16 Top nonfiction books like On the Meaning of Sex: Thoughts about the New Definition of Woman by Kajsa Ekis Ekman

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On the Meaning of Sex: Thoughts about the New Definition of Woman

By: Kajsa Ekis Ekman

4.22

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

A new definition of woman has taken hold in Western societies. Instead of a matter of biology and m…

"For women, gender identity theory makes sex that which we cannot flee from and that which we are not permitted to keep."

-Kajsa Ekis Ekman, On the Meaning of Sex: Thoughts about the New Definition of Woman

"For women, gender identity theory makes sex that which we cannot flee from and that which we are not permitted to keep."

-Kajsa Ekis Ekman, On the Meaning of Sex: Thoughts about the New Definition of Woman

"For women, gender identity theory makes sex that which we cannot flee from and that which we are not permitted to keep."

-Kajsa Ekis Ekman, On the Meaning of Sex: Thoughts about the New Definition of Woman

"The trans issue is repeatedly used as a pretext to stop discussing sex and power. Suddenly, it is 'sensitive' to speak about men and women. But is it a new thing, or is it the same old misogynist sentiment returning in a new guise."

-Kajsa Ekis Ekman, On the Meaning of Sex: Thoughts about the New Definition of Woman

If you liked the nonfiction plot in On the Meaning of Sex: Thoughts about the New Definition of Woman by Kajsa Ekis Ekman , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of Colazione da Tiffany by Truman Capote, Bruno Tasso

1. Colazione da Tiffany

By: Truman Capote , Bruno Tasso

3.72

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Holly Golightly, la protagonista di questo estroso romanzo breve, è una cover-girl di New York, att… read more

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2. Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality

By: Gail Dines

3.77

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

Professor Gail Dines has written about and researched the porn industry for over two decades. She a… read more

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  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
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3. Regretting Motherhood

By: Orna Donath

4.10

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Women who opt not to be mothers are frequently warned that they will regret their decision later in… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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4. Intercourse

By: Ariel Levy , Andrea Dworkin

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
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5. 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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  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction

6. Pornography: Men Possessing Women

By: Andrea Dworkin

3.00

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

This volume presents a study of the damaging effect of pornography and its ramifications on society. read more

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7. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

By: Silvia Federici

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Literary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism… read more

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8. The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade

By: Sheila Jeffreys

4.20

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

The industrialization of prostitution and the sex trade has created a multibillion-dollar global ma… read more

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9. The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution

By: None

4.71

Format: None pages,

"No one can understand how feminism has evolved without reading this radical, inflammatory second-w… read more

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Cover of Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier

10. Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters

By: Abigail Shrier

4.14

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

Irreversible Damage is an exploration of a mystery: Why, in the last decade, has the diagnosis "gen… read more

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  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
"Women feel things deeply. We empathize. For good reason, when asked to identify their best friend, most men name their wives; most women name another woman."

-Abigail Shrier, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters

"For those of you who have ever been an adolescent or attempted the toe-curling, hair-whitening endeavor of raising one—hold your laughter. Resist the urge to squeal out loud at the preposterous notio…"

-Abigail Shrier, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters

"Nearly every novel problem teenagers face traces itself back to 2007 and the introduction of Steve Jobs’s iPhone. In fact, the explosion in self-harm can be so precisely pinpointed to the introductio…"

-Abigail Shrier, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters

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11. Moi les hommes, je les déteste

By: Pauline Harmange

3.82

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

" Je vois dans la misandrie une porte de sortie. Une manière d'exister en dehors du passage clouté,… read more

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  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
"Les modèles qu’on inculque sont nocifs dans les deux cas : ni la violence qu’on encourage chez les garçons ni la passivité qu’on impose aux filles ne sont des réponses appropriées, pour soi comme pou…"

-Pauline Harmange, Moi les hommes, je les déteste

"Ce n'est pas pour cracher dans la soupe, mais il faut être honnête: non, mon amoureux n'est pas parfait. Il ne me viole pas et ne me frappe pas, il fait la vaisselle, passe l'aspirateur et me traite …"

-Pauline Harmange, Moi les hommes, je les déteste

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12. Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism

By: Kathleen Stock

4.22

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

'A clear, concise, easy-to-read account of the issues between sex, gender and feminism . . . an imp… read more

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  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
"I am critical of gender identity theory – but not of trans people, for whom I have friendly sympathy and respect."

-Kathleen Stock, Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism

"The background assumption seems to be that, paradoxically, by identifying and discussing socially produced inequalities, we further entrench them; whereas if we ignore them, perhaps they will go away."

