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The Story of My Life

The Penguin Book of Witches

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Women’s Writing in Colombia – An Alternative History

Feminist Activism in the 1990s: Gender & Society (Feminist Perspectives on the Past and Present)

Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood

We Were Going to Change the World: Interviews with Women from the 1970s & 1980s Southern California Punk Rock Scene

Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China

Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527-1204

Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America

Women, Race, & Class

Dangerous Books for Girls: The Bad Reputation of Romance Novels Explained

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

The Quiet Revolution of Caroline Herschel: The Lost Heroine of Astronomy

Backwards & in Heels: The Past, Present, and Future of Women Working in Film

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution

The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan

Lee Hyeonseo: The Girl with Seven Names–A North Korean Defectors Story

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story

Femme Fatale: Love Lies and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari

In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive

Empress of Fashion: A Life of Diana Vreeland

Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties

The Baroness: The Search for Nica the Rebellious Rothschild

Kicking & Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock and Roll

From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies

The Revolutionary Life of Freda Bedi: British Feminist, Indian Nationalist, Buddhist Nun

Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought

Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Feminism

We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement

Helen of Troy: The Story Behind the Most Beautiful Woman in the World

A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France

Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

Invisible Women of Prehistory: Three Million Years of Peace, Six Thousand Years of War

Inside the Battle of Algiers: Memoir of a Woman Freedom Fighter

Dirty Wars and Polished Silver: The Life and Times of a War Correspondent Turned Ambassatrix

What Is a Woman to Do? A Reader on Women, Work and Art, c. 1830-1890

The World of Prostitution in Late Imperial Austria

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

No is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need

After Andy: Adventures in Warhol Land

When Women Win: Emily’s List and the Rise of Women in American Politics

Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing

Jane Austen: A Brief Life

The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World

Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories Wild Possibilities

What Happened

My Life on the Road

Marilyn Norma Jeane

The Female Eunuch

Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution

Florynce “Flo” Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical

Pornography and Civil Rights: A New Day for Womens’ Equality

Woman Hating

Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics

Marlene Dietrich: The Life

Last Girl Before Freeway: The Life, Loves, Losses, and Liberation of Joan Rivers

Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls

We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria

Finding Feminism: Millennial Activists and the Unfinished Gender Revolution

A Woman’s Work

Modern Misogyny: Anti-Feminism in a Post-Feminist Era

What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories

The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II

Making Trouble: Life and Politics

Coming of Age: The Sexual Awakening of Margaret Mead

Doing Women’s Film History: Reframing Cinemas, Past and Future

Art and Politics under Modern Dictatorships: A Comparison of Chile and Romania

Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease

Feminism and Popular Culture: Investigating the Postfeminist Mystique

Selling Women’s History: Packaging Feminism in Twentieth-Century American Popular Culture

The Huntress: The Adventures, Escapades, and Triumphs of Alicia Patterson: Aviatrix, Sportswoman, Journalist, Publisher

U.S. Women’s History: Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood

because of sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women’s Lives at Work

The League of Exotic Dancers: Legends from American Burlesque

Postmodern and Film: Rethinking Hollywood’s Aesthetics

The Poitier Effect: Racial Melodrama and Fantasies of Reconciliation

art sex music

The Force of Vocation: The Literary Career of Adele Wiseman

Woman’s Consciousness Man’s World

Hidden Figures

Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom

Life In Code: A Personal History of Technology

The Feminine Mystique

Assata: An Autobiography

Transgender History

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America

The Complete Persepolis (Persepolis #1-4)

Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader

Islam: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles #2)

Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk

The White Album

#BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America 

Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear… and Why

Reading Lolita in Tehran

The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman