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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 285 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,206 ratings — published 1989
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 212 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.39 — 337,730 ratings — published 2012
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.18 — 48,616 ratings — published 1949
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 158 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,509,156 ratings — published 1985
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference (Hardcover)
by (shelved 152 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 11,582 ratings — published 2010
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.22 — 273,124 ratings — published 1929
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 120,425 ratings — published 2014
The Feminine Mystique (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,674 ratings — published 1963
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 31,624 ratings — published 1990
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.83 — 89,474 ratings — published 2014
The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 115 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.95 — 17,020 ratings — published 2015
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.27 — 9,239 ratings — published 2007
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,356 ratings — published 2000
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 177,393 ratings — published 2019
Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,238 ratings — published 2008
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.59 — 35,913 ratings — published 1981
The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,762 ratings — published 2009
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,084 ratings — published 1984
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 27,595 ratings — published 1792
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.51 — 19,922 ratings — published 1981
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 32,943 ratings — published 2003
The Vagina Monologues (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.87 — 38,864 ratings — published 1996
Women Who Run With the Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 100,144 ratings — published 1992
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.03 — 6,393 ratings — published 1994
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.67 — 10,256 ratings — published 2005
Undoing Gender (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,352 ratings — published 2004
Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,255 ratings — published 2014
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.88 — 10,697 ratings — published 1998
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.45 — 9,285 ratings — published 1984
Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,831 ratings — published 2000
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,149 ratings — published 1975
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 230,995 ratings — published 1969
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 9,863 ratings — published 1981
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 26,336 ratings — published 1976
Stone Butch Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.55 — 38,517 ratings — published 1993
How to Be a Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.71 — 110,700 ratings — published 2011
He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,276 ratings — published 2008
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,814 ratings — published 1993
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,277,429 ratings — published 1963
Full Frontal Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,059 ratings — published 2007
Female Masculinity (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,747 ratings — published 1998
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 669,509 ratings — published 2002
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.50 — 89,566 ratings — published 2017
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.56 — 14,938 ratings — published 2004
Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.67 — 16,183 ratings — published 2011
Transgender History (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,826 ratings — published 2008
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,572 ratings — published 1990
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 64,288 ratings — published 2016
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 376,936 ratings — published 1892
Women & Power: A Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 40,087 ratings — published 2017
“women are proto-psychopaths”
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“This radical neglect of biology limits the ability not just of queer Theory but of all scholarship on these topics to rigorously investigate socialized aspects of gender presentation and expectations - while rendering potentially valuable insights from queer Theory nearly completely irrelevant to those serious about such questions.”
― Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
― Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
