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Gender Studies Books
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 280 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 19,827 ratings — published 1989
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 214 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.39 — 333,946 ratings — published 2012
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 203 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,875 ratings — published 1949
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 159 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,463,536 ratings — published 1985
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference (Hardcover)
by (shelved 151 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 11,491 ratings — published 2010
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 119,488 ratings — published 2014
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.22 — 266,612 ratings — published 1929
The Feminine Mystique (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,259 ratings — published 1963
The Beauty Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 31,279 ratings — published 1990
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.82 — 88,468 ratings — published 2014
The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 115 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.95 — 16,954 ratings — published 2015
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,743 ratings — published 2000
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.27 — 9,102 ratings — published 2007
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 172,568 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 — 5,235 ratings — published 2008
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.59 — 35,132 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 — 8,670 ratings — published 2009
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.53 — 41,467 ratings — published 1984
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 27,252 ratings — published 1792
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.51 — 19,529 ratings — published 1981
The Vagina Monologues (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.87 — 38,567 ratings — published 1996
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 31,331 ratings — published 2003
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.67 — 10,217 ratings — published 2005
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.03 — 6,376 ratings — published 1994
Women Who Run With the Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 97,851 ratings — published 1992
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 — 4,240 ratings — published 2014
Undoing Gender (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,326 ratings — published 2004
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.88 — 10,664 ratings — published 1998
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.44 — 9,148 ratings — published 1984
Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,825 ratings — published 2000
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,130 ratings — published 1975
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 9,829 ratings — published 1981
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 25,956 ratings — published 1976
Stone Butch Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.55 — 37,427 ratings — published 1993
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 225,367 ratings — published 1969
How to Be a Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.71 — 110,464 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 — 3,271 ratings — published 2008
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,781 ratings — published 1993
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,247,324 ratings — published 1963
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.50 — 88,905 ratings — published 2017
Full Frontal Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,046 ratings — published 2007
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 666,114 ratings — published 2002
Female Masculinity (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,724 ratings — published 1998
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.56 — 14,294 ratings — published 2004
Transgender History (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,733 ratings — published 2008
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 — 16,166 ratings — published 2011
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 63,703 ratings — published 2016
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,547 ratings — published 1990
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 367,137 ratings — published 1892
Women & Power: A Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as gender-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 39,648 ratings — published 2017
“Femaleness is a universal sex defined by self-negation, against which all politics, even feminist politics, rebels. Put more simply: Everyone is female, and everyone hates it.”
― Females
― Females
“Misogyny was born of fear of women.”
― Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity
― Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity












