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The Suffragette: The History of the Women’s Militant Suffrage Movement

The Yellow House

Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America’s Soul

Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers

Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Political Worlds of Women: Activism, Advocacy, and Governance in the Twenty-First Century

My Misspent Youth: Essays

Your Story Is Your Power: Free Your Feminine Voice

Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids

F-Bomb: Dispatches from the War on Feminism

DIY Rules for a WTF World: How to Speak Up, Get Creative, and Change the World

A Girl’s Guide to Joining the Resistance: A Feminist Handbook on Fighting for Good

Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism

Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World

Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism

Pretty Good for a Girl: Women in Bluegrass

Why We March: Signs of Protest and Hope

Enough As She Is: How to Help Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success to Live Healthy, Happy, and Fulfilling Lives

Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany

Moranifesto

If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won’t)

Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life

Screwnomics: How the Economy Works Against Women and Real Ways to Make Lasting Change

#GIRLBOSS

The Worrier’s Guide to Life

She Means Business: Turn Your Ideas into Reality and Become a Wildly Successful Entrepreneur

This Is Really Happening

How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job

Ask for It: How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want

The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran

Work Wife: The Power of Female Friendship to Drive Successful Businesses

Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste

Women Change the World

Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq

The Book of Latina Women: 150 Vidas of Passion, Strength, and Success

Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder

Worn Stories

All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf

Sex, Race and Class: The Perspective of Winning: A Selection of Writings 1952-2011

The Life of Elizabeth I

Whatever Gets You Through: Twelve Women on Life After Sexual Assault

Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music

Moranthology

Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention

Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law

Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps

The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

Why Not Me?

The Vagenda: A Zero Tolerance Guide to the Media

a modern way to cook: Over 150 quick, smart and flavour-packed recipes for every day

Bloody Brilliant Women: The Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work

The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

Reading the Women of the Bible: A New Interpretation of Their Stories

Simple Habits for Complex Times: Powerful Practices for Leaders

Black Writers Matter

The Politics of Promotion: How High-Achieving Women Get Ahead and Stay Ahead

The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker

Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes

Vegan Casseroles: Pasta Bakes, Gratins, Pot Pies, and More

Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia

33 1/3: Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville

Pretty Unhealthy: Why Our Obsession with Looking Healthy is Making Us Sick

The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life’s Direction and Purpose

That’s What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) about Working Together

Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded

Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness

Little Black Book: A Toolkit for Working Women

The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

even this page is white

The Complete Houseplant Survival Manual: Essential Gardening Know-how for Keeping (Not Killing!) More Than 160 Indoor Plants

Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout

Women and Film: Both Sides of the Camera

15 Minute Vegan Comfort Food: Simple & Satisfying Vegan Recipes

This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America’s Middle Class

Feminist Queer Crip

Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have

Feminist Perspectives on Social Work Practice: The Intersecting Lives of Women in the 21st Century

Pussy Riot!: A Punk Prayer for Freedom

Crazy Brave: A Memoir

Fierce Woman: Wake Up Your Badass Self

The Delusions of Certainty

Save Me the Plums

The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come: One Introvert’s Year of Saying Yes

Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir

Flagged and Removed

Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement

I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor’s Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope

Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

Women Aviators: 26 Stories of Pioneer Flights, Daring Missions, and Record-Setting Journeys

Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age

Chinese Comfort Women: Testimonies from Imperial Japan’s Sex Slaves

The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote

Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World

Women Who Launch: The Women Who Shattered Glass Ceilings

Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World

Legendary Ladies: 50 Goddesses to Empower and Inspire You

Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam

Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women’s Pain

Negroland: A Memoir

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life

Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay

Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America’s Favorite Guilty Pleasure

The Descent of Woman

Nothing is Okay

In Praise of Difficult Women: Life Lessons from 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules

Joining the Dots: A Woman In Her Time

Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject

Shrewed: A Wry and Closely Observed Look at the Lives of Women and Girls

Heroines

Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger

Womanist and Black Feminist Responses to Tyler Perry’s Productions

Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time

The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy

Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex

Shortchanged: Why Women Have Less Wealth and What Can Be Done about It

Pursuing Intersectionality, Unsettling Dominant Imaginaries

Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction: The Mothers of the Mystery Genre

Well-Read Women: Portraits of Fiction’s Most Beloved Heroines

Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance

Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate

Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets

Not All Black Girls Know How to Eat: A Story of Bulimia

Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity

Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics

The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History

Devotion

Press, Platform, Pulpit: Black Feminist Publics in the Era of Reform

Femininity

This Is How I Save My Life: From California to India, a True Story Of Finding Everything When You Are Willing To Try Anything

The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good

The Complete Vegan Cookbook: Over 150 Whole-Foods, Plant-Based Recipes and Techniques

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change

Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China

Lily Allen: My Thoughts Exactly

Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011

The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists

Heart Berries

Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

Brave

Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism

The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

A Burst of Light and Other Essays

Three Women

The Last of the Live Nude Girls: A Memoir

The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design

Organic Perfume: The Complete Beginners Guide & 50 Best Recipes

I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn’t)

Everyday Sexism: The Project that Inspired a Worldwide Movement

Marlene

A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)

The Curated Closet: A Simple System for Discovering Your Personal Style and Building Your Dream Wardrobe

the mermaid’s voice returns in this one

Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order)

The Original Beauty Bible: Skin Care Facts for Ageless Beauty

Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History

The Specter of Sex: Gendered Foundations of Racial Formation in the United States

Surviving Sexism in Academia: Strategies for Feminist Leadership

A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War

Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: Women and Gay Male Pornography and Erotica

Feminism and Art History Now: Radical Critiques of Theory and Practice

Digital Platforms and Feminist Film Discourse: Women’s Cinema 2.0

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

Print Workshop: Hand-Printing Techniques and Truly Original Projects

Feminist Film Theory and Cléo from 5 to 7

Cybersexism: Sex, Gender and Power on the Internet

No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays

Sisters in the Struggle: African-American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement

Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art

Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism

The Riot Grrrl Collection

Women & Power: A Manifesto

Mending Matters: Stitch, Patch, and Repair Your Favorite Denim & More

The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine

Seeing Like a Feminist

Feminasty: The Complicated Woman’s Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death

Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.

Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work & in Life, One Conversation at a Time

Fierce Leadership: A Bold Alternative to the Worst “Best” Practices of Business Today

Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction (Fifth Edition)

Living a Feminist Life

Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me

The Routledge History of Women in Europe Since 1700

Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare’s English Histories

Doubling Back

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

Poetry Will Save Your Life: A Memoir

Blossoms on the Olive Tree: Israeli and Palestinian Women Working for Peace