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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

Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement

The Three-Year Swim Club: The Untold Story of Maui’s Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory

Birth of the Chess Queen: A History

Burying the Typewriter: A Memoir

Mythologica: An Encyclopedia of Gods, Monsters and Mortals from Ancient Greece

Pandora’s Breeches: Women, Science & Power in the Enlightenment

Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein

Google It: A History of Google

Runaway Wives and Rogue Feminists: The Origins of the Women’s Shelter Movement in Canada

Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart

Colette’s France: Her lives, her loves

Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir

Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest

Blood Sisters: The Women Behind The Wars Of The Roses

Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would Be President

She Had Some Horses

A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story

Women’s Oppression Today: The Marxist/Feminist Encounter

Women on the Move: The Forgotten Era of Women’s Bicycle Racing

Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Iconic Poet

Delphi Complete Works of Artemisia Gentileschi

The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London

Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers’ Rights at Wal-Mart

The Banshees: A Literary History of Irish American Women Writers

The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World

Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

More Than Love: An Intimate Portrait of My Mother, Natalie Wood

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution

No Man’s Land: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain’s Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I

Inge’s War: A German Woman’s Story of Family, Secrets, and Survival Under Hitler

Women in Dark Times

Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health

Racism: A Very Short Introduction

Women, Resistance and Revolution A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern World

Unprotected Texts: The Bible’s Surprising Contradictions About Sex and Desire

Wiping the War Paint off the Lens: Native American Film and Video

Accessorizing the Body: Habits of Being I

Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-And-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe

The Women’s Atlas

A Woman’s Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences

Woman’s Estate

Yemen in Crisis: Autocracy, Neo-Liberalism and the Disintegration of a State

The Female Gaze: Essential Movies Made by Women

Cinderella Goes to Market: Citizenship, Gender, and Women’s Movements in East Central Europe

Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond

Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World

Killing the Indian Maiden: Images of Native American Women in Film

Pelosi

Fortunes of Feminism. From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis

Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism, and History

Black & White & Noir: America’s Pulp Modernism

Women’s Work, Men’s Property: The Origins of Gender and Class

The Way We Never Were: American Families & the Nostalgia Trap

No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women

Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating

The End of Imagination

The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade

The Social Origins of Private Life: A History of American Families 1600-1900

Woman’s Consciousness, Man’s World