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The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

Superfluous Women: Art, Feminism, and Revolution in Twenty-First-Century Ukraine

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy

Dangerous Bodies: New Global Perspectives on Fashion and Transgression

Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display

Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture under Late Capitalism

Women Made Visible: Feminist Art and Media in Post-1968 Mexico City

Rogue Justice

While Justice Sleeps

The West: A New History of an Old Idea

The First Lady of World War II

Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American Democracy

Getting Me Cheap: How Low-Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty

Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

Cinematic Style: Fashion, Architecture and Interior Design on Film

Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times

Willful Subjects

A New War on Cancer: The Unlikely Heroes Revolutionizing Prevention

Unbroken Chains: The Hidden Role of Human Trafficking in the American Economy

Everybody: A Book about Freedom

Fashioning Politics and Protests: New Visual Cultures of Feminism in the United States

Beyond the Periphery of the Skin: Rethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism

Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything — And Endangered the World

Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies

Diversifying the Courts: Race, Gender, and Judicial Legitimacy

Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life

The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation

The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems: An Intersectional Political Economy

Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?

The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights

Glory

Pod

The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet

Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence

They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality, 1920-2020

Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker

And Then What?: Inside Stories of 21st Century Diplomacy

Heroines in History: A Thousand Faces

Climate Optimism: Celebrating Systemic Change Around the World

Why Fashion Matters

Leading from Between: Indigenous Participation and Leadership in the Public Service

Enter Ghost

Women Don’t Owe You Pretty

A Stone Is Most Precious Where It Belongs

The Everyday Feminist: The Key to Sustainable Social Impact Driving Movements We Need Now More than Ever

The American Way of Death Revisited

The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality

The Southernization of America: A Story of Democracy in the Balance

How to Read Now

Angela Davis: An Autobiography

Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains

Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

Complaint!

Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society

Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico: Portraits of Soldaderas, Saints, and Subversives

Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems

Rebel Girls: Youth Activism and Social Change Across the Americas

Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream

Atlas Shrugged

Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn’t Enough

Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine

Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box

Black Futures

Spoiled: The Myth of Milk as Superfood

Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion

The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation

A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice

The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World

Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe

The Women’s History of the Modern World: How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years

All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence

No Choice

You Must Be This Happy to Enter

The Service

Ain’t I a Woman?

Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons

White Women: Everything You Already Know about Your Own Racism and How to Do Better

Kurdish Women’s Stories

Black Women Will Save the World: An Anthem

Think Like a Feminist: The Philosophy Behind the Revolution

Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs

Zarifa: A Woman’s Battle in a Man’s World

How Many More Women?: Exposing how the law silences women

Our Share of Night

Woman’s Estate

How to Make Art at the End of the World: A Manifesto for Research-Creation

This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work

We Were There: The Third World Women’s Alliance and the Second Wave

Deco Body, Deco City: Female Spectacle and Modernity in Mexico City, 1900–1939

The Whole Picture: The colonial story of the art in our museums… and why we need to talk about it

The Victimization of Women: Law, Policies, and Politics

Off with Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

This Book Is Feminist: An Intersectional Primer for Feminists in Training

The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism

In the Time of Our History

Talking About a Revolution

Clutter: An Untidy History

Electable: Why America Hasn’t Put a Woman in the White House . . . Yet

Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality: 1920-2020

Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution

I Know What’s Best for You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom

We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival

The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It

Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It’s Everyone’s Business

Road Map for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Activism, and Advocacy for All

They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl’s Fight for Freedom

Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters

Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People

The Rise of a New Left: How Young Radicals Are Shaping the Future of American Politics

How to Stand Up to a Dictator

Burn It Down!: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution

Call Us What We Carry

Why Women Are Blamed for Everything: Exploring Victim Blaming of Women Subjected to Violence and Trauma

Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story

Rough Draft: A Memoir

Red Valkyries: The Revolutionary Women of Eastern Europe

The Essential Ellen Willis

On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality

Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All

Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom

Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021

The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women’s Lives

On Juneteenth

The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice

Men Who Hate Women – From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All

Fix the System, Not the Women

Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism

The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

Celebrate People’s History!: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution

Mankiller: A Chief and Her People

Futures of Socialism: The Pandemic and the Post-Corbyn Era

The Power of Privilege: How White People Can Challenge Racism

Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret

Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

Glitch Feminism

We Gather Together: A Nation Divided, a President in Turmoil, and a Historic Campaign to Embrace Gratitude and Grace

White Fright: The Sexual Panic at the Heart of America’s Racist History

Dangerous Religious Ideas: The Deep Roots of Self-Critical Faith in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread

Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence

On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist

Talking about Structural Inequalities in Everyday Life: New Politics of Race in Groups, Organizations, and Social Systems

Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces

Stories from Suffragette City

The Black Arts Movement and the Black Panther Party in American Visual Culture

Soviet Women and Their Art: The Spirit of Equality

The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily

Dissenter on the Bench: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Life and Work

Counting: How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters

Deepfakes: The Coming Infocalypse

Reclaiming Her Time: The Power of Maxine Waters

The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart

The Verso Book of Feminism: Revolutionary Words from Four Millennia of Rebellion

Revolutionary Feminisms: Conversations on Collective Action and Radical Thought

No Place for a Woman: A Life of Senator Margaret Chase Smith

Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965

Shirley Chisholm: Catalyst for Change

Fake News: Understanding Media and Misinformation in the Digital Age

The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War

The Art of War for Women: Sun Tzu’s Ancient Strategies and Wisdom for Winning at Work

Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis

War: How Conflict Shaped Us

No Justice in the Shadows: How America Criminalizes Immigrants

What Works: Gender Equality by Design

American Wife

Hannah Arendt: A Life in Dark Times

New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan

Sex with Presidents: The Ins and Outs of Love and Lust in the White House

I Am These Truths: A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living Between Worlds

All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit

You’re the Only One I’ve Told: The Stories Behind Abortion

Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

Rosa Parks: My Story

Just Us: An American Conversation

Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism

Women, Culture, and Politics

Sex Robots and Vegan Meat: Adventures at the Frontier of Birth, Food, Sex and Death

Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains

Shadow Bodies: Black Women, Ideology, Representation, and Politics