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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 517 times as gender)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,583 ratings — published 1989
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference (Hardcover)
by (shelved 379 times as gender)
avg rating 4.08 — 11,630 ratings — published 2010
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 367 times as gender)
avg rating 4.33 — 182,932 ratings — published 2019
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 365 times as gender)
avg rating 4.19 — 49,346 ratings — published 1949
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 346 times as gender)
avg rating 4.39 — 342,205 ratings — published 2012
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 319 times as gender)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,566,748 ratings — published 1985
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 299 times as gender)
avg rating 4.09 — 238,331 ratings — published 1969
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 285 times as gender)
avg rating 4.04 — 673,381 ratings — published 2002
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity (Paperback)
by (shelved 283 times as gender)
avg rating 4.27 — 9,398 ratings — published 2007
Gender Queer: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 280 times as gender)
avg rating 4.27 — 81,900 ratings — published 2019
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 244 times as gender)
avg rating 4.34 — 35,073 ratings — published 2003
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 238 times as gender)
avg rating 3.82 — 90,631 ratings — published 2014
Stone Butch Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 232 times as gender)
avg rating 4.56 — 39,855 ratings — published 1993
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 227 times as gender)
avg rating 4.22 — 282,745 ratings — published 1929
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as gender)
avg rating 3.91 — 121,252 ratings — published 2014
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as gender)
avg rating 4.03 — 6,422 ratings — published 1994
Orlando (Paperback)
by (shelved 210 times as gender)
avg rating 3.87 — 123,277 ratings — published 1928
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 202 times as gender)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,864 ratings — published 1981
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as gender)
avg rating 4.16 — 30,022 ratings — published 2000
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as gender)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,779 ratings — published 1984
The Feminine Mystique (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as gender)
avg rating 3.88 — 32,138 ratings — published 1963
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 164 times as gender)
avg rating 3.91 — 31,987 ratings — published 1990
Detransition, Baby (Hardcover)
by (shelved 158 times as gender)
avg rating 3.91 — 96,432 ratings — published 2021
The Argonauts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 156 times as gender)
avg rating 4.01 — 58,515 ratings — published 2015
Beyond the Gender Binary (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as gender)
avg rating 4.47 — 13,388 ratings — published 2020
Undoing Gender (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as gender)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,372 ratings — published 2004
The Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 139 times as gender)
avg rating 3.75 — 259,885 ratings — published 2016
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as gender)
avg rating 4.51 — 20,370 ratings — published 1981
Transgender History (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as gender)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,927 ratings — published 2008
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as gender)
avg rating 4.35 — 66,304 ratings — published 2020
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as gender)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,991 ratings — published 2010
Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as gender)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,843 ratings — published 2000
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as gender)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,319,519 ratings — published 1963
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as gender)
avg rating 3.92 — 27,912 ratings — published 1792
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More (Hardcover)
by (shelved 126 times as gender)
avg rating 4.29 — 16,842 ratings — published 2014
She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as gender)
avg rating 3.97 — 13,263 ratings — published 2003
Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as gender)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,520 ratings — published 2006
Who’s Afraid of Gender? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as gender)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,010 ratings — published 2024
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as gender)
avg rating 4.06 — 388,534 ratings — published 1892
Men Who Hate Women: The Extremism Nobody is Talking About (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 115 times as gender)
avg rating 4.32 — 33,994 ratings — published 2020
Female Masculinity (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as gender)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,787 ratings — published 1998
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as gender)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,855 ratings — published 1993
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as gender)
avg rating 4.55 — 15,831 ratings — published 2004
Women & Power: A Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as gender)
avg rating 4.02 — 40,733 ratings — published 2017
Melissa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 108 times as gender)
avg rating 4.09 — 48,321 ratings — published 2015
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as gender)
avg rating 4.45 — 9,438 ratings — published 1984
Women Who Run With the Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as gender)
avg rating 4.10 — 103,187 ratings — published 1992
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 103 times as gender)
avg rating 4.25 — 273,997 ratings — published 2019
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as gender)
avg rating 3.94 — 271,234 ratings — published
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as gender)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,561 ratings — published 2022
“Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.”
― The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men
― The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men
“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
