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A Life By Design: The art and lives of Florence Broadhurst

A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice

Helen of Troy

Medieval Pets

The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World

Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women’s Roles in Society

Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore

Time in Fashion: Industrial, Antilinear and Uchronic Temporalities

Experimental Fashion: Performance Art, Carnival and the Grotesque Body

Faces on Screen: New Approaches

Dismantling the Patriarchy, Bit by Bit: Art, Feminism, and Digital Technology

Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power

Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon

Queens of the Age of Chivalry: England’s Medieval Queens, Volume Three

When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe

What a Library Means to a Woman: Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books

The Women’s History of the Modern World: How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years

Color: A Natural History of the Palette

Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing

All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence

No Choice

Cats in Medieval Manuscripts

Dressed: A Philosophy of Clothes

Ain’t I a Woman?

Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

Women of Myth: From Deer Woman and Mami Wata to Amaterasu and Athena, Your Guide to the Amazing and Diverse Women from World Mythology

Women Writing Race, Nation, and History: N/native

Wild Unrest: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Making of the Yellow Wall-Paper

Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear

Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs

Zarifa: A Woman’s Battle in a Man’s World

It’s Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women’s Bodies

We Are Bridges: A Memoir

Woman’s Estate

Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century

Wonderful Tonight

The Short Story of Art: A Pocket Guide to Key Movements, Works, Themes, Techniques

We Were There: The Third World Women’s Alliance and the Second Wave

Pirate Queens: The Lives of Anne Bonny & Mary Read

Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart

Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women

Deco Body, Deco City: Female Spectacle and Modernity in Mexico City, 1900–1939

The Whole Picture: The colonial story of the art in our museums… and why we need to talk about it

Matriarchal Societies of the Past and the Rise of Patriarchy: West Asia and Europe

Viking Women: Life and Lore

The Victimization of Women: Law, Policies, and Politics

Off with Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power

Photography and the Art Market

Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism

A Natural History of the Senses

Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

This Book Is Feminist: An Intersectional Primer for Feminists in Training

This Is How You Vagina: All About Your Vajayjay and Why You Probably Shouldn’t Call It That

Bicycling for Ladies : The Classic 1896 Guide to Skills, Exercise, Mechanics, and Dress

The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife

The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism

The Mother of the Brontës: When Maria Met Patrick

This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

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: How Women (Also) Built the World

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