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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The Blood Countess: Murder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster
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The Blood Countess: Murder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster
A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture
A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature
Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation
Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free
The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe
The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America – A Political History of Reproductive Freedom
Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win
Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net
The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet
No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce
Bad Friend: How Women Revolutionized Modern Friendship
Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star
The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice
The Handmaid's Tale
The Feminine Mystique
The Second Sex
We Should All Be Feminists
Women Who Run With the Wolves
The Beauty Myth
The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story
A Room of One’s Own
Bad Feminist
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232 books — 65 voters
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Women's History Month
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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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