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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You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
Stai zitta. E altre nove frasi che non vogliamo sentire più
Das Ende der Ehe: Für eine Revolution der Liebe
Mit Männern leben: Überlegungen zum Pelicot-Prozess
Love in Exile
Réinventer l'amour: Comment le patriarcat sabote les relations hétérosexuelles
Who’s Afraid of Gender?
Fix the System, Not the Women
Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas About Women
Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry
A Short History of Trans Misogyny
Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win
Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist
The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
We Should All Be Feminists
The Second Sex
The Handmaid's Tale
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
The Feminine Mystique
A Room of One’s Own
Bad Feminist
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
Men Explain Things to Me
The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Women, Race & Class
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
190 books — 81 voters
The Seemingly Impossible Love Life of Amanda Dean by Ann  RoseBi by Shiri EisnerFar From You by Tess SharpeThe Horizontal Poet by Jan SteckelOtherbound by Corinne Duyvis
Bisexuality EXISTS!
365 books — 177 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
3,021 books — 4,398 voters
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers by Lillian FadermanBoots of Leather, Slippers of Gold by Elizabeth Lapovsky KennedySurpassing the Love of Men by Lillian FadermanThe Disappearing L by Bonnie J. MorrisCHARITY AND SYLVIA by Rachel Hope Cleves
Lesbian Herstory
154 books — 52 voters


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“ Administrators grew wary of the emotional bonds that formed between [US military] men and Korean houseboys when bunking together. The paternal role taken on by soldiers was not conducive to military goals; they were there to fight a war, not act as fathers to Korean children, commanders argued. By taking up nurturing roles traditionally reserved for women, servicemen threatened the image of the military. ”
― Susie Woo, Framed by War: Korean Children and Women at the Crossroads of US Empire

“ Femaleness is a universal sex defined by self-negation, against which all politics, even feminist politics, rebels. Put more simply: Everyone is female, and everyone hates it. ”
― Andrea Long Chu, Females

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