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
The Blood Countess: Murder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster
Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas About Women
Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free
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
The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice
The Duchess Countess: The Woman Who Scandalized Eighteenth-Century London
Bad Friend: How Women Revolutionized Modern Friendship
Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women
Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star
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
The Bible vs. Biblical Womanhood: How God's Word Consistently Affirms Gender Equality
Complicit: How Our Culture Enables Misbehaving Men
A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts
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
Becoming by Michelle ObamaEducated by Tara WestoverI'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamaraWhen They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-CullorsHouse of Dreams by Liz Rosenberg
Women's biographies 2018
340 books — 105 voters
Bossypants by Tina FeyIs Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy KalingYes Please by Amy PoehlerLet's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny  LawsonAre You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler
Funny Women Memoirs
499 books — 1,655 voters

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. ShirerJohn Adams by David McCullough1776 by David McCulloughThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Best History Books
4,020 books — 4,531 voters
The Librarian of Basra by Jeanette WinterMe... Jane by Patrick McDonnellBrave Girl by Michelle MarkelWhat to Do About Alice? by Barbara KerleyI Dissent by Debbie Levy
Picture Books About Outstanding Women
715 books — 178 voters

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregoryKatherine by Anya SetonGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellForever Amber by Kathleen Winsor
Best Books About Mistresses
466 books — 765 voters
The Color Purple by Alice WalkerBeloved by Toni MorrisonKindred by Octavia E. ButlerAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Darkest Child by Delores Phillips
Contemporary Black Women's Literature
574 books — 242 voters


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
Linda Austin, What's Holding You Back 8 Critical Choices For Women's Success

Clarissa Pinkola Estés
We elicit the Wildish Self through specific questions and through examining tales, legends, and mythos. Most times we are able, over time, to find the guiding myth or fairy tale that contains all the instruction a woman needs for her current psychic development. These stories comprise a woman's soul drama. ...more
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

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