Books like The Female Malady

The Female Malady by Elaine Showalter reads as academic, critical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

The creation of patriarchy

Gerda Lerner · 1986

Both explore gender-roles & women's-history

70% genome match

Reason & violence

R. D. Laing · 1964

Both explore psychiatry

66% genome match

Understanding Power

Noam Chomsky · 2002

Same nonfiction feel

58% genome match

Seeing Like a State

James C. Scott · 1998

Same nonfiction feel

58% genome match

Homo Ludens

Johan Huizinga · 1938

Same nonfiction feel

56% genome match

Gender and Power

R. W. Connell · 1987

Same nonfiction feel

56% genome match

A literature of their own

Elaine Showalter · 1975

Same nonfiction feel

54% genome match

Le Deuxième Sexe

Simone de Beauvoir · 1949

Same nonfiction feel

50% genome match

Müdigkeitsgesellschaft

Byung-Chul Han · 2010

Same nonfiction feel

52% genome match

The Lesbian and gay studies reader

Henry Abelove · 1993

Same nonfiction feel

56% genome match

Forbidden knowledge

Roger Shattuck · 1996

Same nonfiction feel

50% genome match

La distinction

Pierre Bourdieu · 1979

Same nonfiction feel

52% genome match