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On the Front Line with the Women Who Fight Back

Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women

Epistemology of the Closet

The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain

Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story

Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Individuation: The Problem of the Second Sex

From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 2

From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 1

Burn It Down: Women Writing about Anger

The Anatomy of Silence

Women and Teaching: Global Perspectives on the Feminization of a Profession

Bitches, Bimbos, and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls’ Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes

Women in Culture: An Intersectional Anthology for Gender and Women’s Studies

Women and Cultural Citizenship in Turkey: Mass Media and “Woman’s Voice” Television

Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema

The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir

Marked Women: The Cultural Politics of Cervical Cancer in Venezuela

Women in Western Political Thought

Firebrand Feminism: The Radical Lives of Ti-Grace Atkinson, Kathie Sarachild, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, and Dana Densmore

Women: The Last Colony

Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics

Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism

Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture

Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?

Are Women Human?: And Other International Dialogues

Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China

Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity

Woman Suffrage and the Origins of Liberal Feminism in the United States, 1820-1920

Feminism and Affect at the Scene of Argument: Beyond the Trope of the Angry Feminist

Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings: The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life

Contemporary Arab Women Writers: Cultural Expression In Context

Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick

Leftover in China: The Women Shaping the World’s Next Superpower

Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy

Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity

Sisters in Spirit: Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influences on Early American Feminists

Misogynation: The True Scale of Sexism

The Boundaries of Her Body: A Shocking History of Women’s Rights in America

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

Cunt: A Declaration of Independence

Fifty-One Key Feminist Thinkers

Gendered Frames, Embodied Cameras: Varda, Akerman, Cabrera, Calle, and Maiwenn

Political Worlds of Women: Activism, Advocacy, and Governance in the Twenty-First Century

Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism

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

The Vagenda: A Zero Tolerance Guide to the Media

Little Black Book: A Toolkit for Working Women

Chinese Comfort Women: Testimonies from Imperial Japan’s Sex Slaves

Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam

The Descent of Woman

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

Pursuing Intersectionality, Unsettling Dominant Imaginaries

Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate

Femininity

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

Everyday Sexism: The Project that Inspired a Worldwide Movement

A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War

No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays

Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism

Seeing Like a Feminist

Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction (Fifth Edition)

Feminist Film Studies

All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

Inside The Gender Jihad: Women’s Reform in Islam

King Kong Theory

Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body

The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

He’s a Stud, She’s a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know

The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture, and Social Change

Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual (for a Sexist Workplace)

Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution

We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement

Men Explain Things to Me

Sex and the Office: Women, Men, and the Sex Partition That’s Dividing the Workplace

Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Terror in Literature and Culture

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

The Female Eunuch

Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

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

Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution

The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women

Woman Hating

Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant

Women’s Comedic Art as Social Revolution

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

Becoming Women: The Embodied Self in Image Culture

Postmodern and Film: Rethinking Hollywood’s Aesthetics

Celebrity and the Feminist Blockbuster

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

Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults

The Feminine Mystique

Transgender History

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference

Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters

Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive 

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It

Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear… and Why

The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

The Beauty Myth

The Second Sex

The Mother of All Questions