11 Best nonfiction books like Gender: In World Perspective by Raewyn W. Connell

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Gender: In World Perspective

By: Raewyn W. Connell

3.78

Format: 180 pages, None

Introducing modern gender studies, gender theories and gender politics, this text traces the histor…

"The idea of a character dichotomy between women and men has been overwhelmingly, decisively, refuted. The broad psychological similarity of men and women as groups can be regarded, on the volume of evidence supporting it, as one of the best-established generalizations in all the human sciences."

-Raewyn W. Connell, Gender: In World Perspective

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Gender: In World Perspective by Raewyn W. Connell , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Masculine Domination

By: Pierre Bourdieu , Richard Nice

3.96

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Masculine domination is so anchored in our social practices and our unconscious that we hardly perc… read more

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  • feminism
  • gender
  • gender studies
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"As if femininity were measured by the art of 'shrinking'... women are held in a kind of invisible enclosure (of which the veil is only the visible manifestation) circumscribing the space allowed for …"

-Pierre Bourdieu, Masculine Domination

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2. Pengar

By: Victoria Benedictsson

3.46

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Selma Berg, en frejdig sextonåring med konstnärsdrömmar, gifts bort med en betydligt äldre man. Det… read more

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  • feminism
  • school
"Hennes självbedrägeri ljög fram en vrångbild, som i mycket liknade lyckan."

-Victoria Benedictsson, Pengar

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3. Living a Feminist Life

By: Sara Ahmed

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In Living a Feminist LifeSara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and t… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • gender

4. Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law

By: Dean Spade

4.28

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Wait--what's wrong with rights? Much of the legal advocacy for trans and gender nonconforming peopl… read more

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5. Returning to Reims

By: Didier Eribon , George Chauncey , None

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

On thinking the matter through, it doesn't seem exaggerated to assert that my coming out of the sex… read more

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6. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

By: Judith Butler

3.81

Format: None pages,

Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more

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7. Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

By: Lundy Bancroft

3.25

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

In this groundbreaking bestseller, Lundy Bancroft--a counselor who specializes in working with abus… read more

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8. The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease

By: Marc Lewis

3.45

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Through the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned … read more

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9. Juurihoito

By: Miika Nousiainen

5.00

Format: 29 pages, Hardcover

Hammaskartta ohjaa vastustamatonta tarinaa kadonneen isan jaljilla maasta ja mantereelta toiselle O… read more

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10. Inseparable

By: Simone de Beauvoir

4.10

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A never-before-published novel by the iconic Simone de Beauvoir of an intense and vivid girlhood fr… read more

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  • feminism
  • queer
"How old do you have to be to think: this is forever?"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"She was often late, not because she didn't care, but because she had too many contradictory cares."

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"I didn't understand: you don't believe what you believe on purpose. Could you be punished because certain ideas come into your mind?"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"to fight against time, against forgetting, against death, to do justice to this absolute presence of the instant, to this eternity of the instant, which will have been forever"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

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11. The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel

By: Renée Nault

4.21

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Everything Handmaids wear is red: the colour of blood, which defines us. Offred is a Handmaid in… read more

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  • feminism
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12. Je m’appelle Agneta (Agneta, #1)

By: Emma Hamberg

3.77

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

Agneta är 49 år med utflugna ungar som bara kommunicerar via Swish, äkta mannen Magnus som cyklar j… read more

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13. Changer : méthode

By: Édouard Louis

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

« Une question s’est imposée au centre de ma vie, elle a concentré toutes mes réflexions, occupé to… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
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14. Straff (Sapmitrilogin, #2)

By: Ann-Helén Laestadius

4.16

Format: 428 pages, Hardcover

Efter den stora succén med "Stöld" är Ann-Helén Laestadius tillbaka med "Straff" - en isande vacker… read more

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15. Fjollornas fest

By: Jonas Gardell

3.12

Format: 217 pages, Hardcover

Stadens fjollor skulle minnas natten den 29 juli 1971 för att Club Etoile flyttade till Piperska mu… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
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16. A Book of Days

By: Patti Smith

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award–winnin… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. Tills alla dör

By: Diamant Salihu

4.13

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Järvaområdet nordväst om Stockholm pågår en konflikt mellan gängen Dödspatrullen och Shottaz. De in… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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18. Stolen

By: Ann-Helén Laestadius

4.06

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

SOON TO BE A NETFLIX FILM Louise Erdrich meets Jo Nesbø in this spellbinding Swedish novel that fo… read more

