cultural studies – The Staircase Window

The Queen’s Path: A Revolutionary Guide to Women’s Empowerment and Sovereignty

Selling Sexy: Victoria’s Secret and the Unraveling of an American Icon

Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth

Body Phobia: The Western Roots of Our Fear of Difference

Masks in Horror Cinema: Eyes Without Faces

The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World

Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing

Feminism, Young Women, and Cultural Studies: Birmingham Essays from 1975 Onwards

Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers

Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death

We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy

Artificial Women: Sex Dolls, Robot Caregivers, and More Facsimile Females

Women and Film Animation: A Feminist Corpus at the National Film Board of Canada 1939-1989

Otherwise Than the Binary: New Feminist Readings in Ancient Philosophy and Culture

In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s

Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women

Scent: A Natural History of Fragrance

The Global Beauty Industry: Colorism, Racism, and the National Body

Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions

Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity

The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle

Darkness Now Visible: Patriarchy’s Resurgence and Feminist Resistance

Fashion-ology: Fashion Studies in the Postmodern Digital Era

The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture

A History of Women in 101 Objects

So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (and Why We’re Still So Obsessed with It)

Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are

Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity

Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s

One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America

Fungi: Discover the Science and Secrets Behind the World of Mushrooms

The Tigerbelles: Olympic Legends from Tennessee State

The Golden Girls

Let Me Clear My Throat

How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity

Tea: A Global History

In Blood and Ashes: Curse Tablets and Binding Spells in Ancient Greece

How to Survive in Medieval England

Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell

Black TV: Five Decades of Groundbreaking Television from Soul Train to Black-ish and Beyond

Negotiating Feminisms: Sandra Cisneros and Ana Castillo’s Intergenerational Women

Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

Essence and Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume

Creep: Accusations and Confessions

Queen of the Universe: A Novel: Love, Truth, Beauty

Eyeliner: A Cultural History

Book of Earth: A Guide to Ochre, Pigment, and Raw Color

Raising Hell, Living Well: Freedom from Influence in a World Where Everyone Wants Something from You (Including Me)

The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture

Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close

Fashion Killa: How Hip-Hop Revolutionized High Fashion

Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London

God’s Monsters: Vengeful Spirits, Deadly Angels, Hybrid Creatures, and Divine Hitmen of the Bible

Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound

Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business

Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions that Grew Me Up

I Lost it at the Movies: Film Writings, 1954-65

The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race

The Women We Wanted to Look Like

The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live

Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women’s Words

Monsters of Film, Fiction, and Fable

We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The True, Tough Story of Women in Rock

Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control

Buzz: A Stimulating History of the Sex Toy

To Her Credit: Historic Achievements—and the Women Who Actually Made Them Happen

Romaine Brooks: A Life

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

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

How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization

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

Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean

Laughter in the Dark: Egypt to the Tune of Change

Ratcatcher

Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture

Marisa Mori and the Futurists: A Woman Artist in an Age of Fascism

Representing Women

Boundless: Twenty Voices Celebrating Multicultural and Multiracial Identities

Ordinary Affects

A Little History of Art

Where We Ate: A Field Guide to Canada’s Restaurants, Past and Present

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

The French Art of Living Well: Finding Joie de Vivre in the Everyday World

Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex

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

How Documentaries Went Mainstream: A History, 1960-2022

Differencing the Canon: Feminist Desire and the Writing of Arts Histories

Elixir: A Parisian Perfume House and the Quest for the Secret of Life

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

Dangerous Bodies: New Global Perspectives on Fashion and Transgression

Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display

Women, Gender and Art in Asia, c. 1500-1900

Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many

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

I’m Not Myself at All: Women, Art, and Subjectivity in Canada

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

Black Designers in American Fashion

All Made Up: The Power and Pitfalls of Beauty Culture, from Cleopatra to Kim Kardashian

The Cinema of Sofia Coppola: Fashion, Culture, Celebrity

Fashioning Politics and Protests: New Visual Cultures of Feminism in the United States

Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Following Writers and Rebels in the Spanish Civil War

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

Women Artists, Feminism and the Moving Image: Contexts and Practices

The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy

Photography Fifth Edition: A Cultural History

The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City

The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation

The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption

Make Some Space: Tuning Into Total Refreshment Centre

The American Way of Death Revisited

The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality

Silk Road: A New History

The Roman Triumph

Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through the Dancefloor

Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones

Time in Fashion: Industrial, Antilinear and Uchronic Temporalities

Faces on Screen: New Approaches

Color: A Natural History of the Palette

Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing

Women of Myth: From Deer Woman and Mami Wata to Amaterasu and Athena, Your Guide to the Amazing and Diverse Women from World Mythology

Garden of Ashes (Hanuman, Book No. 34)

Girls on Film: Lessons from a Life of Watching Women in Movies

Inside Voice: My Obsession with How We Sound

Deco Body, Deco City: Female Spectacle and Modernity in Mexico City, 1900–1939

Matriarchal Societies of the Past and the Rise of Patriarchy: West Asia and Europe

Viking Women: Life and Lore

Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse

Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life

Just Dope: A Leading Attorney’s Personal Journey Inside the War on Drugs

All the Living and the Dead: from Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life’s Work

Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution

Butts: A Backstory

The Little Book of Snow

Let’s Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World

Beauty, Women’s Bodies and the Law

Daughters of Mother Earth: The Wisdom of Native American Women

Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905-1948

Identity and Capitalism

Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture

Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll

Ugly Feelings

Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul

The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop–and Why It Matters

Cannibal Culture: Art, Appropriation, And The Commodification Of Difference

The Female Gaze: Essential Movies Made by Women

Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies

How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time

Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture After the Nickelodeon

Beyond Explicit: Pornography and the Displacement of Sex

Juki Girls, Good Girls: Gender and Cultural Politics in Sri Lanka’s Global Garment Industry

The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History

After the Tall Timber: Collected Nonfiction

Myths of Male Dominance: Collected Articles on Women Cross-Culturally

Classic French Noir: Gender and the Cinema of Fatal Desire

Gaming Masculinity: Trolls, Fake Geeks, and the Gendered Battle for Online Culture

1968 and Global Cinema

St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America’s Hippest Street

Fragile Bully: Understanding Our Destructive Affair With Narcissism in the Age of Trump

How Was It For You?: Women, Sex, Love and Power in the 1960s

The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars

The Witches Are Coming

Preventing Workplace Harassment in a #MeToo World: A Guide to Cultivating a Harassment-Free Culture

Myths of Male Dominance: Collected Articles on Women Cross-Culturally

Women: The Last Colony

Contemporary Arab Women Writers: Cultural Expression In Context

Steal as Much as You Can: How to Win the Culture Wars in an Age of Austerity

Hair Matters: Beauty, Power and Black Women’s Consciousness

Woman Hating

The Nutshell Technique: Crack the Secret of Successful Screenwriting

Selling Women’s History: Packaging Feminism in Twentieth-Century American Popular Culture

The Poitier Effect: Racial Melodrama and Fantasies of Reconciliation