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Deep Care: The Radical Activists Who Provided Abortions, Defied the Law, and Fought to Keep Clinics Open

Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

the new black

A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast

Essence and Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume

Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour

Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song

Subway Art

Dolls of Our Lives: Why We Can’t Quit American Girl

Lesbian Love Story: A Queer History of Sapphic Romance

Black and Female: Essays

Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter: From the Battle for Moscow to Hitler’s Bunker

Off-Earth: Ethical Questions and Quandaries for Living in Outer Space

In Their Time: A History of Feminism in Western Society

The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time

Pat in the City: My Life of Fashion, Style, and Breaking All the Rules

How to Be Multiple: The Philosophy of Twins

In the Name of Plants: From Attenborough to Washington, the People behind Plant Names

Eyeliner: A Cultural History

Imperial Island: An Alternative History of the British Empire

The Wordy Shipmates

Erased: Missing Women, Murdered Wives

Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country

A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

Ill Feelings

Book of Earth: A Guide to Ochre, Pigment, and Raw Color

Candace Pert: Genius, Greed, and Madness in the World of Science

Women, Art, and Society

The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA

Holler, Child: Stories

Making Space for Indigenous Feminism, original, 2nd, and 3rd editions

Touching the Art

Misogyny Online: A Short (and Brutish) History

The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture

Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss’s Glossier

In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary

Ordinary Equality: The Fearless Women and Queer People Who Shaped the U.S. Constitution and the Equal Rights Amendment

The Hidden Language of Cats: How They Have Us at Meow

Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close

Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth

A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing

After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It

Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment

Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It

The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works

Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul

Fashion Killa: How Hip-Hop Revolutionized High Fashion

House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films

A Rome of One’s Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts

Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation

Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London

God’s Monsters: Vengeful Spirits, Deadly Angels, Hybrid Creatures, and Divine Hitmen of the Bible

Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture

The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia

Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound

Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions that Grew Me Up

My Cousin Maria Schneider

The Deadline

The Adventures of Women in Tech: How We Got Here and Why We Stay

We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment

Policing Pregnant Bodies: From Ancient Greece to Post-Roe America

Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines

The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race

The Women We Wanted to Look Like

Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science

Not Just for the Boys: Why We Need More Women in Science

But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the ’60s Girl Groups

The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live

Generation Anxiety: A Millennial and Gen Z Guide to Staying Afloat in an Uncertain World

Stuff Mom Never Told You: The Feminist Past, Present, and Future

Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women’s Words

Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

She Kills Me: The True Stories of History’s Deadliest Women

One Blood

Monsters of Film, Fiction, and Fable

We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The True, Tough Story of Women in Rock

We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century

Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution

Rebel Folklore: Empowering Tales of Spirits, Witches, and Other Misfits from Anansi to Baba Yaga

The Kingdom of Surfaces: Poems

Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI

Spider Woman

Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish

Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones

Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless

A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women

Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Althea: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson

Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination

The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age

Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast

Seven Days in the Art World

Feminisms: A Global History

The Comic Event: Comedic Performance from the 1950s to the Present

Other Cinemas: Politics, Culture and Experimental Film in the 1970s

When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today

Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

Book of Queens: The True Story of the Middle Eastern Horsewomen Who Fought the War on Terror

The Place We Make: Breaking the Legacy of Legalized Hate

Artemisia Gentileschi

The Art of Looking Up

Defiant Muses: Delphine Seyrig and Feminist Video Collectives in France in the 1970s and 1980s

Why Marianne Faithfull Matters

Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna

Pretty In Ink: North American Women Cartoonists 1896-2013

Tastes Like War

The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America

Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth

The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly: Portraits and Sketches, 1942-2011

The Decade of Women: A Ms. History of the ’70’s in Words and Pictures

Banned Books, Burned Books: Forbidden Literary Works

Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays

In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants

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