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Women Icons

All-time favorites around the perspectives and lives of women

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You often ask for recommendations of great books written by women. Here are some of our all-time favorites which give insight on the female perspective.

Women Icons

All-time favorites around the perspectives and lives of women

Women, Race and Class
Women, Race and Class
Angela Y. Davis
An Alternative View of the Feminist Struggle for Liberation
19 min4.4
A Room of One’s Own
A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf
An Essential Literary and Feminist Text
21 min4.5
Finding Me
Finding Me
Viola Davis
A Memoir
23 min4.6
Crying in H Mart
Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner
A Memoir
20 min4.2
Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor
Kate Andersen Brower
The Grit and Glamour of an Icon
17 min4.2
My Life in Full
My Life in Full
Indra Nooyi
Work, Family, and Our Future
26 min4.1
Becoming
Becoming
Michelle Obama
Teaser: The intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States
36 min4.4
We Should All Be Feminists
We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Teaser: Why Femenism is the key to a better world
12 min3.9
The Second Sex*
The Second Sex*
Simone de Beauvoir
Teaser: The feminist classic about how woman has been shaped into the “other” sex
35 min4.4
The Beauty Myth
The Beauty Myth
Naomi Wolf
How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
13 min4.3
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft
Teaser: A masterpiece of feminist philosophy
10 min4.2
Women and Power
Women and Power
Mary Beard
A Manifesto
23 min4.1
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
Teaser: The famous story of a Jewish girl who went into hiding during the Second World War
31 min4.8
Know My Name
Know My Name
Chanel Miller
A Memoir
26 min4.6
Men Explain Things To Me
Men Explain Things To Me
Rebecca Solnit
And Other Essays
12 min3.8

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