Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
By: Amanda Montell
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The word "bitch" conjures many images for many people but is most often meant to describe an unplea…
Want to Read $ 16.99"Language pedantry is snobbery and snobbery is prejudice,"-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
"Language pedantry is snobbery and snobbery is prejudice,"-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
"One of the burdens of being a woman is the imperative to be nice."-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
"Hitler wasn’t any less fascist because he could write a coherent sentence."-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
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1. Rouge
By: Mona Awad
3.56
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more
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- adult
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."-Mona Awad, Rouge
"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"-Mona Awad, Rouge
"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"-Mona Awad, Rouge
2. Men Who Hate Women
By: Laura Bates
4.34
Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition
The first comprehensive undercover look at the terrorist movement no one is talking about. Men W… read more
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- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- social justice
- womens
- sociology
"Incels use the metaphor of the red pill to describe the moment a man's blinkers fall away and he suddenly realizes that he has been lied to his whole life. The world that he has been forced to believ…"-Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women
"When incels do occasionally crop up in news reports or conversations, they're so easily dismissed as a tiny fringe group of online weirdos. What you hear about them sounds so strange, so extreme, so …"-Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women
3. Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
By: Amanda Montell
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The word "bitch" conjures many images for many people but is most often meant to describe an unplea… read more
Want to Read $ 16.99Similar categories in Amanda Montell's Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language book and Amanda Montell's Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
- linguistics
- history
- language
- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- social justice
- womens
- adult
- sociology
"Language pedantry is snobbery and snobbery is prejudice,"-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
"One of the burdens of being a woman is the imperative to be nice."-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
"Hitler wasn’t any less fascist because he could write a coherent sentence."-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
"Anytime language reform happens, it has to happen in the context of social change,"-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
4. On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good
By: Elise Loehnen
3.80
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking exploration of the ancient rules women unwittingly follow in order to be considere… read more
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- history
- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- womens
- adult
"When you don't stop, you don't have to feel."-Elise Loehnen, On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good
5. “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People
By: Aubrey Gordon
4.33
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the fac… read more
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- feminism
- adult
- nonfiction
- social justice
6. Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion
By: Gabrielle Stanley Blair
4.51
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
In Ejaculate Responsibly, Gabrielle Blair offers a provocative reframing of the abortion issue in p… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- social justice
- womens
- sociology
7. Butts: A Backstory
By: Heather Radke
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big… read more
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- history
- feminism
- nonfiction
- adult
- sociology
"Garment makers are rarely in the business of making clothes that will work for actual people. Instead, they cater to a fantasy of who the customer hopes to be."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"To see your butt, you need the cocoon of mirrors of a dressing room, the cumbersome triangulation of a hand mirror in a bedroom, or an awkwardly held smartphone."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it. We invent bustles and girdles and exercise videos and cabbage diets and siz…"-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
8. Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier
By: Marisa Meltzer
3.32
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The bombshell exposé that reveals—for the first time—exactly what happened at Glossier, one of Amer… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
"Glossier is about much more than aesthetic appearance; it has become a way for people to feel connected to bigger beliefs, to feel like their daily choices are having an impact, and that they are put…"-Marisa Meltzer, Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier
9. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
By: Cat Bohannon
4.32
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- history
- womens
10. Yellowface
By: R.F. Kuang
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says… read more
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- adult
"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
11. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
By: Caroline Criado Pérez
4.35
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and… read more
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- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- social justice
- womens
- sociology
"When planners fail to account for gender, public spaces become male spaces by default."-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
"It's not always easy to convince someone a need exists, if they don't have that need themselves."-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
"You don’t have to realise you’re being discriminated against to in fact be discriminated against."-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
"There is no such thing as a woman who doesn’t work. There is only a woman who isn’t paid for her work."-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
12. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- social justice
- sociology
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
13. Pageboy
By: Elliot Page
3.75
Format: 271 pages, None
Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
"Her visibility meant the world to me. I think about this as I walk through the world now."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"In a world where queerness all too often alienates us from blood, I am grateful to Julia, and the family I have chosen. Without them, I wouldn't be here."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"I could block myself out, I was a person I didn't know, I'd gaze into what felt like the universe, my eye a planet of its own. I must be somewhere in there, I'd think."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
14. Sociopath: A Memoir
By: Patric Gagne
3.84
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own soci… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
15. Down the Drain
By: Julia Fox
4.40
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
Julia Fox is famous for many her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film Uncut G… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
"I want to love him but I often find myself wishing he could just be an asshole all the time. This way I wouldn't have all these inner battles with myself. I learn to navigate my way through shattered…"-Julia Fox, Down the Drain
16. Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing
By: Emily Lynn Paulson
3.62
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
She signed up for the sisterhood, free cars, and the promise of a successful business of her own. I… read more
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- feminism
- adult
- nonfiction
- sociology
17. One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
By: Kate Kennedy
3.78
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
From pop culture podcaster and a voice of a generation, Kate Kennedy, a celebration of the millenni… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- adult
- history
"Why would I ever let someone who drafts make-believe football teams make me believe I should be embarrassed by my interests?"-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
"Pregnancy loss...is an open wound with the most vulnerable scab, forced to constantly replenish its surface-level protection as it's picked at daily, not by you, but inadvertently by other people's j…"-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
"I'm a weird contradiction of someone who pursues and values traditions but tries to reject the parts that are oppressive, unfair or unnecessary, because we can adapt things to who we are, not to who …"-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
"That's the thing about girlhood. You and your friends have to take yourselves seriously, because no one else will. We had to keep our emotional behavior to diary pages and fangirl in private, perform…"-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
18. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
By: Mikki Kendall
4.37
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream femi… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- social justice
- womens
- adult
"Poverty is an apocalypse in slow motion, inexorable and generational."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
"I tell you this story because sometimes the story of your life is the story of a lot of lives."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
"Mainstream, white-centered feminism hasn't just failed women of color, it has failed white women."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
"Ignoring the treatment of the most marginalized women doesn't set a standard that can protect any woman."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
19. Big Swiss
By: Jen Beagin
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is … read more
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- adult
"¿Habla más de un idioma?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"You bullied other bullies,"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
20. 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
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- history
- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- adult
- sociology
"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
21. Annie Bot
By: Sierra Greer
3.83
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner, Doug. Designed to satisfy h… read more
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- feminism
- adult
