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Marriage Markets: How Inequality is Remaking the American Family

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

You Don’t Have to Like Me: Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism

She Said: Witty Words from Wise Women

break your glass slippers

Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril

A Woman in Your Own Right: Assertiveness and You

The Mary Daly Reader

We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia

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.

‘and I Quote…’: A History of Using Other People’s Words

Made by Humans: The AI Condition

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

Selling Local: Why Local Food Movements Matter

Feminists Rethink the Neoliberal State: Inequality, Exclusion, and Change

Money Talks: Explaining How Money Really Works

Speaking From The Heart: Gender And The Social Meaning Of Emotion

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

Starring Madame Modjeska: On Tour in Poland and America

The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

The Last of the Duchess

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

Conversations with Edwidge Danticat

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

Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home–A Memoir

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

Marie von Clausewitz: The Woman Behind the Making of On War

I’m Just a Person

Mean

Dickens’s Artistic Daughter Katey: Her Life, Loves & Impact

The Terrible: A Storyteller’s Memoir

My First Hundred Years in Show Business: A Memoir

The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love and Family

bone

Slaves Among Us: The Hidden World of Human Trafficking

Write. Get Paid. Repeat.: The Guide to Being a Successful Freelance Writer

It’s OK Not to Be OK: Good Advice and Kind Words for Positive Mental Well-Being

Becoming Dangerous: Witchy Femmes, Queer Conjurers and Magical Rebels on Summoning the Power to Resist

The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table

Joni: The Creative Odyssey of Joni Mitchell

Fight Like a Girl: How to Be a Fearless Feminist

The Feminist Papers: A Vindication of the Rights of Women

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

Juki Girls, Good Girls: Gender and Cultural Politics in Sri Lanka’s Global Garment Industry

What Patients Taught Me: A Medical Student’s Journey

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

14,000 Things to Be Happy About: The Happy Book

The CBD Kitchen: Over 50 plant-based recipes for tonics, easy meals, treats skincare made with the goodness extracted from hemp

Disrupt-Her: A Manifesto for the Modern Woman

Five Rules for Rebellion: Let’s Change the World Ourselves

Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War

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

Writing to Persuade: How to Bring People Over to Your Side

Cat Lady Chic

The Body Papers: A Memoir

Wise Craft: Turning Thrift Store Finds, Fabric Scraps, and Natural Objects Into Stuff You Love

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: Modern American Revolutionary

Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future

Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World

The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future

A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer: Writings to Stop Violence Against Women and Girls

Fight Like a Girl

Queens of the Kingdom: The Women of Saudi Arabia Speak

Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir

Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory

Pretty Bitches: On Being Called Crazy, Angry, Bossy, Frumpy, Feisty, and All the Other Words That Are Used to Undermine Women

Gross Anatomy: Dispatches from the Front (and Back)

A Woman’s View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960

Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

The Best Veggie Burgers on the Planet: 101 Globally Inspired Vegan Creations Packed with Fresh Flavors and Exciting New Tastes

Vivian Maier: The Color Work

On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard

Agnès Varda

And the Mirror Cracked: Feminist Cinema and Film Theory

Rage Baking: The Transformative Power of Flour, Fury, and Women’s Voices

Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Suite for Barbara Loden

Making Sense of Science: Separating Substance from Spin

Whole Food Cooking Every Day: Transform the Way You Eat with 250 Vegetarian Recipes Free of Gluten, Dairy, and Refined Sugar

Women In Sports: 50 Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win

Creativity Rules: Get Ideas Out of Your Head and into the World

Am I That Name?: Feminism And The Category Of Women In History

Spinning

Madame Curie: A Biography

Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself—and the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future

Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me

True Crimes: A Family Album

More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)

The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity

Behind Every Great Man: Forgotten Women Behind the World’s Famous and Infamous

Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir

Women Artists, 1550-1950

Watch Me

A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York

These Truths: A History of the United States

Ask: Building Consent Culture

All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir

It’s Not About the Burqa

Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

She-ology: The Definitive Guide to Women’s Intimate Health. Period.

Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person

Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber

The Illustrated Feminist: 100 Years of Suffrage, Strength, and Sisterhood in America

Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World

The Da Vinci Women: Leonardo and the Revolutionary Portrayal of the Female Form

Eff This! Meditation: 108 Tips, Tricks, and Ideas for When You’re Feeling Anxious, Stressed Out, or Overwhelmed

The Fate of Food: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World

And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready

Anne Boleyn: 500 Years of Lies

Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field

Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who’s Been There

Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity

Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History

The Trial of Lizzie Borden

A Curious History of Sex

In the Company of Women: Inspiration and Advice from over 100 Makers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs

Backstage Passes: Life on the Wild Side with David Bowie

Last Girl Standing

Mary Pickford: Queen of the Movies

Colombian Women: The Struggle Out of Silence

Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood

Edie: American Girl

Capitalism: A Ghost Story

Sisters in Arms

A Woman’s Story

Daughters of 1968: Redefining French Feminism and the Women’s Liberation Movement

We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity

Guts: The Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster

How Time Is on Your Side

Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget

The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter

Leaders of the Pack: Women and the Future of Veterinary Medicine

First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Story About Anxiety

You Let Some Girl Beat You?: The Story of Ann Meyers Drysdale

In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers

No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir

Be Fierce: Stop Harassment and Take Your Power Back

The Unfinished Revolution: Voices from the Global Fight for Women’s Rights

The Homemade Vegan Pantry: The Art of Making Your Own Staples

The Chronology of Water

Brand Bible: The Complete Guide to Building, Designing, and Sustaining Brands

What Would the Spice Girls Do?: How the Girl Power Generation Grew Up

Upstream: Selected Essays

The Shaping of Us: How Everyday Spaces Structure our Lives, Behaviour, and Well-Being

The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage

Unjust Conditions: Women’s Work and the Hidden Cost of Cash Transfer Programs

The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks

The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men

The (Other) F Word: A Celebration of the Fat and Fierce

The Rules of Inheritance: A Memoir

Turning the Tide on Plastic: How Humanity (And You) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again

The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History

Women Filmmakers of the African Asian Diaspora: Decolonizing the Gaze, Locating Subjectivity

Just a Girl: Growing Up Female and Ambitious

Women of Motown: An Oral History

Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her

101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education

Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist

Doing Sixty and Seventy

Monsoon Mansion: A Memoir

Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin

Murder, Mystery and My Family: A True-Crime Casebook from the Hit BBC Series

Lab Girl

Nowhere Near Normal: A Memoir of OCD

Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

If Women Rose Rooted: A Life-changing Journey to Authenticity and Belonging

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World

Space Struck

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Little Labors

Dining In: Highly Cookable Recipes

These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson

Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today

One: living as one and loving it

The Cinderella Complex: Women’s Hidden Fear of Independence

Healthy as F*ck: The Habits You Need to Get Lean, Stay Healthy, and Kick Ass at Life

After the Tall Timber: Collected Nonfiction

The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History

F*** You Cancer: How to face the big C, live your life and still be yourself

A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind

Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card

A Cure For The Common Word: Remedy Your Tired Vocabulary with 3,000 + Vibrant Alternatives to the Most Overused Words

Berlin Street Style: A Guide to Urban Chic

The New Better Off: Reinventing the American Dream

Small Fry: A Memoir

Veganomicon, 10th Anniversary Edition: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook

Nobody’s Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls

Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol