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Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain

How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time

The History of White People

Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States

The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America

Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature

Stuff Every Tea Lover Should Know

Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics

The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World

Sifters: Native American Women’s Lives

Jane Austen and the Victorian Heroine

Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation

Reading the Rocks: How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life

Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82

The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began

Paris France

Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture After the Nickelodeon

The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life’s Work at 72

The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World

We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays

Nevertheless, We Persisted: 48 Voices of Defiance, Strength, and Courage

The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs

Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture

The Undocumented Americans

Writing In An Age Of Silence

Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South

Mae West: An Icon in Black and White

History Vs Women: The Defiant Lives That They Don’t Want You to Know

De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century

The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here

Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology

Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World

The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys’ Club

Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s

The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America

The Shocking Miss Pilgrim: A Writer in Early Hollywood

Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can’t Live Without Them

The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

100 Nasty Women of History

Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life

Aphrodite’s Daughters: Three Modernist Poets of the Harlem Renaissance

Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era

The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen: Awesome Female Characters from Comic Book History

Virginia Woolf

The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock

Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Wartime Sarajevo

Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA

On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker

Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business

Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City’s Underground Economy

Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir

House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family

Flowering in the Shadows: Women in the History of Chinese and Japanese Painting

Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

Memoirs of a Revolutionist

Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England

How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

Rebel Crossings: New Women, Free Lovers and Radicals in Britain and the United States

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray

Gilded: How Newport Became America’s Richest Resort

It Ended Badly: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History

The Belle of Bedford Avenue: The Sensational Brooks-Burns Murder in Turn-of-the-Century New York

Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity

Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter

Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

O’Keeffe

Warriors, Witches, Women: Mythology’s Fiercest Females

Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman

Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol)

Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild

All I Ever Wanted: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Memoir

This Is Big: How the Founder of Weight Watchers Changed the World (and Me)

Lurking: How a Person Became a User

Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Glamour: Women, History, Feminism

Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934

Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

It’s up to the Women

Cleopatra: A Life

Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe

“All the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans

Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

The Ones We’ve Been Waiting for: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America

Me: Stories of My Life

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Marxism and Women’s Liberation

She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth

Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars

Hidden in History: The Untold Stories of Women During World War I and World War II

Finding Her in History: Confronting the Traditions of Misogyny

The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women’s Rights and Abolition

A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual—and the Modern Home Began

Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey

Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities

Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon’s Army and Other Diabolical Insects

The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture 1830-1980

Red Bird, Red Power: The Life and Legacy of Zitkala-Ša

Greed, Lust and Gender: A History of Economic Ideas

Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle

When We Are No More: How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future

The Women’s Suffrage Movement

Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York

100 Canadian Heroines: Famous and Forgotten Faces

Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower

American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland

Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone

Art Labor, Sex Politics: Feminist Effects in 1970s British Art and Performance

A Great Big Girl Like Me: The Films of Marie Dressler

Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons

Dr. Wangari Maathai Plants a Forest

Madam C.J. Walker Builds a Business

Ada Lovelace Cracks the Code

A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South

Big Girls Don’t Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women

Anne Hutchinson: A Captivating Guide to the Puritan Leader in Colonial Massachusetts Who Is Considered to Be One of the Earliest American Feminists

Forgotten Queens in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Political Agency, Myth-Making, and Patronage

The White Mouse

The Trouble With Women

The Creation of Patriarchy

Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts’ Advice to Women

Sharing the Work: What My Family and Career Taught Me about Breaking Through (and Holding the Door Open for Others)

The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination

The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars

Female Erasure: What You Need to Know About Gender Politics’ War on Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights

Nobody’s Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood

Feminism and the Women’s Movement in Malaysia

Sisters of the Extreme: Women Writing on the Drug Experience

Iconic Women of Colour: The Amazing True Stories Behind Inspirational Women of Colour

Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist

Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby

Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times

She Hath Been Reading: Women and Shakespeare Clubs in America

The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

Alice Guy Blaché: Lost Visionary of the Cinema

The Slogan

Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement

Feminism’s New Age: Gender, Appropriation, and the Afterlife of Essentialism

The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood

30 Women in Power

Viking Women: The Narrative Voice in Woven Tapestries

Love, Lucy

Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World

Inside Broadside: A Decade of Feminist Journalism

Joan of Arc: A History

Literary Places

Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit

The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War

Get Well Soon: History’s Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them

Jane Austen at Home

Stand Up and Shout Out: Women’s Fight for Equal Pay, Equal Rights, and Equal Opportunities in Sports

Go West, Young Women!: The Rise of Early Hollywood

Girl Squads

She Speaks: The Power of Women’s Voices

The Firsts: The Inside Story of the Women Reshaping Congress

I Know an Artist: The inspiring connections between the world’s greatest artists

Women’s Work: An Anthology of African-American Women’s Historical Writings from Antebellum America to the Harlem Renaissance

How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement

This Is HerStory: A Celebration of Remarkable Women Who Changed the World

Smithsonian American Women: Women’s History from the National Collection

Women in the American Revolution: Gender, Politics, and the Domestic World

Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country

After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality

999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz

The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

Feminism: A Brief Introduction to the Ideas, Debates, and Politics of the Movement

Women’s Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland

Troublesome Women: Gender, Crime, and Punishment in Antebellum Pennsylvania

Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge

Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C.

Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump

Dust Bowls of Empire: Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of “Green” Capitalism

What Are We For?: The Words and Ideals of Eleanor Roosevelt

Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters

Hons and Rebels

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death

The Feminist Papers: A Vindication of the Rights of Women

Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930-2000

Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art

Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War

Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: Modern American Revolutionary

Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future

Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World