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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

To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe

Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else

No More Nice Girls: Gender, Power, and Why It’s Time to Stop Playing by the Rules

Hidden Places: An Inspired Traveller’s Guide

Literary Places

Spiritual Places

Crossfire: A Litany for Survival

Literally Me

The Erratics

The Lady’s Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness

Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit

The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future

Our Revolution: A Mother and Daughter at Midcentury

The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War

This Is How We Rise: Reach Your Highest Potential, Empower Women, Lead Change in the World

The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir

L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema

The CBD Oil Solution: Treat Chronic Pain, Anxiety, Insomnia, and More—Without the High

How to Be Fine: What We Learned from Living by the Rules of 50 Self-Help Books

Get Well Soon: History’s Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them

Jane Austen at Home

In the Name of Women’s Rights: The Rise of Femonationalism

Stand Up and Shout Out: Women’s Fight for Equal Pay, Equal Rights, and Equal Opportunities in Sports

Go West, Young Women!: The Rise of Early Hollywood

Voices of Powerful Women: Words of Wisdom from 40 of the World’s Most Inspiring Women

Girl Squads

She Speaks: The Power of Women’s Voices

The Firsts: The Inside Story of the Women Reshaping Congress

Our House Is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis

I Know an Artist: The inspiring connections between the world’s greatest artists

Embroidered Life: The Art of Sarah K. Benning

Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story

Magnifeco: Your Head-to-Toe Guide to Ethical Fashion and Non-toxic Beauty

Women’s Work: An Anthology of African-American Women’s Historical Writings from Antebellum America to the Harlem Renaissance

Woman of Influence: 9 Steps to Build Your Brand, Establish Your Legacy, and Thrive

How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement

Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny

Spellcrafting: Strengthen the Power of Your Craft by Creating and Casting Your Own Unique Spells

Still Here: The Madcap, Nervy, Singular Life of Elaine Stritch

Ledger: Poems

Feminist Spirituality Under Capitalism: Witches, Fairies, and Nomads

This Is HerStory: A Celebration of Remarkable Women Who Changed the World

The Ultimate Sashiko Sourcebook: Patterns, Projects and Inspirations

Smithsonian American Women: Women’s History from the National Collection

Keep It Moving: Lessons for the Rest of Your Life

Feminist Media Studies

One: Valuing the Single Life

Women in the American Revolution: Gender, Politics, and the Domestic World

Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

In the Months of My Son’s Recovery: Poems

Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country

After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality

Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan: Politics and the Body in a Squatter Settlement

999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz

Marriage Markets: How Inequality is Remaking the American Family

The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

Feminism: A Brief Introduction to the Ideas, Debates, and Politics of the Movement

Women’s Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland

You Don’t Have to Like Me: Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism

She Said: Witty Words from Wise Women

break your glass slippers

Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril

A Woman in Your Own Right: Assertiveness and You

The Mary Daly Reader

We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia

Troublesome Women: Gender, Crime, and Punishment in Antebellum Pennsylvania

Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge

Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C.

‘and I Quote…’: A History of Using Other People’s Words

Made by Humans: The AI Condition

Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing

Selling Local: Why Local Food Movements Matter

Feminists Rethink the Neoliberal State: Inequality, Exclusion, and Change

Money Talks: Explaining How Money Really Works

Speaking From The Heart: Gender And The Social Meaning Of Emotion

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

Starring Madame Modjeska: On Tour in Poland and America

The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

The Last of the Duchess

How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump

Conversations with Edwidge Danticat

Dust Bowls of Empire: Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of “Green” Capitalism

Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home–A Memoir

What Are We For?: The Words and Ideals of Eleanor Roosevelt

Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters

Hons and Rebels

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death

Marie von Clausewitz: The Woman Behind the Making of On War

I’m Just a Person

Mean

Dickens’s Artistic Daughter Katey: Her Life, Loves & Impact

The Terrible: A Storyteller’s Memoir

My First Hundred Years in Show Business: A Memoir

The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love and Family

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Slaves Among Us: The Hidden World of Human Trafficking