The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain
By: Gina Rippon
3.88
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
For decades if not centuries, science has backed up society’s simple dictum that men and women are …
Want to Read $ 9.99"Stereotypes could be straitjackening our flexible, plastic brains. So, yes, challenging them does matter."-Gina Rippon, The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain
"Stereotypes could be straitjackening our flexible, plastic brains. So, yes, challenging them does matter."-Gina Rippon, The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain
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1. Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
By: Julia Serano
4.26
Format: 390 pages, Paperback
A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woma… read more
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- feminism
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"Rather than focusing on “shattering the gender binary,"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
"It is offensive that so many people feel that it is okay to publicly refer to transsexuals as being “pre-op"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
"[I]magine what would happen if, instead of centering our beliefs about heterosexual sex around the idea that the man “penetrates"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
"The most radical thing that any of us can do is to stop projecting our beliefs about gender onto other people's behaviors and bodies"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
2. Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
By: Angela Saini
4.06
Format: 285 pages,
From intelligence to emotion, for centuries science has told us that men and women are fundamentall… read more
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- womens
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3. Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
By: Cordelia Fine
4.22
Format: 72 pages, Hardcover
It's the twenty-first century, and although we tried to rear unisex children--boys who play with do… read more
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4. No Priest But Love: The Journals, 1824-1826
By: Anne Lister , Helena Whitbread
4.60
Format: 645 pages, Paperback
"One may take delight in what is here: the souvenir of an unabashed and often triumphant erotic lif… read more
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5. The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
By: Anne Lister , Helena Whitbread
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
Anne Lister defied the role of womanhood seen in the novels of Jane Austen: she was bold, fiercely … read more
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6. Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
By: Kit Heyam
4.30
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity Today’s narratives about trans people … read more
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"It’s not as simple as saying that ‘while the terminology is new, the experiences are not.’ The advent of new terminology can genuinely shift how we think about gender, as well as what names we give t…"-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
"It's important that we, as historians or as queer people, don't treat gender and sexuality as two things that use to be entangled but have now been teased apart. There can be a tendency in white quee…"-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
7. Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
By: Cordelia Fine
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
“Beliefs about men and women are as old as humanity itself, but Fine’s funny, spiky book gives reas… read more
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"Our sexuality is body, culture, age, learning, habit, fantasies, worries, passions, and the relationships in which all these elements combine. That’s why sexuality can change with age, partner, exper…"-Cordelia Fine, Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
"Here’s another example that some overworked mothers might find inspiring. We saw in Chapter 2 that being the one who produces the sperm doesn’t dictate, by universal principle, that parenting is out …"-Cordelia Fine, Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
8. Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women
By: Victoria Smith
3.67
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
What is about about women in their forties and beyond that seems to enrage - almost everyone? In… read more
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9. 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
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"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?
10. Elementary: The Periodic Table Explained
By: James M. Russell
3.71
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
The periodic table, created in the early 1860s by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, marked one of t… read more
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11. Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong
By: Katie Gee Salisbury
3.99
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Set against the glittering backdrop of Los Angeles during the gin-soaked Jazz Age and the rise of H… read more
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12. The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain
By: Gina Rippon
3.88
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
For decades if not centuries, science has backed up society’s simple dictum that men and women are … read more
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- neuroscience
- gender studies
- nonfiction
- womens
- audiobook
"Stereotypes could be straitjackening our flexible, plastic brains. So, yes, challenging them does matter."-Gina Rippon, The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain
13. The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World
By: Jamil Zaki
3.96
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
"In this masterpiece, Jamil Zaki weaves together the very latest science with stories that will sta… read more
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"Novels and stories give people the chance to experience countless lives."-Jamil Zaki, The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World
"People who believe in themselves do things that give them even more reason to believe. They adopt habits of mind that work over the long term."-Jamil Zaki, The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World
"Fiction is empathy's gateway drug. It helps us feel for others when real-world caring is too difficult, complicated or painful. Because of this, it can restore bonds between people even when that see…"-Jamil Zaki, The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World
"Bring people together, and they'll awaken to their common humanity. A similar thought led Mark Twain to quip, "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people nee…"-Jamil Zaki, The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World
14. Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination
By: Alexandra Minna Stern
3.82
Format: 186 pages, Hardcover
A critical exploration of the core ideas of the alt-right--necessary reading for all who seek to co… read more
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15. Gender Mosaic: Beyond the Myth of the Male and Female Brain
By: Daphna Joel
3.85
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
With profound implications for our most foundational assumptions about gender, Gender Mosaic explai… read more
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16. Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
By: Kate Manne
4.22
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. What is misogyny, exactly? Who deserves to b… read more
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- feminism
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- nonfiction
- womens
"Sexism is hence to bad science as misogyny is to moralism. Sexism wears a lab coat; misogyny goes on witch hunts."-Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
"Women may not be simply human beings but positioned as human givers when it comes to the dominant men who look to them for various kinds of moral support, admiration, attention, and so on."-Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
"For one such: women positioned in relations of asymmetrical moral support with men have historically been required to show him moral respect, approval, admiration, sympathy, and concern. When she bre…"-Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
"For one such: women positioned in relations of asymmetrical moral support with men have historically been required to show him moral respect, approval, admiration, sympathy, and concern. When she bre…"-Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
17. Beklaute Frauen
By: Leonie Schöler
4.64
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
Wie Frauen Geschichte schrieben – und Männer dafür den Ruhm bekamenMuse, Sekretärin, Ehefrau – es g… read more
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18. The Z Word
By: Lindsay King-Miller
3.48
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
“Sexy, scathing, delightful, and intimately devastating.”—Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt… read more
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19. Let's Be Honest
By: Jess Phillips
4.27
Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition
Can you imagine a world where politics functioned, every politician told the truth, and the governm… read more
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20. Born This Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement
By: Joanna Wuest
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The story of how a biologically driven understanding of gender and sexuality became central to US L… read more
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21. The Cost of Sexism
By: Linda Scott
4.35
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
A GUARDIAN SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENC… read more
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