What to Read After City of women
Readers who loved City of women by Christine Stansell keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where City of women is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after City of women
A midwife's tale
The Wages of Whiteness
Gender and Jim Crow
Good wives, nasty wenches, and anxious patriarchs
Soul by Soul
Gay New York
The devil in the shape of a woman
Manliness & civilization
To 'Joy My Freedom
Scraping by
Good wives
Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man
Singled Out
Homeward bound
Cheap Amusements
The Grimké sisters from South Carolina
City of Eros
Whores in history
Sexual revolution in early America
A Consumers' Republic
Devices and desires : a history of contraceptives in America
The age of homespun
There is power in a union
Liberty's daughters