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

The Missing Thread: A New History of the Ancient World Through the Women Who Shaped It

Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women

All the Rage: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty: A History of Pain, Pleasure, and Power: 1860-1960

This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

Who’s Afraid of Gender?

I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

Building a New Leadership Ladder: Transforming Male-Dominated Organizations to Support Women on the Rise

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

This Dark Country

Tudor Feminists: 10 Renaissance Women Ahead of their Time

Quantum Justice: Global Girls Cultivating Disruption through Spoken Word Poetry

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

Drop In: The Gender Rebels Who Changed the Face of Skateboarding

Art Work: Women Artists and Democracy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York

Life Stories of Women Artists, 1550-1800: An Anthology

Darkness Now Visible: Patriarchy’s Resurgence and Feminist Resistance

The Lucky Ones

All In Her Head: How Gender Bias Harms Women’s Mental Health

Gender History: A Very Short Introduction

Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner

The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions

Women Making Art

Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net

Hysterical: Why We Need to Talk About Women, Hormones, and Mental Health

Farewell to the Muse: Love, War, and the Women of Surrealism

Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews That Shaped America

Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women

All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today

Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism

A History of Women in 101 Objects

Juice: A History of Female Ejaculation

Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s

The Women’s Revolution: How We Changed Your Life

When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion

Dangerous Jokes: How Racism and Sexism Weaponize Humor

The Tigerbelles: Olympic Legends from Tennessee State

The Golden Girls

The Jerrie Mock Story: The First Woman to Fly Solo around the World

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

Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design

Women’s Liberation!: Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution & Still Can

Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism

Where are the Women Architects?

Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

Breaking Free: The Lie of Equality and the Feminist Fight for Freedom

Female Body Image in Contemporary Art: Dieting, Eating Disorders, Self-Harm, and Fatness

A Time of One’s Own: Histories of Feminism in Contemporary Art

Femininity, Time and Feminist Art

On Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Old Mistresses

Overlooked: A Celebration of Remarkable, Underappreciated People Who Broke the Rules and Changed the World

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

Life Stories of Women Artists, 1550-1800: An Anthology

Lesbian Love Story: A Queer History of Sapphic Romance

Girlhood

Silent Racism: How Well-meaning White People Perpetuate the Racial Divide

In Their Time: A History of Feminism in Western Society

Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood

Collapse Feminism: The Online Battle for Feminism’s Future

Eyeliner: A Cultural History

Letters to the Future: On equality and Gender

Women, Art, and Society

The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA

Making Space for Indigenous Feminism, original, 2nd, and 3rd editions

Ordinary Equality: The Fearless Women and Queer People Who Shaped the U.S. Constitution and the Equal Rights Amendment

Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close

After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It

A Well-Behaved Woman

A Feminist Theory of Violence: A Decolonial Perspective

New Stories We Tell: True Tales By America’s New Generation of Great Women Journalists

Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation

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

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

Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment

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

Not Just for the Boys: Why We Need More Women in Science

Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women’s Words

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

We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century

Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution

Inverse Cowgirl

Feminism for Women: The Real Route to Liberation

Feminisms: A Global History

Pretty In Ink: North American Women Cartoonists 1896-2013

Buzz: A Stimulating History of the Sex Toy

When Women Ruled the Pacific: Power and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Tahiti and Hawai‘i

Speculum of the Other Woman

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

Women’s Work: From Feminine Arts to Feminist Art

Pink Triangles: Radical Perspectives on Gay Liberation

Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy

Naked Feminism: Breaking the Cult of Female Modesty

Climate Resilience: How We Keep Each Other Safe, Care for Our Communities, and Fight Back Against Climate Change

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

Women’s Lives, Women’s Voices: Roman Material Culture and Female Agency in the Bay of Naples

Seeing Ourselves: Women’s Self-Portraits

Girls, Aggression, and Intersectionality: Transforming the Discourse of “Mean Girls” in the United States

The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience: Five Hundred Years of Women’s Self Portraits

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

Women, Gender and History in India

Louise Dupin’s Work on Women: Selections

Feminist Antifascism. Counterpublics of the Common

They Call It Love: The Politics of Emotional Life

Feminist Rehearsals: Gender at the Theatre in Early Twentieth-Century Argentina and Mexico

How to Win at Feminism

Women in Roman Law and Society

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

On Violence and On Violence Against Women

The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way

Once and Future Feminist

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

Reframing Todd Haynes: Feminism’s Indelible Mark

The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Harm, Ending State Violence

Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

Dead Woman Pickney: A Memoir of Childhood in Jamaica

The Families of Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Female Network of Power in the Middle Ages

Flora Tristan

Equity for Women in Science: Dismantling Systemic Barriers to Advancement

Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and Histories of Art

Wedded Wife: A Feminist History of Marriage

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

The Female Gaze in Documentary Film: An International Perspective

Feminist International: How to Change Everything

Young and Restless: The Girls Who Sparked America’s Revolutions

Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women

Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power

Representing Women

Women Writing Art History in the Nineteenth Century: Looking Like a Woman

The Transgender Issue: Trans Justice Is Justice for All

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

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

A Society of Young Women: Opportunities of Place, Power, and Reform in Saudi Arabia

All the Rebel Women: The Rise of the Fourth Wave of Feminism

Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé

The Silver Women: How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal

How to Make the Matriarchy: The Power and Promise of Prioritizing Women

Midlife Crisis: The Feminist Origins of a Chauvinist Cliché

Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women’s Alliances in Early Modern England

Superfluous Women: Art, Feminism, and Revolution in Twenty-First-Century Ukraine

Voices in the Shadows: Women and Verbal Art in Serbia and Bosnia

Dangerous Bodies: New Global Perspectives on Fashion and Transgression

Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display

The Hidden Writer

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

Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan’s Digital Economy

Manga Cultures and the Female Gaze

Picturing the Woman-Child: Fashion, Feminism and the Female Gaze

Women Artists in the Early Modern Courts of Europe: c. 1450-1700

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

Gendered Journeys: Women, Migration and Feminist Psychology

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

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

Beyond the Periphery of the Skin: Rethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism

Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism

Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex”

Eighteenth Century Women Artists: Their Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs

Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future

Tinder Translator: An A-Z of Modern Misogyny

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

Woman: An Intimate Geography

Film Bodies: Queer Feminist Encounters with Gender and Sexuality in Cinema

Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence

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

A Mind Of One’s Own: Feminist Essays On Reason And Objectivity

Queer Timing: The Emergence of Lesbian Sexuality in Early Cinema

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

Heroines in History: A Thousand Faces

Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt’s Ancient Temples from Destruction

Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother

I Am Not a Slut: Slut-Shaming in the Age of the Internet

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

Feminist Philosophies of Life

Women Who Kill: Gender and Sexuality in Film and Series of the Post-Feminist Era

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

Queer Asia: Decolonising and Reimagining Sexuality and Gender

Great and Horrible News: Murder and Mayhem in Early Modern Britain

Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson

Women in Antiquity: Real Women Across the Ancient World

Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine

More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech

Reshaping Women’s History: Voices of Nontraditional Women Historians

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

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

When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe

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

All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence

Wild Unrest: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Making of the Yellow Wall-Paper

Serial Girls: From Barbie to Pussy Riot

Woman’s Estate

Deco Body, Deco City: Female Spectacle and Modernity in Mexico City, 1900–1939

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

Notes on Womanhood

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

The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism

Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre

Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World

Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution