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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

Women In Europe Between The Wars: Politics, Culture And Society

Females

The Best American Food Writing 2019

Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays

The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions

Coventry: Essays

A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother

The Undying

What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine

I Miss You When I Blink

Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected

The Fifth Season

The Needle’s Eye: Passing through Youth

Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States

Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession

The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire

Feminists Don’t Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

Don’t Touch My Hair

Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How To Read

Screen Tests

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

everything I know about love

A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War

If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits?

The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

Notes to Self: Essays

Constellations

Why Karen Carpenter Matters

Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want

Modern Loss: Candid Conversation About Grief. Beginners Welcome.

The Partly Cloudy Patriot

Take the Cannoli

A Dirty Word: How a Sex Writer Reclaimed Her Sexuality

I’m the One Who Got Away

Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing

Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design

Women on Their Own: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Being Single

Obviously: Stories from My Timeline

I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

Things I Don’t Want to Know: On Writing

Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies

Working It Out: 23 Women Writers, Artists, Scientists, and Scholars Talk about Their Lives and Work

She Explores: Stories of Life-Changing Adventures on the Road and in the Wild

Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women

Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises

Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays

I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

Self-Inflicted Wounds: Heartwarming Tales of Epic Humiliation

The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee

Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power

The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women’s Liberation

The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars

Self-Portrait As Your Traitor

The Witches Are Coming

Little Weirds

Everyday People: The Color of Life – A Short Story Anthology

Burn It Down: Women Writing about Anger

I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz

#MeToo: Stories from the Australian Movement

The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers

The Boys of My Youth

Wolf Whistle Politics: The New Misogyny in Public Life Today

Women on Food

Vanity Fair’s Women on Women

We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent

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

Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters

The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion

The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion

Reclaiming the Archive: Feminism and Film History

So Here’s the Thing…: Notes on Growing Up, Getting Older, and Trusting Your Gut

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death

How Did You Get This Number

Incidental Inventions

Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship

Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics

Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture

Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?

Are Women Human?: And Other International Dialogues

No Stopping Us Now: A History of Older Women in America

Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution

On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978

Grand Union

The Best American Essays: Editor, Edwidge Danticat – 2011

The Best American Essays: Editor, Ariel Levy – 2015

The Best American Essays: Editor, Leslie Jamison – 2017

This America: The Case for the Nation

New Erotica for Feminists: Satirical Fantasies of Love, Lust, and Equal Pay

Thick: And Other Essays

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal

My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction

I Was Told There’d Be Cake: Essays

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World

Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era

Horror Stories: A Memoir

Misogynation: The True Scale of Sexism

Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality

What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading

Women Artists of the Harlem Renaissance

The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls

Lean Out: The Struggle for Gender Equality in Tech and Start-Up Culture

Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes

Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

This Is the Place: Women Writing About Home

Citizen: An American Lyric

Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays

Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology

The Big Book of the Dead

Burn This Book: PEN Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word

Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings

Nobody’s Looking at You

Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power

How to Date Men When You Hate Men

Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

My Misspent Youth: Essays

Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids

Graphic Details: Jewish Women’s Confessional Comics in Essays and Interviews

Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism

Moranifesto

This Is Really Happening

Worn Stories

Sex, Race and Class: The Perspective of Winning: A Selection of Writings 1952-2011

Whatever Gets You Through: Twelve Women on Life After Sexual Assault

Moranthology

Why Not Me?

The Vagenda: A Zero Tolerance Guide to the Media

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work

Black Writers Matter

The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker

Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia

Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded

Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness

The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

The Delusions of Certainty

Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay

In Praise of Difficult Women: Life Lessons from 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules

Shrewed: A Wry and Closely Observed Look at the Lives of Women and Girls

Heroines

Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger

Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets

Devotion

The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning

Heart Berries

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism

The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

A Burst of Light and Other Essays

Cybersexism: Sex, Gender and Power on the Internet

No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays

Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art

Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism

The Riot Grrrl Collection

Women & Power: A Manifesto

Feminasty: The Complicated Woman’s Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death

The Routledge History of Women in Europe Since 1700

Blossoms on the Olive Tree: Israeli and Palestinian Women Working for Peace

Stories I’d Tell in Bars

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America

The Good Immigrant

The Wrong Way to Save Your Life

In Other Words

What I Know for Sure

The Truth About Everything

This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America

What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I’ve Learned