feminist history – The Staircase Window

Intersecting Voices

In the Chinks of the World Machine: Feminism and Science Fiction

Vengeance Feminism: The Power of Black Women’s Fury in Lawless Times

Addiction to Perfection

She-Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street

Wendy Carlos’s Switched-On Bach

Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult

The Other Fab Four: The Remarkable True Story of the Liverbirds, Britain’s First Female Rock Band

Mary Seacole: The Charismatic Black Nurse Who Became a Heroine of the Crimea

Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love

Come Fly The World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

Ladies Can’t Climb Ladders: The Pioneering Adventures of the First Professional Women

What’s Her Name: A History of the World in 80 Lost Women

Feminist Lives: Women, Feelings, and the Self in Post-War Britain

The Case of Lizzie Borden and Other Writings: Tales of a Newspaper Woman

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

The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973

All the Rage: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty: A History of Pain, Pleasure, and Power: 1860-1960

The Other Side: A Story of Women in Art and the Spirit World

At the Pond: Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies’ Pond

Winifred Sanford: The Life and Times of a Texas Writer

Bluestockings: The First Women’s Movement

Dress Like a Woman: Working Women and What They Wore

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

Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival

Shakespeare’s Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance

Secret Voices: A Year of Women’s Diaries

Women Money Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality

Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews That Shaped America

Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women

Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism

A History of Women in 101 Objects

She’s a Badass: Women in Rock Shaping Feminism

The Women’s Revolution: How We Changed Your Life

Candida Royalle & the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below

Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America’s First Poet

Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls

Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Rock She Wrote: Women Write about Rock, Pop, and Rap

Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change

So Here I Am: Speeches by great women to empower and inspire

The Golden Girls

The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice

WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution

Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life

Women’s Liberation!: Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution & Still Can

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

A Time of One’s Own: Histories of Feminism in Contemporary Art

On Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Deep Care: The Radical Activists Who Provided Abortions, Defied the Law, and Fought to Keep Clinics Open

The Only Woman in the Room

In Their Time: A History of Feminism in Western Society

Making Space for Indigenous Feminism

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

Ordinary Equality: The Fearless Women and Queer People Who Shaped the U.S. Constitution and the Equal Rights Amendment

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

We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment

Stuff Mom Never Told You: The Feminist Past, Present, and Future

Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women’s Words

We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century

50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution

Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish

A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women

Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination

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

Feminisms: A Global History

Artemisia Gentileschi

Defiant Muses: Delphine Seyrig and Feminist Video Collectives in France in the 1970s and 1980s

Pretty In Ink: North American Women Cartoonists 1896-2013

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

Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art

Romaine Brooks: A Life

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

Fifty Years a Feminist

The Expanding Discourse: Feminism And Art History

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

Louise Dupin’s Work on Women: Selections

Feminist Rehearsals: Gender at the Theatre in Early Twentieth-Century Argentina and Mexico

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

Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom

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

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

Abolition. Feminism. Now.

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

Women on Wheels: The Scandalous Untold History of Women in Bicycling from the 1880s to the 1980s

Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism

Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and Histories of Art

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

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

The #Metoo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women

Representing Women

Women Writing Art History in the Nineteenth Century: Looking Like a Woman

Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech

Feminism or Death: How the Women’s Movement Can Save the Planet

Making Space: Women and the Manmade Environment

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

All the Rebel Women: The Rise of the Fourth Wave of Feminism

Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé

How to Make the Matriarchy: The Power and Promise of Prioritizing Women

The Adventurous Life of Amelia B. Edwards: Egyptologist, Novelist, Activist

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

Film Feminisms: A Global Introduction

Women Made Visible: Feminist Art and Media in Post-1968 Mexico City

Picturing the Woman-Child: Fashion, Feminism and the Female Gaze

The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age

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

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

Icons of Art: Women Artists

Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine’s Confessions

The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems: An Intersectional Political Economy

Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?

Feminist Psychology: History, Practice, Research, and the FutureFeminist Philosophy

Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality, 1920-2020

Woman’s Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi

Feminist Philosophies of Life

Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls: Women, Music, and Fame

Lawbreaking Ladies: 50 Tales of Daring, Defiant, and Dangerous Women from History

Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York’s Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist

Feminist Philosophy

Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction

The Rising of the Women: Feminist Solidarity and Class Conflict, 1880-1917

The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing: From Christine de Pizan to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico: Portraits of Soldaderas, Saints, and Subversives

Rise: Extraordinary Women of Colour who Changed the World

Femme Magnifique: 50 Magnificent Women Who Changed The World

How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind

Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box

The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science

Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women’s Roles in Society

Dismantling the Patriarchy, Bit by Bit: Art, Feminism, and Digital Technology

The Women’s History of the Modern World: How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years

Woman’s Estate

Sexuality in the Field of Vision

We Were There: The Third World Women’s Alliance and the Second Wave

Off with Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power

This Book Is Feminist: An Intersectional Primer for Feminists in Training

Bicycling for Ladies : The Classic 1896 Guide to Skills, Exercise, Mechanics, and Dress

The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism

Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries

Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965–2000

Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It

Burn It Down!: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution

Demanding Equality: One Hundred Years of Canadian Feminism

We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women’s Lives

The Soul of a Woman

Let Me Be Frank: A Book About Women Who Dressed Like Men to Do Shit They Weren’t Supposed to Do

With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism

The Feminist Revolution: Second Wave Feminism and the Struggle for Women’s Liberation

The Sacred Prostitute: Eternal Aspect of the Feminine

Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest

The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls

Faces of the Feminine in Ancient, Medieval, & Modern India

Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life

Bad Girls and Transgressive Women in Popular Television, Fiction, and Film

Gender, Media and Voice: Communicative Injustice and Public Speech

Women as Mythmakers: Poetry and Visual Art by Twentieth-Century Women

Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex

Women in Antiquity: Real Women across the Ancient World

The Verso Book of Feminism: Revolutionary Words from Four Millennia of Rebellion

The Rise of Public Woman: Woman’s Power and Woman’s Place in the United States, 1630-1970

New Woman Fiction: Women Writing First-Wave Feminism

Hypatia’s Heritage: A History of Women in Science from Antiquity to the Late Nineteenth Century

Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989

Gentleman Jack: A Biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist

My Own Words

Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America

Nevertheless, She Wore It: 50 Iconic Fashion Moments

The Wicked Sisters: Women Poets, Literary History, and Discord

The Women Who Made New York

Tomboy: The Surprising History and Future of Girls Who Dare to Be Different

She Votes: How U.S. Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next

Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency

The Art of Feminism: Images that Shaped the Fight for Equality, 1857-2017

Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells

Vita & Virginia: A Double Life

Strong Women: 15 Biographies of Influential Women History Overlooked

Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America’s First Celebrity

Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood

Not One of the Boys: Living Life as a Feminist

Czech Feminisms: Perspectives on Gender in East Central Europe

Bright Precious Thing

Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes

From Angel to Office Worker: Middle-Class Identity and Female Consciousness in Mexico, 1890–1950

Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist: The Life and Activism of Anbara Salam Khalidi

Gender and the Mexican Revolution: Yucatán Women and the Realities of Patriarchy

Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels

Ladies Can’t Climb Ladders: Early Adventures of Working Women, the Professional Life and the Glass Ceiling

Ms. Gloria Steinem: A Life

Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

Death in Ten Minutes: The Forgotten Life of Radical Suffragette Kitty Marion

Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement

Runaway Wives and Rogue Feminists: The Origins of the Women’s Shelter Movement in Canada

Sexual Politics

Women on the Move: The Forgotten Era of Women’s Bicycle Racing

The Banshees: A Literary History of Irish American Women Writers

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution