cultural studies – The Staircase Window

The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic

A Beginner’s Guide to Greek Mythology: An Introduction to the Gods and Goddesses, Mythical Creatures, and Muses of Ancient Greece

You Have a New Memory

Stiffed: The Betrayal Of The American Man

I Thought I Heard You Speak: Women at Factory Records

Feminisms in Motion: Voices for Justice, Liberation, and Transformation

Thread: A Caesarean story of myth, magic and medicine

Like: A History of the World’s Most Hated (and Misunderstood) Word

I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays

Harpy: A Manifesto for Childfree Women

Revisiting Women’s Cinema: Feminism, Socialism, and Mainstream Culture in Modern China

The Second Coming: Sex and the Next Generation’s Fight Over Its Future

The War of Art: A History of Artists’ Protest In America

Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers: Rabies, Medicine, and Society in an American Metropolis, 1840–1920

Jumping Through Hoops: Performing Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Circus

Ayam Buah Keluak and the Art of Writing: a memoir on living creatively

Feminism: A Graphic Guide

Patternalia: An Unconventional History of Polka Dots, Stripes, Plaid, Camouflage, & Other Graphic Patterns

Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores

Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance

Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books

What Is Wrong with Men: Patriarchy, the Crisis of Masculinity, and How (Of Course) Michael Douglas Films Explain Everything

Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures

Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse

Aesthetic Labour: Rethinking Beauty Politics in Neoliberalism

Edge of the World: An Anthology of Queer Travel Writing

Faces on Screen: New Approaches

Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange

Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility

All Roads Lead to Rome: Why We Think about the Roman Empire Daily

The Rainbow Ain’t Never Been Enuf: On the Myth of LGBTQ+ Solidarity

So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color

America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History

The Science of Sex: Every Question About Your Sex Life Answered

Cosmopolitan Cinema: Cross-cultural Encounters in East Asian Film

Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature

Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

Lesbians: Where are we now?

Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women

Radical Intimacy

Off-White: The Truth About Antisemitism

Immaculate Forms: A History of the Female Body in Four Parts

Inventing Human Rights: A History

Inventing the Renaissance: Myths of a Golden Age

Spirituality, Feminism, and Pre-Raphaelitism in Modern British Art and Culture

Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age

Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World’s Greatest Museum

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

Funny Because It’s True: How The Onion Created Modern American News Satire

I’ll Love You Forever: Notes from a K-Pop Fan

The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship

We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine

Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting

Feminism in the Wild: How Human Biases Shape Our Understanding of Animal Behavior

Searching for Juliet: The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare’s First Tragic Heroine

Pornography

Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age

Pop Art

Soul School: Taking Kids on a Joy-Filled Journey Through the Heart of Black American Culture

Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism

Immaculate Forms: Uncovering the History of Women’s Bodies

Humans: A Monstrous History

The Power of Art: A Human History of Art: From Babylon to New York City

Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People

Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women’s Liberation

Feminism, Young Women, and Cultural Studies: Birmingham Essays from 1975 Onwards

Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist

Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything

Chick Flicks : Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement

I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays

Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture

The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America

A Short History of the World According to Sheep

Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire

Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop

Girls Will Be Boys: Women Report on Rock

All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity

Scented Visions: Smell in Art, 1850-191

The Cultural Politics of Emotion

The Queen’s Path: A Revolutionary Guide to Women’s Empowerment and Sovereignty

Selling Sexy: Victoria’s Secret and the Unraveling of an American Icon

Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth

Body Phobia: The Western Roots of Our Fear of Difference

Masks in Horror Cinema: Eyes Without Faces

The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World

Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing

Feminism, Young Women, and Cultural Studies: Birmingham Essays from 1975 Onwards

Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers

Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death

We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy

Artificial Women: Sex Dolls, Robot Caregivers, and More Facsimile Females

Women and Film Animation: A Feminist Corpus at the National Film Board of Canada 1939-1989

Otherwise Than the Binary: New Feminist Readings in Ancient Philosophy and Culture

In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s

Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women

Scent: A Natural History of Fragrance

The Global Beauty Industry: Colorism, Racism, and the National Body

Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions

Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity

The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle

Darkness Now Visible: Patriarchy’s Resurgence and Feminist Resistance

Fashion-ology: Fashion Studies in the Postmodern Digital Era

The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture

A History of Women in 101 Objects

So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (and Why We’re Still So Obsessed with It)

Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are

Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity

Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s

One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America

Fungi: Discover the Science and Secrets Behind the World of Mushrooms

The Tigerbelles: Olympic Legends from Tennessee State

The Golden Girls

Let Me Clear My Throat

How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity

Tea: A Global History

In Blood and Ashes: Curse Tablets and Binding Spells in Ancient Greece

How to Survive in Medieval England

Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell

Black TV: Five Decades of Groundbreaking Television from Soul Train to Black-ish and Beyond

Negotiating Feminisms: Sandra Cisneros and Ana Castillo’s Intergenerational Women

Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

Essence and Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume

Creep: Accusations and Confessions

Queen of the Universe: A Novel: Love, Truth, Beauty

Eyeliner: A Cultural History

Book of Earth: A Guide to Ochre, Pigment, and Raw Color

Raising Hell, Living Well: Freedom from Influence in a World Where Everyone Wants Something from You (Including Me)

The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture

Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close

Fashion Killa: How Hip-Hop Revolutionized High Fashion

Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London

God’s Monsters: Vengeful Spirits, Deadly Angels, Hybrid Creatures, and Divine Hitmen of the Bible

Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound

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

Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions that Grew Me Up

I Lost it at the Movies: Film Writings, 1954-65

The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race

The Women We Wanted to Look Like

The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live

Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women’s Words

Monsters of Film, Fiction, and Fable

We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The True, Tough Story of Women in Rock

Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control

Buzz: A Stimulating History of the Sex Toy

To Her Credit: Historic Achievements—and the Women Who Actually Made Them Happen

Romaine Brooks: A Life

The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization That Transformed America

Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution

How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization

Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II

Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean

Laughter in the Dark: Egypt to the Tune of Change

Ratcatcher

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

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

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

Representing Women

Boundless: Twenty Voices Celebrating Multicultural and Multiracial Identities

Ordinary Affects

A Little History of Art

Where We Ate: A Field Guide to Canada’s Restaurants, Past and Present

Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time

The French Art of Living Well: Finding Joie de Vivre in the Everyday World

Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex

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

How Documentaries Went Mainstream: A History, 1960-2022

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

Elixir: A Parisian Perfume House and the Quest for the Secret of Life

May Alcott Nieriker, Author and Advocate: Travel Writing and Transformation in the Late Nineteenth Century

Dangerous Bodies: New Global Perspectives on Fashion and Transgression

Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display

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

Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many

The Art of the Woman: The Life and Work of Elisabet Ney

I’m Not Myself at All: Women, Art, and Subjectivity in Canada

An Architecture of Education: African American Women Design the New South

Black Designers in American Fashion

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

The Cinema of Sofia Coppola: Fashion, Culture, Celebrity

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

Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Following Writers and Rebels in the Spanish Civil War

Roads of Her Own: Gendered Space and Mobility in American Women’s Road Narratives, 1970-2000

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

The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy

Photography Fifth Edition: A Cultural History

The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City

The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation

The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption

Make Some Space: Tuning Into Total Refreshment Centre

The American Way of Death Revisited

The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality

Silk Road: A New History

The Roman Triumph

Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through the Dancefloor

Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones