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
Good Wives
To 'Joy My Freedom
Manliness & Civilization
Scraping by
Sexual revolution in early America
The Age of Homespun
Homeward Bound
Five Points
There Is Power in a Union
Mothers of Invention
Devices and desires : a history of contraceptives in America
Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man
Liberty's Daughters
Ar'n't I a Woman?
Whores in History
A Consumers' Republic
Singled Out