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Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934

Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms

Lady Stuff: Secrets to Being a Woman

Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture

It’s up to the Women

Star Gazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship

How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation

Cleopatra: A Life

Be a Warrior, Not a Worrier: How to Fight Your Fears and Find Freedom

Art in the Making: Artists and their Materials from the Studio to Crowdsourcing

Beyond Explicit: Pornography and the Displacement of Sex

The Wrong End of the Table: A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit in

Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe

“All the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans

Fake: A startling true story of love in a world of liars, cheats, narcissists, fantasists and phonies

You’ll Grow Out of It

Miss Fortune: Fresh Perspectives on Having It All From Someone Who Is Not Okay

Tell Me More: Stories about the 12 Hardest Things I’m Learning to Say

Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

How Music Can Make You Better

Boundaries: Step One: Me, Myself and I

It’s OK to Feel Things Deeply

Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

The Writer’s Lexicon: Descriptions, Overused Words, and Taboos

Eat Joy: Stories & Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Writers

Ruffage: A Practical Guide to Vegetables

Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

The Ones We’ve Been Waiting for: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America

$9 Therapy Book

Me: Stories of My Life

The Frailty Myth: Redefining the Physical Potential of Women and Girls

Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class

Weird in a World That’s Not: A Career Guide for Misfits, F*ckups, and Failures

100 Under $100: One Hundred Tools for Empowering Global Women

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Marxism and Women’s Liberation

Rules for Writers

Older but Better, but Older

How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits

She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth

Wear, Repair, Repurpose: A Maker’s Guide to Mending and Upcycling Clothes

Shame Nation: The Global Epidemic of Online Hate

Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars

Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief: A Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Healing the Impact of Loss

The Comfort Food Diaries: My Quest for the Perfect Dish to Mend a Broken Heart

Hidden in History: The Untold Stories of Women During World War I and World War II

Modern Folk Embroidery: 30 Contemporary Projects for Folk Art Inspired Designs

Small Acts of Disappearance

Congo Solo: Misadventures Two Degrees North

101 Affirmations To Ease Your Grief Journey: Words of Comfort, Words of Hope

Finding Her in History: Confronting the Traditions of Misogyny

The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women’s Rights and Abolition

A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual—and the Modern Home Began

Dangerous Boobies: Breaking Up with My Time – Bomb Breasts

The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write

Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey

Craftivism: The Art of Craft and Activism

Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities

Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon’s Army and Other Diabolical Insects

Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward

The Myth of the Nice Girl: Achieving a Career You Love Without Becoming a Person You Hate

The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born

Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds

The Little Book of House Plants and Other Greenery

The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture 1830-1980

Brown White Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion

Red Bird, Red Power: The Life and Legacy of Zitkala-Ša

Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature to Create the Life You Want

You Got This: Face Your Fear. Find Your Confidence.

Greed, Lust and Gender: A History of Economic Ideas

Xenofeminism

Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle

Then Again

Mediating Misogyny: Gender, Technology, and Harassment

The Kew Gardener’s Guide to Growing House Plants: The art and science to grow your own house plants

When We Are No More: How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future

The Women’s Suffrage Movement

Unf#ck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers

Billie Holiday: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York

100 Canadian Heroines: Famous and Forgotten Faces

We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood

Decorating with Plants: What to Choose, Ways to Style, and How to Make Them Thrive

Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

The Healing Power of Plants: The Hero Houseplants That Will Love You Back

Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower

American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland

Good Sexual Citizenship: How to Create a (Sexually) Safer World

Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone

Art Labor, Sex Politics: Feminist Effects in 1970s British Art and Performance

A Great Big Girl Like Me: The Films of Marie Dressler

It’s Not Always Depression: Working the Change Triangle to Listen to the Body, Discover Core Emotions, and Connect to Your Authentic Self

Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons

The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

The Will to Change

Feminist Writings (Beauvoir Series)

A Big Important Art Book (Now with Women): Profiles of Unstoppable Female Artists–and Projects to Help You Become One

Dr. Wangari Maathai Plants a Forest

Junko Tabei Masters the Mountains

Madam C.J. Walker Builds a Business

Ada Lovelace Cracks the Code

Girls Resist!: A Guide to Activism, Leadership, and Starting a Revolution

A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South

Modern Weaving: Learn to weave with 25 bright and brilliant loom weaving projects

The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House

Big Girls Don’t Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women

Anne Hutchinson: A Captivating Guide to the Puritan Leader in Colonial Massachusetts Who Is Considered to Be One of the Earliest American Feminists

The Ultimate Brush Lettering Guide: A Complete Step-By-Step Creative Workbook to Jump-Start Modern Calligraphy Skills

Quilting Is My Therapy: Behind the Stitches with Angela Walters

The Weaving Explorer: Ingenious Techniques, Accessible Tools & Creative Projects with Yarn, Paper, Wire & More

Plants That Can Kill: 101 Toxic Species to Make You Think Twice

Plants You Can’t Kill: 101 Easy-to-Grow Species for Beginning Gardeners

How to Treat People

Forgotten Queens in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Political Agency, Myth-Making, and Patronage

Pilates Body in Motion

The White Mouse

Data Feminism

The Women’s Guide to Overcoming Insomnia: Get a Good Night’s Sleep Without Relying on Medication

The Independent Woman: Extracts from The Second Sex

The Guilty Feminist

The Trouble With Women

Beautiful Users: Designing for People

Girl On Fire: How to Choose Yourself, Burn the Rule Book, and Blaze Your Own Trail in Life and Business

The Creation of Patriarchy

An Anatomy of Feminist Resistance: Rebel in the Wilderness

Scrap Quilt Secrets

Little Loom Weaving: Quick and Clever Projects for Creating Adorable Stuff

Why Does Patriarchy Persist?

Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts’ Advice to Women

Sharing the Work: What My Family and Career Taught Me about Breaking Through (and Holding the Door Open for Others)

Tiny Hot Dogs: A Memoir in Small Bites

The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination

Craft Activism: People, Ideas, and Projects from the New Community of Handmade and How You Can Join in

The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars

I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings

Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief

Female Erasure: What You Need to Know About Gender Politics’ War on Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights

Nobody’s Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood

We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love and Resistance

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Make and Mend: Sashiko-Inspired Embroidery Projects to Customize and Repair Textiles and Decorate Your Home

Crafting with Nature

Feminism and the Women’s Movement in Malaysia

Lazing on a Sunday Crafternoon: Little Projects for People with Just a Little Time and Little Skill

The Healing Magic of Forest Bathing: Finding Calm, Creativity, and Connection in the Natural World

Sisters of the Extreme: Women Writing on the Drug Experience

Iconic Women of Colour: The Amazing True Stories Behind Inspirational Women of Colour

The BreakBeat Poets, Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic

Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist

Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby

The Empathy Exams

Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times

More Myself: A Journey

She Hath Been Reading: Women and Shakespeare Clubs in America

The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna

On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

Wow, No Thank You.

The World Was Whole

Alice Guy Blaché: Lost Visionary of the Cinema

Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief

A Life Less Throwaway: The Lost Art of Buying for Life

Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny

Shizuko Kuroha’s Japanese Patchwork Quilting Patterns: Charming Quilts, Bags, Pouches, Table Runners and More

Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

The Slogan

Buy the Change You Want to See: Use Your Purchasing Power to Make the World a Better Place

Shattered by Grief: Picking up the pieces to become WHOLE again

Period Power: Harness Your Hormones and Get Your Cycle Working for You

Don’t Worry, It Gets Worse: One Twentysomething’s (Mostly Failed) Attempts at Adulthood

Paper to Petal: 75 Whimsical Paper Flowers to Craft by Hand

Regrow Your Veggies: Growing Vegetables from Roots, Cuttings, and Scraps

How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don’t

Hoop Dreams: Modern Hand Embroidery

Staying Well: How to Build a Healthy Immune System in the Modern World

Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement

teaching my mother how to give birth

Bust DIY Guide to Life: Making Your Way Through Every Day

Sashiko: Traditional Japanese Quilt Design

Feminism’s New Age: Gender, Appropriation, and the Afterlife of Essentialism

Made by Hand: A Collection of Projects to Print, Sew, Weave, Dye, Knit or Otherwise Create

The Alphabet of Grief: Words to Help in Times of Sorrow

Just the Funny Parts: … And a Few Hard Truths About Sneaking Into the Hollywood Boys’ Club

The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood

30 Women in Power

Viking Women: The Narrative Voice in Woven Tapestries

I’m Supposed to Protect You from All This

Hit So Hard: A Memoir

Love, Lucy

After the Rise and Stall of American Feminism: Taking Back a Revolution

Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World

Hexing the Patriarchy: 26 Potions, Spells, and Magical Elixirs to Embolden the Resistance

Lulu in Hollywood

Inside Broadside: A Decade of Feminist Journalism

Joan of Arc: A History