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Gender studies
Gender studies is a field of interdisciplinary study which analyzes the phenomenon of gender. Gender studies is sometimes related to studies of class, race, ethnicity, sexuality and location.
The philosopher Simone de Beauvoir said: “One is not born a woman, one becomes one.” In gender studies, the...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792), written by the eighteenth-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. In it, Wollstonecraft responds...
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- 1792
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Sexual Personae
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson is a groundbreaking and controversial survey of sexual decadence in Western literature and the visual arts written by scholar Camille Paglia.
Portraying Western culture as a...
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The First Stone
The First Stone: Some questions about sex and power by Helen Garner is a highly controversial non-fiction book about a 1992 sexual harassment scandal at Ormond College, one of the residential colleges of the University of Melbourne. It was first...
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- Aug 2004
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- 152594
The History of Sexuality
The History of Sexuality is the title of a three-volume series of books by French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault written between 1976 and 1984. Originally published in French, the volumes are individually titled The Will to Knowledge ...
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In Defense of Women
In Defense of Women is H. L. Mencken's 1918 book on women and the relationship between the sexes. Some laud the book as progressive while others brand it as reactionary. While Mencken did not champion women's rights, he described women as wiser in...
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The Subjection of Women
The Subjection of Women is the title of an essay written by John Stuart Mill in 1861, possibly jointly with his wife Harriet Taylor Mill, stating an argument in favor of equality between the sexes. At the time it was published in 1869, this essay...
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The Beauty Myth
The Beauty Myth, published in 1991, is a book by Naomi Wolf. It examines beauty as a demand and as a judgment upon women. Subtitled How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women, Wolf examines how modern conceptions of women's beauty impact the...
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Self-Made Man: One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man
Self-Made Man: My Year Disguised as a Man is a book written by lesbian journalist Norah Vincent, recounting an 18-month experiment in which she disguised herself as a man—"Ned"—and then integrated with a group of male bowlers. She described this as ...
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- 2006
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Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture is a 2005 book by Ariel Levy which critiques modern feminist culture in America. Levy argues that America's sexed-up culture not only objectifies women, it encourages women to objectify...
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- 2005
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- Aug 2005
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Beyond the Down Low
Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies and Denial in Black America is a 2005 book by Keith Boykin.
This book of essays analyzes the validity of the down low phenomenon, first publicized by J. L. King in his book On the Down Low. It covers multiple...
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Male and Female
Male and Female is a 1949 comparative study of tribal men and women on seven Pacific islands and men and women in the contemporary (late 1940s) United States by anthropologist Margaret Mead.
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Stone Butch Blues
Stone Butch Blues is a novel written by transgender activist Leslie Feinberg. The novel won the 1994 Stonewall Book Award. It tells the story of the life of a butch named Jess Goldberg and the trials and tribulations she faces growing up in the pre...
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- Mar 1993
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The Years
The Years is a 1937 novel by Virginia Woolf, the last she published in her lifetime. It traces the history of the genteel Pargiter family from the 1880s to the "present day" of the mid-1930s.
Although spanning fifty years, the novel is not epic in...
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- 1937
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Between the Acts
Between the Acts is the final novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1941 shortly after her suicide. This is a book laden with hidden meaning and allusion. It describes the mounting, performance, and audience of a festival play (hence the title) in a...
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- 1941
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Feminine Endings
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Life and death
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Scapegoat
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The Female Thing
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Sex Changes
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Sex and Temperament
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Queer 13
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Regarding Emma
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The Feathers of Death
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Monuments and Maidens
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Beyond Power
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Trans liberation
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The Politics of the Veil
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Transforming Community
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Ceremonies
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Queer theory
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Created Unequal
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The Sexual Outlaw
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Normal
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Impersonal Passion
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Labyrinth of desire
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Man made language
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Kinkorama
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A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue
A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue is a book by Wendy Shalit.
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- 1999
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Hello Cruel World
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The Ann Oakley Reader
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Gender on Planet Earth
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Experiments in Knowing
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Sex, Gender and Society
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