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

The Art of Dora Carrington

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

Loud Black Girls: 20 Black Women Writers Ask: What’s Next?

Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims

Lesbians on Television: New Queer Visibility & the Lesbian Normal

Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration

Women in Roman Law and Society

Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

On Violence and On Violence Against Women

The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way

Once and Future Feminist

Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture

Women on Wheels: The Scandalous Untold History of Women in Bicycling from the 1880s to the 1980s

Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

The Families of Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Female Network of Power in the Middle Ages

Flora Tristan

Equity for Women in Science: Dismantling Systemic Barriers to Advancement

Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and Histories of Art

Marisa Mori and the Futurists: A Woman Artist in an Age of Fascism

Out of the Cage: Women’s Experiences in Two World Wars

The Female Gaze in Documentary Film: An International Perspective

Feminist International: How to Change Everything

The Battle to Control Female Fertility in Modern Ireland

Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women

Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power

Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea’s Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women’s Rights Worldwide

Representing Women

Furies: Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed

Feminism Against Progress

Women Writing Art History in the Nineteenth Century: Looking Like a Woman

The Art of Starting: How to Build Your Creative Business from the Ground Up

On Women

The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture

Differencing the Canon: Feminist Desire and the Writing of Arts Histories

A Society of Young Women: Opportunities of Place, Power, and Reform in Saudi Arabia

All the Rebel Women: The Rise of the Fourth Wave of Feminism

Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé

The Silver Women: How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal

How to Make the Matriarchy: The Power and Promise of Prioritizing Women

Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women’s Alliances in Early Modern England

Voices in the Shadows: Women and Verbal Art in Serbia and Bosnia

Dangerous Bodies: New Global Perspectives on Fashion and Transgression

The Hidden Writer

Women, Gender and Art in Asia, c. 1500-1900

Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan’s Digital Economy

On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

Picturing the Woman-Child: Fashion, Feminism and the Female Gaze

Women Artists in the Early Modern Courts of Europe: c. 1450-1700

All Made Up: The Power and Pitfalls of Beauty Culture, from Cleopatra to Kim Kardashian

Gendered Journeys: Women, Migration and Feminist Psychology

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

Women, Art and Money in Late Victorian and Edwardian England: The Hustle and the Scramble

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

Women Artists, Feminism and the Moving Image: Contexts and Practices

Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism

Eighteenth Century Women Artists: Their Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs

Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine’s Confessions

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

Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers

Material Enlightenment: Women Writers and the Science of Mind, 1770-1830

Heroines in History: A Thousand Faces

Woman’s Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi

Feminist Philosophies of Life

I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl

Sisterhood Economy: Of, By, For Wo(men)

Women and the Crusades

The Rising of the Women: Feminist Solidarity and Class Conflict, 1880-1917

The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman

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

Rise: Extraordinary Women of Colour who Changed the World

Rebel Girls: Youth Activism and Social Change Across the Americas

Women in Antiquity: Real Women Across the Ancient World

Reshaping Women’s History: Voices of Nontraditional Women Historians

Literary Identification from Charlotte Brontë to Tsitsi Dangarembga

The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women’s Roles in Society

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

The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women

The Feminist Uncanny in Theory and Art Practice

Think Like a Feminist: The Philosophy Behind the Revolution

Woman’s Estate

The Mother of the Brontës: When Maria Met Patrick

Patriarchy Stress Disorder: The Invisible Inner Barrier to Women’s Happiness and Fulfillment

Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It

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

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

Maya Angelou: The Iconic Self

A History of the Girl

Beauty, Women’s Bodies and the Law

The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls

Faces of the Feminine in Ancient, Medieval, & Modern India

The Woman’s Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects

Alone atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press

Women, Monstrosity and Horror Film: Gynaehorror

Hollywood Heroines: Women in Film Noir and the Female Gothic Film

Artemis: The Indomitable Spirit in Everywoman

Restless Spirits: Ghost Stories by American Women, 1872-1926

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

A Life with Mary Shelley

Shirley Chisholm: Catalyst for Change

What Works: Gender Equality by Design

Hypatia’s Heritage: A History of Women in Science from Antiquity to the Late Nineteenth Century

Women’s Agency and Social Change: Assam and Beyond

The Artistry of Anger: Black and White Women’s Literature in America, 1820-1860

The Womanist Reader: The First Quarter Century of Womanist Thought

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

Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley

Daughters of Mother Earth: The Wisdom of Native American Women

To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America – A History

Words of Her Own: Women Authors in Nineteenth-Century Bengal

Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

African American Women of the Old West

On Female Body Experience: Throwing Like a Girl and Other Essays

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

Autobiography of Mother Jones

Beyond Belief: The Secret Lives of Women in Extreme Religions

Challenging Images of Women in the Media: Reinventing Women’s Lives

Dangerous Voices: Women’s Laments and Greek Literature

Womanist Wisdom in the Song of Songs: Secrets of an African Princess

Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

Czech Feminisms: Perspectives on Gender in East Central Europe

Goddesses in Everywoman

Frontier Women and Their Art: A Chronological Encyclopedia

From Angel to Office Worker: Middle-Class Identity and Female Consciousness in Mexico, 1890–1950

Femmes Fatales

Daughters of the Earth: The Lives and Legends of American Indian Women

Gender and the Mexican Revolution: Yucatán Women and the Realities of Patriarchy

America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines

The War Queens: Extraordinary Women who Ruled the Battlefield

The Psychology of Gender

In Our Prime: How Older Women Are Reinventing the Road Ahead

Freedom Fallacy: The Limits of Liberal Feminism

Divine Words, Female Voices: Muslima Explorations in Comparative Feminist Theology

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution

Existential Eroticism: A Feminist Approach to Understanding Women’s Oppression-Perpetuating Choices

Women, Resistance and Revolution A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern World

Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image

Cinderella Goes to Market: Citizenship, Gender, and Women’s Movements in East Central Europe

Killing the Indian Maiden: Images of Native American Women in Film

Fortunes of Feminism. From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis

Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism, and History

Women’s Work, Men’s Property: The Origins of Gender and Class

Postmodern Chick Flicks: The Return of the Woman’s Film

No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women

Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation

Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture After the Nickelodeon

Letters to a Young Feminist

Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World

A Glorious Freedom: Older Women Leading Extraordinary Lives

Aphrodite’s Daughters: Three Modernist Poets of the Harlem Renaissance

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

Flowering in the Shadows: Women in the History of Chinese and Japanese Painting

What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl’s Shame-Free Guide to Sex and Safety

Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild

Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture

It’s up to the Women

Star Gazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship

The Frailty Myth: Redefining the Physical Potential of Women and Girls

Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class

Finding Her in History: Confronting the Traditions of Misogyny

The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women’s Rights and Abolition

Xenofeminism

The Women’s Suffrage Movement

Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York

We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood

Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower

A Big Important Art Book (Now with Women): Profiles of Unstoppable Female Artists–and Projects to Help You Become One

A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South

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

The Creation of Patriarchy

Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts’ Advice to Women

Female Erasure: What You Need to Know About Gender Politics’ War on Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights

Nobody’s Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood

Feminism and the Women’s Movement in Malaysia

She Hath Been Reading: Women and Shakespeare Clubs in America

Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny

Feminism’s New Age: Gender, Appropriation, and the Afterlife of Essentialism

The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood

The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future

Speaking From The Heart: Gender And The Social Meaning Of Emotion

Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future

The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future

A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer: Writings to Stop Violence Against Women and Girls

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

Brazilian Women’s Filmmaking: From Dictatorship to Democracy

Colombian Women: The Struggle Out of Silence

Daughters of 1968: Redefining French Feminism and the Women’s Liberation Movement

The Unfinished Revolution: Voices from the Global Fight for Women’s Rights

Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her

Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin

Women in the Middle Ages: The lives of real women in a vibrant age of transition

Girl Up

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

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

The Periodic Table of Feminism

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