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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 285 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,200 ratings — published 1989
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 212 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.39 — 337,688 ratings — published 2012
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.18 — 48,607 ratings — published 1949
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 158 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,508,751 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 — 273,059 ratings — published 1929
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 120,419 ratings — published 2014
The Feminine Mystique (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,671 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 — 31,622 ratings — published 1990
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.83 — 89,464 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 — 9,236 ratings — published 2007
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,352 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 — 177,351 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 — 35,907 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 — 42,076 ratings — published 1984
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 27,593 ratings — published 1792
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.51 — 19,917 ratings — published 1981
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 32,933 ratings — published 2003
The Vagina Monologues (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.87 — 38,863 ratings — published 1996
Women Who Run With the Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 100,119 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 — 3,350 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 — 2,830 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 61 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 230,947 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 — 26,332 ratings — published 1976
Stone Butch Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.55 — 38,498 ratings — published 1993
How to Be a Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.71 — 110,698 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 — 1,277,138 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 — 669,482 ratings — published 2002
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.50 — 89,563 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 — 14,931 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 — 5,825 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 — 64,281 ratings — published 2016
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 376,844 ratings — published 1892
Women & Power: A Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 40,083 ratings — published 2017
“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
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