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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Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
Strange Beasts
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
It Will Only Hurt for a Moment
Selling Sexy: Victoria’s Secret and the Unraveling of an American Icon
Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win
She Followed the Moon Back to Herself
Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems, 1961-2023
Medea me cantó un corrido
Revolution der Verbundenheit: Wie weibliche Solidarität die Gesellschaft verändert
Hounded: Women, Harms, and the Gender Wars
Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous
The Hysterical Girls of St. Bernadette's
Pick the Lock
Connie: A Memoir
Lessons in Chemistry
Weyward
All Fours
Margo's Got Money Troubles
Bright Young Women
My Dark Vanessa
Down the Drain
The Grace Year
The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
Finding Me
Home Body
The Moonflowers
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Girl, Woman, Other
Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsVampire Academy by Richelle MeadGraceling by Kristin CashoreDivergent by Veronica RothCity of Bones by Cassandra Clare
Strong Heroine Series
1,626 books — 2,372 voters
Bossypants by Tina FeyIs Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy KalingLet's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny  LawsonYes Please by Amy PoehlerAre You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler
Funny Women Memoirs
434 books — 1,573 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Best Feminist Books
2,413 books — 3,475 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
4,283 books — 19,952 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinThe Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper
Best Feminist Science Fiction/Fantasy
673 books — 628 voters

We Should All Be Feminists
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
Bad Feminist
A Room of One’s Own
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Men Explain Things to Me
The Second Sex
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
The Bell Jar
The Feminine Mystique
Women, Race & Class
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
The Beauty Myth

Simone de Beauvoir
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself
Simone de Beauvoir

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would threaten the man. Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t ...more
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

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