-Kathleen Stock, Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism

"A first thing to note, in case it’s unclear, is that I am not arguing against legal protections for trans people against violence, discrimination or coercive surgeries. I enthusiastically support the…"

-Kathleen Stock, Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism

"And perhaps most awkwardly, they have been left unable properly to explain why, internationally, half the population in a given culture might be disproportionately subject to specific experiences lik…"

-Kathleen Stock, Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism

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13. 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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  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
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14. Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality

By: Helen Joyce

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Gender identity ideology is about more than twitter storms and using the right pronouns. In just te… read more

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  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
"Most people are in the dark about what is being demanded by transactivists. They understand the call for ‘trans rights’ to mean compassionate concessions that enable a suffering minority to live full…"

-Helen Joyce, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality

"On the Right, the extremists are white ethno-nationalist majoritarians; on the Left, they are identitarians who see progress as a process of bringing one marginalized group after another in from the …"

-Helen Joyce, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality

"What same-sex marriage, women's franchise and the end of segregation all have in common is that they extend the rights of a privileged group to everyone. And when people hear the phrase 'trans rights…"

-Helen Joyce, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality

"In the spread of gender-identity ideology, developments in academia played a crucial role. This is not the place for an extended critique of the thinking that evolved on American campuses out of the …"

-Helen Joyce, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality

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15. Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism

By: Janice G. Raymond

4.30

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

In an age when falsehoods are commonly taken as truth, Janice Raymond’s new book illuminates the ‘d… read more

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  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
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16. Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs

By: Johann Hari

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the drugs u… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Any Girl: A Memoir of Sexual Exploitation and Recovery by Mia Döring

17. Any Girl: A Memoir of Sexual Exploitation and Recovery

By: Mia Döring

4.14

Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition

"It became untenable for me to remain silent about a part of my life I had long kept secret. I had … read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"It comes down to this: if men believed that sex was a mutual activity between two human beings based on equal respect and power, the sex trade would not exist."

-Mia Döring, Any Girl: A Memoir of Sexual Exploitation and Recovery

"They want the woman to be a sexual machine and do everything asked of her without refusal or complaint, but they also want her to fake that she’s not a sexual machine. She must look happy doing it. S…"

-Mia Döring, Any Girl: A Memoir of Sexual Exploitation and Recovery

"Agreeing to something does not make that thing any less harmful for our bodies or minds. It is psychologically exhausting, damaging and toxic to fake a connection to someone, especially a sexual conn…"

-Mia Döring, Any Girl: A Memoir of Sexual Exploitation and Recovery

"Re-enacting trauma means putting yourself in similar situations or places to the original trauma, or finding similar people, and to create a new narrative in an attempt, this time, to be in control, …"

-Mia Döring, Any Girl: A Memoir of Sexual Exploitation and Recovery

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18. Feminism for Women: The Real Route to Liberation

By: Julie Bindel

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Part feminist manifesto, part call to arms, Feminism for Women is a radical, new exploration of fem… read more

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  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
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19. On the Meaning of Sex: Thoughts about the New Definition of Woman

By: Kajsa Ekis Ekman

4.22

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

A new definition of woman has taken hold in Western societies. Instead of a matter of biology and m… read more

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  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
"For women, gender identity theory makes sex that which we cannot flee from and that which we are not permitted to keep."

-Kajsa Ekis Ekman, On the Meaning of Sex: Thoughts about the New Definition of Woman

"The trans issue is repeatedly used as a pretext to stop discussing sex and power. Suddenly, it is 'sensitive' to speak about men and women. But is it a new thing, or is it the same old misogynist sen…"

-Kajsa Ekis Ekman, On the Meaning of Sex: Thoughts about the New Definition of Woman

"The new political figure known as the cis woman really only has one task: to come in second place. This is a task that all cis women must approach with the utmost seriousness and they must understand…"

-Kajsa Ekis Ekman, On the Meaning of Sex: Thoughts about the New Definition of Woman

"If sex-based oppression really was only a cultural construct, would it perhaps go away if we ceased naming it - is that why other systems of domination, such as racism or homophobia, still insist on …"

-Kajsa Ekis Ekman, On the Meaning of Sex: Thoughts about the New Definition of Woman

Cover of Penile Imperialism: The Male Sex Right and Women's Subordination by Sheila Jeffreys

20. Penile Imperialism: The Male Sex Right and Women's Subordination

By: Sheila Jeffreys

4.07

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

In this blisteringly persuasive and piercingly intelligent book, Sheila Jeffreys argues that women … read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"An industry created to satisfy the male sex right came to create the culture in which women had to survive."

-Sheila Jeffreys, Penile Imperialism: The Male Sex Right and Women's Subordination

"For women to share in the rights and opportunities considered important for men, the abolition of sexual harassment is a necessity."

-Sheila Jeffreys, Penile Imperialism: The Male Sex Right and Women's Subordination

"A feminist critique is fundamentally undermined by using female pronouns for men or referring to them in any way as if they were women."

-Sheila Jeffreys, Penile Imperialism: The Male Sex Right and Women's Subordination

"The advantage of adding 'gender identity' to hate crimes legislation for transgender rights activists is that it provides a way to defeat feminists by making their criticism of the transgender projec…"

-Sheila Jeffreys, Penile Imperialism: The Male Sex Right and Women's Subordination

Cover of Freedom Fallacy: The Limits of Liberal Feminism by Miranda Kiraly

21. Freedom Fallacy: The Limits of Liberal Feminism

By: Miranda Kiraly

4.07

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Feminism is back in fashion. From female celebrities to male politicians, it seems almost everyone … read more

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  • gender
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