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Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine’s Confessions

The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems: An Intersectional Political Economy

Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?

Feminist Psychology: History, Practice, Research, and the FutureFeminist Philosophy

Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality, 1920-2020

Woman’s Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi

Feminist Philosophies of Life

Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls: Women, Music, and Fame

Lawbreaking Ladies: 50 Tales of Daring, Defiant, and Dangerous Women from History

Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York’s Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist

Feminist Philosophy

Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction

The Rising of the Women: Feminist Solidarity and Class Conflict, 1880-1917

The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing: From Christine de Pizan to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico: Portraits of Soldaderas, Saints, and Subversives

Rise: Extraordinary Women of Colour who Changed the World

Femme Magnifique: 50 Magnificent Women Who Changed The World

How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind

Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box

The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science

Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women’s Roles in Society

Dismantling the Patriarchy, Bit by Bit: Art, Feminism, and Digital Technology

The Women’s History of the Modern World: How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years

Woman’s Estate

Sexuality in the Field of Vision

We Were There: The Third World Women’s Alliance and the Second Wave

Off with Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power

This Book Is Feminist: An Intersectional Primer for Feminists in Training

Bicycling for Ladies : The Classic 1896 Guide to Skills, Exercise, Mechanics, and Dress

The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism

Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries

Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965–2000

Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It

Burn It Down!: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution

Demanding Equality: One Hundred Years of Canadian Feminism

We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women’s Lives

The Soul of a Woman

Let Me Be Frank: A Book About Women Who Dressed Like Men to Do Shit They Weren’t Supposed to Do

With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism

The Feminist Revolution: Second Wave Feminism and the Struggle for Women’s Liberation

The Sacred Prostitute: Eternal Aspect of the Feminine

Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest

The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls

Faces of the Feminine in Ancient, Medieval, & Modern India

Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life

Bad Girls and Transgressive Women in Popular Television, Fiction, and Film

Gender, Media and Voice: Communicative Injustice and Public Speech

Women as Mythmakers: Poetry and Visual Art by Twentieth-Century Women

Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex

A Life with Mary Shelley

Women in Antiquity: Real Women across the Ancient World

The Verso Book of Feminism: Revolutionary Words from Four Millennia of Rebellion

Dear Hearts

The Rise of Public Woman: Woman’s Power and Woman’s Place in the United States, 1630-1970

New Woman Fiction: Women Writing First-Wave Feminism

Hypatia’s Heritage: A History of Women in Science from Antiquity to the Late Nineteenth Century

Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989

Gentleman Jack: A Biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist

My Own Words

Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America

Nevertheless, She Wore It: 50 Iconic Fashion Moments

The Wicked Sisters: Women Poets, Literary History, and Discord

The Women Who Made New York

Tomboy: The Surprising History and Future of Girls Who Dare to Be Different

She Votes: How U.S. Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next

Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency

The Art of Feminism: Images that Shaped the Fight for Equality, 1857-2017

Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells

Vita & Virginia: A Double Life

Strong Women: 15 Biographies of Influential Women History Overlooked

Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America’s First Celebrity

Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood

Not One of the Boys: Living Life as a Feminist

Czech Feminisms: Perspectives on Gender in East Central Europe

Bright Precious Thing

Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes

From Angel to Office Worker: Middle-Class Identity and Female Consciousness in Mexico, 1890–1950

Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist: The Life and Activism of Anbara Salam Khalidi

Gender and the Mexican Revolution: Yucatán Women and the Realities of Patriarchy

Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels

Ladies Can’t Climb Ladders: Early Adventures of Working Women, the Professional Life and the Glass Ceiling

Ms. Gloria Steinem: A Life

Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

Death in Ten Minutes: The Forgotten Life of Radical Suffragette Kitty Marion

Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement

Runaway Wives and Rogue Feminists: The Origins of the Women’s Shelter Movement in Canada

Sexual Politics

Women on the Move: The Forgotten Era of Women’s Bicycle Racing

The Banshees: A Literary History of Irish American Women Writers

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution

Woman’s Consciousness, Man’s World

Marxism and Women’s Liberation

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

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

Art Labor, Sex Politics: Feminist Effects in 1970s British Art and Performance

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

Feminism and the Women’s Movement in Malaysia

Iconic Women of Colour: The Amazing True Stories Behind Inspirational Women of Colour

The Slogan

Inside Broadside: A Decade of Feminist Journalism

Feminism: A Brief Introduction to the Ideas, Debates, and Politics of the Movement

The Feminist Papers: A Vindication of the Rights of Women

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

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: Modern American Revolutionary

Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future

Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Am I That Name?: Feminism And The Category Of Women In History

Daughters of 1968: Redefining French Feminism and the Women’s Liberation Movement

Doing Sixty and Seventy

The Cinderella Complex: Women’s Hidden Fear of Independence

Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980

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

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

Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World

The Periodic Table of Feminism

A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism

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

Comic Venus: Women and Comedy in American Silent Film

Liberation in Print: Feminist Periodicals and Social Movement Identity

Borderwork: Feminist Engagements With Comparative Literature

Women, Power and Politics in 21st Century Iran

Feminism and Contemporary Art: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Laughter

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

Rebel Daughters: Women and the French Revolution

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

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

The Extra Woman: How Marjorie Hillis Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It

Live Alone and Like It

Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope

Reclaiming the F Word: The New Feminist Movement

The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth

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

Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices

Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics

A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War

Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick

Women and Madness

Pioneering Women: Short Stories by Canadian Women, Beginnings to 1880

Herlands: Exploring the Women’s Land Movement in the United States

Accidental Feminists

Women Warriors: An Unexpected History

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

Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World

Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World

Women: Our Story

Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Women of the Golden Dawn: Rebels and Priestesses: Maud Gonne, Moina Bergson Mathers, Annie Horniman, Florence Farr

Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World

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

In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton

How Was It For You?: Women, Sex, Love and Power in the 1960s

The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe

From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 4

From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 3

From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 2

The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women’s Liberation

Becoming Beauvoir: A Life

The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers

Vanity Fair’s Women on Women

Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

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

Reclaiming the Archive: Feminism and Film History

Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race

Becoming Modern Women: Love and Female Identity in Prewar Japanese Literature and Culture

The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy’s Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici

Rosalie Bertell: Scientist, Eco-Feminist Visionary

Casting off the Veil: The Life of Huda Shaarawi, Egypt’s First Feminist

A Politically Incorrect Feminist: Creating a Movement with Bitches, Lunatics, Dykes, Prodigies, Warriors, and Wonder Women

Women in Western Political Thought

Firebrand Feminism: The Radical Lives of Ti-Grace Atkinson, Kathie Sarachild, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, and Dana Densmore

Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour

Woman Suffrage and the Origins of Liberal Feminism in the United States, 1820-1920

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars

Revenge of the She-Punks: A Feminist Music History from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot

Suffragette: My Own Story

The Covent Garden Ladies: Pimp General Jack & The Extraordinary Story of Harris’ List

Sisters in Spirit: Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influences on Early American Feminists

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace

What Women Want: An Agenda for the Women’s Movement

Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History

Between Women: Biographers, Novelists, Critics, Teachers and Artists Write about Their Work on Women

Echo and Narcissus: Women’s Voices in Classical Hollywood Cinema

Women Filmmakers in Mexico: The Country of Which We Dream

Encyclopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers

Feminist Generations: The Persistence of the Radical Women’s Movement

Further To Fly: Black Women and the Politics of Empowerment

50 Ways to Improve Women’s Lives: The Essential Women’s Guide for Achieving Equality, Health, and Success

Are Men Obsolete?: The Munk Debate on Gender

Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality

Her Own Hero: The Origins of the Women’s Self-Defense Movement

Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism

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

The Early Feminists: Radical Unitarians and the Emergence of the Women’s Rights Movement, 1831-51

Fifty-One Key Feminist Thinkers