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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

No More Secrets: My Part in Codebreaking at Bletchley Park and the Pentagon

Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism

Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything — And Endangered the World

Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future

Romaine Wasn’t Built in a Day: The Delightful History of Food Language

Stealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe

The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy

Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World

Photography Fifth Edition: A Cultural History

A Hidden Wisdom: Medieval Contemplatives on Self-Knowledge, Reason, Love, Persons, and Immortality

Messalina: A Story of Empire, Slander and Adultery

Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies

The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City

Under the Skin: Tattoos, Scalps, and the Contested Language of Bodies in Early America

Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life

Our Brave Foremothers: Celebrating 100 Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous Women Who Changed the Course of History

Women Artists

Quant by Quant: The Autobiography of Mary Quant

The Way We Eat Now: How the Food Revolution Has Transformed Our Lives, Our Bodies, and Our World

Visitors: An American Feminist in East Central Europe

Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine’s Confessions

The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women

Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming

I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton

Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent

Woman: An Intimate Geography

Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West

Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America’s Future

The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It

Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?

The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems: An Intersectional Political Economy

Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma

Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?

The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights

Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature

Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America

The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption

Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence

Feminist Psychology: History, Practice, Research, and the FutureFeminist Philosophy

Grief and Women Writers in the English Renaissance

The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History’s Most Astonishing Murder Ring

They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

That Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means: The 150 Most Commonly Misused Words and Their Tangled Histories

Queer Timing: The Emergence of Lesbian Sexuality in Early Cinema

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

Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker

And Then What?: Inside Stories of 21st Century Diplomacy

Material Enlightenment: Women Writers and the Science of Mind, 1770-1830

Heroines in History: A Thousand Faces

Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt’s Ancient Temples from Destruction

Make Some Space: Tuning Into Total Refreshment Centre

Voyager: Constellations of Memory

Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English

Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother

Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty

How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2001

A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England

Woman’s Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi

The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

Unearthed: A Lost Actress, a Forbidden Book, and a Search for Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust

Feminist Philosophies of Life

The Ghost Club

Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World’s Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her

Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls: Women, Music, and Fame

Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain

A Stone Is Most Precious Where It Belongs

Lawbreaking Ladies: 50 Tales of Daring, Defiant, and Dangerous Women from History

Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York’s Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist

The American Way of Death Revisited

The Sum of Us

The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality

Crash Landing: The Inside Story of How the World’s Biggest Companies Survived an Economy on the Brink

Languages Are Good For Us

I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

Silk Road: A New History

The True History of Merlin the Magician

The Southernization of America: A Story of Democracy in the Balance

Women and the Crusades

The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction

Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction

The Roman Triumph

How to Read Now: Essays

Angela Davis: An Autobiography

The Rising of the Women: Feminist Solidarity and Class Conflict, 1880-1917

Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through the Dancefloor

Magnificent Rebel: Nancy Cunard in Jazz Age Paris

Once upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature

Period: The Real Story of Menstruation

The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal

Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains

The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman

A History of Science: From Agriculture to Artificial Intelligence

Windfall: The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the Great-Granddaughter Who Found Her

Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones

Dressing Barbie: A Celebration of the Clothes That Made America’s Favorite Doll and the Incredible Woman Behind Them

Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began

Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA

Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico: Portraits of Soldaderas, Saints, and Subversives

Egg: A Dozen Ovatures

Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll

My Life with Things: The Consumer Diaries

Femme Magnifique: 50 Magnificent Women Who Changed The World

Black Tudors: The Untold Story

Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914

Great and Horrible News: Murder and Mayhem in Early Modern Britain

Unseen: Unpublished Black History from The New York Times Photo Archives

Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson

Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Enquiry and Hope

Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science

Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

Ring of Fire: High-Stakes Mining in a Lowlands Wilderness

Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Thinking Through Fashion: A Guide to Key Theorists

How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind

Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream

Women in Antiquity: Real Women Across the Ancient World

How to Suppress Women’s Writing

Making A Masterpiece: The stories behind iconic artworks

The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments and Warps Our Economies

Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn’t Enough

Women Who Made Science History

Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box

Bookish Broads: Women Who Wrote Themselves into History

The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science

Spoiled: The Myth of Milk as Superfood

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

Reshaping Women’s History: Voices of Nontraditional Women Historians

Black Women Writers at Work

Why She Wrote: A Graphic History of the Lives, Inspiration, and Influence Behind the Pens of Classic Women Writers

The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World

Reframing the Past: History, Film and Television

Deconstructing Racism: A Path Toward Lasting Change

Literary Identification from Charlotte Brontë to Tsitsi Dangarembga

The Perfume Companion: The Definitive Guide to Choosing Your Next Scent

Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation

Ancient DNA: The Making of a Celebrity Science

BLK ART: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art

Female Innovators Who Changed Our World