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Mudlark: In Search of London’s Past Along the River Thames

The RBG Way: The Secrets of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Success

You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington

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

The Periodic Table of Feminism

Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture

Dress Code: The Naked Truth About Fashion

A Black Women’s History of the United States

Agnes Varda between Film, Photography, and Art

Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt

All Our Relations

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

Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith

Black Indian: A Memoir

Darkly: Blackness and America’s Gothic Soul

Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Trump

Lost in the Museum: Buried Treasures and the Stories They Tell

Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race

How to Read a Dress. A Guide to Changing Fashion from the 16th to the 20th Century

The Story Behind: The Extraordinary History Behind Ordinary Objects

Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present

Motherlove in Shades of Black: The Maternal Psyche in the Novels of African American Women

Who Knew?: Questions That Will Make You Think Again

Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America

Comic Venus: Women and Comedy in American Silent Film

Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt

Liberation in Print: Feminist Periodicals and Social Movement Identity

1968 and Global Cinema

Turkish Guest Workers in Germany: Hidden Lives and Contested Borders, 1960s to 1980s

The Life of Bessie Coleman: First African American Woman Pilot

Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward

Black Woman Reformer: Ida B. Wells, Lynching, and Transatlantic Activism

A Feeling of Belonging: Asian American Women’s Public Culture, 1930-1960

The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies

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

Sisters in Crime: Early Crime and Mystery Stories by Women

Stay Woke: A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter

Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette

Overground Railroad: The Green Book & Roots of Black Travel in America

Rebel Daughters: Women and the French Revolution

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America’s Hippest Street

On Photography

The Scars of Evolution: What Our Bodies Tell Us About Human Rights

Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space

Dreaming in Code: Ada Byron Lovelace, Computer Pioneer

Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children’s Home Society

Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology

The Confidence Game: The Psychology of the Con and Why We Fall For It Every Time

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

Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen

Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

Bad Blood

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Wardrobe Crisis: How We Went From Sunday Best to Fast Fashion

Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother’s Disappearance as a Child

Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait

What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance

The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters

The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter’s Journey to Reconciliation

The Season: A Social History of the Debutante

The Heartland: An American History

In the Country of Women

The National Team: The Inside Story of the Women who Changed Soccer

Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination

A Wild and Precious Life: A Memoir

Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS

Hollywood’s Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.

The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father

Madame Fourcade’s Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France’s Largest Spy Network Against Hitler

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

Annie Leibovitz: Photographs

Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope

Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature

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

A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812

Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday

Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

Vivian Maier: Street Photographer

The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices

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

Don’t Touch My Hair

Women’s Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930: Haunted Empire

Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover

Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy

Dickens’ Women

The Way We All Became The Brady Bunch: How the Canceled Sitcom Became the Beloved Pop Culture Icon We Are Still Talking About Today

The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness

The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of the Cone Sisters, Matisse’s True Discoverers

Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom

A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War

A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870

Why Karen Carpenter Matters

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

The Partly Cloudy Patriot

Take the Cannoli

Mother Winter: A Memoir

African American Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students

America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States

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

Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn Into the Twentieth Century

Priestess, Mother, Sacred Sister: Religions Dominated by Women

A Fighting Chance

Vivian Maier: A Photographer’s Life and Afterlife

Women on Their Own: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Being Single

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

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

Stealing the Show: How Women Are Revolutionizing Television

Accidental Feminists

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

Women Warriors: An Unexpected History

Joan of Arc: A Life

Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of the Community

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

When Rape Was Legal: The Untold History of Sexual Violence During Slavery

Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin

Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World

Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World

Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao’s Revolution

Women: Our Story

Eleanor Marx: A Life

Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises

Historical Heroines: 100 Women You Should Know about

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

The Girl: Marilyn Monroe, The Seven Year Itch, and the Birth of an Unlikely Feminist

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story

Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World

Lakota Woman

Ambition and Desire: The Dangerous Life of Josephine Bonaparte

The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee

Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History

A Quiet Revolution: The Veil’s Resurgence, from the Middle East to America

A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa

Rita Moreno: A Memoir

Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy: The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army

Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe

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

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston

In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir

God Save the Queens: The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop

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

From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 1

The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition

The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women’s Liberation

Men, Women, and God(s): Nawal El Saadawi and Arab Feminist Poetics

The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History

Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge

Becoming Beauvoir: A Life

The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers

Vanity Fair’s Women on Women

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

Fastpitch: The Untold History of Softball and the Women Who Made the Game

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

Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters

The Grind: Black Women and Survival in the Inner City

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

The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World

Restless Ambition: Grace Hartigan, Painter

Reclaiming Feminism: Challenging Everyday Misogyny

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

Myths of Male Dominance: Collected Articles on Women Cross-Culturally

From Miniskirt to Hijab: A Girl in Revolutionary Iran

Fields of Protest: Women’s Movements in India

Let Me Go: My Mother and the SS

Cigarettes, Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism

Bitches, Bimbos, and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls’ Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes

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

Talking Back to the Indian Act: Critical Readings in Settler Colonial Histories

Women and Cultural Citizenship in Turkey: Mass Media and “Woman’s Voice” Television

White Tears / Brown Scars

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

Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema

Fashion, History, Museums: Inventing the Display of Dress

Brooklyn’s Promised Land: The Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York

The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir

Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea: Indian Women as Cultural Intermediaries and National Symbols

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

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