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There Is No Outside: Covid-19 Dispatches

What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About #MeToo: Essays on Sex, Authority and the Mess of Life

#VERYFAT #VERYBRAVE: The Fat Girl’s Guide to Being #Brave and Not a Dejected, Melancholy, Down-in-the-Dumps Weeping Fat Girl in a Bikini

Weird but Normal: Essays

The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness

Are All the Women Still White?: Rethinking Race, Expanding Feminisms

Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose

Safe as Houses

The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures

Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity

Grandmothers: Essays by 21st-century Grandmothers

Ongoingness: The End of a Diary

Violation: Collected Essays by Sallie Tisdale

McCullers – Stories, Plays, & Other Writings: Complete Stories / The Member of the Wedding: A Play / The Sojourner / The Square Root of Wonderful / Essays, Poems & Autobiography

300 Arguments

The Guardians: An Elegy for a Friend

Three Thousand Stitches: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives

Madonna and Me: Women Writers on the Queen of Pop

Drifts

Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

Storyteller

How Art Can Make You Happy

Woman of Color

Freedom Fallacy: The Limits of Liberal Feminism

Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving

South and West: From a Notebook

I Don’t Know What You Know Me From: Confessions of a Co-Star

Suspiria

American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures

Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

All About Love: New Visions

Sweet Home

Feminism and Science

The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political

Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War

Accessorizing the Body: Habits of Being I

The Women’s Atlas

Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give

Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image

The Female Gaze: Essential Movies Made by Women

The Xenofeminist Manifesto: A Politics for Alienation

Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life

Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

Beyond Female Masochism: Memory-Work and Politics

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

The End of Imagination

Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies

Women in Clothes

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017

Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature

The Clothing of Books

The Cinema of Agnes Varda: Resistance and Eclecticism

Sifters: Native American Women’s Lives

On Weaving: New Expanded Edition

On Shirley Hazzard: Writers on Writers

We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays

Nevertheless, We Persisted: 48 Voices of Defiance, Strength, and Courage

Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

Letters to a Young Feminist

How Poetry Can Change Your Heart

Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs

The Undocumented Americans

Writing In An Age Of Silence

Go Home!

Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers

Letter to My Daughter

A Glorious Freedom: Older Women Leading Extraordinary Lives

Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths

How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

It Ended Badly: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

The Solidarity Struggle: How People of Color Succeed and Fail At Showing Up For Each Other In the Fight For Freedom

Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011–2019

The Ethics of Ambiguity

Sex and Lies

SCUM Manifesto

This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook

Sexographies

How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation

“All the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans

You’ll Grow Out of It

Miss Fortune: Fresh Perspectives on Having It All From Someone Who Is Not Okay

Tell Me More: Stories about the 12 Hardest Things I’m Learning to Say

Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

Eat Joy: Stories & Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Writers

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

Older but Better, but Older

Small Acts of Disappearance

A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write

The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born

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

Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle

Mediating Misogyny: Gender, Technology, and Harassment

Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone

Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons

The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House

The Independent Woman: Extracts from The Second Sex

The Guilty Feminist

I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings

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

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

The Empathy Exams

Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times

Wow, No Thank You.

The World Was Whole

Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief

Don’t Worry, It Gets Worse: One Twentysomething’s (Mostly Failed) Attempts at Adulthood

How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don’t

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016

Lulu in Hollywood

Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else

Literally Me

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

The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir

L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema

How to Be Fine: What We Learned from Living by the Rules of 50 Self-Help Books

She Speaks: The Power of Women’s Voices

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019

Women in the American Revolution: Gender, Politics, and the Domestic World

After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality

You Don’t Have to Like Me: Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism

Feminists Rethink the Neoliberal State: Inequality, Exclusion, and Change

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death

Becoming Dangerous: Witchy Femmes, Queer Conjurers and Magical Rebels on Summoning the Power to Resist

The Feminist Papers: A Vindication of the Rights of Women

Juki Girls, Good Girls: Gender and Cultural Politics in Sri Lanka’s Global Garment Industry

Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future

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

Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir

Pretty Bitches: On Being Called Crazy, Angry, Bossy, Frumpy, Feisty, and All the Other Words That Are Used to Undermine Women

Gross Anatomy: Dispatches from the Front (and Back)

Rage Baking: The Transformative Power of Flour, Fury, and Women’s Voices

Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Suite for Barbara Loden

True Crimes: A Family Album

Ask: Building Consent Culture

It’s Not About the Burqa

And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready

Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who’s Been There

Capitalism: A Ghost Story

Look How Happy I’m Making You

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

Upstream: Selected Essays

The (Other) F Word: A Celebration of the Fat and Fierce

Turning the Tide on Plastic: How Humanity (And You) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again

The Collected Essays of Virginia Woolf

101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education

Doing Sixty and Seventy

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

Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Little Labors

After the Tall Timber: Collected Nonfiction

The Burnout Generation

Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution

The Atlas of Happiness

I Love Myself When I Am Laughing… And Then Again: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

You Too?

A House of My Own: Stories from My Life

The Future Generation: The Zine-Book for Subculture Parents, Kids, Friends and Others

What If This Were Enough?

The Crying Book

Feminist City: A Field Guide

Notes from a Black Woman’s Diary: Selected Works of Kathleen Collins

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

How to Be a Person in the World: Ask Polly’s Guide Through the Paradoxes of Modern Life

A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home

I’m Afraid of Men

Life and Death

All Our Relations

Beauty Reimagined: Life lessons on loving yourself inside and out

Notes from a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life

Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader

Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock-and-Roll

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race

The Truth Will Set You Free: Overcoming Emotional Blindness and Finding Your True Adult Self

Sugar in My Bowl: Real Women Write About Real Sex

Ayiti

Where To Begin: A Small Book About Your Power to Create Big Change in Our Crazy World

Happy Birthday or Whatever: Track Suits, Kim Chee, and Other Family Disasters

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

Smashing It: Working Class Artists on Life, Art and Making It Happen

1968 and Global Cinema

Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World

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

Borderwork: Feminist Engagements With Comparative Literature

Oppression and the Body: Roots, Resistance, and Resolutions

Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza

Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

Trash

On Photography

What Purpose Did I Serve in Your Life

I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight

Shut Up, You’re Welcome

So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y’all Don’t Even Know