The powerful 8 March, International Women’s Day is approaching soon. This week our Book Editor selected some books based on womanhood by women writers which every woman in the world must read so do men.

‘Men Explain Things to Me’ by Rebecca Solnit***

Women should be ready to call out mansplaining and take down the patriarchy. Every woman has probably had to experience something “mansplained” to them throughout their whole life even if once. The book has an eponymous essay that focuses on the silencing of women, with specific attention to the idea that men always believe and think that no matter what a woman says, they always know better.

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay**

Hence the writer herself is a woman and feels to call herself a Bad Feminist, her collection of essays in the book ‘Bad Feminist’ is about her experience as a woman, and a woman of color, does something undeniably good. The book empowers readers to look at feminism with a critical eye. Gay delivered the message of her urge to takedown stereotypes about feminism.

‘The Little Disturbances of Man’ by Grace Paley***

The Little Disturbances of Man is Grace Paley’s debut short story collection. The book surely explores the private lives and relationships of women in 1950s New York. With a great sense of humor and Paley mocks the notion of women’s ‘everyday’ domestic grievances, women always struggle and fight with many things at once, like poverty, hardship, and abuse.