17 Books like Her Body and Other Parties

In the Dream House

by Carmen Maria Machado • 2019

Her girlfriend never hit her, but the terror was real: gaslighting inside a queer relationship.

4.38

165k+

🏳️‍🌈 Queer Memoir 🏚️ Domestic Abuse 💭 Psychological Abuse 👩‍❤️‍👩 Lesbian Relationships ✊ Feminist Memoir

In the Dream House 90%

Her girlfriend never hit her, but the terror was real: gaslighting inside a queer relationship.

by Carmen Maria Machado 2019

4.38

165k+ ratings

🏳️‍🌈 Queer Memoir 🏚️ Domestic Abuse 💭 Psychological Abuse 👩‍❤️‍👩 Lesbian Relationships ✊ Feminist Memoir

The Cancer Journals

by Audre Lorde • 1980

A Black lesbian poet, after mastectomy, rejects the prosthesis and discovers what silence costs.

4.43

6k+

🩺 Cancer Memoir ✊🏾 Intersectional Feminism 🖤 Black Feminism 💪 Bodily Autonomy 🏥 Feminist Health

The Cancer Journals 88%

A Black lesbian poet, after mastectomy, rejects the prosthesis and discovers what silence costs.

by Audre Lorde 1980

4.43

6k+ ratings

🩺 Cancer Memoir ✊🏾 Intersectional Feminism 🖤 Black Feminism 💪 Bodily Autonomy 🏥 Feminist Health

What a Girl Wants

by Roxy Bourdillon • 2025

Her mother's response to coming out: marry a man first. A memoir of taking up space.

4.18

142

📖 Queer Memoir 🚪 Coming Out Stories 💋 Femme Identity 🎭 People Pleasing 🪞 Body Image

What a Girl Wants 88%

Her mother's response to coming out: marry a man first. A memoir of taking up space.

by Roxy Bourdillon 2025

4.18

142 ratings

📖 Queer Memoir 🚪 Coming Out Stories 💋 Femme Identity 🎭 People Pleasing 🪞 Body Image

Sex Object

by Jessica Valenti • 2016

She wrote the book on modern feminism. She still checks the back seat for rapists.

3.66

14k+

👀 Sexual Objectification 📖 Feminist Coming Of Age 🪞 Internalized Misogyny 🤱 Maternal Ambivalence 📱 Online Misogyny

Sex Object 88%

She wrote the book on modern feminism. She still checks the back seat for rapists.

by Jessica Valenti 2016

3.66

14k+ ratings

👀 Sexual Objectification 📖 Feminist Coming Of Age 🪞 Internalized Misogyny 🤱 Maternal Ambivalence 📱 Online Misogyny

Womanhood

by Laura Dodsworth • 2019

100 women photographed from a perspective they'd never seen themselves: their own vulva.

4.45

107

⚖️ Body Politics 📸 Documentary Photography ✊ Sex-Positive Feminism 🗣️ Oral History 💔 Body Shame

Womanhood 88%

100 women photographed from a perspective they'd never seen themselves: their own vulva.

by Laura Dodsworth 2019

4.45

107 ratings

⚖️ Body Politics 📸 Documentary Photography ✊ Sex-Positive Feminism 🗣️ Oral History 💔 Body Shame

Glitch Feminism

by Legacy Russell • 2020

The glitch is not a mistake to fix; it’s a weapon against the binary body.

3.76

3k+

🤖 Cyberfeminism 🌈 Queer Theory 💻 Digital Embodiment ✊ Online Resistance ⚧️ Non-Binary Theory

Glitch Feminism 88%

The glitch is not a mistake to fix; it’s a weapon against the binary body.

by Legacy Russell 2020

3.76

3k+ ratings

🤖 Cyberfeminism 🌈 Queer Theory 💻 Digital Embodiment ✊ Online Resistance ⚧️ Non-Binary Theory

The Chronology of Water

by Lidia Yuknavitch • 2011

A swimmer's body remembered the abuse, the addiction, the stillbirth. One day she wrote it.

4.19

18k+

🔥 Experimental Memoir 🌈 Queer Memoir 🧠 Trauma And The Body ✍️ Writing As Healing 🏊 Swimming Memoir

The Chronology of Water 88%

A swimmer's body remembered the abuse, the addiction, the stillbirth. One day she wrote it.

by Lidia Yuknavitch 2011

4.19

18k+ ratings

🔥 Experimental Memoir 🌈 Queer Memoir 🧠 Trauma And The Body ✍️ Writing As Healing 🏊 Swimming Memoir

Three Women

by Lisa Taddeo • 2019

Eight years inside three lives. What female desire actually looks like, and what it costs.

3.71

174k+

🔥 Female Desire 💔 Sexual Trauma 💍 Marriage And Desire ⚖️ Power And Consent 😶 Desire And Shame

Three Women 88%

Eight years inside three lives. What female desire actually looks like, and what it costs.

by Lisa Taddeo 2019

3.71

174k+ ratings

🔥 Female Desire 💔 Sexual Trauma 💍 Marriage And Desire ⚖️ Power And Consent 😶 Desire And Shame

Sexing the Body

by Anne Fausto-Sterling • 2000

Nature gives us a spectrum of sexes. Medicine prunes it down to two.

4.16

3k+

🔬 Feminist Science Studies 🌈 Intersex Advocacy 🏛️ Social Constructionism 🧠 Biological Essentialism 💉 Medical Ethics

Sexing the Body 88%

Nature gives us a spectrum of sexes. Medicine prunes it down to two.

by Anne Fausto-Sterling 2000

4.16

3k+ ratings

🔬 Feminist Science Studies 🌈 Intersex Advocacy 🏛️ Social Constructionism 🧠 Biological Essentialism 💉 Medical Ethics

Nonbinary

by Genesis P-Orridge • 2021

Genesis P-Orridge died twice: once by accident, once to become an experiment in erasing gender.

4.00

577

🎸 Industrial Music 📖 Countercultural Memoir 🏳️‍⚧️ Gender Fluidity 🕯️ Occult Philosophy ✂️ Avant-Garde Techniques

Nonbinary 88%

Genesis P-Orridge died twice: once by accident, once to become an experiment in erasing gender.

by Genesis P-Orridge 2021

4.00

577 ratings

🎸 Industrial Music 📖 Countercultural Memoir 🏳️‍⚧️ Gender Fluidity 🕯️ Occult Philosophy ✂️ Avant-Garde Techniques

Living a Feminist Life

by Sara Ahmed • 2017

Feminism starts with a bodily sensation of wrongness. Living it means refusing to keep the peace.

4.30

3k+

📖 Feminist Theory 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Feminism 🏛️ University Politics ✋ Political Refusal 🏠 Everyday Resistance

Living a Feminist Life 88%

Feminism starts with a bodily sensation of wrongness. Living it means refusing to keep the peace.

by Sara Ahmed 2017

4.30

3k+ ratings

📖 Feminist Theory 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Feminism 🏛️ University Politics ✋ Political Refusal 🏠 Everyday Resistance

The Purity Myth

by Jessica Valenti • 2009

The virginity movement teaches shame as science, then codifies it. Real women bear the cost.

4.08

9k+

🏛️ Purity Culture ✊ Body Autonomy 💪 Toxic Masculinity 🎯 Victim Blaming ⚖️ Sexual Ethics

The Purity Myth 88%

The virginity movement teaches shame as science, then codifies it. Real women bear the cost.

by Jessica Valenti 2009

4.08

9k+ ratings

🏛️ Purity Culture ✊ Body Autonomy 💪 Toxic Masculinity 🎯 Victim Blaming ⚖️ Sexual Ethics

Gaga Feminism

by J. Jack Halberstam • 2012

Normal failed. A weirder, messier feminism built on performance, chaos, and political disruption.

3.56

853

🏳️‍🌈 Queer Theory 📚 Feminist Theory 🎭 Gender Performance 🌊 Sexual Fluidity 🤰 Reproductive Politics

Gaga Feminism 87%

Normal failed. A weirder, messier feminism built on performance, chaos, and political disruption.

by J. Jack Halberstam 2012

3.56

853 ratings

🏳️‍🌈 Queer Theory 📚 Feminist Theory 🎭 Gender Performance 🌊 Sexual Fluidity 🤰 Reproductive Politics

How To Be A Woman

by Caitlin Moran • 2011

Feminism without lectures: a memoir of body hair, bad outfits, and refusing to apologize.

3.71

110k+

📖 Feminist Memoir 🔥 Modern Feminism 🪞 Body Image 🩺 Women's Health 🎤 Comedy Memoir

How To Be A Woman 87%

Feminism without lectures: a memoir of body hair, bad outfits, and refusing to apologize.

by Caitlin Moran 2011

3.71

110k+ ratings

📖 Feminist Memoir 🔥 Modern Feminism 🪞 Body Image 🩺 Women's Health 🎤 Comedy Memoir

Pussypedia

by Zoe Mendelson • 2021

The word pussy reclaimed as an inclusive shame-destroying map of the full pelvic anatomy.

4.36

474

🏫 Sex Education 🩺 Feminist Health 📖 Body Literacy 🧠 Pleasure Anatomy 💬 Destigmatizing Sex

Pussypedia 87%

The word pussy reclaimed as an inclusive shame-destroying map of the full pelvic anatomy.

by Zoe Mendelson 2021

4.36

474 ratings

🏫 Sex Education 🩺 Feminist Health 📖 Body Literacy 🧠 Pleasure Anatomy 💬 Destigmatizing Sex

Hunger

by Roxane Gay • 2017

Raped at twelve, she ate until she became unbreakable. What shielded her also imprisoned her.

4.17

122k+

🩹 Sexual Trauma 🍽️ Disordered Eating ⚖️ Fat Acceptance ⚡ Weight Stigma 📖 Trauma Memoirs

Hunger 87%

Raped at twelve, she ate until she became unbreakable. What shielded her also imprisoned her.

by Roxane Gay 2017

4.17

122k+ ratings

🩹 Sexual Trauma 🍽️ Disordered Eating ⚖️ Fat Acceptance ⚡ Weight Stigma 📖 Trauma Memoirs

Tías and Primas

by Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez • 2024

The women who shaped you are archetypes. A Latina feminist reveals what they teach about survival.

4.05

1k+

🌺 Latina Feminism 🎭 Female Archetypes 🪢 Intergenerational Trauma 🪞 Body Policing 🤝 Female Solidarity

Tías and Primas 87%

The women who shaped you are archetypes. A Latina feminist reveals what they teach about survival.

by Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez 2024

4.05

1k+ ratings

🌺 Latina Feminism 🎭 Female Archetypes 🪢 Intergenerational Trauma 🪞 Body Policing 🤝 Female Solidarity

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