Women's Studies Title Generator
Titles for feminist essays, women's history, gender research and memoirs about women's work, bodies and power. Suggestions name the women and the argument, not just the theme.
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Unpaid
Housework, caregiving and the labor nobody counts
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The Switchboard Girls
Women telephone operators who organized strikes in the early 1900s
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Who Gets to Be Difficult?
Essays on ambition, likability and women in leadership
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Grandmother Tongue
Immigrant women passing on language and recipes across three generations
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Ladies' Auxiliary
Women's clubs, church circles and the quiet politics they ran
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Bread and Ballots: Market Women and the Vote
How women traders organized for suffrage in the Midwest
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Midwives of the Hill Country
Appalachian granny midwives and the laws that pushed them out
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“Smile More”
Street harassment, public space and what women are told
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Equal Pay, Unequal Rooms
How pay gaps persist inside fields women now dominate
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Her Signature Required
When women needed a man's co-signature for credit
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Patent Pending: Women Inventors and the Credit They Lost
Inventions by women credited to husbands, bosses or no one
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Night Nurses, 1940 to 1975
Hospital nursing on the overnight shift through war and reform
Naming Women's Studies books: what works
This genre focuses on the experiences, perspectives, and achievements of women. It's about empowerment, gender equality, and understanding the diverse journeys of women.
Titles should emphasize the stories, struggles, and achievements of women, shedding light on their diverse experiences.
Name the women you're writing about
Collective histories gain force when the title names a group readers can picture. Margot Lee Shetterly's Hidden Figures points at Black women mathematicians at NASA, and Kate Moore's The Radium Girls names its subjects by their work and their poisoning. A job, a town or a nickname makes a group real.
Turn the argument into a phrase
A strong feminist title compresses the thesis. Caroline Criado Perez's Invisible Women states the problem in two words, and its subtitle about data bias in a world designed for men says how. If you can say your argument in five words, try it as the title.
Use a familiar phrase against itself
Turning a phrase that has been used against women is a classic move. Rebecca Traister's Good and Mad takes a dismissive idiom and makes it a subject, women's anger as political force. Listen for what women are told, and title the answer.
Scope the history in the subtitle
Women alone covers half of humanity across all time, so a history needs boundaries. Put the period, the place and the group in the subtitle. Readers looking for nineteenth-century labor history or postwar Britain should find you without guessing.
Well-known Women's Studies titles
Titles that already work in this genre. Read them for shape and length: how many words, how much they give away, what they leave out.
| Title | Author | Published |
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| The Second Sex | Simone de Beauvoir | 1949 |
| We Should All Be Feminists | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | 2014 |
| Bad Feminist | Roxane Gay | 2014 |
| The Yellow Wallpaper | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | 1892 |
| The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood | 1985 |
| The Feminine Mystique | Betty Friedan | 1963 |
| Men Explain Things to Me | Rebecca Solnit | 2014 |
| Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead | Sheryl Sandberg | 2013 |
| The Beauty Myth | Naomi Wolf | 1990 |
| Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches | Audre Lorde | 1984 |
| The Vagina Monologues | Eve Ensler | 1996 |
| Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls | Mary Pipher | 1994 |
| Composing a Life | Mary Catherine Bateson | 1990 |
| Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide | Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn | 2009 |
| The Female Brain | Louann Brizendine | 2006 |
| Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype | Clarissa Pinkola Estés | 1992 |
| The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine | Sue Monk Kidd | 1996 |
| When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice | Terry Tempest Williams | 2012 |
| The Yellow Rose of Texas: The Secession of the Lone Star State | Judy Alter | 2018 |
| In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose | Alice Walker | 1983 |
Art, Architecture, & PhotographyPhotobooks, architecture monographs, criticism and how-to-draw manuals all share this shelf, and each one names itself differently.
Astrology, Divination & TarotName your tarot guide, birth-chart workbook or rune handbook.
Biographies & MemoirsFind a title for your memoir, or for the biography you've spent years researching, that sounds like a life and not a resume.
Business & InvestingBusiness books live or die on a short title and a subtitle that states the promise.
Cooking, Food & WineA cookbook title has to tell a hungry browser what's for dinner and whose kitchen they're in.
Crafts & HobbiesKnitters, quilters, potters and whittlers all scan the shelf for their own craft first.
Current Affairs & PoliticsPolitical books argue, report or confess, and the title has to say which.
Diet, Health, & FitnessName your training plan, healthy cookbook or movement guide with a title that says what the reader will actually do.
Education & ReferenceTextbooks, handbooks, dictionaries and teaching guides need titles that tell a student or teacher exactly what's inside.
EngineeringEngineering books range from bridge histories to circuit design manuals, and their titles split the same way.
HistoryHistory titles usually make a promise twice: once in a short title that sets a scene, and again in a subtitle that names the period and the stakes.
Home & GardenGardeners shop for their conditions and decorators shop for a feeling.
HumorA funny book's title is its first joke, and readers judge the whole book by it.
Music, Film, & Performing ArtsRock memoirs, film criticism, acting manuals and theater histories each borrow from the art they cover.
NatureNature books are usually about one bird, one shore, one forest, watched closely.
New Age & Alternative BeliefsTitles for books on energy work, manifestation, crystals, channeling and the inner life.
Parenting & FamilyParents shop for these books at 2 a.m.
PetsTitles for dog training manuals, cat behavior guides, rabbit and reptile care, and the memoir about the dog who changed everything.
PhilosophyTitles for books that ask how to live, what we owe each other, and whether we can know anything at all.
Politics & Political ScienceTitles for books on elections, institutions, policy fights and the ideas behind them.
ReligionTitles for devotionals, Bible studies, theology, faith memoirs and books on Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu practice.
Role Playing & Fantasy GamesTitles for core rulebooks, setting sourcebooks, adventure modules, game master advice and histories of the hobby.
ScienceTitles for popular science on genes, galaxies, microbes, the brain and the people who study them.
Computers & TechnologyTitles for programming guides, engineering handbooks, security books and histories of the industry.
Self-Help & RelationshipsTitles for books on habits, confidence, boundaries, dating, marriage and recovering from hard years.
Social SciencesTitles for books on why people behave, gather, trade and believe as they do.
SportsTitles for athlete memoirs, season-long team stories, coaching manuals and histories of the game.
Study Aids & Test PrepTitles for exam prep books, study guides, flashcard sets and revision workbooks.
True CrimeTitles for books on murders, frauds, cold cases and the investigators who wouldn't let go.
TravelTitles for travel memoirs, walking books, road trips, food travel and practical guidebooks.
WeddingsTitles for wedding planners, budget guides, etiquette books, toast and vow helpers, and memoirs of a big day gone sideways.
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Questions about Women's Studies titles
Should I use the word 'feminist' in the title?
If the book is an argument and you want readers who share it, yes, the word signals your stance and finds your audience. It can narrow the readership, so some authors keep it in the subtitle. Decide whether you're writing to persuade or to rally.
How do I title a collective biography of overlooked women?
Give the group a name readers can remember, then use the subtitle to say who they were and what they did. Untold, forgotten and hidden are now common, so look for a word specific to their work. The best titles sound like the women would have recognized them.
Is 'women' or 'gender' the better word for my title?
Women suits history, memoir and books about women's lives and work. Gender suits academic and broader studies that include masculinity, trans experience or how social roles are made. Use the term your intended readers would type into a search bar.
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