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Gender

1. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

   Mary Wollstonecraft, Deidre Shauna Lynch

   Third Edition

   Arguably the most original book of the eighteenth century, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is a pioneering feminist work.More

2. Breaking the Bowls: Degendering and Feminist Change

   Judith Lorber

   In Breaking the Bowls, the sequel to Paradoxes of Gender, Judith Lorber shows the cracks, anomalies, and resistances that are breaking down the gendered social order in Western post-industrial societies and lays out how we can take this process further by deliberate degendering.More

3. Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons

   Lynn Peril

   From board games to beauty pageants, a smart, witty, pop-culture history of the perilous path to achieving the feminine ideal.More

4. The Feminine Mystique

   Betty Friedan, Anna Quindlen

   The book that changed the consciousness of a country—and the world.More

5. Surviving the Silence: Black Women's Stories of Rape

   Charlotte Pierce-Baker

   In this "intelligent", "stunning", and "honest" book, Charlotte Pierce-Baker weaves together the accounts of black women who have been raped and who have felt that they had to remain silent in order to protect themselves and their race.
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6. The Improvised Woman: Single Women Reinventing Single Life

   Marcelle Clements

   "A remarkable new book. . . . Marcelle Clements's The Improvised Woman has that exhilarating Eureka! quality. . . . In its modest, quizzical way, The Improvised Woman is a visionary work." —MirabellaMore

7. Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation

   Steven Levenkron

   The author of the seminal and groundbreaking Treating and Overcoming Anorexia Nervosa now explains the phenomena of self-mutilation, a disorder that affects as many as two million Americans.More

8. Secret Paths: Women in the New Midlife

   Terri Apter

   "The author of Altered Loves . . . now turns her analytical eye toward middle-aged women. The result is both lively and revealing." --New York Times Book ReviewMore

9. Flying Solo: Single Women in Midlife

   Carol M. Anderson, Sona Dimidjian, Susan Stewart

   A groundbreaking book portraying the new American lifestyle of single midlife women.More

10. Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

    Elizabeth Wayland Barber

    "A fascinating history of . . . [a craft] that preceded and made possible civilization itself." —New York Times Book ReviewMore

11. The Neurotic Personality of Our Time

    Karen Horney

    In this work, Karen Horney explores the basic structure of neuroses in the context of their cultural assumptions.More

12. Feminine Psychology

    Karen Horney

    As a psychoanalytic pioneer, Karen Horney questioned some of Freud's formulations of psychosexual development, particularly in relation to women.More

13. Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neurosis

    Karen Horney

    Here Karen Horney develops a dynamic theory of neurosis centered on the basic conflict among attitudes of "moving forward" "moving against," and "moving away from" people.More

14. Final Lectures

    Karen Horney, Douglas H. Ingram

    This book presents the lectures Karen Horney gave her class on psychoanalytic technique during the last year of her life.More

15. Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization

    Karen Horney