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"

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You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
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Who’s Afraid of Gender?
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Love in Exile
Fix the System, Not the Women
Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood
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The Queen of Swords
Das Ende der Ehe: Für eine Revolution der Liebe
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Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry
Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net
Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win
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
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980 books — 279 voters
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248 books — 87 voters

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Women & Gender Studies
1,494 books — 593 voters
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“ The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained. ”
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