Feminism

Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social justice for women. A fundamental concept underlying feminism is that women are an oppressed group, a reality that feminism seeks to highlight and fight against.
Books tagged 'Feminism' deal, directly or indirectly, with feminist philosophy.

See also gender studies.
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Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime
Hope in Action: A Memoir About the Courage to Lead
Solidarity with Children: An Essay Against Adult Supremacy
Finding My Way
The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising
Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
Uncanny Valley Girls: Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love
Intemperance
Nemesis' Töchter: 3000 Jahre zwischen Female Rage und Zusammenhalt
Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America
My Seven Mothers: Making a Family in the Danish Women's Movement
The Library of Lost Girls
Da, wo ich dich sehen kann
Bezradne i romantyczne. Bohaterki lektur dla szkoły podstawowej
Lessons in Chemistry
The Book Club for Troublesome Women
Weyward
Untamed
My Dark Vanessa
Finding Me
The Secret Book Society
Home Body
Bright Young Women
The Girls Who Grew Big
The Women on Platform Two
Annie Bot
The Girl with the Louding Voice
Le cerf-volant
The Once and Future Witches
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Golden Compass by Philip PullmanAlanna by Tamora PierceHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Best Feminist Young Adult Books
1,321 books — 1,341 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Science Fiction Books by Female Authors
1,710 books — 1,555 voters

The Help by Kathryn StockettThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggDivine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca WellsLittle Women by Louisa May Alcott
Best Adult Female Friendship Books
698 books — 1,188 voters

Graceling by Kristin CashoreThrone of Glass by Sarah J. MaasAlanna by Tamora PiercePoison Study by Maria V. SnyderVampire Academy by Richelle Mead
Best "Strong Female" Fantasy Novels
4,450 books — 18,201 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Jezebel's Books All Women Should Read
772 books — 1,400 voters

We Should All Be Feminists
The Handmaid's Tale
A Room of One’s Own
Bad Feminist
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
The Second Sex
Men Explain Things to Me
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
The Bell Jar
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Women, Race & Class
The Feminine Mystique
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
The Beauty Myth

Bette Davis
When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch. ...more
Bette Davis

Doris Lessing
Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by pe ...more
Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

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