gender studies theoretical works for those who wish to delve into this field!! (it is immensely extensive and acts as umbrella term for many other fields)
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Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
Lillian Faderman
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft
Stone Butch Blues
Leslie Feinberg
Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
José Esteban Muñoz
Women, Race & Class
Angela Y. Davis
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
bell hooks
Cartographies of Diaspora: Contesting Identities (Gender, Racism, Ethnicity Series)
Avtar Brah
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Audre Lorde
Profit and Pleasure: Sexual Identities in Late Capitalism
Rosemary Hennessy
Bisexual Spaces
Clare Hemmings
Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution
Shiri Eisner
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us
Kate Bornstein
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Michel Foucault
Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution
Susan Stryker
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
Donna J. Haraway
Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
Anne Fausto-Sterling
American Manhood: Transformations In Masculinity From The Revolution To The Modern Era
E. Anthony Rotundo
Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era
Michael S. Kimmel
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
Adrienne Rich
A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
Julia Kristeva
Posthuman Feminism
Rosi Braidotti
Sexual / Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory
Toril Moi
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
The Laugh of the Medusa
Hélène Cixous
The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Maricones de antaño: Historias LGBT de la historia
Ramón Martínez
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