18 books like The Subjection of Women

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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: Droits, Social and moral questions, Women's rights, Femmes

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

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, 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, Women's rights, Women, History

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, Women, History

The Edible Woman Margaret Atwood · 1969 · ★ 3.6 · 359p · ≈ 11h · Moderate A determined young lady who losses her focus along the line while trying to balance her life and relationship Shares: Relations entre hommes et femmes, Femmes, Women, Romance & Relationships

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, Women, Philosophy

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, Women, Philosophy, 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

Mein Weltbild Albert Einstein · 1934 · ★ 3.8 · 112p · ≈ 3h · Challenging A fascinating collection of Einstein’s observations about life, religion, nationalism, and a host of personal topics that engaged the genius’s intellect In the aftermath of the First World War, Albert Einstein writes about his hopes for the League of Nations, his feelings as a German citizen about the growing anti-Semitism and nationalism of his country, and his myriad opinions about the current… Shares: Legal status, Social aspects, Philosophy

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, Women, Philosophy

The man who knew too much David Leavitt · 2006 · ★ 3.6 · 327p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Biography of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer. Shares: Legal status, 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, Women, Romance & Relationships

The "genius" Theodore Dreiser · 1915 · 802p · ≈ 26h · Challenging Dreiser's semi-autobiographical novel about a young man's unhappy marriage, adulterous relationships, and struggle to retain his artistic integrity. Shares: Relations entre hommes et femmes, Romance & Relationships, Philosophy

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

Tempting Fate Nora Roberts · 1985 · ★ 3.6 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate The MacGregors: book 2 The MacGregor clan was closely knit. Caine MacGregor's sister had married Diana Blade's brother, but the emotions Caine felt meeting Diana had nothing to do with family -- everything to do with desire. Caine was something of a ladies' man, a demon in the courtroom and in the bedroom. Diana was an ice princess, a perfect product of her Bostonian upbringing -- totally at… Shares: Relations entre hommes et femmes, Romance & Relationships

Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini · 1900 · ★ 4.1 · 360p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Idealism can be transferred from one person to another on a vehicle called revenge. [from Wikipedia: Scaramouche tells the story of a young lawyer during the French Revolution. In the course of his adventures he becomes an actor portraying "Scaramouche" (a roguish buffoon character in the commedia dell'arte). He also becomes a revolutionary, politician, and fencing-master, confounding his… Shares: Relations entre hommes et femmes, Romance & Relationships, History

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