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The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
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Jessica Valenti (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 8,580 ratings
score: 595,
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Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape
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Jaclyn Friedman (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 5,240 ratings
score: 591,
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Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
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4.16 avg rating — 27,617 ratings
score: 296,
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He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know
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Jessica Valenti (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 3,272 ratings
score: 290,
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Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism
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4.20 avg rating — 3,246 ratings
score: 288,
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Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
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4.56 avg rating — 13,108 ratings
score: 198,
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BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine
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Margaret Cho (Editor)
4.04 avg rating — 3,336 ratings
score: 197,
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Singled Out
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3.77 avg rating — 895 ratings
score: 193,
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Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
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3.67 avg rating — 10,206 ratings
score: 192,
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Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity
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4.24 avg rating — 2,014 ratings
score: 192,
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Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity
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Robert Jensen (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 706 ratings
score: 192,
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Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice
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4.14 avg rating — 2,752 ratings
score: 183,
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Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
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4.16 avg rating — 2,806 ratings
score: 183,
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Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding
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4.13 avg rating — 649 ratings
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Natural Liberty: Rediscovering Self-Induced Abortion Methods
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4.45 avg rating — 38 ratings
score: 99,
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Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
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Julia Serano (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 8,873 ratings
score: 98,
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The Irish Journey: Women's Stories of Abortion
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score: 98,
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Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
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4.48 avg rating — 17,306 ratings
score: 97,
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Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism
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3.84 avg rating — 2,678 ratings
score: 96,
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This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor
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4.32 avg rating — 2,418 ratings
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The Thing Around Your Neck
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4.23 avg rating — 49,037 ratings
score: 95,
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Ru 486: Misconceptions, Myths, and Morals
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Renate Klein (Editor)
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 94,
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Escape
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3.98 avg rating — 46,188 ratings
score: 93,
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Feminism and Pop Culture
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Andi Zeisler (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 930 ratings
score: 91,
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How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics and the War on Sex
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4.04 avg rating — 977 ratings
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The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices
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4.31 avg rating — 13,087 ratings
score: 90,
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L'événement
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Annie Ernaux (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 68,288 ratings
score: 89,
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1 person voted
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Bitches, Bimbos, and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls' Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes
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3.98 avg rating — 854 ratings
score: 88,
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A Question of Choice
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4.19 avg rating — 295 ratings
score: 88,
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Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons
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score: 87,
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The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women: Exploding the Estrogen Myth
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4.11 avg rating — 56 ratings
score: 87,
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Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
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4.33 avg rating — 1,363 ratings
score: 86,
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Where We Stand: Class Matters
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4.23 avg rating — 2,878 ratings
score: 85,
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The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines
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3.79 avg rating — 1,253 ratings
score: 84,
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Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism
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4.35 avg rating — 1,073 ratings
score: 83,
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The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help
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4.17 avg rating — 1,002 ratings
score: 82,
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Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
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3.82 avg rating — 1,652 ratings
score: 81,
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The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It
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3.65 avg rating — 798 ratings
score: 80,
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Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body
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Courtney E. Martin (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 1,287 ratings
score: 79,
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The Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology
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4.34 avg rating — 1,393 ratings
score: 78,
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The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women
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Susan J. Douglas (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 956 ratings
score: 77,
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Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century
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3.71 avg rating — 1,033 ratings
score: 76,
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Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV
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3.85 avg rating — 1,122 ratings
score: 75,
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Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems
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3.89 avg rating — 1,375 ratings
score: 74,
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1 person voted
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Mad, Bad, and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors
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Lisa Appignanesi (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 942 ratings
score: 73,
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1 person voted
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Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men
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3.69 avg rating — 1,699 ratings
score: 72,
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We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity
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4.26 avg rating — 1,316 ratings
score: 71,
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Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement
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3.78 avg rating — 1,560 ratings
score: 70,
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Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel
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4.05 avg rating — 1,003 ratings
score: 69,
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Teaching Community
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4.34 avg rating — 1,858 ratings
score: 68,
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