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Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control

Althea: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson

Revenge of the Scapegoat

Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination

The Good, the Bad, and the Very Ugly: A Hollywood Journey

The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age

Through the Groves: A Memoir

Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast

The Selected Works of Audre Lorde

White Horse

Queen of the Court: The Many Lives of Tennis Legend Alice Marble

When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today

Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

Harriet the Spy

Breaking the Maafa Chain

Leading Well: A Black Woman’s Guide to Wholistic, Barrier-Breaking Leadership

Pretty In Ink: North American Women Cartoonists 1896-2013

Hysterical!: Women in American Comedy

Life in the Iron Mills

Evening in Paradise: More Stories

The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America

The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly: Portraits and Sketches, 1942-2011

Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood

Gloria: A Life

The Decade of Women: A Ms. History of the ’70’s in Words and Pictures

Beauty, Disrupted: A Memoir

Hang the Moon

Community Board

The Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own

Time’s Mouth

Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art

Eye of the Sixties: Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art

Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia

The Kudzu Queen

Thin Skin: Essays

Romaine Brooks: A Life

Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Powerful Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning

Incurable Optimist: Living with Illness and Chronic Hope

I’m Down

The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright

The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization That Transformed America

An American Immigrant

Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years

The Living is Easy

The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing

Little Monsters

Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy

Tomb Sweeping: Stories

The Pisces

A Touch of Jen

Man Repeller: Seeking Love. Finding Overalls.

New York New Wave: The Legacy of Feminist Art in Emerging Practice

Sistah Vegan: Black Female Vegans Speak on Food, Identity, Health, and Society

Acceptance: A Memoir

Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution

Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta

Unbound Voices: A Documentary History of Chinese Women in San Francisco

Do Less: The Unexpected Strategy for Women to Get More of What They Want in Work and Life

Girls, Aggression, and Intersectionality: Transforming the Discourse of “Mean Girls” in the United States

Anti-Racist Ally: An Introduction to Activism and Action

Inside the Wolf

Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Civil War Letters from Rebecca Primus of Royal Oak, Maryland, and Addie Brown of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868, Historical African-American Memoirs

Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II

The Majority

Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II

Tom Lake

Couplets

The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever

You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

Too Soon for Adiós

Uncut Funk: A Contemplative Dialogue

Queen Bey: A Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter

Burn the Page: A True Story of Torching Doubts, Blazing Trails, and Igniting Change

Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape

Silver Nitrate

Would You Rather?: A Memoir of Growing Up and Coming Out

Black Girl, Call Home

Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity

Entering the Picture: Judy Chicago, The Fresno Feminist Art Program, and the Collective Visions of Women Artists

Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant

Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks—a Cool History of a Hot Commodity

Behold the Monster: Confronting America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer

MOTHERCARE: On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence

Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002

Emergency

Don’t Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM

How to Win at Feminism

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture

Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles

Owner of a Lonely Heart

Zero-Sum: Stories

Maybe We’ll Make It

Ripe

Temple Folk

Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning

Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims

Lesbians on Television: New Queer Visibility & the Lesbian Normal

I’ll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist

The Summer of Songbirds

The Power of One: How I Found the Strength to Tell the Truth and Why I Blew the Whistle on Facebook

Screen Style

All I Need to Know I Learned from the Golden Girls: Bigger, Better, Blanchier Second Edition

How to Stay Productive When the World Is Ending: Productivity, Burnout, and Why Everyone Needs to Relax More Except You

Ida Lupino, Director: Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition

Not Quite a Disaster After All

The Life of the Mind

Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

Reframing Todd Haynes: Feminism’s Indelible Mark

Beyond the Shores: A History of African Americans Abroad

If We Break: A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing

Distant Mandate: Poems

The Say So

Georgia O’Keeffe

I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

Meaningful Work: Stories

Don’t Say a Thing: A Predator, a Pursuit, and the Women Who Persevered

Young and Restless: The Girls Who Sparked America’s Revolutions

Adult Drama: And Other Essays

Remember Me Now: A Journey Back to Myself and a Love Letter to Black Women

Chasing the Panther: Adventures and Misadventures of a Cinematic Life

Bet on Black: The Good News about Being Black in America Today

Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America

Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

I Always Knew: A Memoir

Down City: A Daughter’s Story of Love, Memory, and Murder

I Am Ayah: The Way Home

Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me

Twist: An American Girl

You’ve Changed: Fake Accents, Feminism, and Other Comedies from Myanmar

Between Two Moons

Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time

Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote

Roe: The History of a National Obsession

In My DNA: My Career Investigating Your Worst Nightmares

Just as I Am

The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture

All In: An Autobiography

Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa

Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing

Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays

In Her Voice: Women Directors Talk Directing

Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé

The Silver Women: How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal

Belonging: A Culture of Place

Live or Die: Poems

Vagablonde

May Alcott Nieriker, Author and Advocate: Travel Writing and Transformation in the Late Nineteenth Century

American Seoul

Revolutionizing Women’s Healthcare: The Feminist Self-Help Movement in America

Red Hot Mama: The Life of Sophie Tucker

What Looks Like Bravery: An Epic Journey Through Loss to Love

Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

Midlife Crisis: The Feminist Origins of a Chauvinist Cliché

The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

When the World Didn’t End: A Memoir

Seduced by the Light: The Mina Miller Edison Story

Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny

The Fly Girls Revolt: The Story of the Women Who Kicked Open the Door to Fly in Combat

Forty Years in the Wilderness

It’s All Love: Reflections for Your Heart & Soul

Live Learn Love Well: Lessons from a Life of Progress Not Perfection

Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding)

The Art of the Woman: The Life and Work of Elisabet Ney

Paper Names

What Shall I Wear?: The What, Where, When, and How Much of Fashion

Chaos Theory: Finding Meaning in the Madness, One Bad Decision at a Time

An Architecture of Education: African American Women Design the New South

Hollywood: Her Story, an Illustrated History of Women and the Movies

Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

Rogue Justice

While Justice Sleeps

Black Designers in American Fashion

Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession

The Sorrows of Others

The First Lady of World War II

Made Up: How the Beauty Industry Manipulates Consumers, Preys on Women’s Insecurities, and Promotes Unattainable Beauty Standards

Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American Democracy

Getting Me Cheap: How Low-Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty

Radically Content: Being Satisfied in an Endlessly Dissatisfied World

Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture

Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography

Tell Me Everything

New York in the Thirties

A New War on Cancer: The Unlikely Heroes Revolutionizing Prevention

Wildflower: A Memoir

As If!: The Oral History of Clueless as told by Amy Heckerling and the Cast and Crew

Unbroken Chains: The Hidden Role of Human Trafficking in the American Economy

Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora

Lies My Mother Told Me: Tall Tales from a Short Woman

Chita: A Memoir

The Cinema of Sofia Coppola: Fashion, Culture, Celebrity

Dykette

Roads of Her Own: Gendered Space and Mobility in American Women’s Road Narratives, 1970-2000

Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism

Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City

Don’t Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet

Our Brave Foremothers: Celebrating 100 Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous Women Who Changed the Course of History

Love and Trouble: Memoirs of a Former Wild Girl