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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New Releases Tagged "Womens Studies"

Labor: One Woman's Work
Labor: One Woman's Work
The Blood Countess: Murder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster
Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation
Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free
Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas About Women
The Bible vs. Biblical Womanhood: How God's Word Consistently Affirms Gender Equality
The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II
A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature
Bad Friend: How Women Revolutionized Modern Friendship
The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice
Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women
Say Anarcha
A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts
Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film
Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer
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
Bad Feminist
A Room of One’s Own
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!
368 books — 180 voters
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Women's History Written by Women
980 books — 195 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
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Gabby Rivera
How am I supposed to be this honest? I know you’re not a Magic 8 Ball. You’re just some lady that wrote a book. I fall asleep with that book in my arms because words protect hearts and I’ve got this ache in my chest that won’t go away. I read Raging Flower and now I dream of raised fists and solidarity marches led by matriarchs fueled by café con leche where I can march alongside cigar-smoking doñas and Black Power dykes and all the world’s weirdos and no one is left out. And no one is living a ...more
Gabby Rivera

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