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Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters

The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion

The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion

Reclaiming the Archive: Feminism and Film History

So Here’s the Thing…: Notes on Growing Up, Getting Older, and Trusting Your Gut

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death

How Did You Get This Number

Incidental Inventions

Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship

Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics

Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture

Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?

Are Women Human?: And Other International Dialogues

No Stopping Us Now: A History of Older Women in America

Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution

On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978

Grand Union

The Best American Essays: Editor, Edwidge Danticat – 2011

The Best American Essays: Editor, Ariel Levy – 2015

The Best American Essays: Editor, Leslie Jamison – 2017

This America: The Case for the Nation

New Erotica for Feminists: Satirical Fantasies of Love, Lust, and Equal Pay

Thick: And Other Essays

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal

My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction

I Was Told There’d Be Cake: Essays

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World

Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era

Horror Stories: A Memoir

Misogynation: The True Scale of Sexism

Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality

What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading

Women Artists of the Harlem Renaissance

The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls

Lean Out: The Struggle for Gender Equality in Tech and Start-Up Culture

Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes

Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

This Is the Place: Women Writing About Home

Citizen: An American Lyric

Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays

Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology

The Big Book of the Dead

Burn This Book: PEN Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word

Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings

Nobody’s Looking at You

Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power

How to Date Men When You Hate Men

Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

My Misspent Youth: Essays

Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids

Graphic Details: Jewish Women’s Confessional Comics in Essays and Interviews

Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism

Moranifesto

This Is Really Happening

Worn Stories

Sex, Race and Class: The Perspective of Winning: A Selection of Writings 1952-2011

Whatever Gets You Through: Twelve Women on Life After Sexual Assault

Moranthology

Why Not Me?

The Vagenda: A Zero Tolerance Guide to the Media

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work

Black Writers Matter

The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker

Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia

Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded

Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness

The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

The Delusions of Certainty

Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay

In Praise of Difficult Women: Life Lessons from 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules

Shrewed: A Wry and Closely Observed Look at the Lives of Women and Girls

Heroines

Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger

Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets

Devotion

The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning

Heart Berries

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism

The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

A Burst of Light and Other Essays

Cybersexism: Sex, Gender and Power on the Internet

No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays

Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art

Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism

The Riot Grrrl Collection

Women & Power: A Manifesto

Feminasty: The Complicated Woman’s Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death

The Routledge History of Women in Europe Since 1700

Blossoms on the Olive Tree: Israeli and Palestinian Women Working for Peace

Stories I’d Tell in Bars

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America

The Good Immigrant

The Wrong Way to Save Your Life

In Other Words

What I Know for Sure

The Truth About Everything

This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America

What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I’ve Learned

I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff

Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions

Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity

Can We All Be Feminists?: New Writing from Brit Bennett, Nicole Dennis-Benn, and 15 Others on Intersectionality, Identity, and the Way Forward for Feminism

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

Out of the Vinyl Deeps: On Rock Music

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

Cool, Calm & Contentious

Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger

What Do We Need Men For?: A Modest Proposal

The Secret History of Wonder Woman

Your Art Will Save Your Life

I Know What I’m Doing and Other Lies I Tell Myself: Dispatches from a Life Under Construction

Cozy: The Art of Arranging Yourself in the World

Tonight I’m Someone Else

Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession

Figuring

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms

How Not to Fall Apart

King Kong Theory

Feel Free

So You Want to Talk About Race

The Secret Lives of Color

No One Tells You This

I Hate Everyone… Starting with Me

The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids

I Don’t Care About Your Band

So Sad Today

Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America

Dangerous Books for Girls: The Bad Reputation of Romance Novels Explained

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Bluets

Girls! Girls! Girls! in Contemporary Art

The Essential Nawal El Saadaw

It Chooses You

Things My Mother Taught Me

Caca Dolce: Essays from a Lowbrow Life

Scrappy Little Nobody

Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive

Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts

Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist

Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World

Men Explain Things to Me

The Films of Claire Denis: Intimacy on the Border

Everything is Perfect When You’re a Liar

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)

All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Brave Enough

Just As I Thought

Pamela Hansford Johnson: A Writing Life

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better: A Woman’s Guide to Coping with Life

The Argonauts

How to Become a Writer

Lives Lived, Lives Imagined

Wildflower

I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories Wild Possibilities

Bad Feminist

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

Marilyn Norma Jeane

Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned”

Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape

Three Guineas

Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics

we are never meeting in real life

Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

Doing Women’s Film History: Reframing Cinemas, Past and Future

We: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere

You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain

U.S. Women’s History: Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood

When You Find Out the World is Against You: And Other Funny Memories About Awful Moments

I’ll Tell You in Person

Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Coming Home

Power: Surviving & Thriving After Narcissistic Abuse

Too Fat Too Slutty Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman

You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Trainwrecks, & Other Mixed Messages

Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults

Draw Your Weapons

Life In Code: A Personal History of Technology

How to Be a Woman

Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader

The White Album

A Room of One’s Own

Sex Object: A Memoir

The Geek Feminist Revolution

Slouching Towards Bethlehem