18 books like Our Androcentric Culture, or the Man-Made World

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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: Social and moral questions, Conditions sociales, Femmes, Social conditions

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: Social and moral questions, Conditions sociales, Femmes, Social conditions

A Vindication of Rights of Woman Mary Wollstonecraft · 1792 · ★ 3.6 From Goodreads: Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity, and instead laid out the principles of emancipation: an equal education for… Shares: Social and moral questions, Femmes, Social conditions, Women

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, Social conditions, Women, History

American Indian Stories Zitkála-Šá · 1921 · ★ 4.0 · 98p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Collection of American Indian stories by Zitkala-Sa, an Sioux Indian. Many of the stories are of an autobiographical nature. Shares: Conditions sociales, Social conditions, Women, History

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

Culture and anarchy; an essay in political and social criticism Matthew Arnold · 1869 · ★ 3.4 · 164p · ≈ 5h · Challenging "Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869, debate important questions about the nature of culture and society. Arnold seeks to find out what culture really is, what good it can do, and if it is really necessary. He contrasts culture, which he calls the study of perfection, with anarchy, the mood of unrest and… Shares: Conditions sociales, Social conditions

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

The merry men, and other tales and fables Robert Louis Stevenson · 1887 · 407p · ≈ 13h · Challenging This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time… Shares: Conditions sociales, Social conditions

Ginx's baby Edward Jenkins · 1870 · 100p · ≈ 3h · Challenging The name of the father of Ginx’s Baby was Ginx. By a not unexceptional coincidence, its mother was Mrs. Ginx. The gender of Ginx’s Baby was masculine. On the day when our hero was born, Mr. and Mrs. Ginx were living at Number Five, Rosemary Street, in the City of Westminster. The being then and there brought into the world was not the only human entity to which the title of “Ginx’s Baby” was or… Shares: Conditions sociales, Social conditions

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, Social conditions, Women

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

Guapa Saleem Haddad · 2016 · ★ 4.5 · 331p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Set over the course of twenty-four hours, Guapa follows Rasa, a gay man living in an unnamed Arab country, as he tries to carve out a life for himself in the midst of political and social upheaval. Rasa spends his days translating for Western journalists and pining for the nights when he can sneak his lover, Taymour, into his room. One night Rasa's grandmother, the woman who raised him, catches… Shares: Conditions sociales, Social conditions

Life Writing from the Margins in Zimbabwe Oliver Nyambi · 2019 · 236p · ≈ 7h · Moderate This book explores the unique contributions of various forms of post-2000 life-writings such as the autobiography, epistles, and biographies, to discourses about the nature and socio-politics of what has become known as the Zimbabwean crisis (c. 2000–2009).Much of what has been written about the Zimbabwean crisis – a decade-long period of unprecedented economic collapse and political upheavals in… Shares: Conditions sociales, Social conditions, History

The legend of good women Geoffrey Chaucer · 1889 · ★ 3.0 · 229p · ≈ 7h · Challenging The Legend of Good Women is a poem in the form of a dream vision by Geoffrey Chaucer. The poem is the third longest of Chaucer's works, after The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, and is possibly the first significant work in English to use the iambic pentameter or decasyllabic couplets which he later used throughout The Canterbury Tales. This form of the heroic couplet would become a… Shares: Femmes, Women

Grand avenue Joy Fielding · 2001 · ★ 3.8 · 392p · ≈ 13h · Moderate "Looking back, it seemed like paradise; lives filled with the blessings of friendship, marriage, children, and career. For twenty years, four friends, Chris, Barbara, Susan, and Vicki shared everything through good times and bad, and faced the challenges of life and love head-on. Now, one sits alone to ponder the strange twists and turns of fate and circumstance. Now, she must sift through each… Shares: Femmes, Women

Hard Times Charles Dickens · 1854 · ★ 3.5 · 347p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Dickens scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy, Hard Times features schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind, one of his most richly dimensional, memorable characters. Filled with the details and wonders of small-town life, it is also a daring novel of ideas and ultimately, a celebration of love, hope, and limitless possibilities of the imagination. Shares: Conditions sociales, Social conditions, History

La cité de la joie Dominique Lapierre · 1985 · ★ 4.3 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Moderate En La Ciudad de la Alegría se narran las vivencias de varios personajes en un slum (barrio de chabolas) de Calcuta. Paul Lambert es un cura católico francés cuya misión personal es ayudar a los más necesitados. Max Loeb un médico americano que llega a Calcuta cautivado por el trabajo de Lambert. Su historia se va mezclando con la de la familia Pal, con el cabeza de familia Hasari, que deben de… Shares: Conditions sociales, Social conditions

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