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The Burnout Generation

Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World

Witches: The Transformative Power of Women Working Together

Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster

Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution

Classic French Noir: Gender and the Cinema of Fatal Desire

Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women’s Movements

Feminist City: A Field Guide

Fifty Million Rising: The New Generation of Working Women Transforming the Muslim World

Excavation

Who Can You Trust?: How Technology is Rewriting the Rules of Human Relationships

The End of Forgetting: Growing Up with Social Media

Stop Telling Women to Smile: Stories of Street Harassment and How We’re Taking Back Our Power

The Periodic Table of Feminism

Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture

The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness

All Our Relations

I Never Called It Rape – Updated Edition: The Ms. Report on Recognizing, Fighting, and Surviving Date and Acquaintance Rape

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

The Future of Feeling: Building Empathy in a Tech-Obsessed World

Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men

Sugar in My Bowl: Real Women Write About Real Sex

Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present

Black in America: The Paradox of the Color Line

The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life

Cleverlands: The secrets behind the success of the world’s education superpowers

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

Life Isn’t Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between

“Don’t You Know Who I Am?”: How to Stay Sane in an Era of Narcissism, Entitlement, and Incivility

The Happiness Effect: How Social Media Is Driving a Generation to Appear Perfect at Any Cost

Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World

Oppression and the Body: Roots, Resistance, and Resolutions

The Bodies of Women: Ethics, Embodiment and Sexual Differences

Stay Woke: A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter

This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship Between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture

The Sex Factor: How Women Made the West Rich

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

The Confidence Game: The Psychology of the Con and Why We Fall For It Every Time

Women In Europe Between The Wars: Politics, Culture And Society

The Season: A Social History of the Debutante

The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination

Reclaiming the F Word: The New Feminist Movement

Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics

Undoing Gender

A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War

America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States

All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership

Women on Their Own: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Being Single

Herlands: Exploring the Women’s Land Movement in the United States

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women

Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises

Arab, Australian, Other: Stories on Race and Identity

Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story

A Quiet Revolution: The Veil’s Resurgence, from the Middle East to America

Untrue: Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust, and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free

From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 1

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

No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane

Furious Thing

The Anatomy of Silence

#MeToo: Stories from the Australian Movement

We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent

White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue … and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation

The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World

Letting Go: Feminist and Social Justice Insight and Activism

Fields of Protest: Women’s Movements in India

Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass

White Tears / Brown Scars

Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics

Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour

Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?

Rape: From Lucretia to #MeToo

Are Women Human?: And Other International Dialogues

Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China

Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution

Excellent Daughters: The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World

Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings: The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life

Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America

One Child: The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

Leftover in China: The Women Shaping the World’s Next Superpower

Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Thick: And Other Essays

Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity

Misogynation: The True Scale of Sexism

Endless Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform

Superior: The Return of Race Science

Feminist Generations: The Persistence of the Radical Women’s Movement

Geek Nation: How Indian Science Is Taking Over the World

The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls

Cunt: A Declaration of Independence

Hate Crimes in Cyberspace

The Early Feminists: Radical Unitarians and the Emergence of the Women’s Rights Movement, 1831-51

The Sociopath Next Door

Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives

Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

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

Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism

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

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

The Vagenda: A Zero Tolerance Guide to the Media

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

Pussy Riot!: A Punk Prayer for Freedom

Flagged and Removed

Shout

Speak

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

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

Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam

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

Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time

Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex

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

Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics

Femininity

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

Everyday Sexism: The Project that Inspired a Worldwide Movement

the mermaid’s voice returns in this one

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

Cybersexism: Sex, Gender and Power on the Internet

Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism

Women & Power: A Manifesto

Seeing Like a Feminist

Handbook on Well-Being of Working Women

Hair Matters: Beauty, Power and Black Women’s Consciousness

Mixed: My Life in Black and White

Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion

In Pieces

When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present

All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Evil: The Science Behind Humanity’s Dark Side

Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession

Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights

Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China

Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

So You Want to Talk About Race

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

Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley

Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body

He’s a Stud, She’s a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know

The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture, and Social Change

Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China

Will I Ever Be Good Enough: Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers

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

We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement

Sex and the Office: Women, Men, and the Sex Partition That’s Dividing the Workplace

Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race

You Are What You Wear: What Your Clothes Reveal About You

When Women Win: Emily’s List and the Rise of Women in American Politics

Lady Q: The Rise and Fall of a Latin Queen

The Female Eunuch

Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape

The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women

Women’s Comedic Art as Social Revolution

Power: Surviving & Thriving After Narcissistic Abuse

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

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

Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape

The Feminine Mystique

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference

Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters

When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It

#BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America

Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America 

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

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

Why I Am Not a Feminist

The Beauty Myth

The Second Sex