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Buzz: A Stimulating History of the Sex Toy

To Her Credit: Historic Achievements—and the Women Who Actually Made Them Happen

100 Years of Fashion Illustration

The Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own

Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art

The Politics of Vision: Essays on Nineteenth-century Art and Society

Eye of the Sixties: Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art

Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia

Ghosts of the Orphanage

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

Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Powerful Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning

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

Women’s Work: From Feminine Arts to Feminist Art

A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance

The Expanding Discourse: Feminism And Art History

Sudden Appearances: The Mongol Turn in Commerce, Belief, and Art

No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating

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

The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist’s Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo

Naked Feminism: Breaking the Cult of Female Modesty

New York New Wave: The Legacy of Feminist Art in Emerging Practice

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

Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women

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

The Plague: Living Death in Our Times

Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta

Seeing Ourselves: Women’s Self-Portraits

Unbound Voices: A Documentary History of Chinese Women in San Francisco

How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization

Raiment

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

Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Civil War Letters from Rebecca Primus of Royal Oak, Maryland, and Addie Brown of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868, Historical African-American Memoirs

Embroidery: Threads and Stories from Alabama Chanin and The School of Making

Liberty’s Dawn: A People’s History of the Industrial Revolution

The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II

Women, Gender and History in India

Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World

The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever

Women in Design

Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean

Women in the Picture: Women, Art and the Power of Looking

When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge

Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines

You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

The Moving Form of Film: Historicising the Medium through Other Media

Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life

Queer Lives Across the Wall: Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945-1970

Pandora’s Box

Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity

They Call It Love: The Politics of Emotional Life

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

A History of Ancient Rome in 100 Lives

Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks—a Cool History of a Hot Commodity

Three Sisters: A True Holocaust Story of Love, Luck, and Survival

The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes

Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom

The Rooster House: My Ukrainian Family Story

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture

Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Forever Changed British History

Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses Weaving Together Biography, Global History and Science Writing

Stand: A Memoir on Activism. A Manual for Progress

The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir

Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks: 1941-1995

Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass

Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller

Kitty Fisher: The First Female Celebrity

Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims

Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration

Women in Roman Law and Society

Parachute Women: Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and the Women Behind The Rolling Stones

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

Ida Lupino, Director: Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition

On Violence and On Violence Against Women

Abolition. Feminism. Now.

Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

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

Reframing Todd Haynes: Feminism’s Indelible Mark

Daring to Hope: My Life in the 1970s

In Light-Years There’s No Hurry: Cosmic Perspectives on Everyday Life

Beyond the Shores: A History of African Americans Abroad

Women on Wheels: The Scandalous Untold History of Women in Bicycling from the 1880s to the 1980s

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

Georgia O’Keeffe

Flora Tristan

Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and Histories of Art

The Photograph as Contemporary Art

Wedded Wife: A Feminist History of Marriage

All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel

Don’t Say a Thing: A Predator, a Pursuit, and the Women Who Persevered

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

Out of the Cage: Women’s Experiences in Two World Wars

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

The Battle to Control Female Fertility in Modern Ireland

Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women

Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power

The Flavour Thesaurus: More Flavours: Plant-Led Pairings, Recipes and Ideas for Cooks

Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea’s Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women’s Rights Worldwide

Representing Women

The Invention of the Restaurant (2nd Edition): Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture

Chasing the Panther: Adventures and Misadventures of a Cinematic Life

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

Alternative Iran: Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice

Bet on Black: The Good News about Being Black in America Today

Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better

Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America

Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

Lipstick and Leather: On the Road With the World’s Most Notorious Rock Stars

Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech

I Always Knew: A Memoir

My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering

Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Social Media’s Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property

A Little History of Art

Feminism or Death: How the Women’s Movement Can Save the Planet

My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds

Where We Ate: A Field Guide to Canada’s Restaurants, Past and Present

Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote

Roe: The History of a National Obsession

Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit

The French Art of Living Well: Finding Joie de Vivre in the Everyday World

How Documentaries Went Mainstream: A History, 1960-2022

All In: An Autobiography

The Sacred Depths of Nature (2nd Edition): How Life Has Emerged and Evolved

Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

I Can’t Wait to Call You My Wife

Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays

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

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

African American Herbalism: A Practical Guide to Healing Plants and Folk Traditions

Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé

Truth Telling: Seven Conversations About Indigenous Life in Canada

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

Life Lessons from Hobbes

Fires in the Dark: Healing the Unquiet Mind

When I Die I’m Going to Heaven ‘Cause I’ve Spent My Time in Hell: A Memoir of My Year As an Army Nurse in Vietnam

Homecoming: The Scottish Years of Mary, Queen of Scots

Elixir: A Parisian Perfume House and the Quest for the Secret of Life

An Iron Girl in a Velvet Glove: The Life of Joan Rhodes

The Adventurous Life of Amelia B. Edwards: Egyptologist, Novelist, Activist

Revolutionizing Women’s Healthcare: The Feminist Self-Help Movement in America

Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

Midlife Crisis: The Feminist Origins of a Chauvinist Cliché

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

Regarding the Pain of Others

We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body’s Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds

Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World

When the World Didn’t End: A Memoir

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

Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy

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

Seduced by the Light: The Mina Miller Edison Story

The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses and Find Your True Well-Being

Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display

Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny

In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon

Women and Ceramics: Gendered Vessels

Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many

Film Feminisms: A Global Introduction

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

What Shall I Wear?: The What, Where, When, and How Much of Fashion

An Architecture of Education: African American Women Design the New South

Fashion, Gender and Agency in Latin American and Spanish Literature

Hollywood: Her Story, an Illustrated History of Women and the Movies

Cleopatra’s Daughter: From Roman Prisoner to African Queen

On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

Black Designers in American Fashion

Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession

The West: A New History of an Old Idea

The First Lady of World War II

The Memory Keeper: A Journey Into the Holocaust to Find My Family

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

Winters in the World: A Journey Through the Anglo-Saxon Year

Dreamland: America’s Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction

Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists

Cinematic Style: Fashion, Architecture and Interior Design on Film

Dress Code: Unlocking Fashion from the New Look to Millennial Pink

Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography

Gendered Journeys: Women, Migration and Feminist Psychology

New York in the Thirties

Willful Subjects

As If!: The Oral History of Clueless as told by Amy Heckerling and the Cast and Crew

Unbroken Chains: The Hidden Role of Human Trafficking in the American Economy

Edison’s Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History’s Greatest Geniuses

The Cinema of Sofia Coppola: Fashion, Culture, Celebrity

The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age

50 Women Artists You Should Know

Baseline Shift: Untold Stories of Women in Graphic Design History

Everybody: A Book about Freedom

Women, Art and Money in Late Victorian and Edwardian England: The Hustle and the Scramble

Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Following Writers and Rebels in the Spanish Civil War

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