18 books like We Should All Be Feminists

What to read after We Should All Be Feminists — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2017 · ★ 4.5 · 73p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Receiving a letter from a friend asking her how to raise her baby girl to be a feminist, Adichie responded with fifteen suggestions for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. Her suggestions ranged from options for non-stereotyped toy options, to debunking myths that women are somehow biologically programmed to be in the kitchen instead of having a career. Adichie's… Shares: Feminism, Social Science, Political science, Social conditions

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: Feminists, Feminism, Social conditions, Women

The Bostonians Henry James · 1885 · ★ 3.6 · 696p · ≈ 23h · Demanding First published in 1886, The Bostonians is one of James' wittiest social satires. It begins with the arrival in Boston of Basil Ransom, in search of a career. The book turns on the relationship between Ransom, a conservative civil war veteran, his feminist cousin Olive Chancellor, and Verena Tarrant, a newcomer to their circle whose affections are sought by both Olive and Basil.James' ambivalence… Shares: Feminists, Feminism, Social conditions, Women

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

Hovels to Highrise Anne Power · 1993 · 464p · ≈ 15h · Moderate This takes the historical, political and social changes relating to housing in five European countries, and considers the housing history and traditions which have lead to growing tensions within their most disadvantaged communities. Shares: Social Science, Political science

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, Essays

Le Deuxième Sexe Simone de Beauvoir · 1949 · ★ 4.2 · 728p · ≈ 24h · Challenging The Second Sex (French: Le Deuxième Sexe) is a 1949 book by the French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, in which the author discusses the treatment of women throughout history. Beauvoir researched and wrote the book in about 14 months between 1946 and 1949. She published the work in two volumes: Facts and Myths (Les faits et les mythes), and Lived Experience (L’expérience vécue).… Shares: Gender Studies, Feminism, Women

Illustrations of universal progress Herbert Spencer · 1864 · 451p · ≈ 15h · Challenging 15 works of Herbert Spencer English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era (1820-1903) This ebook presents a collection of 15 works of Herbert Spencer. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Illustrations of Universal Progress - A… Shares: Political science, Essays

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

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: Feminists, Women, Biography & Memoir

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: Feminism, Social conditions, Women, Essays

Poverty and progress Stephan Thernstrom · 1800 · 286p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Shares: Social Science, Social conditions, Essays

In love & trouble Alice Walker · 1973 · 138p · ≈ 4h · Moderate The desires and fears of the American black woman are explored with compassion and understanding in these thirteen short stories. Admirers of The Color Purple will find in these stories more evidence of Walker's power to depict black women-women who vary greatly in background yet are bound together. Dating back to the early 1970s and 1980s, respectively, these short stories cover the Pulitzer… Shares: 1000blackgirlbooks, Women

Social Sciences Kath Woodward · 2003 · 210p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Fully revised and updated, the fourth edition of Social Sciences: The Big Issues explores key debates about how we live our personal, domestic and emotional lives at a time of enormous, previously unimaginable change and disruption, including a pandemic that locked down households and economies. Since the third edition, everyone’s life has changed. The pandemic – at least temporarily – stopped… Shares: Social Science, Political science, Essays

Angela Davis Angela Y. Davis · 1974 · ★ 3.5 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Her own powerful story to 1972, told with warmth, brilliance, humor & conviction. The author, a political activist, reflects upon the people & incidents that have influenced her life & commitment to global liberation of the oppressed. Shares: Feminists, Biography & Memoir

Bad Feminist Roxane Gay · 2014 · ★ 3.9 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate 319 pages ; 23 cm Shares: Feminism, Women, Essays

Research Methods for Political Science David E. McNabb · 2004 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Designed for both students and practitioners, the new edition of this popular text has been thoroughly revised. It incorporates the latest thinking in public administration and nonprofit management. The book integrates both quantitative and qualitative approaches to research, and also provides specific instruction in the use of commonly available statistical software programs such as Excel and… Shares: Social Science, Political science, Essays

Life in the sick-room Harriet Martineau · 1844 · 204p · ≈ 6h · Challenging "Believing herself to be suffering from incurable condition, Harriet Martineau wrote Life in the Sick-Room in 1844. In this work, which is both memoir and treatise, Martineau seeks to educate the healthy and ill alike on the spiritual and psychological dimensions of chronic suffering. Covering such topics are "Sympathy to the Invalid," "Temper," and "Becoming Inured," the work occupies a crucial… Shares: Feminists, Essays, Biography & Memoir

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