Women & Gender Studies

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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 2,323,072 ratings
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We Should All Be Feminists
We Should All Be Feminists 4.40 avg rating — 320,728 ratings
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A Room of One’s Own
A Room of One’s Own 4.22 avg rating — 246,440 ratings
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The Second Sex
The Second Sex 4.18 avg rating — 45,862 ratings
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Bad Feminist
Bad Feminist 3.92 avg rating — 117,715 ratings
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The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story
The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story 3.96 avg rating — 16,713 ratings
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity 4.05 avg rating — 18,775 ratings
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Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape
Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape 4.20 avg rating — 5,237 ratings
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The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women 4.08 avg rating — 8,546 ratings
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Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics 4.16 avg rating — 27,175 ratings
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Men Explain Things to Me
Men Explain Things to Me 3.83 avg rating — 85,147 ratings
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Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It
Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It 4.37 avg rating — 4,206 ratings
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Women, Race & Class
Women, Race & Class 4.59 avg rating — 33,015 ratings
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The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar 4.05 avg rating — 1,153,753 ratings
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Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference 4.08 avg rating — 11,310 ratings
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Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town 4.12 avg rating — 57,730 ratings
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II 4.24 avg rating — 50,738 ratings
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Speak
Speak 4.05 avg rating — 622,685 ratings
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The Complete Persepolis
The Complete Persepolis 4.40 avg rating — 199,563 ratings
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The Beauty Myth
The Beauty Myth 3.91 avg rating — 30,478 ratings
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment 4.41 avg rating — 5,475 ratings
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Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape 4.05 avg rating — 4,079 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 568,933 ratings
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Transforming a Rape Culture
Transforming a Rape Culture 4.36 avg rating — 749 ratings
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches 4.53 avg rating — 39,724 ratings
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The Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique 3.87 avg rating — 30,215 ratings
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Lysistrata
Lysistrata 3.87 avg rating — 52,370 ratings
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Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism 4.50 avg rating — 18,479 ratings
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This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color 4.52 avg rating — 9,683 ratings
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 3.92 avg rating — 26,298 ratings
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The Vagina Monologues
The Vagina Monologues 3.87 avg rating — 37,998 ratings
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How to Be a Woman
How to Be a Woman 3.71 avg rating — 109,843 ratings
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Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman 4.17 avg rating — 62,836 ratings
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Kindred
Kindred 4.31 avg rating — 258,310 ratings
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Exit, Pursued by a Bear
Exit, Pursued by a Bear 3.91 avg rating — 12,383 ratings
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban 4.16 avg rating — 612,699 ratings
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He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know
He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know 3.89 avg rating — 3,267 ratings
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The Yellow Wall-Paper
The Yellow Wall-Paper 4.07 avg rating — 338,225 ratings
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Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center 4.45 avg rating — 8,771 ratings
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Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence 3.89 avg rating — 10,595 ratings
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Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,259,772 ratings
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic 4.08 avg rating — 197,138 ratings
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The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,183 ratings
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Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity 4.27 avg rating — 8,773 ratings
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Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women 4.04 avg rating — 9,233 ratings
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Full Frontal Feminism
Full Frontal Feminism 3.86 avg rating — 8,056 ratings
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Asking For It
Asking For It really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23,888 ratings
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The Rape of Nanking: An Undeniable History in Photographs
The Rape of Nanking: An Undeniable History in Photographs
by: James Yin
4.57 avg rating — 137 ratings
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The Left Hand of Darkness
The Left Hand of Darkness 4.10 avg rating — 209,442 ratings
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Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture 3.67 avg rating — 16,139 ratings
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Documents on the Rape of Nanking
Documents on the Rape of Nanking 4.57 avg rating — 107 ratings
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The Female Eunuch
The Female Eunuch 3.68 avg rating — 7,401 ratings
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Women Who Run With the Wolves
Women Who Run With the Wolves 4.11 avg rating — 90,541 ratings
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Violated: Exposing Rape at Baylor University amid College Football's Sexual Assault Crisis
Violated: Exposing Rape at Baylor University amid College Football's Sexual Assault Crisis 4.13 avg rating — 301 ratings
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The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution
The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution 3.85 avg rating — 2,733 ratings
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My Life on the Road
My Life on the Road 4.07 avg rating — 36,280 ratings
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A Doll's House
A Doll's House 3.77 avg rating — 159,022 ratings
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Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More 4.30 avg rating — 16,467 ratings
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide 4.28 avg rating — 55,460 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 3,378,391 ratings
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 3.65 avg rating — 194,440 ratings
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What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France
What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France 3.92 avg rating — 381 ratings
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Sex Object: A Memoir
Sex Object: A Memoir 3.66 avg rating — 13,437 ratings
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Slut!: Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation
Slut!: Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation 3.88 avg rating — 1,961 ratings
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Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future
Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future 3.73 avg rating — 3,112 ratings
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Women & Power: A Manifesto
Women & Power: A Manifesto 4.02 avg rating — 38,436 ratings
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Everyday Sexism
Everyday Sexism 4.26 avg rating — 12,320 ratings
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Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights
Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights 4.28 avg rating — 2,091 ratings
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Firsts
Firsts 3.58 avg rating — 5,735 ratings
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Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture 3.66 avg rating — 10,197 ratings
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Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza 4.33 avg rating — 13,222 ratings
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An Autobiography
An Autobiography 4.44 avg rating — 10,447 ratings
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SCUM Manifesto
SCUM Manifesto 3.77 avg rating — 11,554 ratings
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Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message That Feminism's Work Is Done
Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message That Feminism's Work Is Done 3.87 avg rating — 2,320 ratings
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Sexual Politics
Sexual Politics 3.99 avg rating — 3,855 ratings
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The Gate to Women's Country
The Gate to Women's Country 4.06 avg rating — 13,951 ratings
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Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers
Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers 4.02 avg rating — 6,460 ratings
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The Geek Feminist Revolution
The Geek Feminist Revolution 3.86 avg rating — 4,235 ratings
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Faking Normal (Faking Normal, #1)
Faking Normal (Faking Normal, #1) 4.10 avg rating — 8,707 ratings
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The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories 4.07 avg rating — 338,225 ratings
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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions 4.51 avg rating — 86,814 ratings
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Assata: An Autobiography
Assata: An Autobiography 4.59 avg rating — 29,691 ratings
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Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us 4.03 avg rating — 6,315 ratings
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Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls 3.89 avg rating — 26,412 ratings
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men 4.34 avg rating — 156,585 ratings
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Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir
Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir 3.90 avg rating — 13,502 ratings
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The Awakening
The Awakening 3.69 avg rating — 222,555 ratings
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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America 4.26 avg rating — 3,391 ratings
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Virgin: The Untouched History
Virgin: The Untouched History 3.95 avg rating — 1,450 ratings
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Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation 4.09 avg rating — 2,973 ratings
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Melissa
Melissa
by: Alex Gino
4.09 avg rating — 47,338 ratings
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Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead 3.95 avg rating — 266,948 ratings
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All the Rage
All the Rage 3.80 avg rating — 15,256 ratings
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Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men
Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men 4.13 avg rating — 413 ratings
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Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution
Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution 3.78 avg rating — 966 ratings
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Infidel
Infidel 4.20 avg rating — 91,944 ratings
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Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution 4.16 avg rating — 4,827 ratings
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I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced 3.83 avg rating — 23,919 ratings
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Middlesex
Middlesex 4.04 avg rating — 657,096 ratings
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Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1) 4.20 avg rating — 238,922 ratings
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