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"Plötsligt började áhkku sjunga, högt, med klar röst. En samisk psalm. Hanna stod en bra bit bort men hon vände sig om, lyssnade och sjönk ihop, såg ut att kunna ramla. "

-Ann-Helén Laestadius, Stolen

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19. Värma händer (Böckerna om Betty, #2)

By: Katarina Widholm

3.67

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Stockholm, 1942. Den unga Betty från Hudiksvall är numera gift med sonen i doktorsfamiljen Molander… read more

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20. Käraste vänner

By: Katarina Widholm

3.56

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

Käraste vänner inleds i oktober 1949 då Betty fyller 30 år. Dagarna som hembiträde i krigets skugga… read more

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21. Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power

By: Lola Olufemi

4.43

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

More than just a slogan on a t-shirt, feminism is a radical tool for fighting back against structur… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"Feminist work is justice work"

-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power

"Legality does not equal access."

-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power

"A feminism that seeks power instead of questioning it does not care about justice."

-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power

"If feminism means freedom, it means the right to self-determination and the right to be multi-dimensional, disorganised and even incoherent."

-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power

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22. När ingen lyssnar

By: Diamant Salihu

3.93

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

I en sömnig fransk småstad inleds en osannolik kedja av händelser som ska förändra spelreglerna i k… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Gender: In World Perspective by Raewyn W. Connell

23. Gender: In World Perspective

By: Raewyn W. Connell

3.78

Format: 180 pages, None

Introducing modern gender studies, gender theories and gender politics, this text traces the histor… read more

Similar categories in Raewyn W. Connell's Gender: In World Perspective book and Raewyn W. Connell's Gender: In World Perspective

  • school
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • college
  • nonfiction
  • gender studies
  • sociology
  • queer
"The idea of a character dichotomy between women and men has been overwhelmingly, decisively, refuted. The broad psychological similarity of men and women as groups can be regarded, on the volume of e…"

-Raewyn W. Connell, Gender: In World Perspective

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24. Kvinnor, män och alla andra: en svensk genushistoria

By: Jens Rydström

3.69

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

None read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Feeling of Falling in Love by Mason Deaver

25. The Feeling of Falling in Love

By: Mason Deaver

3.80

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of I Wish You All the Best, comes a new kind of love story, about the b… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"But in my experience, I've learned that the things worth doing are what scare us the most."

-Mason Deaver, The Feeling of Falling in Love

"I don’t deserve anything but loneliness because all I do is hurt people. It’s what I’m good at. I learned from the best."

-Mason Deaver, The Feeling of Falling in Love

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26. Mask Off: Masculinity Redefined (Outspoken by Pluto)

By: J.J. Bola

3.94

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

What is masculinity? Dominating the world around us, from Trump's twitter outbursts to deadly gun v… read more

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  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • queer
"Often the weight of patriarchy is heavy, but when you've been carrying the weight for so long, you forget what it feels like to be without that weight. You start then think that carrying that weight …"

-J.J. Bola, Mask Off: Masculinity Redefined (Outspoken by Pluto)

"Patriarchy can seem ubiquitous. It can feel all consuming, all encompassing; controlling every part of your life, from the way you see yourself to the way you see others, from your relationships and …"

-J.J. Bola, Mask Off: Masculinity Redefined (Outspoken by Pluto)

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27. Un féminisme décolonial

By: Françoise Vergès

4.35

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Pourquoi le terme « féministe » est-il librement approprié à la fois par l’extrême droite, la gauch… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • gender
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28. Thread Ripper

By: Amalie Smith

4.26

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

THREAD RIPPER er en hybrid af forfatter og billedkunstner Amalie Smith med fortællende prosa og not… read more

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29. Dalenglitter: en roman om hårt arbete

By: Wanda Bendjelloul

3.16

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

Hon har brännmärken på handlederna från tiden vid fritösen. Men nu, när hon flyttats upp till kassa… read more

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30. Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present) (Volume 3)

By: J. Jack Halberstam

3.84

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

In the last decade, public discussions of transgender issues have increased exponentially. However,… read more

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  • school
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • gender
  • gender studies
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Cuando la lógica que fija la forma corporal a la práctica social desaparece, cuando las narrativas de sexo, género y corporalidad se relajan y se vuelven menos fijas en relación con la verdad, la aut…"

-J. Jack Halberstam, Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present) (Volume 3)

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31. Identitet (BeGreppbart)

By: Nils Hammarén

3.07

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Identitet är ett mångbottnat och laddat begrepp som berör allt från förändrade könsstrukturer och m… read more

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4.43

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3.91

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3.94

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