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The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There

Marie Claire USA – The Power Issue 2022

Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember

Token Black Girl: A Memoir

Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century

Poukahangatus: Poems

Butts: A Backstory

As It Turns Out: Thinking about Edie and Andy

Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays

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

Color Scheme: An Irreverent History of Art and Pop Culture in Color Palettes

The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic

The Essential Ellen Willis

Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be

Sidelined: Sports, Culture, and Being a Woman in America

Nightmare Fuel: The Science of Horror Films

Let’s Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World

I’m Glad My Mom Died

Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It

Fame: The Hijacking of Reality

Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop

Sunshine Girl: An Unexpected Life

Making Evil: The Science Behind Humanity’s Dark Side

Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused

Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics

Dolly Parton: In Her Own Words

Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry

I, Bificus

Bad Girls and Transgressive Women in Popular Television, Fiction, and Film

Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema

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

Women, Monstrosity and Horror Film: Gynaehorror

The Monstrous-Feminine in Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture

She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs

The Meaning of Mariah Carey

The Goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined

Feminist Perspectives on Orange Is the New Black: Thirteen Critical Essays

33 1/3: Abba Gold

The Baddest Bitch in the Room: A Memoir

How TV Can Make You Smarter

She’s A Rebel: The History of Women in Rock & Roll

Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth: The Dark History of Prepubescent Pop, from the Banana Splits to Britney Spears

33 1/3: Nick Drake’s Pink Moon

Ship It

Looking for Miss America: A Pageant’s 100-Year Quest to Define Womanhood

33 1/3: Bobbie Gentry’s Ode to Billie Joe

Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary

Here’s the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice

The Fangirl’s Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks

Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture

Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture

Ink-Stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors: Superwomen in Modern Mythology

Dark Sparkler

Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News

Madonna and Me: Women Writers on the Queen of Pop

Video Slut

Let the Right One In

The Female Gaze: Essential Movies Made by Women

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

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

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

Betsey: A Memoir

Glamour: Women, History, Feminism

Shame Nation: The Global Epidemic of Online Hate

Nobody’s Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood

Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny

Joni: The Creative Odyssey of Joni Mitchell

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

Backstage Passes: Life on the Wild Side with David Bowie

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

Edie: American Girl

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

90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality

Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster

Feminist City: A Field Guide

Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock-and-Roll

Open Book

High on Arrival

Hollywood’s Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.

Annie Leibovitz: Photographs

Annie Leibovitz at Work

Ghostbuster’s Daughter: Life with My Dad, Harold Ramis

The Way We All Became The Brady Bunch: How the Canceled Sitcom Became the Beloved Pop Culture Icon We Are Still Talking About Today

Why Karen Carpenter Matters

100 Things The Simpsons Fans Should Know Do Before They Die

We Should All Be Mirandas: Life Lessons from Sex and the City’s Most Underrated Character

I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

Stealing the Show: How Women Are Revolutionizing Television

The Girl: Marilyn Monroe, The Seven Year Itch, and the Birth of an Unlikely Feminist

This Will Only Hurt a Little

In The Company Of Women: Contemporary Female Friendship Films

I Blame Dennis Hopper: And Other Stories from a Life Lived in and Out of the Movies

God Save the Queens: The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop

The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars

I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz

40 Days of Dating: An Experiment

Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema

Revenge of the She-Punks: A Feminist Music History from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot

If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You

Face It

Inside Out: A Memoir

What are You Doing Here?: A Black Woman’s Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal

Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power

Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism

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

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

Womanist and Black Feminist Responses to Tyler Perry’s Productions

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

No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays

They’re Playing Our Song

No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies

Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film

Out of the Vinyl Deeps: On Rock Music

You’re on an Airplane: A Self-Mythologizing Memoir

Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession

The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture

Dangerous Books for Girls: The Bad Reputation of Romance Novels Explained

Diary of a Mad Diva

From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies

All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers

After Andy: Adventures in Warhol Land

I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution

Feminism and Popular Culture: Investigating the Postfeminist Mystique

Selling Women’s History: Packaging Feminism in Twentieth-Century American Popular Culture

Celebrity and the Feminist Blockbuster

Too Fat Too Slutty Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman

You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Trainwrecks, & Other Mixed Messages

Drugs Are Nice: A Post-Punk Memoir

Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom

Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear… and Why