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Arm the Spirit: A Story from Underground and Back

How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide

Ladies Can’t Climb Ladders: Early Adventures of Working Women, the Professional Life and the Glass Ceiling

Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

Getting What We Need Ourselves: How Food Has Shaped African American Life

Surviving Autocracy

The Language of Butterflies: How Thieves, Hoarders, Scientists, and Other Obsessives Unlocked the Secrets of the World’s Favorite Insect

Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation

Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture

Wages for Housework: A History of an International Feminist Movement, 1972–77

Ms. Gloria Steinem: A Life

Sarah Bernhardt: The Divine and Dazzling Life of the World’s First Superstar

Civil Racism: The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion and the Crisis of Racial Burnout

Say I’m Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love

Revolution And Evolution In The Twentieth Century

Living For Change: An Autobiography

Overground Railroad: The Green Book & Roots of Black Travel in America

Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot

Our Bodies Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women

Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells

Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula

Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate

This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Introduction to Transgender Studies

Healing with CBD: How Cannabidiol Can Transform Your Health without the High

Performing Jane: A Cultural History of Jane Austen Fandom

The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness

Thank You for Voting: The Maddening, Enlightening, Inspiring Truth About Voting in America

Ink-Stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors: Superwomen in Modern Mythology

Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment

Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights

If They Come in the Morning … Voices of Resistance

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Girl Talk: What Science Can Tell Us About Female Friendship

Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

Our Time is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America

Queer, There and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World

Neon Girls: A Stripper’s Education in Protest and Power

The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul

Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960

The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters

Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany

America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines

Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century

The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness

Feasting Wild: In Search of the Last Untamed Food

Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court

“Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?”: A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity

Atomic Women: The Untold Stories of the Scientists Who Helped Create the Nuclear Bomb

The War Queens: Extraordinary Women who Ruled the Battlefield

America’s First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster

Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World

When I Fell From the Sky

Country Girl: A Memoir

Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News

Death in Ten Minutes: The Forgotten Life of Radical Suffragette Kitty Marion

Murder by the Book: The Crime That Shocked Dickens’s London

Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from the Original Epicenter

Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings

The Forest City Killer: A Serial Murderer, a Cold-Case Sleuth, and a Search for Justice

Trans Like Me: A Journey for All of Us

Women of Color in Tech: A Blueprint for Inspiring and Mentoring the Next Generation of Technology Innovators

Three Thousand Stitches: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives

One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965

Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire

The Equivalents: The Untold Story of the Five Friends Who Started a Personal, Political, and Artistic Revolution

Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women’s Health and What We Can Do About It

Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography

Yeah, No. Not Happening.: How I Found Happiness Swearing Off Self-Improvement and Saying F*ck It All—and How You Can Too

Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything

The Bitter Taste of Victory: Life, Love, and Art in the Ruins of the Reich

Witches!: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem

Video Slut

Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women

Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement

The Three-Year Swim Club: The Untold Story of Maui’s Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory

Birth of the Chess Queen: A History

Burying the Typewriter: A Memoir

Mythologica: An Encyclopedia of Gods, Monsters and Mortals from Ancient Greece

Pandora’s Breeches: Women, Science & Power in the Enlightenment

Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein

Google It: A History of Google

Runaway Wives and Rogue Feminists: The Origins of the Women’s Shelter Movement in Canada

Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart

Colette’s France: Her lives, her loves

Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir

Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest

Blood Sisters: The Women Behind The Wars Of The Roses

Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would Be President

She Had Some Horses

A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story

Women’s Oppression Today: The Marxist/Feminist Encounter

Women on the Move: The Forgotten Era of Women’s Bicycle Racing

Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Iconic Poet

Delphi Complete Works of Artemisia Gentileschi

The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London

Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers’ Rights at Wal-Mart

The Banshees: A Literary History of Irish American Women Writers

The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World

Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

More Than Love: An Intimate Portrait of My Mother, Natalie Wood

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution

No Man’s Land: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain’s Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I

Inge’s War: A German Woman’s Story of Family, Secrets, and Survival Under Hitler

Women in Dark Times

Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health

Racism: A Very Short Introduction

Women, Resistance and Revolution A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern World

Unprotected Texts: The Bible’s Surprising Contradictions About Sex and Desire

Wiping the War Paint off the Lens: Native American Film and Video

Accessorizing the Body: Habits of Being I

Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-And-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe

The Women’s Atlas

A Woman’s Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences

Woman’s Estate

Yemen in Crisis: Autocracy, Neo-Liberalism and the Disintegration of a State

The Female Gaze: Essential Movies Made by Women

Cinderella Goes to Market: Citizenship, Gender, and Women’s Movements in East Central Europe

Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond

Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World

Killing the Indian Maiden: Images of Native American Women in Film

Pelosi

Fortunes of Feminism. From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis

Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism, and History

Black & White & Noir: America’s Pulp Modernism

Women’s Work, Men’s Property: The Origins of Gender and Class

The Way We Never Were: American Families & the Nostalgia Trap

No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women

Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating

The End of Imagination

The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade

The Social Origins of Private Life: A History of American Families 1600-1900

Woman’s Consciousness, Man’s World

Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain

How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time

The History of White People

Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States

The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America

Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature

Stuff Every Tea Lover Should Know

Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics

The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World

Sifters: Native American Women’s Lives

Jane Austen and the Victorian Heroine

Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation

Reading the Rocks: How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life

Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82

The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began

Paris France

Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture After the Nickelodeon

The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life’s Work at 72

The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World

We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays

Nevertheless, We Persisted: 48 Voices of Defiance, Strength, and Courage

The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs

Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture

The Undocumented Americans

Writing In An Age Of Silence

Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South

Mae West: An Icon in Black and White

History Vs Women: The Defiant Lives That They Don’t Want You to Know

De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century

The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here

Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology

Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World

The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys’ Club

Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s

The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America

The Shocking Miss Pilgrim: A Writer in Early Hollywood

Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can’t Live Without Them

The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

100 Nasty Women of History

Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life

Aphrodite’s Daughters: Three Modernist Poets of the Harlem Renaissance

Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era

The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen: Awesome Female Characters from Comic Book History

Virginia Woolf

The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock

Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Wartime Sarajevo

Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA

On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker

Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business

Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City’s Underground Economy

Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir

House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family

Flowering in the Shadows: Women in the History of Chinese and Japanese Painting

Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

Memoirs of a Revolutionist

Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England