Books like La politique du mâle

La politique du mâle by Kate Millett reads as critical, academic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Le Deuxième Sexe

Simone de Beauvoir · 1949

Both explore feminism & patriarchy

60% genome match

Three guineas

Virginia Woolf · 1938

Both explore feminism & patriarchy

62% genome match

The obstacle race

Germaine Greer · 1979

Both explore feminism & patriarchy

76% genome match

Woman Hating

Andrea Dworkin · 1974

Both explore patriarchy & feminism

73% genome match

A literature of their own

Elaine Showalter · 1975

Both explore feminism & literary criticism

72% genome match

The beauty myth : how images of beauty are used against women

Naomi Wolf · 1990

Both explore feminism & gender roles

64% genome match

Woman in sexist society ; studies in power and powerlessness

Vivian Gornick · 1971

Both explore feminism & patriarchy

71% genome match

The madwoman in the attic

Sandra M. Gilbert · 1979

Both explore feminism & literary criticism

66% genome match

Feminist theory

bell hooks · 1984

Both explore feminism & patriarchy

63% genome match

The Dialectic of Sex

Shulamith Firestone · 1970

Both explore patriarchy & gender roles

63% genome match

The Sadeian woman

Angela Carter · 1978

Both explore feminism & gender roles

67% genome match

Against our will: men, women and rape

Susan Brownmiller · 1975

Both explore patriarchy

63% genome match