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
How Poetry Saved My Life by Amber DawnProse and Lore by Melissa PetroStrip City by Lily BuranaCandy Girl by Diablo CodyGypsy by Gypsy Rose Lee
Sex Worker Memoirs
197 books — 101 voters
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouI Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiThe Immigrant by Nery McMahonBlack Indian by Shonda BuchananThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Non Fiction/Memoirs by Women of Color
349 books — 71 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
232 books — 65 voters



When female stories are muted, we are teaching our kids that their dignity is second class and the historical accounts of their lives [are] less relevant. This lowered value carries over when women face sexual objectification and systemic brutalization from inside and outside the community.
Aurin Squire

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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