison BechdelStone Butch Blues by Leslie FeinbergAnd the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsThe Vast Fields of Ordinary by Nick BurdThe Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery
Stonewall Book Award Winners
112 books — 34 voters
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Radium Girls by Kate  MooreRejected Princesses by Jason PorathGood Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena FavilliHidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
The Overlooked Women of History
951 books — 225 voters

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfA Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary WollstonecraftThe Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth GaskellThe Subjection of Women by John Stuart MillThe Autobiography of Margaret Sanger by Margaret Sanger
Early Feminists
187 books — 78 voters
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers by Lillian FadermanBefriending China by Dee Charles KnightBoots of Leather, Slippers of Gold by Elizabeth Lapovsky KennedySurpassing the Love of Men by Lillian FadermanThe Disappearing L by Bonnie J. Morris
Lesbian Herstory
152 books — 63 voters


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