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Women in Western Political Thought

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

Women: The Last Colony

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

Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties

Rape: From Lucretia to #MeToo

Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China

An Unconventional Wife: The Life of Julia Sorell Arnold

Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

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

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

Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran

Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans

The Burma Spring: Aung San Suu Kyi and the New Struggle for the Soul of a Nation

Excellent Daughters: The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World

Brooklyn Street Style: The No-Rules Guide to Fashion

Heels in the Arena: Living Purple in a Red/Blue Town

Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe

A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert

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

Contemporary Arab Women Writers: Cultural Expression In Context

Anna Howard Shaw: The Work of Woman Suffrage

The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance

In a Time of Monsters: Travels Through a Middle East in Revolt

One Child: The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment

Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

Leftover in China: The Women Shaping the World’s Next Superpower

Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work

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

This America: The Case for the Nation

Suffragette: My Own Story

The Bells of Old Tokyo: Meditations on Time and a City

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

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

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

Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner’s Daughter

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

Voices of Cherokee Women

Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power

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

Unladylike: A Field Guide to Smashing the Patriarchy and Claiming Your Space

Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials

Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers

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

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

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

“Believing Women” in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’an

Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History

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

See Jane Win: The Inspiring Story of the Women Changing American Politics

The Boundaries of Her Body: A Shocking History of Women’s Rights in America

Endless Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform

Women Filmmakers in Mexico: The Country of Which We Dream

Medieval Single Women: The Politics of Social Classification in Late Medieval England

Superior: The Return of Race Science

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

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

Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism

American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation

A Woman of Firsts: The midwife who built a hospital and changed the world

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

Women Artists of the Harlem Renaissance

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee

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

Migra!: A History of the U.S. Border Patrol

The Barefoot Woman

Fifty-One Key Feminist Thinkers

Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Boys in Zinc

The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

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

Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth

True Crime Files: My Most Memorable Cases

Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives

When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt

A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder

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

The Suffragette: The History of the Women’s Militant Suffrage Movement

The Yellow House

Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America’s Soul

Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers

Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World

Pretty Good for a Girl: Women in Bluegrass

Why We March: Signs of Protest and Hope

Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life

Screwnomics: How the Economy Works Against Women and Real Ways to Make Lasting Change

The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran

Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq

The Book of Latina Women: 150 Vidas of Passion, Strength, and Success

The Life of Elizabeth I

Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

Bloody Brilliant Women: The Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work

Black Writers Matter

Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes

Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women’s Movement, 1870-1967

Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia

Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness

Women and Film: Both Sides of the Camera

This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America’s Middle Class

The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

Women Aviators: 26 Stories of Pioneer Flights, Daring Missions, and Record-Setting Journeys

Chinese Comfort Women: Testimonies from Imperial Japan’s Sex Slaves

The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote

Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World

Women Who Launch: The Women Who Shattered Glass Ceilings

Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World

Legendary Ladies: 50 Goddesses to Empower and Inspire You

Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam

Negroland: A Memoir

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life

Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America’s Favorite Guilty Pleasure

The Descent of Woman

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

Joining the Dots: A Woman In Her Time

Heroines

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

The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy

Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate

The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History

Press, Platform, Pulpit: Black Feminist Publics in the Era of Reform

Speaking Power: Black Feminist Orality In Women’s Narratives Of Slavery

Femininity

Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists

Marlene

Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order)

Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History

The Specter of Sex: Gendered Foundations of Racial Formation in the United States

A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War

Feminism and Art History Now: Radical Critiques of Theory and Practice

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

Sisters in the Struggle: African-American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement

Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art

The Riot Grrrl Collection

Women & Power: A Manifesto

The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine

Seeing Like a Feminist

Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction (Fifth Edition)

The Routledge History of Women in Europe Since 1700

Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare’s English Histories

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

Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo

Women in Power: World Leaders Since 1960

They Would Never Hurt a Fly: War Criminals on Trial in The Hague

Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World

Historical Dictionary of Feminist Philosophy

The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory

Writing Feminist Lives: The Biographical Battles Over Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, and Simone de Beauvoir

The Pirate Queen: In Search of Grace O’Malley and Other Legendary Women of the Sea

They’re Playing Our Song

Where Did You Sleep Last Night? A Personal History

The Militant Muse: Love, War and the Women of Surrealism

Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion

Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own

No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies

When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present

All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

She Caused a Riot: 100 Unknown Women Who Built Cities, Sparked Revolutions, and Massively Crushed It

Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age

The War on Women

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions

Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet

I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Out of the Vinyl Deeps: On Rock Music

My Beloved World

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

The Secret History of Wonder Woman

Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World

Black Feminist Archaeology

Figuring

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

We Are Displaced

Silent Spring

Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights

Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China

Anna Julia Cooper, Visionary Black Feminist: A Critical Introduction

Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

Becoming

The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture

The Secret Lives of Color

Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley

Women Scientists: Reflections, Challenges, and Breaking Boundaries

Tragic Hollywood, Beautiful, Glamorous And Dead

Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century’s End

The Stranger Beside Me