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Black & White & Noir: America’s Pulp Modernism

The Way We Never Were: American Families & the Nostalgia Trap

The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade

The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling

The Social Origins of Private Life: A History of American Families 1600-1900

The Big Sister’s Guide to the World of Work: The Inside Rules Every Working Girl Must Know

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States

Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82

Last Things

The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs

The Undocumented Americans

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

Images of Sex Work in Early Twentieth-Century America: Gender, Sexuality and Race in the Storyville Portraits

Fight No More: Stories

Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology

The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America

The Shocking Miss Pilgrim: A Writer in Early Hollywood

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

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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

Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era

On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker

Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business

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

Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir

Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray

Gilded: How Newport Became America’s Richest Resort

Miss Aluminum: A Memoir

Polly Pry: The Woman Who Wrote the West

Stay and Fight

Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934

It’s up to the Women

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

The Ones We’ve Been Waiting for: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America

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

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Hidden in History: The Untold Stories of Women During World War I and World War II

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

Brown White Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion

Girls Burn Brighter

Red Bird, Red Power: The Life and Legacy of Zitkala-Ša

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

How Much of These Hills Is Gold

American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland

A Great Big Girl Like Me: The Films of Marie Dressler

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

Anne Hutchinson: A Captivating Guide to the Puritan Leader in Colonial Massachusetts Who Is Considered to Be One of the Earliest American Feminists

Brute: Poems

The Women’s Guide to Overcoming Insomnia: Get a Good Night’s Sleep Without Relying on Medication

Sharing the Work: What My Family and Career Taught Me about Breaking Through (and Holding the Door Open for Others)

Nobody’s Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood

News of the World

Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist

Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby

She Hath Been Reading: Women and Shakespeare Clubs in America

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement

Lakewood

Creature

Hit So Hard: A Memoir

The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War

L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema

Go West, Young Women!: The Rise of Early Hollywood

The Night Watchman

The Firsts: The Inside Story of the Women Reshaping Congress

Women’s Work: An Anthology of African-American Women’s Historical Writings from Antebellum America to the Harlem Renaissance

Smithsonian American Women: Women’s History from the National Collection

Marriage Markets: How Inequality is Remaking the American Family

Troublesome Women: Gender, Crime, and Punishment in Antebellum Pennsylvania

Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C.

Starring Madame Modjeska: On Tour in Poland and America

Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home–A Memoir

What Are We For?: The Words and Ideals of Eleanor Roosevelt

Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America

The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table

Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930-2000

What Patients Taught Me: A Medical Student’s Journey

Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art

Lightning Rods

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: Modern American Revolutionary

A Good Neighborhood

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

Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me

True Crimes: A Family Album

More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)

All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir

The Illustrated Feminist: 100 Years of Suffrage, Strength, and Sisterhood in America

Mary Pickford: Queen of the Movies

Edie: American Girl

You Let Some Girl Beat You?: The Story of Ann Meyers Drysdale

In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers

Be Fierce: Stop Harassment and Take Your Power Back

Sympathy

Look How Happy I’m Making You

The New York Stories of Edith Wharton

Just a Girl: Growing Up Female and Ambitious

Women of Motown: An Oral History

My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

Space Struck

A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind

Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card

The New Better Off: Reinventing the American Dream

The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America

She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman

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

True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Collected Stories

Our Stories, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America

The RBG Way: The Secrets of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Success

You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington

Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist’s Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America

Burn the Place: A Memoir

Gaming Masculinity: Trolls, Fake Geeks, and the Gendered Battle for Online Culture

Lost Children Archive

Black Indian: A Memoir

The Pleasure Gap: American Women and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race

Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

Black in America: The Paradox of the Color Line

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

Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America

Comic Venus: Women and Comedy in American Silent Film

Black Lives Matter and Music: Protest, Intervention, Reflection

Liberation in Print: Feminist Periodicals and Social Movement Identity

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance

You Don’t Look Like a Lawyer: Black Women and Systemic Gendered Racism

The Life of Bessie Coleman: First African American Woman Pilot

Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis

Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward

Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System

Black Woman Reformer: Ida B. Wells, Lynching, and Transatlantic Activism

Fighter in Velvet Gloves: Alaska Civil Rights Hero Elizabeth Peratrovich

A Feeling of Belonging: Asian American Women’s Public Culture, 1930-1960

Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change

Earning Power: Women and Work in Los Angeles, 1880-1930

followers

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

Bastard Out of Carolina

Overground Railroad: The Green Book & Roots of Black Travel in America

We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump

St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America’s Hippest Street

What Purpose Did I Serve in Your Life

Fragile Bully: Understanding Our Destructive Affair With Narcissism in the Age of Trump

Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children’s Home Society

Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated

Females

The Best American Food Writing 2019

The Unpassing

Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays

American Genius, A Comedy

The Book of Salt

Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares

The Other Americans

The Season: A Social History of the Debutante

The Heartland: An American History

Be Recorder: Poems

The National Team: The Inside Story of the Women who Changed Soccer

God Help the Child

The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination

A Wild and Precious Life: A Memoir

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

Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States

Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard

Your House Will Pay

O Pioneers!

Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover

A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870

The Partly Cloudy Patriot

African American Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students

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

Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn Into the Twentieth Century

A Fighting Chance

Women on Their Own: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Being Single

Stealing the Show: How Women Are Revolutionizing Television

When Rape Was Legal: The Untold History of Sexual Violence During Slavery

Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

Lakota Woman

The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee

Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women’s Poetry in America

In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir

Men We Reaped: A Memoir

The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore

The Witches Are Coming

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

The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers

Wolf Whistle Politics: The New Misogyny in Public Life Today

Women and Teaching: Global Perspectives on the Feminization of a Profession

Fastpitch: The Untold History of Softball and the Women Who Made the Game

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

The Grind: Black Women and Survival in the Inner City