Womens Studies

Women's studies, also known as feminist studies, is an interdisciplinary academic field which explores politics, society and history from an intersectional, multicultural women's perspective. It critiques and explores societal norms of gender, race, class, sexuality, and other social inequalities.

See also gender studies.
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Labor: One Woman's Work
Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation
Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas About Women
Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free
Bad Friend: How Women Revolutionized Modern Friendship
No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce
The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II
Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star
Say Anarcha
The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women
A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature
Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer
The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet
The Bible vs. Biblical Womanhood: How God's Word Consistently Affirms Gender Equality
Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women
The Handmaid's Tale
The Feminine Mystique
We Should All Be Feminists
The Second Sex
Women Who Run With the Wolves
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story
A Room of One’s Own
Bad Feminist
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette WintersonFun Home by Alison BechdelTwo or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy AllisonZami by Audre LordeLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren  Hough
Lesbian Memoirs
292 books — 143 voters
The Daughter of Kurdland by Widad AkreyiThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankFemales of Valor by Widad AkreyiZoroastrians' Fight for Survival by Widad AkreyiWhen Secrets Bloom by Patricia  Furstenberg
Women's History Month
452 books — 83 voters

Steve Jobs by Walter IsaacsonUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandEinstein by Walter IsaacsonInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerJohn Adams by David McCullough
Best Biographies
1,780 books — 3,059 voters
1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinBattle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonJohn Adams by David McCulloughA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
U.S. History Reading List
475 books — 177 voters

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfFun Home by Alison BechdelThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiA Writer's Diary by Virginia WoolfHow to be Both by Ali Smith
Books About Women Artists
233 books — 66 voters
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirWomen's Work by Elizabeth Wayland BarberCleopatra by Stacy SchiffSex with Kings by Eleanor HermanShe-Wolves by Helen Castor
Women's History Written by Women
983 books — 198 voters


Misogyny was born of fear of women. It spawned the ideology of male superiority. But this was ideology, not statement of fact; as such, it could not be confirmed, but was open to constant doubt. Male status was not immutable. Myths of matriarchies and Amazons societies showed female dominance. Three of the eleven extant comedies of Aristophanes show women in successful opposition to men. ... These were the nightmares of victors: that someday the vanquished would arise and treat their ex-masters ...more
Sarah B. Ponderous

Great artistic works are often based on solving several psychological problems simultaneously. In literature this is often accomplished by splitting apart the conflict and assigning each aspect to a different character. Marjie Rynearson, for instance, wrote an award-winning play, Jenny, about the meeting and reconciliation of two women: the mother of a murder victim and the mother of the murderer. Within the dialogue between the two characters she sought to resolve two sets of problems: the rage ...more
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