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Dr Johnson’s London: Everyday Life in London in the Mid 18th Century

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

Taking Down Backpage: Fighting the World’s Largest Sex Trafficker

Blessings and Disasters: A Story of Alabama

Vigorous Reforms: Women Writers and the Politics of Health in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Where Are the Women Architects?

Gather Together in My Name

Threads of Empire: A History of the World in Twelve Carpets

Sanctuary

The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution

Breaking the Grass Ceiling: The History of the Women’s Football Association

Vagina: A New Biography

The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive

Remembering Women: Lessons from the Ancient World

Witches: A Tale of Sorcery, Scandal and Seduction

Shouting Out Loud: Lives of the Raincoats

The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic

Queer Feminist Science Studies: A Reader

In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose

Woman: The American History of an Idea

Stiffed: The Betrayal Of The American Man

The Club: Where American Women Artists Found Refuge in Belle Époque Paris

Singlewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800

I Thought I Heard You Speak: Women at Factory Records

Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality

The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism

Margaret Fuller: A New American Life

Graffiti Grrlz: Performing Feminism in the Hip Hop Diaspora

Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future – 20th Anniversary Edition

The Last Empress of France: The Rebellious Life of Eugénie de Montijo

The Power of Knitting: Stitching Together Our Lives in a Fractured World

To Desire Differently

Sisters in the Mirror: A History of Muslim Women and the Global Politics of Feminism

Angelica: For Love and Country in a Time of Revolution

Ambiguous Cinema

Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss

The Science Question in Feminism

Bitch: The Journey of a Word

The Essential Emma Goldman—Anarchism, Feminism, Liberation

Reclaiming Female Agency: Feminist Art History after Postmodernism

Lady in Ermine — The Story of A Woman Who Painted the Renaissance: A Biographical Novel of Sofonisba Anguissola

The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s History and Impact

Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War

The Battle for the Black Mind

Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life

Dressed for Freedom: The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism

The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery: Biocapitalism and Black Feminism’s Philosophy of History

Feminism: The Essential Historical Writing

Scotland’s Medieval Queens: From Saint Margaret to Margaret of Denmark

We Are Dancing for You: Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women’s Coming-of-Age Ceremonies

As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock

The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West

Thread: A Caesarean story of myth, magic and medicine

Like: A History of the World’s Most Hated (and Misunderstood) Word

It’s (Almost) Always Sunny in Philadelphia: How Three Friends Spent $200 to Create the Longest-Running Live-Action Sitcom in History and Help Build a Network

History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism

Revisiting Women’s Cinema: Feminism, Socialism, and Mainstream Culture in Modern China

Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood: A Treasury of Goddess and Heroine Lore from Around the World

Molecular Feminisms: Biology, Becomings, and Life in the Lab

While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement

Feminism And Pop Culture

Lesbian Feminism: Essays Opposing Global Heteropatriarchies

Women and the Irish Revolution: Feminism, Activism, Violence

Hit Girls: Britney, Taylor, Beyoncé, and the Women Who Built Pop’s Shiniest Decade

Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains

Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses

Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free

The Courtiers: Splendor and Intrigue in the Georgian Court at Kensington Palace

No Human Involved: The Serial Murder of Black Women and Girls and the Deadly Cost of Police Indifference

The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II

In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692

Bird Lore: The Myths, Folklore and Meaning of Birds

Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750

Agents of Change: The Women Who Transformed the CIA

Alanis: Thirty Years of Jagged Little Pill

Delphi Complete Works of Ida B. Wells

Super Visible: The Story of the Women of Marvel Comics

Trailblazer

Access: Inside the Abortion Underground and the Sixty-Year Battle for Reproductive Freedom

Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings

Menopause Is Hot: Everything You Need to Know to Thrive

The War of Art: A History of Artists’ Protest In America

Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer’s Legendary Editorship

María Izquierdo and Frida Kahlo: Challenging Visions in Modern Mexican Art

Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe

How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek Literature

Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism

BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine

Penelope’s Bones: A New History of Homer’s World through the Women Written Out of It

The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege

Jumping Through Hoops: Performing Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Circus

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

Feminism: A Graphic Guide

Patternalia: An Unconventional History of Polka Dots, Stripes, Plaid, Camouflage, & Other Graphic Patterns

Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior

The Woman Who Knew Everyone: The Power of Perle Mesta, Washington’s Most Famous Hostess

Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores

Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance

Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition

Mythic Plants: Potions and Poisons from the Gardens of the Gods

Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books

They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals

Lincoln’s Lady Spymaster: The Untold Story of the Abolitionist Southern Belle Who Helped Win the Civil War

The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex

On Immunity: An Inoculation

When We Ruled: The Rise and Fall of Twelve African Queens and Warriors

Just For One Day: Adventures in Britpop

The Miniature Painter Revealed: Amalia Kussner’s Gilded Age Pursuit of Fame and Fortune

Doing It All: The Social Power of Single Motherhood

The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler’s All-Female Concentration Camp

Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures

Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global

The Apothecary’s Wife: The Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity

The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe

The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service

Stolen Fragments: Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts

Empire of Purity: The History of Americans’ Global War on Prostitution

Merlin Stone Remembered: Her Life and Works

Big Girls Don’t Cry: A Memoir About Taking Up Space

Makers and Takers: How Wall Street Destroyed Main Street

Changing of The Gods: Feminism and the End of Traditional Religions

Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange

Inconvenient Women: Australian radical writers 1900–1970

Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump

Lionessheart: The Life and Times of Joanna Plantagenet

Nightshining

Jane Against the World: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights

Women Holding Things & Still Life with Remorse

Feminism in Revolt: An Anthology

Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility

Speaking of Feminism: Today’s Activists on the Past, Present, and Future of the U.S. Women’s Movement

The Allure of Elsewhere: A Memoir of Going Solo

All Roads Lead to Rome: Why We Think about the Roman Empire Daily

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male Power

Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins

Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens

Aggregated Discontent: Confessions of the Last Normal Woman

The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us

Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us

Hashtag

The Rainbow Ain’t Never Been Enuf: On the Myth of LGBTQ+ Solidarity

Stars to Steer By: Celebrating the 20th century women who went to sea

Gulag: A History

A Biographical Dictionary of Women’s Movements and Feminisms: Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th Centuries

America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History

The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland

Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder

How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time

The Mother Code: My Story of Love, Loss, and the Myths That Shape Us

How to Be Queer: An Ancient Guide to Sexuality

Hear Me Roar

The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation

Broken Silence: Voices of Japanese Feminism

Green River, Running Red

Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land

At Last She Stood: How Joey Guerrero Spied, Survived, and Fought for Freedom

Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II

Is Peace Possible?

Four Mothers: An Intimate Journey Through the First Year of Parenthood in Four Countries

Personhood: The New Civil War over Reproduction

Everyday Intuition: What Psychology, Science, and Psychics Can Teach Us About Finding and Trusting Our Inner Voice

Uncredited: Women’s Overlooked, Misattributed & Stolen Work

Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the Twentieth Century

LIVEBLOG

Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf

Ask Dr. Mueller: The Writings of Cookie Mueller

Suffragettes to She-Devils: Women’s Liberation and Beyond

Wendat Women’s Arts

The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria

Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon and the Journey of a Generation

Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O’Keeffe

Bad Friend: A Century of Revolutionary Friendships

The Last American Road Trip: A Memoir

Finding Loretta: An Adopted Daughter’s Search to Define Family

The Dinner Party: Restoring Women to History

Clay: A Human History

Labour of Love: A Midwife’s Stories of Birth, Life and Speaking Up for Women

Protest!: A History of Social and Political Protest Graphics

Cosmopolitan Cinema: Cross-cultural Encounters in East Asian Film

Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown

Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature

Women of War: The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis

A Protest History of the United States

Syme’s Letter Writer: A Guide to Modern Correspondence

Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb

Afterimages: On Cinema, Women and Changing Times

Clothes Make the Man: Female Cross Dressing in Medieval Europe

Unravelling Women’s Art: Creators, Rebels, & Innovators in Textile Arts

The Narrowing: A journey through anxiety and the body

Greek Tragedy

Crimes Unspoken: The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War

Yves Klein

The Acid Queen: The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary

Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters

Fearless Beatrice Faust: Sex, Feminism and Body Politics

The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity

The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe