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The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future

A Woman’s View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960

Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Women In Sports: 50 Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win

Madame Curie: A Biography

Behind Every Great Man: Forgotten Women Behind the World’s Famous and Infamous

Brazilian Women’s Filmmaking: From Dictatorship to Democracy

Women Artists, 1550-1950

These Truths: A History of the United States

Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

The Illustrated Feminist: 100 Years of Suffrage, Strength, and Sisterhood in America

Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World

The Da Vinci Women: Leonardo and the Revolutionary Portrayal of the Female Form

Anne Boleyn: 500 Years of Lies

Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field

Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History

The Trial of Lizzie Borden

A Curious History of Sex

Last Girl Standing

Mary Pickford: Queen of the Movies

Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood

Edie: American Girl

Capitalism: A Ghost Story

Sisters in Arms

Daughters of 1968: Redefining French Feminism and the Women’s Liberation Movement

You Let Some Girl Beat You?: The Story of Ann Meyers Drysdale

What Would the Spice Girls Do?: How the Girl Power Generation Grew Up

The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage

The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men

The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History

Women of Motown: An Oral History

Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her

My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education

Murder, Mystery and My Family: A True-Crime Casebook from the Hit BBC Series

The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World

These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson

Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today

After the Tall Timber: Collected Nonfiction

The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History

A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind

Berlin Street Style: A Guide to Urban Chic

Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol

The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America

90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality

Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World

Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway

Witches: The Transformative Power of Women Working Together

Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster

Diane Arbus: A Biography

Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson

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

Narrative of Sojourner Truth

But You Don’t Look Like a Muslim

Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980

Strange Vernaculars: How Eighteenth-Century Slang, Cant, Provincial Languages, and Nautical Jargon Became English

She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman

Women in the Middle Ages: The lives of real women in a vibrant age of transition

Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women’s Movements

The Fields Beneath: The History of One London Village

True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Mudlark: In Search of London’s Past Along the River Thames

The RBG Way: The Secrets of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Success

You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington

Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World

The Periodic Table of Feminism

Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture

Dress Code: The Naked Truth About Fashion

A Black Women’s History of the United States

Agnes Varda between Film, Photography, and Art

Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt

All Our Relations

A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism

Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist’s Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America

Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith

Black Indian: A Memoir

Darkly: Blackness and America’s Gothic Soul

Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Trump

Lost in the Museum: Buried Treasures and the Stories They Tell

Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race

How to Read a Dress. A Guide to Changing Fashion from the 16th to the 20th Century

The Story Behind: The Extraordinary History Behind Ordinary Objects

Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present

Motherlove in Shades of Black: The Maternal Psyche in the Novels of African American Women

Who Knew?: Questions That Will Make You Think Again

Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America

Comic Venus: Women and Comedy in American Silent Film

Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt

Liberation in Print: Feminist Periodicals and Social Movement Identity

1968 and Global Cinema

Turkish Guest Workers in Germany: Hidden Lives and Contested Borders, 1960s to 1980s

The Life of Bessie Coleman: First African American Woman Pilot

Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward

Black Woman Reformer: Ida B. Wells, Lynching, and Transatlantic Activism

A Feeling of Belonging: Asian American Women’s Public Culture, 1930-1960

The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies

Earning Power: Women and Work in Los Angeles, 1880-1930

Sisters in Crime: Early Crime and Mystery Stories by Women

Stay Woke: A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter

Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette

Overground Railroad: The Green Book & Roots of Black Travel in America

Rebel Daughters: Women and the French Revolution

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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

On Photography

The Scars of Evolution: What Our Bodies Tell Us About Human Rights

Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space

Dreaming in Code: Ada Byron Lovelace, Computer Pioneer

Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children’s Home Society

Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology

The Confidence Game: The Psychology of the Con and Why We Fall For It Every Time

Women In Europe Between The Wars: Politics, Culture And Society

Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen

Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

Bad Blood

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Wardrobe Crisis: How We Went From Sunday Best to Fast Fashion

Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother’s Disappearance as a Child

Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait

What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance

The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters

The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter’s Journey to Reconciliation

The Season: A Social History of the Debutante

The Heartland: An American History

In the Country of Women

The National Team: The Inside Story of the Women who Changed Soccer

Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination

A Wild and Precious Life: A Memoir

Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS

Hollywood’s Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.

The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father

Madame Fourcade’s Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France’s Largest Spy Network Against Hitler

Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession

The Extra Woman: How Marjorie Hillis Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It

Live Alone and Like It

Annie Leibovitz: Photographs

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