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Patriarchy Stress Disorder: The Invisible Inner Barrier to Women’s Happiness and Fulfillment

Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre

Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo’s Hidden History

Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon

Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman

Clutter: An Untidy History

Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States

All the Living and the Dead: from Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life’s Work

A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome

Electable: Why America Hasn’t Put a Woman in the White House . . . Yet

Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

Hilma af Klint: A Biography

Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality: 1920-2020

Pickleball for All: Everything but the “Kitchen” Sink

Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution

Extraordinary Women In History: 70 Remarkable Women Who Made a Difference, Inspired & Broke Barriers

Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries

Thin Places: A Natural History of Healing and Home

Queens of the Underworld: A Journey into the Lives of Female Crooks

Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life

The Years

The Secret Lives of Royal Women: Fascinating Biographies of Queens, Princesses, Duchesses, and Other Regal Women

Pirate Queen: The Life of Grace O’Malley, 1530-1603

Forensic Files Now: Inside 40 Unforgettable True Crime Cases

Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution

They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl’s Fight for Freedom

Fierce Appetites: Loving, Losing and Living to Excess in My Present and in the Writings of the Past

Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës

All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind

Women Can’t Paint: Gender, the Glass Ceiling and Values in Contemporary Art

Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century

The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

Poukahangatus: Poems

Alicia: My Story

Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World

Butts: A Backstory

What the Ermine Saw: The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Most Mysterious Portrait

Bitch: A Revolutionary Guide to Sex, Evolution and the Female Animal

As It Turns Out: Thinking about Edie and Andy

Africa’s Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat

Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965–2000

Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood

Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici

Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self

How to Stand Up to a Dictator

The Hatching: Experiments in Motherhood and Technology

Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It

Burn It Down!: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution

Call Us What We Carry

Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America’s Most-Read Woman

Please Sit Over There: How to Manage Power, Overcome Exclusion, and Succeed as a Black Woman at Work

Color Scheme: An Irreverent History of Art and Pop Culture in Color Palettes

Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story

The Pinks: The First Women Detectives, Operatives, and Spies with the Pinkerton National Detective Agency

Demanding Equality: One Hundred Years of Canadian Feminism

Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer

Rough Draft: A Memoir

Cleopatra: Her History, Her Myth

Henrietta Maria: Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen

Red Valkyries: The Revolutionary Women of Eastern Europe

Pandora’s Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

Worn: A People’s History of Clothing

Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality

Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be

The Little Book of Snow

The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women

Nightmare Fuel: The Science of Horror Films

Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men

Let’s Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World

The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All

Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century

The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom

On Juneteenth

The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy’s Vanishing Explorers

Loud

The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice

Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It

Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion

Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

The Soul of a Woman

Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop

Let Me Be Frank: A Book About Women Who Dressed Like Men to Do Shit They Weren’t Supposed to Do

Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism

The Girl Explorers

The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions

The Story of Art without Men

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

Maya Angelou: The Iconic Self

The Sediments of Time: My Lifelong Search for the Past

The Feminist Revolution: Second Wave Feminism and the Struggle for Women’s Liberation

Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry

Celebrate People’s History!: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution

Mankiller: A Chief and Her People

Spirits and Spirituality in Victorian Fiction

A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany

Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret

Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused

Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

Realizing Reason: A Narrative of Truth and Knowing

Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics

A History of the Girl

Forgotten Women: The Scientists

Forgotten Women: The Writers

Forgotten Women: The Leaders

Forgotten Women: The Artists

Watching the Tree

The Blessings of a Good Thick Skirt: Women Travellers and Their World

The Philosopher Queens: The lives and legacies of philosophy’s unsung women

Patti Smith on Patti Smith: Interviews and Encounters (Musicians in Their Own Words)

We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence

We Gather Together: A Nation Divided, a President in Turmoil, and a Historic Campaign to Embrace Gratitude and Grace

An American Sunrise

White Fright: The Sexual Panic at the Heart of America’s Racist History

The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II

The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread

Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest

On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist

The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls

American Witches: A Broomstick Tour Through Four Centuries

Talking about Structural Inequalities in Everyday Life: New Politics of Race in Groups, Organizations, and Social Systems

South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

The Book of Skulls

Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

Faces of the Feminine in Ancient, Medieval, & Modern India

London’s Women Artists, 1900-1914: A Talented and Decorative Group

Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life

Isis: Eternal Goddess of Egypt and Rome

Bad Girls and Transgressive Women in Popular Television, Fiction, and Film

The Woman’s Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects

Gender, Media and Voice: Communicative Injustice and Public Speech

Black Power Afterlives: The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther Party

Alone atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press

Women of Courage

The Black Arts Movement and the Black Panther Party in American Visual Culture

Modern Records, Maverick Methods: Technology and Process in Popular Music Record Production 1978-2000

Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance

Picture World: Image, Aesthetics, and Victorian New Media

Soviet Women and Their Art: The Spirit of Equality

Long Live the Queens: Mighty, Magnificent and Bloody Marvellous Monarchs History’s Forgotten

Why Comics?: From Underground to Everywhere

Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits

Closely Watched Films: An Introduction to the Art of Narrative Film Technique

Cinema by Design: Art Nouveau, Modernism, and Film History

The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily

There Was a Woman: La Llorona from Folklore to Popular Culture

A History of Magic, Witchcraft, and the Occult

American Women’s Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age

Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

Hollywood Heroines: Women in Film Noir and the Female Gothic Film

Dissenter on the Bench: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Life and Work

Picturing Resistance: Moments and Movements of Social Change from the 1950s to Today

Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America

Traditions of Death and Burial

The Monstrous-Feminine in Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture

The Book of Extraordinary Deaths: True Accounts of Ill-Fated Lives

Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor

Restless Spirits: Ghost Stories by American Women, 1872-1926

Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

Women as Mythmakers: Poetry and Visual Art by Twentieth-Century Women

Evil Archaeology: Demons, Possessions, and Sinister Relics

Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex

Women in Antiquity: Real Women across the Ancient World

Demonic Grounds: Black Women And The Cartographies Of Struggle

Dangerous Ambition: Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson: New Women in Search of Love and Power

A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in America

When God Was a Woman

The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart

The Verso Book of Feminism: Revolutionary Words from Four Millennia of Rebellion

Revolutionary Feminisms: Conversations on Collective Action and Radical Thought

She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs

Just Kids from the Bronx: Telling It the Way It Was: An Oral History

Pretty Iconic: A Personal Look at the Beauty Products that Changed the World

Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

Lucie Aubrac: The French Resistance Heroine Who Outwitted the Gestapo

Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965

Shirley Chisholm: Catalyst for Change

Enraged: Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths

The Rise of Public Woman: Woman’s Power and Woman’s Place in the United States, 1630-1970

The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War

Red Lipstick: An Ode to a Beauty Icon

Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis

War: How Conflict Shaped Us

The Books That Changed My Life: Reflections by 100 Authors, Actors, Musicians, and Other Remarkable People

Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America

Bauhaus Weaving Theory: From Feminine Craft to Mode of Design

Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman’s Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany

The Moment of Racial Sight: A History

The Mother of All Jobs: How to Have Children and a Career and Stay Sane(ish)

The Goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined

American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street

The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story

The Devil Comes to Dartmoor: The Haunting True Story of Mary Howard, Devon’s ‘Demon Bride’