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Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare’s English Histories

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

Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo

Women in Power: World Leaders Since 1960

They Would Never Hurt a Fly: War Criminals on Trial in The Hague

Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World

Historical Dictionary of Feminist Philosophy

The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory

Writing Feminist Lives: The Biographical Battles Over Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, and Simone de Beauvoir

The Pirate Queen: In Search of Grace O’Malley and Other Legendary Women of the Sea

They’re Playing Our Song

Where Did You Sleep Last Night? A Personal History

The Militant Muse: Love, War and the Women of Surrealism

Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion

Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own

No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies

When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present

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

She Caused a Riot: 100 Unknown Women Who Built Cities, Sparked Revolutions, and Massively Crushed It

Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age

The War on Women

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions

Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet

I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Out of the Vinyl Deeps: On Rock Music

My Beloved World

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

The Secret History of Wonder Woman

Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World

Black Feminist Archaeology

Figuring

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

We Are Displaced

Silent Spring

Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights

Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China

Anna Julia Cooper, Visionary Black Feminist: A Critical Introduction

Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

Becoming

The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture

The Secret Lives of Color

Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley

Women Scientists: Reflections, Challenges, and Breaking Boundaries

Tragic Hollywood, Beautiful, Glamorous And Dead

Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century’s End

The Stranger Beside Me

The Story of My Life

The Penguin Book of Witches

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Women’s Writing in Colombia – An Alternative History

Feminist Activism in the 1990s: Gender & Society (Feminist Perspectives on the Past and Present)

Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood

We Were Going to Change the World: Interviews with Women from the 1970s & 1980s Southern California Punk Rock Scene

Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China

Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527-1204

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

Women, Race, & Class

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

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

The Quiet Revolution of Caroline Herschel: The Lost Heroine of Astronomy

Backwards & in Heels: The Past, Present, and Future of Women Working in Film

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution

The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan

Lee Hyeonseo: The Girl with Seven Names–A North Korean Defectors Story

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story

Femme Fatale: Love Lies and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari

In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive

Empress of Fashion: A Life of Diana Vreeland

Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties

The Baroness: The Search for Nica the Rebellious Rothschild

Kicking & Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock and Roll

From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies

The Revolutionary Life of Freda Bedi: British Feminist, Indian Nationalist, Buddhist Nun

Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought

Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Feminism

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

Helen of Troy: The Story Behind the Most Beautiful Woman in the World

A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France

Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

Invisible Women of Prehistory: Three Million Years of Peace, Six Thousand Years of War

Inside the Battle of Algiers: Memoir of a Woman Freedom Fighter

Dirty Wars and Polished Silver: The Life and Times of a War Correspondent Turned Ambassatrix

What Is a Woman to Do? A Reader on Women, Work and Art, c. 1830-1890

The World of Prostitution in Late Imperial Austria

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

No is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need

After Andy: Adventures in Warhol Land

When Women Win: Emily’s List and the Rise of Women in American Politics

Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing

Jane Austen: A Brief Life

The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World

Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories Wild Possibilities

What Happened

My Life on the Road

Marilyn Norma Jeane

The Female Eunuch

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

Florynce “Flo” Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical

Pornography and Civil Rights: A New Day for Womens’ Equality

Woman Hating

Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics

Marlene Dietrich: The Life

Last Girl Before Freeway: The Life, Loves, Losses, and Liberation of Joan Rivers

Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls

We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria

Finding Feminism: Millennial Activists and the Unfinished Gender Revolution

A Woman’s Work

Modern Misogyny: Anti-Feminism in a Post-Feminist Era

What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories

The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II

Making Trouble: Life and Politics

Coming of Age: The Sexual Awakening of Margaret Mead

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

Art and Politics under Modern Dictatorships: A Comparison of Chile and Romania

Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease

Feminism and Popular Culture: Investigating the Postfeminist Mystique

Selling Women’s History: Packaging Feminism in Twentieth-Century American Popular Culture

The Huntress: The Adventures, Escapades, and Triumphs of Alicia Patterson: Aviatrix, Sportswoman, Journalist, Publisher

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

because of sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women’s Lives at Work

The League of Exotic Dancers: Legends from American Burlesque

Postmodern and Film: Rethinking Hollywood’s Aesthetics

The Poitier Effect: Racial Melodrama and Fantasies of Reconciliation

art sex music

The Force of Vocation: The Literary Career of Adele Wiseman

Woman’s Consciousness Man’s World

Hidden Figures

Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom

Life In Code: A Personal History of Technology

The Feminine Mystique

Assata: An Autobiography

Transgender History

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America

The Complete Persepolis (Persepolis #1-4)

Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader

Islam: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles #2)

Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk

The White Album

#BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America 

Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

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

Reading Lolita in Tehran

The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman