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Tomboy: The Surprising History and Future of Girls Who Dare to Be Different

She Votes: How U.S. Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

On Corruption in America: And What Is at Stake

Chasing Chopin: A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions

Under the Bridge: The True Story of the Murder of Reena Virk

Compañeras: Zapatista Women’s Stories

African American Women of the Old West

Surrealist Women: An International Anthology

Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots

Azadi

Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism

Identity and Capitalism

Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency

After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America

Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town

Inequality: A Short History

Greek Myths: Meet the Heroes and Heroines, Monsters and Gods of Ancient Greece

Medieval Writings on Female Spirituality

Modern Scottish Women Poets

In Bed with the Ancient Egyptians

Culver City Chronicles

Looking for Miss America: A Pageant’s 100-Year Quest to Define Womanhood

A Cargo of Women: Susannah Watson and the Convicts of the Princess Royal

The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir

Hidden Heroines: The Forgotten Suffragettes

My Name is Victoria: The Extraordinary Story of One Woman’s Struggle to Reclaim Her True Identity

Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States

Treasury of Greek Mythology

33 1/3: Bobbie Gentry’s Ode to Billie Joe

The Little Princesses: The Story of the Queen’s Childhood by Her Nanny, Marion Crawford

Max Factor and Hollywood: A Glamorous History

AOC: The Fearless Rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and What It Means for America

Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture

The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches 1968-1992

Anger: The Conflicted History of an Emotion

Catland: The Soft Power of Cat Culture in Japan

The Lonely War

Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments

Jane Austen: A Life

Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary

Autobiography of Mother Jones

The Girl from Purple Mountain: Love, Honor, War, and One Family’s Journey from China to America

Unsinkable

84, Charing Cross Road

Edith’s Story

A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland

Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan’s Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family’s Past

Tokyo Street Style

American Resistance: From the Women’s March to the Blue Wave

Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells

The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt

Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South

Vita & Virginia: A Double Life

Why the Ramones Matter

Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone

Strong Women: 15 Biographies of Influential Women History Overlooked

Hearts And Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote

Simone de Beauvoir and the Colonial Experience: Freedom, Violence, and Identity

The Men in My Life: A Memoir of Love and Art in 1950s Manhattan

Gender Inequality in Our Changing World: A Comparative Approach (500 Tips)

The Lonely Life: An Autobiography

Hell in the Heartland: Murder, Meth, and the Case of Two Missing Girls

Abundant Beauty: The Adventurous Travels of Marianne North, Botanical Artist

The Right to Be Elected: 100 Years Since Suffrage

Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America’s First Celebrity

Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood

Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession

Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales

A History of Women in 100 Objects

Testament of Youth

Dangerous Voices: Women’s Laments and Greek Literature

Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915

The Literary Life Of Cairo: One Hundred Years In The Heart Of The City

We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide

Cold Cases: A True Crime Collection: Unidentified Serial Killers, Unsolved Kidnappings, and Mysterious Murders

She Proclaims: Our Declaration of Independence from a Man’s World

Czech Feminisms: Perspectives on Gender in East Central Europe

Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists

No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram

Who Did It First?: 50 Scientists, Artists, and Mathematicians Who Revolutionized the World

Korean Women in Leadership

The End of White Politics: How to Heal Our Liberal Divide

Bright Precious Thing

The Button Box: The Story of Women in the 20th century told through the clothes they wore

They Didn’t See Us Coming: The Hidden History of Feminism in the Nineties

Say It Louder!: Black Voters, Voices & the Shaping of American Democracy

Queen of Vaudeville: The Story of Eva Tanguay

Use the Power You Have: A Brown Woman’s Guide to Politics and Political Change

Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes

Frontier Women and Their Art: A Chronological Encyclopedia

From Angel to Office Worker: Middle-Class Identity and Female Consciousness in Mexico, 1890–1950

Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist: The Life and Activism of Anbara Salam Khalidi

Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy

Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World

Contraception: A Concise History

The Fashion Forecasters: A Hidden History of Color and Trend Prediction

No Modernism Without Lesbians

Vintage Luxury Fashion: Exploring the Rise of the Secondhand Clothing Trade

Harriet Tubman and the Fight for Freedom: A Brief History with Documents

Raising Our Hands: How White Women Can Stop Avoiding Hard Conversations, Start Accepting Responsibility, and Find Our Place on the New Frontlines

Calamity: The Many Lives of Calamity Jane

Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present

Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture

The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President’s Black Family

Daughter of the Boycott: Carrying On a Montgomery Family’s Civil Rights Legacy

Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl’s Love Letter to the Power of Fashion

Daughters of the Earth: The Lives and Legends of American Indian Women

Nancy Cunard: Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist

A History of the World in 500 Walks

Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South

Gender and the Mexican Revolution: Yucatán Women and the Realities of Patriarchy

Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture

Minnie Lansbury: Suffragette, Socialist, Rebel Councillor

How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Destruction of the Syrian Arab Kingdom in 1920 and the Rise of Anti-Liberal Islamism

The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle

Raised in Ruins: A Memoir

Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation

Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul

Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels

Arm the Spirit: A Story from Underground and Back

How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide

Ladies Can’t Climb Ladders: Early Adventures of Working Women, the Professional Life and the Glass Ceiling

Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

Getting What We Need Ourselves: How Food Has Shaped African American Life

Surviving Autocracy

The Language of Butterflies: How Thieves, Hoarders, Scientists, and Other Obsessives Unlocked the Secrets of the World’s Favorite Insect

Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation

Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture

Wages for Housework: A History of an International Feminist Movement, 1972–77

Ms. Gloria Steinem: A Life

Sarah Bernhardt: The Divine and Dazzling Life of the World’s First Superstar

Civil Racism: The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion and the Crisis of Racial Burnout

Say I’m Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love

Revolution And Evolution In The Twentieth Century

Living For Change: An Autobiography

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

Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot

Our Bodies Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women

Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells

Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula

Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate

This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Introduction to Transgender Studies

Healing with CBD: How Cannabidiol Can Transform Your Health without the High

Performing Jane: A Cultural History of Jane Austen Fandom

The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness

Thank You for Voting: The Maddening, Enlightening, Inspiring Truth About Voting in America

Ink-Stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors: Superwomen in Modern Mythology

Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment

Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights

If They Come in the Morning … Voices of Resistance

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Girl Talk: What Science Can Tell Us About Female Friendship

Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

Our Time is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America

Queer, There and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World

Neon Girls: A Stripper’s Education in Protest and Power

The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul

Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960

The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters

Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany

America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines

Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century

The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness

Feasting Wild: In Search of the Last Untamed Food

Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court

“Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?”: A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity

Atomic Women: The Untold Stories of the Scientists Who Helped Create the Nuclear Bomb

The War Queens: Extraordinary Women who Ruled the Battlefield

America’s First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster

Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World

When I Fell From the Sky

Country Girl: A Memoir

Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News

Death in Ten Minutes: The Forgotten Life of Radical Suffragette Kitty Marion

Murder by the Book: The Crime That Shocked Dickens’s London

Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from the Original Epicenter

Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings

The Forest City Killer: A Serial Murderer, a Cold-Case Sleuth, and a Search for Justice

Trans Like Me: A Journey for All of Us

Women of Color in Tech: A Blueprint for Inspiring and Mentoring the Next Generation of Technology Innovators

Three Thousand Stitches: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives

One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965

Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire

The Equivalents: The Untold Story of the Five Friends Who Started a Personal, Political, and Artistic Revolution

Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women’s Health and What We Can Do About It

Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography

Yeah, No. Not Happening.: How I Found Happiness Swearing Off Self-Improvement and Saying F*ck It All—and How You Can Too

Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything

The Bitter Taste of Victory: Life, Love, and Art in the Ruins of the Reich

Witches!: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem

Video Slut

Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women