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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New Releases Tagged "Gender Studies"

Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made
You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
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Love in Exile
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Fix the System, Not the Women
Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas About Women
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A Short History of Trans Misogyny
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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
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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
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247 books — 86 voters

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