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Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope

Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature

The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth

A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812

Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday

Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

Vivian Maier: Street Photographer

The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices

Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics

Don’t Touch My Hair

Women’s Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930: Haunted Empire

Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover

Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy

Dickens’ Women

The Way We All Became The Brady Bunch: How the Canceled Sitcom Became the Beloved Pop Culture Icon We Are Still Talking About Today

The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness

The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of the Cone Sisters, Matisse’s True Discoverers

Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom

A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War

A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870

Why Karen Carpenter Matters

The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick

The Partly Cloudy Patriot

Take the Cannoli

Mother Winter: A Memoir

African American Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students

America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States

Pioneering Women: Short Stories by Canadian Women, Beginnings to 1880

Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn Into the Twentieth Century

Priestess, Mother, Sacred Sister: Religions Dominated by Women

A Fighting Chance

Vivian Maier: A Photographer’s Life and Afterlife

Women on Their Own: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Being Single

Herlands: Exploring the Women’s Land Movement in the United States

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

Stealing the Show: How Women Are Revolutionizing Television

Accidental Feminists

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

Women Warriors: An Unexpected History

Joan of Arc: A Life

Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of the Community

Working It Out: 23 Women Writers, Artists, Scientists, and Scholars Talk about Their Lives and Work

When Rape Was Legal: The Untold History of Sexual Violence During Slavery

Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin

Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World

Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World

Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao’s Revolution

Women: Our Story

Eleanor Marx: A Life

Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises

Historical Heroines: 100 Women You Should Know about

Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Women of the Golden Dawn: Rebels and Priestesses: Maud Gonne, Moina Bergson Mathers, Annie Horniman, Florence Farr

The Girl: Marilyn Monroe, The Seven Year Itch, and the Birth of an Unlikely Feminist

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

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

Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World

Lakota Woman

Ambition and Desire: The Dangerous Life of Josephine Bonaparte

The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee

Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History

A Quiet Revolution: The Veil’s Resurgence, from the Middle East to America

A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa

Rita Moreno: A Memoir

Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy: The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army

Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe

Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women’s Poetry in America

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston

In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir

God Save the Queens: The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop

The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe

From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 4

From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 3

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

The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition

The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women’s Liberation

Men, Women, and God(s): Nawal El Saadawi and Arab Feminist Poetics

The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History

Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge

Becoming Beauvoir: A Life

The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers

Vanity Fair’s Women on Women

We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent

Fastpitch: The Untold History of Softball and the Women Who Made the Game

White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue … and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation

Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters

The Grind: Black Women and Survival in the Inner City

Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

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

Reclaiming the Archive: Feminism and Film History

The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World

Restless Ambition: Grace Hartigan, Painter

Reclaiming Feminism: Challenging Everyday Misogyny

Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race

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

From Miniskirt to Hijab: A Girl in Revolutionary Iran

Fields of Protest: Women’s Movements in India

Let Me Go: My Mother and the SS

Cigarettes, Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism

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

Becoming Modern Women: Love and Female Identity in Prewar Japanese Literature and Culture

Talking Back to the Indian Act: Critical Readings in Settler Colonial Histories

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

White Tears / Brown Scars

The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy’s Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici

Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema

Fashion, History, Museums: Inventing the Display of Dress

Brooklyn’s Promised Land: The Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York

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

Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea: Indian Women as Cultural Intermediaries and National Symbols

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Casting off the Veil: The Life of Huda Shaarawi, Egypt’s First Feminist

A Politically Incorrect Feminist: Creating a Movement with Bitches, Lunatics, Dykes, Prodigies, Warriors, and Wonder Women

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

Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour

Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties

Rape: From Lucretia to #MeToo

Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China

An Unconventional Wife: The Life of Julia Sorell Arnold

Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

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

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

Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran

Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans

The Burma Spring: Aung San Suu Kyi and the New Struggle for the Soul of a Nation

Excellent Daughters: The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World

Brooklyn Street Style: The No-Rules Guide to Fashion

Heels in the Arena: Living Purple in a Red/Blue Town

Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe

A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars

Contemporary Arab Women Writers: Cultural Expression In Context

Anna Howard Shaw: The Work of Woman Suffrage

The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance

In a Time of Monsters: Travels Through a Middle East in Revolt

One Child: The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment

Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

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

Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work

Revenge of the She-Punks: A Feminist Music History from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot

This America: The Case for the Nation

Suffragette: My Own Story

The Bells of Old Tokyo: Meditations on Time and a City

The Covent Garden Ladies: Pimp General Jack & The Extraordinary Story of Harris’ List

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

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

Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner’s Daughter

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

Voices of Cherokee Women

Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

Unladylike: A Field Guide to Smashing the Patriarchy and Claiming Your Space

Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials

Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers

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

The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace

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

“Believing Women” in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’an

Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History

Echo and Narcissus: Women’s Voices in Classical Hollywood Cinema

See Jane Win: The Inspiring Story of the Women Changing American Politics

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

Endless Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform

Women Filmmakers in Mexico: The Country of Which We Dream

Medieval Single Women: The Politics of Social Classification in Late Medieval England

Superior: The Return of Race Science

Encyclopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers

Feminist Generations: The Persistence of the Radical Women’s Movement

Further To Fly: Black Women and the Politics of Empowerment

50 Ways to Improve Women’s Lives: The Essential Women’s Guide for Achieving Equality, Health, and Success

Her Own Hero: The Origins of the Women’s Self-Defense Movement

Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism

American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation

A Woman of Firsts: The midwife who built a hospital and changed the world

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

Women Artists of the Harlem Renaissance

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee

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

The Early Feminists: Radical Unitarians and the Emergence of the Women’s Rights Movement, 1831-51

Migra!: A History of the U.S. Border Patrol

The Barefoot Woman

Fifty-One Key Feminist Thinkers

Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Boys in Zinc

The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

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

Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth