Research

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir:
The Second Sex is one of the best known works of the French existentialist. It is a work on the treatment of women throughout history and often regarded as a major work of feminist literature. In this she argues that women throughout history have been defined as the "other" sex, an aberration from the "normal" male sex. She wrote that she was a woman but she relised that she needed to define what a woman is, which is what became the intent of the book.

The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer:
The book is a feminist analysis, it was the key text of the feminist movement in the 1970s, discussed or criticized by other feminists and wider community. In the titled "soul", Love and Hate the author examins the historical definitions of women's perception of self.