social issues – The Staircase Window

The Age of Diagnosis: How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker

More than a Doll: How Creating a Sports Doll Turned into a Fight to End Gender Stereotypes

Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping’s China

Climate Injustice: Why We Need to Fight Global Inequality to Combat Climate Change

Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

To Those Who Have Confused You to Be a Person: Words as Violence and Stories of Women’s Resistance Online

Seven Social Movements That Changed America

Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe

You’re Not a Girl in a Movie

What’s Real about Race?: Untangling Science, Genetics, and Society

Breathe: A Letter to My Sons

Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You’d Rather Cancel

Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat

Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives—and How We Break Free

Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

Birding to Change the World: A Memoir

Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers

How to Stay Safe Online: A digital self-care toolkit for developing resilience and allyship

Kingdom of No Tomorrow

American Bulk: Essays on Excess

Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance

Being the Change: Lessons and Strategies to Teach Social Comprehension

Take Back The Fight: Organizing Feminism for the Digital Age

Political Responsibility Refocused: Thinking Justice after Iris Marion Young

Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth

Body Phobia: The Western Roots of Our Fear of Difference

Ten Days in a Mad-House

Shame on You: How to Be a Woman in the Age of Mortification

Corridors of Contagion: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration

How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom

Crafting a Better World: Inspiration and DIY Projects for Craftivists

You Must Stand Up: The Fight for Abortion Rights in Post-Dobbs America

One Hundred Shadows

Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America

If Love Could Kill: The Myths and Truths of Women Who Commit Violence

Antiracism as Daily Practice: Refuse Shame, Change White Communities, and Help Create a Just World

Loving Corrections

Libertad

That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

Do The Work

What Things Cost: an anthology for the people

Digitally Invisible: How the Internet Is Creating the New Underclass

Rehearsals for Living

Take Care of Them Like My Own: Faith, Fortitude, and a Surgeon’s Fight for Health Justice

A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune

Reimagining the Revolution: Four Stories of Abolition, Autonomy, and Forging New Paths in the Modern Civil Rights Movement

Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch

Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1

Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea

To Be a Problem: A Black Woman’s Survival in the Racist Disability Rights Movement

True Gretch: What I’ve Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between

Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

Women Money Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality

Your Body Is a Revolution: Healing Our Relationships with Our Bodies, Each Other, and the Earth

The Women’s Revolution: How We Changed Your Life

Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People

Dangerous Jokes: How Racism and Sexism Weaponize Humor

Of Greed and Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All

Completely Normal (and Other Lies)

The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice

Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia

Racism Untaught: Revealing and Unlearning Racialized Design

My Selma: True Stories of a Southern Childhood at the Height of the Civil Rights Movement

Self and Identity: The Basics

The Emotionally Intelligent Teen: Skills to Help You Deal with What You Feel, Build Stronger Relationships, and Boost Self-Confidence

The Denim Diaries

the new black

What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

Bite Back: Feminism, media, politics, and our power to change it all

Touching the Art

After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It

Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture

The Parenthood Dilemma: Procreation in the Age of Uncertainty

Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business

Policing Pregnant Bodies: From Ancient Greece to Post-Roe America

Prey Tell: Why We Silence Women Who Tell the Truth and How Everyone Can Speak Up

Failures of Forgiveness: What We Get Wrong and How to Do Better

Moonrise Over New Jessup

Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control

Cannibal

Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood

The Better Half

Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings

Pink Triangles: Radical Perspectives on Gay Liberation

Takedown: Art and Power in the Digital Age

Sistah Vegan: Black Female Vegans Speak on Food, Identity, Health, and Society

The Plague: Living Death in Our Times

Anti-Racist Ally: An Introduction to Activism and Action

Arguing for a Better World: How Philosophy Can Help Us Fight for Social Justice

Rememberings: Scenes from My Complicated Life

Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity

Feminist Rehearsals: Gender at the Theatre in Early Twentieth-Century Argentina and Mexico

Chasing the Truth: A Young Journalist’s Guide to Investigative Reporting

Stand: A Memoir on Activism. A Manual for Progress

Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning

It’s Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World

Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul: How to Change the World in Quiet Ways

Young and Restless: The Girls Who Sparked America’s Revolutions

Remember Me Now: A Journey Back to Myself and a Love Letter to Black Women

Where the Stress Falls

How to Be A Woman Online: Surviving Abuse and Harassment, and How to Fight Back

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

Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession

Mind the Inclusion Gap: How allies can bridge the divide between talking diversity and taking action

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

Who Cares: The Hidden Crisis of Caregiving, and How We Solve It

The Power of Hope: How the Science of Well-Being Can Save Us from Despair

The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age

Everybody: A Book about Freedom

All Made Up: A Girl’s Guide to Seeing Through Celebrity Hype and Celebrating Real Beauty

Visitors: An American Feminist in East Central Europe

Feminist Psychology: History, Practice, Research, and the FutureFeminist Philosophy

Climate Optimism: Celebrating Systemic Change Around the World

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

What Has Life Taught You?: 10 Eternal Questions Answered by 40 Exceptional People

How to Read Now

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

Rebel Girls: Youth Activism and Social Change Across the Americas

Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream

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

More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech

In This Together: Connecting with Your Community to Combat the Climate Crisis

Spoiled: The Myth of Milk as Superfood

Reshaping Women’s History: Voices of Nontraditional Women Historians

Deconstructing Racism: A Path Toward Lasting Change

Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation

On Belonging: Finding Connection in an Age of Isolation

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

It’s Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women’s Bodies

An Impossible Return

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

Talking About a Revolution

Just Dope: A Leading Attorney’s Personal Journey Inside the War on Drugs

Living a Committed Life: Finding Freedom and Fulfillment in a Purpose Larger Than Yourself

Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution

Bodies of Light

Token Black Girl: A Memoir

Black Internet Effect

Burn It Down!: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution

Corrections in Ink: A Memoir

Rethinking Sex: A Provocation

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

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

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

The Feminist Revolution: Second Wave Feminism and the Struggle for Women’s Liberation

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

The Talking Drum

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

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

London’s Women Artists, 1900-1914: A Talented and Decorative Group

Gender, Media and Voice: Communicative Injustice and Public Speech

Women as Mythmakers: Poetry and Visual Art by Twentieth-Century Women

Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex

Demonic Grounds: Black Women And The Cartographies Of Struggle

The Little Book of Trauma Healing

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

Revolutionary Feminisms: Conversations on Collective Action and Radical Thought

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

Violence Interrupted: Confronting Sexual Violence on University Campuses

Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From

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

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

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

The Womanist Reader: The First Quarter Century of Womanist Thought

Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism

A Knock at Midnight

What Can I Do?: My Path from Climate Despair to Action

After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America

Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States

The Art of Feminism: Images that Shaped the Fight for Equality, 1857-2017

A World Apart: Women, Prison, and Life Behind Bars

Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All

Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto

We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide

Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy

Choice Words: Writers on Abortion

We Resist: Defending the Common Good in Hostile Times

Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment

Racism And Anti-Racism In Europe

I’m Not Dying with You Tonight

The Book of Rosy: A Mother’s Story of Separation at the Border

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America

Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers’ Rights at Wal-Mart

This Is All I Got

Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy

Not Buying It

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

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

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

Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future

This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook

Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression

Girls Resist!: A Guide to Activism, Leadership, and Starting a Revolution

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

The Guilty Feminist

Craft Activism: People, Ideas, and Projects from the New Community of Handmade and How You Can Join in

Feminism and the Women’s Movement in Malaysia