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The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches 1968-1992

Guilt Trip: My Quest to Leave the Baggage Behind

Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy

She Called Me Woman: Nigeria’s Queer Women Speak

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays

How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences

Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism

The Point is to Change the World: Selected Writings of Andaiye

American Women’s Suffrage: Voices from the Long Struggle for the Vote 1776-1965

The Right to Be Elected: 100 Years Since Suffrage

Beyond Belief: The Secret Lives of Women in Extreme Religions

Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration, and Life on Earth

Yes, I Can Say That: When They Come for the Comedians, We Are All in Trouble

Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession

A History of Women in 100 Objects

Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

Catholic Women Confront Their Church: Stories of Hurt and Hope

Too Much and Not the Mood

The Double X Economy: The Epic Potential of Empowering Women

Abandon Me: Memoirs

Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs

The Colorblind Screen: Television in Post-Racial America

The Business of Women’s Empowerment: Corporate Gender Politics in the Global South

Radiant Voices: 21 Feminist Essays for Rising Up Inspired by EMMA Talks

Feminism in the Worlds of Neil Gaiman

Disability Visibility : First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

Craigslist Confessional: A Collection of Secrets from Anonymous Strangers

The Sober Lush: A Hedonist’s Guide to Living a Decadent, Adventurous, Soulful Life –Alcohol Free

What Doesn’t Kill You: Fifteen Stories of Survival

Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels

Femmes Fatales

Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power

Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture

Ugly Feelings

The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom

The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants

Places I’ve Taken My Body: Essays

A Field Guide to Awkward Silences

Choice Words: Writers on Abortion

The Faraway Nearby

Teaching To Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

In Search of Safety: Voices of Refugees

Grief’s Country: A Memoir in Pieces

They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up

Surviving Autocracy

Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings

Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory

Muslim Women Are Everything: Stereotype-Shattering Stories of Courage, Inspiration, and Adventure

Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World

Feminist Parenting: Perspectives from Africa and Beyond

Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding

If They Come in the Morning … Voices of Resistance

The Madwoman and the Roomba: My Year of Domestic Mayhem

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

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