Gender Issues

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: The Classic Guide to Understanding the Opposite Sex

• ABRIDGED (1 hr and 33 mins)
• By John Gray
• Narrated By John Gray

Once upon a time Martians and Venusians met, fell in love, and had happy relationships together because they respected and accepted their differences. Then they came to Earth and amnesia set in: They forgot they were from different planets.

The Wife Drought

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Annabel Crabb
• Narrated By Annabel Crabb
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'I need a wife'. It's a common joke among women juggling work and family, but it's no joke. Having a spouse who takes care of things at home is a godsend on the domestic front and an asset on the work front and is an advantage enjoyed by vastly more men than women. Full of candid and funny stories from politics and the media, The Wife Drought shares intriguing research about the attitudes pulsing beneath the surface of egalitarian Australia.

I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn’t): Telling the Truth about Perfectionism, Inadequacy, and Power

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Brené Brown
• Narrated By Lauren Fortgang
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Based on seven years of ground-breaking research and hundreds of interviews, I Thought It Was Just Me shines a long-overdue light on an important truth: Our imperfections are what connect us to each other and to our humanity. Our vulnerabilities are not weaknesses; they are powerful reminders to keep our hearts and minds open to the reality that we're all in this together.

Bad Feminist

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Roxane Gay
• Narrated By Laurel Lefkow
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Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink - all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once live-tweeted the September issue.

Vagina: A New Biography

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Naomi Wolf
• Narrated By Therese Plummer

When an unexpected medical crisis sends Naomi Wolf on a deeply personal journey to tease out the intersections between sexuality and creativity, she discovers, much to her own astonishment, an increasing body of scientific evidence that suggests that the vagina is not merely flesh, but an intrinsic component of the female brain - and thus has a fundamental connection to female consciousness itself.

The Way of Men

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Jack Donovan
• Narrated By Jack Donovan
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What is masculinity? Ask ten men and you'll get ten vague, conflicting answers. Unlike any book of its kind, The Way of Men offers a simple, straightforward answer - without getting bogged down in religion, morality, or politics. It's a guide for understanding who men have been and the challenges men face today. The Way of Men captures the silent, stifling rage of men everywhere who find themselves at odds with the overregulated, overcivilized, politically correct modern world.

Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Laurie Penny
• Narrated By Jo Hall

This is a book about poverty and prejudice, online dating and eating disorders, and lies on the television. The backlash is on against sexual freedom for men and women and social justice. Penny speaks for a new feminism that is about justice and equality. It’s about the freedom to be who we are, to love who we choose, to invent new gender roles, and to speak out fiercely against those who would deny us those rights.

The Feminine Mystique

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Betty Friedan
• Narrated By Parker Posey

The book that changed the consciousness of a country - and the world. Landmark, groundbreaking, classic - these adjectives barely describe the earthshaking and long-lasting effects of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. This is the book that defined "the problem that has no name," that launched the Second Wave of the feminist movement, and has been awakening women and men with its insights into social relations, which still remain fresh, ever since.

We Should All Be Feminists

• UNABRIDGED (45 mins)
• By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Narrated By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

'I would like to ask that we begin to dream about and plan for a different world. A fairer world. A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: we must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently....' What does feminism mean today? In this personal, eloquently argued essay - adapted from her much-admired TEDx talk of the same name - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offers listeners a unique definition of feminism for the 21st century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness.

Men Explains Things to Me

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Rebecca Solnit
• Narrated By Lucy Christian Bell

Rebecca Solnit's essay 'Men Explain Things to Me' has become a touchstone of the feminist movement, inspired the term 'mansplaining', and established Solnit as one of the leading feminist thinkers of our time - one who has inspired everyone from radical activists to Beyonce Knowles. Collected here in print for the first time is the essay itself, along with the best of Solnit's feminist writings.

A Room of One's Own

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 1 min)
• By Virginia Woolf
• Narrated By Juliet Stevenson
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A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics. Woolf's blazing polemic on female creativity, the role of the writer, and the silent fate of Shakespeare's imaginary sister remains a powerful reminder of a woman's need for financial independence and intellectual freedom.

How to Be a Woman

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Caitlin Moran
• Narrated By Caitlin Moran
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1913 - Suffragette throws herself under the King's horse. 1969 - Feminists storm Miss World. Now - Caitlin Moran rewrites "The Female Eunuch" from a bar stool and demands to know why pants are getting smaller. There's never been a better time to be a woman: we have the vote and the Pill, and we haven't been burnt as witches since 1727. However, a few nagging questions do remain.... Why are we supposed to get Brazilians? Should you get Botox? Do men secretly hate us? What should you call your vagina?

Pussy: A Reclamation

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 32 mins)
• By Regena Thomashauer
• Narrated By Regena Thomashauer
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Get ready to encounter a book that will change your experience as a woman in a powerful new way. Author, educator, and School of Womanly Arts founder Regena Thomashauer has been working with women for the past 25 years, and what began as just a few women in her living room has since grown into a global movement with thousands of graduates worldwide.

Finding Your Voice: What Every Woman Needs to Live Her God-Given Passions Out Loud

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Natalie Grant
• Narrated By Natalie Grant
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In a culture that praises blending in over standing out, productivity over purpose, and noise over truth, many women find their God-given voices compromised, quieted, or even mocked. We all long to live out our divinely designed passions and unique talents, yet too often it becomes so much easier in the face of opposition to stay silent altogether. What if God is calling you to so much more?

Feminism: Bolinda Beginner Guides

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Sally Scholz
• Narrated By Andrea Powell

Feminism is arguably the most significant social movement of the last century and it is far from over. But what appears as a single, unified movement on behalf of women’s liberation is really a fascinating coalition of social and political causes, goals, and ideals. By highlighting the themes that form the enduring nexuses between the three ‘waves’, taking powerful examples from feminist campaigns, and tackling timely issues such as genocide and war rape, Scholtz invites us to join in with the lively debates.

Secrets of Six-Figure Women: Surprising Strategies to up Your Earnings and Change Your Life

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Barbara Stanny
• Narrated By Vanessa Daniels

Quietly and steadily, the number of women making six figures or more is increasing and continues to rise at a rate faster than for men. From entrepreneurs to corporate executives, from white-collar professionals to freelancers and part-timers, women are forging careers with considerable financial success. In Secrets of Six-Figure Women, Barbara Stanny, journalist, motivational speaker, and financial educator, identifies the seven key strategies of female high earners.

Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual (for a Sexist Workplace)

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Jessica Bennett
• Narrated By Bahni Turpin

This is a call to arms. Are you aged zero to infinity? Finished with the sexist status quo? Ready to kick ass and take names? Welcome to the Feminist Fight Club. You have lifetime membership. Feminist Fight Club provides an arsenal of weapons for surviving in an unequal world. You will learn how to fight microaggressions, correct unconscious bias, deal with male colleagues who can't stop 'manterrupting' or 'bro-propriating' your ideas - and how to lean in without falling the f**k over.

Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Laura Sook Duncombe
• Narrated By Hillary Huber
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In the first-ever history of the world's female buccaneers, Pirate Women: the Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas tells the story of women, both real and legendary, who through the ages sailed alongside - and sometimes in command of - their male counterparts. These women came from all walks of life but had one thing in common: a desire for freedom.

All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Rebecca Traister
• Narrated By Candace Thaxton, Rebecca Traister - introduction
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In a provocative, groundbreaking work, National Magazine Award finalist Rebecca Traister, "the most brilliant voice on feminism in this country" (Anne Lamott), traces the history of unmarried women in America who, through social, political, and economic means, have radically shaped our nation.

The Wild Oats Project

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Robin Rinaldi
• Narrated By Kate Udall

One woman's vicarious sexual and emotional adventure told in a no-holds-barred, unapologetic, and compelling way. The project was simple: Robin Rinaldi, a successful magazine journalist, would move into a San Francisco apartment, join a dating site, and get laid. Never mind that she already owned a beautiful flat a few blocks away, that she was forty-four, or that she was married to a man she'd been in love with for 18 years.

The ABC's of LGBT+

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Ashley Mardell
• Narrated By Amy Melissa Bentley

The 21st century has seen very positive movement for LGBT+ rights. In the last few years, the overturning of DOMA, the SCOTUS ruling in favor of the Marriage Equality Act, American transgender politicians elected to office, and landmark moments such as Apple becoming the most valuable company in the world under the leadership of an openly gay CEO have advanced LGBT awareness and understanding. In a world full of LGBT questions, The ABC's of LGBT+ has the answers.

Where Did Queer Disappear?

• UNABRIDGED (5 mins)
• By Philo Sophist
• Narrated By 411 Audio

Where in the world did queer go off to? Is it reigning in the ether? Did it fly up to the heavens without so much as a forewarning here on earth? Once upon a time, it was all the rage to belong to the category of "queer", that intellectual wing of the avant-garde movement to transcend gender and traditional sexual expression. Marriage was stifling and gender was singularly repressing that sense of je-ne-sais-quoi. Blah-blah-blah. You know the drill.

STRUT: How Every Woman Can Be a Leader of Change

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Samar Shera
• Narrated By Nicol Zanzarella
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Women are often taught they have little power. Samar Shera rejects that notion. As a Muslim woman, she discarded labels and overcame her darkest struggles in favor of profound self-awareness. In STRUT, Samar offers a unique perspective on reconnecting with the powerful feminine force. Through her own personal experiences, Samar illustrates how this force is a part of the masculine and feminine balanced within all of us, regardless of circumstance, and allows each woman to participate in something even greater than individual self-awareness.

Analysis of Jill Lepore's The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Milkyway

• UNABRIDGED (14 mins)
• By Milkyway Media
• Narrated By Susan Murphy

The Secret History of Wonder Woman (2014) by Jill Lepore traces Wonder Woman's origins to the women's movements of the early twentieth century, and connects the character's early portrayals to the life, work, and feminist beliefs of creator William Moulton Marston. Marston was born in 1893.

Swell: A Waterbiography

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Jenny Landreth
• Narrated By Jenny Landreth
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These days, swimming may seem like the most egalitarian of pastimes, open to anyone with a swimsuit - but this wasn't always the case. In the 19th century, swimming was exclusively the domain of men, and access to pools was a luxury limited by class. Women were (barely) allowed to swim in the sea, as long as no men were around, but even into the 20th century they could be arrested and fined if they dared dive into a lake. It wasn't until the 1930s that women were finally granted equal access.

Living a Feminist Life

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Sara Ahmed
• Narrated By Larissa Gallagher

In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work. Building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship in particular, Ahmed offers a poetic and personal meditation on how feminists become estranged from worlds they critique - often by naming and calling attention to problems - and how feminists learn about worlds from their efforts to transform them.

Nasty Women

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Laura Jones - editor, Heather McDaid - editor
• Narrated By Angela Ness, Hannah Norris, Sirena Riley, and others
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With intolerance and inequality increasingly normalised by the day, it's more important than ever for women to share their experiences. We must hold the truth to account in the midst of sensationalism and international political turmoil. Nasty Women is a collection of essays, interviews and accounts on what it is to be a woman in the 21st century. People, politics, pressure, punk. Keep telling your stories.

Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know About the Emerging Science of Sex Differences

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Leonard Sax MD PhD
• Narrated By Keith Sellon-Wright

Back in 2005, the first edition of Why Gender Matters broke ground in illuminating the differences between boys and girls—how they perceive the world differently, how they learn differently, how they process emotions and take risks differently. Dr. Sax argued that in failing to recognize these hardwired differences between boys and girls, we ended up reinforcing damaging stereotypes, medicalizing misbehavior, and failing to help kids to reach their full potential.

Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Anne Michaud
• Narrated By Sara Morsey

Why They Stay explores the reasoning and motivation of wives who stay with their politician-husbands after they cheat. Hillary Clinton couldn't have known in 1998 how her husband's high-profile philandering would play out. Would he be rehabilitated in the public eye? She took the gamble. Had she left the marriage, today she might be the spurned wife of a retired politician instead of the first American woman to run for president on a major party ticket.

Are Good and Evil Definable Properties Across Cultures and Eras?

• UNABRIDGED (5 mins)
• By Philo Sophist
• Narrated By 411 Audio

By inquiring into whether "good" and "evil" are quickly definable universally as objective values, it is generally implied that it is being asked whether "good" and "evil" are globally recognizable within all cultures.

Can I Speak to Someone in Charge?

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Emily Clarkson
• Narrated By Emily Clarkson
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'Just imagine if we, the normal girls, stood united as an enormous, hysterical and proud army. We would be unstoppable.' Read with gumption, fearlessness and sharp wit, Can I Speak to Someone in Charge? is a window into the ridiculous ideologies and the absurd expectations that shape the lives of modern women. In a series of open letters, Emily Clarkson addresses all manner of subjects, from body hair to Facebook friends to the perils of wearing Lycra.

Marathon Woman: Running the Race to Revolutionize Women's Sports

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Kathrine Switzer
• Narrated By Kathrine Switzer

Katherine Switzer ran the Boston Marathon in 1967, where she was attacked by one of the event's directors who wanted to eject her from the all-male race. She fought off the director and finished the race. From the childhood events that inspired her to winning the New York City Marathon in 1974, this book details the struggles and achievements of a pioneering woman in sports.

Unlimited

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Cortney Baker
• Narrated By Caitlin Campbell
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Through the years women have made substantial progress when it comes to workplace equality; however, we still have a long way to go. Studies affirm women are now earning more college degrees and are climbing the corporate ladder in record numbers. Despite these statistics, the gender wage gap remains, and only a small amount of women are employed in executive levels across various industries.

Joining the Dots: A Woman in Her Time

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Juliet Gardiner
• Narrated By Eve Karpf
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From Britain's leading social historian, a lyrical look at the changes to women's lives since 1940, told with examples from her own life. The book provides an intimate, brilliant account of feminism over the last six decades. 'A young woman wearing a navy-blue duffle coat stood shivering in the vaulted Victorian booking hall of Temple Meads station in Bristol looking uncertainly around her. It was 1st January 1960, and the woman was me. I was 16 years old, and I had run away from home.'

The New Superpower for Women: Trust Your Intuition, Predict Dangerous Situations, and Defend Yourself from the Unthinkable

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Steve Kardian, A. Clara Pistek
• Narrated By Steve Kardian
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It takes only seven seconds for a criminal to pick you as a target. This empowering guide for women to protect themselves and their loved ones, from a self-defense expert and longtime veteran of law enforcement, combines commonsense advice on staying safe with concrete actions on what to do if find yourself in a dangerous situation.

Getting Paid While Taking Time: The Women's Movement and the Development of Paid Family Leave Policies in the United States

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Megan Sholar
• Narrated By Margo Vaughn Nelson
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The United States remains the only industrialized nation in the world that does not provide paid family leave at the national level for either men or women. In the more than two decades since the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act, there have been numerous unsuccessful attempts to expand family leave benefits nationally. However, in the United States, it is common for innovations in family policies to arise at the state level.

Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Laura Sook Duncombe
• Narrated By Hillary Huber
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

In the first-ever history of the world's female buccaneers, Pirate Women: the Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas tells the story of women, both real and legendary, who through the ages sailed alongside - and sometimes in command of - their male counterparts. These women came from all walks of life but had one thing in common: a desire for freedom.

Feminism Is the Opposite of Feminism

• UNABRIDGED (1 min)
• By J.-M. Kuczynski
• Narrated By J.-M. Kuczynski

Feminism is an excuse for women to talk about love and sex, while retaining a veneer of respectability.

The Many Lives of Catwoman: The Felonious History of a Feline Fatale

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Tim Hanley
• Narrated By Rachel Dulude

For more than 75 years, Catwoman has forged her own path in a clear-cut world of stalwart heroes, diabolical villains, and damsels in distress. Her relentless independence across comic books, television, and film set her apart from the rest of the superhero world. When female-led comics were few and far between, Catwoman headlined her own series for over 20 years. But her unique path had its downsides as well.

Seeds of a Man: Nourishment from the Soil

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Kevin Cole
• Narrated By Wayne Lee
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In this book you will learn to understand the seeds of a man. There are many seeds a man will have plant on his journey to becoming a man. Learning the steps of life and the problems we deal with as men daily can be quite challenging at times. From childhood to adulthood I will walk you through the steps of a man's path which will provide answers and understanding of the male gender.