Books like Women and history
Women and history by Gerda Lerner reads as academic, analytical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
What Women and history is like to read
A rigorous, theoretically grounded examination of how to center women's lived experience within historical methodology and narrative—advancing feminist historiography as epistemological practice. Best for: historians, feminist scholars, graduate students in history/gender studies, academics invested in historiographical praxis.
Masculinities
R. W. Connell · 1995
A dense sociological argument that dismantles the idea of a single masculinity, working through theory and evidence to map power hierarchies among men; the reading experience is in
How Sex Changed
Joanne J. Meyerowitz · 2002
Matches the academic, analytical mood, carried on quick, propulsive pacing.
Sexuality, gender and power
Anna G. Jónasdóttir · 2010
Matches the analytical, critical mood, carried on quick, propulsive pacing.
Dangerous sexualities
Frank Mort · 1984
Matches the analytical, critical mood, carried on quick, propulsive pacing.
Surpassing the Love of Men
Lillian Faderman · 1981
A rigorous, wide-ranging historical study tracing five centuries of romantic and intimate friendships between women, moving through literary and popular sources to show how sexuality's meaning has shifted over time.
Sex wars
Lisa Duggan · 1995
Matches the analytical, critical mood, carried on quick, propulsive pacing.
Between Men
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick · 1985
A dense, closely argued work of literary criticism that rewards patient, theory-fluent readers with a foundational reframing of desire and power between men across canonical texts.
The science question in feminism
Sandra G. Harding · 1986
Matches the academic, critical mood, carried on quick, propulsive pacing.
Q & A
David L. Eng · 1998
A close nonfiction relative — matched on how it reads, with steady pacing.
War plays by women
Claire M. Tylee · 1999
A close nonfiction relative — matched on how it reads, with steady pacing.
Women and the war story
Miriam Cooke · 1996
A close nonfiction relative — matched on how it reads, with steady pacing.
The Dialectic of Sex
Shulamith Firestone · 1970
A fierce, argument-driven synthesis of Marx, Freud, Engels and de Beauvoir into a revolutionary feminist theory — dense, polemical, and unapologetically systematic.
About Women and history — what the genome says
Who is Women and history for?
historians, feminist scholars, graduate students in history/gender studies, academics invested in historiographical praxis
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