Introduction to Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies

This book includes a diversity of women’s lived experiences and provides framing feminist concepts such as intersectionality. It strives to have students consider privilege, systems of oppression, and diversity of experience.

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This book should be mandatory reading for all adults in the 21st century, as it sheds light on the severity of oppression by patriarchy and how it deprives women of agency. Beauvoir exposes the mechanisms of patriarchal oppression, breaking down the foundations of male dominance in societies.

This is a historical account of feminism that looks at the roots of feminism, voting rights, and the liberation of the sixties, and analyzes the current situation of women across Europe, in the United States, and elsewhere in the world, particularly the Third World countries.