6 best-selling womens books like How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind by Regan Penaluna

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How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind

By: Regan Penaluna

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a bold new voice in nonfiction, an exhilarating account of the lives and works of influential …

If you liked the womens plot in How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind by Regan Penaluna , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

By: Joanna Biggs

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by the New York Times , The Week , Vulture , Elle, and The Mi… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Biggs's A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again book and Regan Penaluna's How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
"The wound my unsuspecting heart formerly received is not healed,"

-Joanna Biggs, A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

Cover of Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer

2. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

Similar categories in Claire Dederer's Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma book and Regan Penaluna's How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind

  • history
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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3. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

By: Amanda Montell

3.54

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Montell's The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality book and Regan Penaluna's How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

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4. The Story of Art Without Men

By: Katy Hessel

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before th… read more

Similar categories in Katy Hessel's The Story of Art Without Men book and Regan Penaluna's How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind

  • history
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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5. Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

By: Anna Bogutskaya

3.72

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

How bitches, trainwrecks, shrews, and crazy women have taken over pop culture and liberated women f… read more

Similar categories in Anna Bogutskaya's Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate book and Regan Penaluna's How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind

  • history
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"All high school experiences are inherently dramatic because they are being experienced for the first time."

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

"Unlikeable" is code. It's code for "fair game." If a woman in unlikable, she is stepping out of bounds. Which makes it fair game to decimate her socially, emotionally, or physically. Likeability give…"

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

"In 2015, a study about jury deliberation bias conducted at Arizona State University found that "when men expressed their opinion with anger, participants rated them as more credible, which made them …"

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

"When men get angry onscreen, they're angry at the system. When women are angry onscreen, they're angry at someone. Women are not allowed to be angry at the system, because that would be a tacit accep…"

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

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6. Who's Afraid of Gender?

By: Judith Butler

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more

Similar categories in Judith Butler's Who's Afraid of Gender? book and Regan Penaluna's How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind

  • feminism
  • gender
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"

-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?

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7. Stop Checking Your Likes: Shake Off the Need for Approval and Live an Incredible Life

By: Susie Moore

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Your freedom’s knocking. Are you ready? Millions of us waste huge chunks of our days checking our … read more

Similar categories in Susie Moore's Stop Checking Your Likes: Shake Off the Need for Approval and Live an Incredible Life book and Regan Penaluna's How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind

By: Regan Penaluna

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a bold new voice in nonfiction, an exhilarating account of the lives and works of influential … read more

Similar categories in Regan Penaluna's How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind book and Regan Penaluna's How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • gender
  • philosophy
  • womens studies
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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9. The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality

By: Angela Saini

3.99

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking exploration of gendered oppression—its origins, its histories, our attempts to und… read more

Similar categories in Angela Saini's The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality book and Regan Penaluna's How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind

  • history
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other

By: Danielle Dutton

4.05

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

From the "strikingly smart and daringly feminist" (Jenny Offill) author of Margaret the First and S… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Dutton's Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other book and Regan Penaluna's How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society by Eleanor Janega

11. The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society

By: Eleanor Janega

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited h… read more

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  • history
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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12. Coexistence: Stories

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.39

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Superbly rendered portraits of modern indigeneity from the acclaimed author of A Minor Chorus. A gr… read more

Similar categories in Billy-Ray Belcourt's Coexistence: Stories book and Regan Penaluna's How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind

  • audiobook
"I wrote about the future because I wanted to invent it. I wrote about the present so that it wouldn't obliterate me."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

"It's October, and the shorter days have made us hungrier, depriving us of light and forcing us to look for it in other people."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

"That's what love is -- someone else's spirit moving through you. When someone moves through you they leave behind a small trace of human life. It's how we know we're still alive."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

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13. Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women's Health and What We Can Do About It

By: Alyson J. McGregor

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A clarion call about the dangers of medicine for women, as well as a manual for how women can get t… read more

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  • history
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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14. The Farmer's Lawyer: The North Dakota Nine and the Fight to Save the Family Farm

By: Sarah Vogel

4.40

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The unforgettable true story of a young lawyer's impossible legal battle to stop the federal govern… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Vogel's The Farmer's Lawyer: The North Dakota Nine and the Fight to Save the Family Farm book and Regan Penaluna's How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Mind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How It Changes Everything by James R. Doty

15. Mind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How It Changes Everything

By: James R. Doty

3.86

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A deep exploration of the neuroscience behind manifestation, with a six-part plan for realizing you… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of What Do You Want Out of Life?: A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters by Valerie Tiberius

16. What Do You Want Out of Life?: A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters

By: Valerie Tiberius

3.24

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A short guide to living well by understanding better what you really value--and what to do when you… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net by Jessica Calarco

17. Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net

By: Jessica Calarco

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the cau… read more

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  • history
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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18. Banal Nightmare

By: Halle Butler

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more

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  • audiobook
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19. The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability (Studies in Feminist Philosophy)

By: Elizabeth Barnes

3.99

Format: 186 pages, Hardcover

Elizabeth Barnes argues compellingly that disability is primarily a social phenomenon--a way of bei… read more

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  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
Cover of Do I Know You?: A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination by Sadie Dingfelder

20. Do I Know You?: A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination

By: Sadie Dingfelder

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning science writer discovers she’s faceblind, and investigates the neuroscience of sig… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy by William J. Barber II

21. White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy

By: William J. Barber II

4.39

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An explosive work with far-ranging historical implications, White Poverty promises to be one of the… read more

Similar categories in William J. Barber II's White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy book and Regan Penaluna's How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook

17 must-read audiobook books like How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind by Regan Penaluna

Transform Your Habits

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Claire Dederer

3.79

Transform Your Habits

The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Amanda Montell

3.54

Transform Your Habits

The Story of Art Without Men

Katy Hessel

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

Anna Bogutskaya

3.72

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17 Top audiobook books like Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler

Transform Your Habits

The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

Olivia Laing

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

Cynthia Carr

4.27

Transform Your Habits

I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

Lucy Sante

3.70

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