18 books like A Vindication of Rights of Woman

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The Subjection of Women John Stuart Mill · 1869 · ★ 3.9 · 141p · ≈ 4h · Challenging On equality and women's rights. Shares: Droits, Social and moral questions, Women's rights, Femmes

The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan · 1963 · ★ 3.9 · 386p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Landmark, groundbreaking, classic―these adjectives barely do justice to the pioneering vision and lasting impact of The Feminine Mystique. Published in 1963, it gave a pitch-perfect description of “the problem that has no name”: the insidious beliefs and institutions that undermined women’s confidence in their intellectual capabilities and kept them in the home. Writing in a time when the average… Shares: Droits, Social and moral questions, Femmes, Feminism

Women and economics Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1898 · ★ 3.6 · 190p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Women and Economics is Gilman's most original and famous work of nonfiction. In it she examines the origins of women's subordination and its function in society. Woman, she argues, makes a living by marriage - not by the work she does - and thus man becomes her economic environment. As a consequence, her "female" attributes dominate her "human" qualities because they determine her… Shares: Droits, Social and moral questions, Women's rights, Femmes

Die Frau und der Sozialismus August Bebel · 1879 · 756p · ≈ 25h · Demanding Das Buch Die Frau und der Sozialismus ist die am meisten verbreitete und übersetzte Schrift von August Bebel. Seit mehr als hundert Jahren stehen Bebels Thesen im Mittelpunkt der Diskussionen um die Gleichberechtigung der Frau in der Gesellschaft. Shares: Social and moral questions, Women's rights, Social conditions, Women

Our Androcentric Culture, or the Man-Made World Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1911 · 127p · ≈ 4h · Challenging In this probing critique of "androcentric culture," pioneering feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman analyzes with wit and insight the many negative effects of male domination, not only on women in particular but on the welfare of the human race as a whole. Society's long history of male hegemony and female subservience has not enhanced the natural qualities of the human race but rather distorted… Shares: Social and moral questions, Femmes, Social conditions, Women

Anarchism and Other Essays Emma Goldman · 1910 · ★ 4.1 · 197p · ≈ 6h · Challenging "Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will make an end to the terrible struggle for the means of existence,--the savage struggle which undermines the finest qualities in man, and ever widens the social abyss. In short, Anarchism strives towards a social organization which will… Shares: Social and moral questions, Feminism, Social conditions, Women

The Women's Room Marilyn French · 1977 · ★ 4.0 · 492p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Relates a woman's experiences and changing attitudes from her marriage in the 1950's to her increasing independence in the 1970's. Shares: Women's rights, Feminism, Social conditions, Women

On Liberty John Stuart Mill · 1859 · ★ 4.0 Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Shares: Social and moral questions, Women's rights, Social conditions, Women

Three guineas Virginia Woolf · 1938 · ★ 3.9 · 222p · ≈ 7h · Challenging In response to three requests for donations (to a peace society; to a woman's college rebuilding fund; to a society for obtaining employment for professional women) the author proposes that "the daughters of educated men" unite in opposition to man-made war. Shares: Women's rights, Social conditions, Women, Philosophy

A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf · 1929 · ★ 4.2 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Challenging A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 October 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers of and characters in fiction, the… Shares: Femmes, Feminism, Philosophy, History

A Particular Eye for Villainy Ann Granger · 2012 · 373p · ≈ 12h · Moderate From "an accomplished veteran" of crime fiction, a Victorian murder mystery featuring a female sleuth and her detective husband (Kirkus Reviews).When Mr. Thomas Tapley is found bludgeoned to death in his sitting room, his neighbor, Inspector Benjamin Ross of Scotland Yard, is immediately summoned.Little is known about the elusive gentleman until Mr. Jonathan Tapley, QC, hears of the news, and the… Shares: Social conditions, History

Through the Kitchen Window Arlene Voski Avakian · 1997 · ★ 4.1 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate With recipes from many, and contributions by Dorothy Allison, Maya Angelou, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, and Marge Piercy, among others, Through the Kitchen Window offers a fresh and delicious look at food and cooking as more than the makings of a meal. For the writers in this provocative collection, food is a cultural declaration, an expression of hidden hungers, a symbol of our intimate connections… Shares: Feminism, Women

Un autre regard #1-2 Emma Gutierrez · 2015 · ★ 5.0 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares: Feminism, Social conditions, Women

Das Sexualleben unserer Zeit Iwan Bloch · 1907 · 809p · ≈ 26h · Challenging Frühes Werk der Sexualwissenschaft, noch vor Magnus Hirschfeld. 1907 erschien Iwan Blochs »Das Sexualleben unserer Zeit«, mit mehreren Nachauflagen in rascher Folge. In dem Buch behandelt Bloch auf 840 Seiten alle Aspekte der Sexualität aus damaliger Sicht. Unter dem Begriff »psychische Hermaphroditen« beschreibt Bloch auch 2 Fälle von trans Personen (die man damals eben noch nicht einordnen… Shares: Women's rights, Social conditions, Women, History

Room of Ones Own Three Guineas Virginia Woolf · 1984 · ★ 4.0 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte to the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity. Three Guineas was published almost a decade later and breaks new ground in its discussion of… Shares: Feminism, Social conditions, Women, History

The Dragon and the Raven G. A. Henty · 1800 · ★ 3.9 · 216p · ≈ 7h · Challenging For many years England was assailed by Danish hordes whose barbarians reduced the Saxons to pitiable legions of disconnected and ravished communities. In the later 800's A.D. a man named Alfred emerged from the darkened European scene and by his wisdom and knowledge and bravery, he gathered together an army of valorous warriors who banished the Vikings back to the North. This true historic tale… Shares: Great Britain, History

Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman Mary Wollstonecraft · 1799 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Demanding Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman is the 18th-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft’s unfinished novelistic sequel to her revolutionary political treatise A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). The Wrongs of Woman was published posthumously in 1798 by her husband, William Godwin, and is often considered her most radical feminist work. Wollstonecraft’s philosophical and gothic novel… Shares: Social and moral questions, Women, History

A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen · 1889 · ★ 3.8 · 114p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Translation of Doll's house, English translation of Norwegian original by William Archer. Shares: Women's rights, Social conditions, Women

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