Women in Philosophy, Academia
2. 
Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto
by:
Michelle Bowdler
4.45 avg rating — 1,041 ratings 3. 
The Rights of Others: Aliens, Residents, and Citizens
by:
Seyla Benhabib
4.02 avg rating — 171 ratings 4. 
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
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Eric A. Stanley
4.44 avg rating — 1,119 ratings 
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Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life 3.96 avg rating — 674 ratings
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Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness
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Carolyn Forché
4.38 avg rating — 621 ratings 12. 
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Tissue Economies: Blood, Organs, and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism
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Catherine Waldby
3.81 avg rating — 27 ratings 14. 
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law
by:
Dean Spade
4.42 avg rating — 1,153 ratings 15. 
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
by:
Cathy O'Neil
3.87 avg rating — 29,310 ratings 
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Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America
by:
Ann Braude
4.04 avg rating — 268 ratings 
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Tête-à-Tête: The Tumultuous Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
by:
Hazel Rowley
4.15 avg rating — 1,830 ratings 21. 
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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Naomi Klein
4.29 avg rating — 51,930 ratings 
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Creaturely Cosmologies: Why Metaphysics Matters for Animal and Planetary Liberation it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
by:
Regan Penaluna
3.96 avg rating — 1,534 ratings 
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Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
by:
Jing Tsu
3.86 avg rating — 1,737 ratings 29. 
Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
by:
Sarah Bakewell
4.01 avg rating — 2,040 ratings 30. 
Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
by:
Emily Nagoski
4.28 avg rating — 81,115 ratings 
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Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones 4.16 avg rating — 389 ratings
36. 
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
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Judith Butler
4.05 avg rating — 18,773 ratings 37. 
A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
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Karen Armstrong
3.89 avg rating — 51,732 ratings 
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3) 4.37 avg rating — 19,433 ratings
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Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan
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Mikiso Hane
4.07 avg rating — 121 ratings 42. 
The Crown and the Capitalists: The Ethnic Chinese and the Founding of the Thai Nation 4.41 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World
by:
Gaia Vince
3.84 avg rating — 1,385 ratings 44. 
The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses 4.41 avg rating — 435 ratings
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Citadels of Pride: Sexual Abuse, Accountability, and Reconciliation 3.84 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights
by:
Molly Smith
4.59 avg rating — 4,154 ratings 47. 
A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
by:
Lizabeth Cohen
3.86 avg rating — 937 ratings 48. 
Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence 4.37 avg rating — 196 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,043 ratings
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Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society
by:
Ifi Amadiume
3.93 avg rating — 107 ratings 51. 
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants 4.52 avg rating — 158,431 ratings
53. 
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
by:
Masha Gessen
4.19 avg rating — 6,913 ratings 54. 
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
by:
Ruby Hamad
4.55 avg rating — 11,901 ratings 55. 
Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard
by:
Clare Carlisle
4.03 avg rating — 823 ratings 56. 
Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World 4.29 avg rating — 904 ratings
57. 
Ethics of the Real: Kant, Lacan (Wo Es War Series)
by:
Alenka Zupančič
4.37 avg rating — 217 ratings 58. 
Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left
by:
Judith Butler
3.90 avg rating — 827 ratings 59. 
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
by:
Andrea Wulf
4.32 avg rating — 28,485 ratings 60. 
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
by:
Caroline Elkins
4.26 avg rating — 1,100 ratings 
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The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory (Weatherhead Books on Asia)
by:
He Zhen
4.26 avg rating — 68 ratings 63. 
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Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self
by:
Kajsa Ekis Ekman
4.35 avg rating — 608 ratings 65. 
Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective
by:
Amina Wadud
4.23 avg rating — 2,311 ratings 66. 
Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom: The Sultanahs of Aceh, 1641–1699 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
67. 
The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children
by:
Wendy Mogel
4.15 avg rating — 4,505 ratings 
70. 
Voices from Larung Gar: Shaping Tibetan Buddhism for the Twenty-First Century
by:
Holly Gayley
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 
72. 
Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory: The Development of the Aesthetics of the Infinite really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 32 ratings
73. 
Foucault's Orient: The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan
by:
Marnia Lazreg
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 74. 
Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East
by:
Lila Abu-Lughod
3.98 avg rating — 117 ratings 
77. 
Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale: The Moral Limits of Markets
by:
Debra Satz
3.75 avg rating — 212 ratings 78. 
On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families 4.16 avg rating — 27,319 ratings
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Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (Illuminations, 74)
by:
Susan Buck-Morss
3.93 avg rating — 460 ratings 
81. 
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
by:
Sarah Bakewell
4.02 avg rating — 10,619 ratings 
86. 
Maimonides in His World: Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker
by:
Sarah Stroumsa
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings 
88. 
The Explainability of Experience: Realism and Subjectivity in Spinoza's Theory of the Human Mind
by:
Ursula Renz
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 89. 
Spinoza on Philosophy, Religion, and Politics: The Theologico-Political Treatise
by:
Susan James
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings 
91. 
Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
by:
Lao Tzu
4.29 avg rating — 176,915 ratings 
93. 
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present 3.99 avg rating — 527 ratings
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Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way
by:
Mungi Ngomane
3.95 avg rating — 1,162 ratings 
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Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India (Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms Series) 3.75 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Sophistical Practice: Toward a Consistent Relativism
by:
Barbara Cassin
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 
