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Daring to Hope: My Life in the 1970s

In Light-Years There’s No Hurry: Cosmic Perspectives on Everyday Life

Beyond the Shores: A History of African Americans Abroad

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

The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Harm, Ending State Violence

Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

Dead Woman Pickney: A Memoir of Childhood in Jamaica

The Families of Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Female Network of Power in the Middle Ages

Georgia O’Keeffe

Flora Tristan

Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and Histories of Art

The Photograph as Contemporary Art

Wedded Wife: A Feminist History of Marriage

All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel

Don’t Say a Thing: A Predator, a Pursuit, and the Women Who Persevered

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

Out of the Cage: Women’s Experiences in Two World Wars

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

The Battle to Control Female Fertility in Modern Ireland

Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women

Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power

The Flavour Thesaurus: More Flavours: Plant-Led Pairings, Recipes and Ideas for Cooks

Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea’s Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women’s Rights Worldwide

Representing Women

The Invention of the Restaurant (2nd Edition): Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture

Chasing the Panther: Adventures and Misadventures of a Cinematic Life

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

Alternative Iran: Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice

Bet on Black: The Good News about Being Black in America Today

Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better

Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America

Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

Lipstick and Leather: On the Road With the World’s Most Notorious Rock Stars

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

I Always Knew: A Memoir

My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering

Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Social Media’s Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property

A Little History of Art

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

My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds

Where We Ate: A Field Guide to Canada’s Restaurants, Past and Present

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

Roe: The History of a National Obsession

Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit

The French Art of Living Well: Finding Joie de Vivre in the Everyday World

How Documentaries Went Mainstream: A History, 1960-2022

All In: An Autobiography

The Sacred Depths of Nature (2nd Edition): How Life Has Emerged and Evolved

Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

I Can’t Wait to Call You My Wife

Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays

Differencing the Canon: Feminist Desire and the Writing of Arts Histories

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

African American Herbalism: A Practical Guide to Healing Plants and Folk Traditions

Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé

Truth Telling: Seven Conversations About Indigenous Life in Canada

The Silver Women: How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal

Life Lessons from Hobbes

Fires in the Dark: Healing the Unquiet Mind

When I Die I’m Going to Heaven ‘Cause I’ve Spent My Time in Hell: A Memoir of My Year As an Army Nurse in Vietnam

Homecoming: The Scottish Years of Mary, Queen of Scots

Elixir: A Parisian Perfume House and the Quest for the Secret of Life

An Iron Girl in a Velvet Glove: The Life of Joan Rhodes

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

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

Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

Midlife Crisis: The Feminist Origins of a Chauvinist Cliché

Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women’s Alliances in Early Modern England

Regarding the Pain of Others

We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body’s Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds

Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World

When the World Didn’t End: A Memoir

Superfluous Women: Art, Feminism, and Revolution in Twenty-First-Century Ukraine

Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy

Voices in the Shadows: Women and Verbal Art in Serbia and Bosnia

Seduced by the Light: The Mina Miller Edison Story

The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses and Find Your True Well-Being

Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display

Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny

In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon

Women and Ceramics: Gendered Vessels

Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many

Film Feminisms: A Global Introduction

Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan’s Digital Economy

What Shall I Wear?: The What, Where, When, and How Much of Fashion

An Architecture of Education: African American Women Design the New South

Fashion, Gender and Agency in Latin American and Spanish Literature

Hollywood: Her Story, an Illustrated History of Women and the Movies

Cleopatra’s Daughter: From Roman Prisoner to African Queen

On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

Black Designers in American Fashion

Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession

The West: A New History of an Old Idea

The First Lady of World War II

The Memory Keeper: A Journey Into the Holocaust to Find My Family

Women Artists in the Early Modern Courts of Europe: c. 1450-1700

All Made Up: The Power and Pitfalls of Beauty Culture, from Cleopatra to Kim Kardashian

Winters in the World: A Journey Through the Anglo-Saxon Year

Dreamland: America’s Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction

Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists

Cinematic Style: Fashion, Architecture and Interior Design on Film

Dress Code: Unlocking Fashion from the New Look to Millennial Pink

Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography

Gendered Journeys: Women, Migration and Feminist Psychology

New York in the Thirties

Willful Subjects

As If!: The Oral History of Clueless as told by Amy Heckerling and the Cast and Crew

Unbroken Chains: The Hidden Role of Human Trafficking in the American Economy

Edison’s Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History’s Greatest Geniuses

The Cinema of Sofia Coppola: Fashion, Culture, Celebrity

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

50 Women Artists You Should Know

Baseline Shift: Untold Stories of Women in Graphic Design History

Everybody: A Book about Freedom

Women, Art and Money in Late Victorian and Edwardian England: The Hustle and the Scramble

Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Following Writers and Rebels in the Spanish Civil War

Roads of Her Own: Gendered Space and Mobility in American Women’s Road Narratives, 1970-2000

No More Secrets: My Part in Codebreaking at Bletchley Park and the Pentagon

Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism

Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything — And Endangered the World

Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future

Romaine Wasn’t Built in a Day: The Delightful History of Food Language

Stealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe

The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy

Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World

Photography Fifth Edition: A Cultural History

A Hidden Wisdom: Medieval Contemplatives on Self-Knowledge, Reason, Love, Persons, and Immortality

Messalina: A Story of Empire, Slander and Adultery

Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies

The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City

Under the Skin: Tattoos, Scalps, and the Contested Language of Bodies in Early America

Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life

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

Women Artists

Quant by Quant: The Autobiography of Mary Quant

The Way We Eat Now: How the Food Revolution Has Transformed Our Lives, Our Bodies, and Our World

Visitors: An American Feminist in East Central Europe

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

The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women

Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming

I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton

Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent

Woman: An Intimate Geography

Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West

Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America’s Future

The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It

Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?

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

Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma

Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?

The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights

Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature

Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America

The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption

Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence

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

Grief and Women Writers in the English Renaissance

The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History’s Most Astonishing Murder Ring

They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

That Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means: The 150 Most Commonly Misused Words and Their Tangled Histories

Queer Timing: The Emergence of Lesbian Sexuality in Early Cinema

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

Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker

And Then What?: Inside Stories of 21st Century Diplomacy

Material Enlightenment: Women Writers and the Science of Mind, 1770-1830

Heroines in History: A Thousand Faces

Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt’s Ancient Temples from Destruction

Make Some Space: Tuning Into Total Refreshment Centre

Voyager: Constellations of Memory

Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English

Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother

Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty

How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2001

A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England

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

The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

Unearthed: A Lost Actress, a Forbidden Book, and a Search for Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust

Feminist Philosophies of Life

The Ghost Club

Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World’s Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her

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

Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain

A Stone Is Most Precious Where It Belongs

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

The American Way of Death Revisited

The Sum of Us

The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality

Crash Landing: The Inside Story of How the World’s Biggest Companies Survived an Economy on the Brink

Languages Are Good For Us

I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

Silk Road: A New History

The True History of Merlin the Magician

The Southernization of America: A Story of Democracy in the Balance

Women and the Crusades

The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction