I am a straight young male who wants to actually understand the female experience properly. I know the outlines but I don’t think any male could fully understand what women struggle with day to day, past or present, and so I’m looking for a book(s) to explain or depict it all, feminism, discrimination, motherhood, effects of misogyny, ect (please suggest topics for me to look into as well if you like!). I just would like to better understand and empathise with women in my life, and to try and avoid all ignorance if possible!
by Chew0nthis25
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Read novels with female characters written by female authors.
There isn’t an all encompassing grimoire of women. You have a build a picture in pieces.
A Million Tomorrows (Amazon) by Kris Middaugh has several female characters that are all really unique and offer a different look at the female experience.
Fiction or non-fiction?
Are you open to reading about women’s experience from other cultures (with themes that apply to women universally e.g. sexual abuse) or want to specifically read about women in the western world?
Bridget Jones’ Diary.
Invisible Women!
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
She’s Come Undone