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Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

Women Aviators: 26 Stories of Pioneer Flights, Daring Missions, and Record-Setting Journeys

Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age

Chinese Comfort Women: Testimonies from Imperial Japan’s Sex Slaves

The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote

Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World

Women Who Launch: The Women Who Shattered Glass Ceilings

Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World

Legendary Ladies: 50 Goddesses to Empower and Inspire You

Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam

Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women’s Pain

Negroland: A Memoir

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life

Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay

Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America’s Favorite Guilty Pleasure

The Descent of Woman

Nothing is Okay

In Praise of Difficult Women: Life Lessons from 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules

Joining the Dots: A Woman In Her Time

Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject

Shrewed: A Wry and Closely Observed Look at the Lives of Women and Girls

Heroines

Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger

Womanist and Black Feminist Responses to Tyler Perry’s Productions

Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time

The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy

Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex

Shortchanged: Why Women Have Less Wealth and What Can Be Done about It

Pursuing Intersectionality, Unsettling Dominant Imaginaries

Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction: The Mothers of the Mystery Genre

Well-Read Women: Portraits of Fiction’s Most Beloved Heroines

Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance

Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate

Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets

Not All Black Girls Know How to Eat: A Story of Bulimia

Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity

Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics

The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History

Devotion

Press, Platform, Pulpit: Black Feminist Publics in the Era of Reform

Femininity

This Is How I Save My Life: From California to India, a True Story Of Finding Everything When You Are Willing To Try Anything

The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good

The Complete Vegan Cookbook: Over 150 Whole-Foods, Plant-Based Recipes and Techniques

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change

Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China

Lily Allen: My Thoughts Exactly

Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011

The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists

Heart Berries

Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

Brave

Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism

The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

A Burst of Light and Other Essays

Three Women

The Last of the Live Nude Girls: A Memoir

The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design

Organic Perfume: The Complete Beginners Guide & 50 Best Recipes

I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn’t)

Everyday Sexism: The Project that Inspired a Worldwide Movement

Marlene

A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)

The Curated Closet: A Simple System for Discovering Your Personal Style and Building Your Dream Wardrobe

the mermaid’s voice returns in this one

Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order)

The Original Beauty Bible: Skin Care Facts for Ageless Beauty

Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History

The Specter of Sex: Gendered Foundations of Racial Formation in the United States

Surviving Sexism in Academia: Strategies for Feminist Leadership

A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War

Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: Women and Gay Male Pornography and Erotica

Feminism and Art History Now: Radical Critiques of Theory and Practice

Digital Platforms and Feminist Film Discourse: Women’s Cinema 2.0

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

Print Workshop: Hand-Printing Techniques and Truly Original Projects

Feminist Film Theory and Cléo from 5 to 7

Cybersexism: Sex, Gender and Power on the Internet

No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays

Sisters in the Struggle: African-American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement

Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art

Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism

The Riot Grrrl Collection

Women & Power: A Manifesto

Mending Matters: Stitch, Patch, and Repair Your Favorite Denim & More

The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine

Seeing Like a Feminist

Feminasty: The Complicated Woman’s Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death

Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.

Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work & in Life, One Conversation at a Time

Fierce Leadership: A Bold Alternative to the Worst “Best” Practices of Business Today

Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction (Fifth Edition)

Living a Feminist Life

Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me

The Routledge History of Women in Europe Since 1700

Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare’s English Histories

Doubling Back

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

Poetry Will Save Your Life: A Memoir

Blossoms on the Olive Tree: Israeli and Palestinian Women Working for Peace

Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo

Stories I’d Tell in Bars

Women in Power: World Leaders Since 1960

They Would Never Hurt a Fly: War Criminals on Trial in The Hague

Feed Your Soul: Nutritional Wisdom to Lose Weight Permanently and Live Fulfilled

Handbook on Well-Being of Working Women

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World

Your Beauty Mark: The Ultimate Guide to Eccentric Glamour

The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America

The Good Immigrant

The Wrong Way to Save Your Life

Hair Matters: Beauty, Power and Black Women’s Consciousness

Feminist Film Studies

In Other Words

Historical Dictionary of Feminist Philosophy

The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory

My Life So Far

Writing Feminist Lives: The Biographical Battles Over Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, and Simone de Beauvoir

The Pirate Queen: In Search of Grace O’Malley and Other Legendary Women of the Sea

They’re Playing Our Song

The Broke Diaries: The Completely True and Hilarious Misadventures of a Good Girl Gone Broke

Mixed: My Life in Black and White

Unf*ckology: A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence

Where Did You Sleep Last Night? A Personal History

Give a Sh*t: Do Good. Live Better. Save the Planet.

What I Know for Sure

The Truth About Everything

Women’s Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms

This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America

The Militant Muse: Love, War and the Women of Surrealism

Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion

Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More

Stone Butch Blues

Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism

How to Stop Feeling Like Shit

In Pieces

Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own

No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies

What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I’ve Learned

When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present

All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film

She Caused a Riot: 100 Unknown Women Who Built Cities, Sparked Revolutions, and Massively Crushed It

Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide

Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age

I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff

The War on Women

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity

Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet

Can We All Be Feminists?: New Writing from Brit Bennett, Nicole Dennis-Benn, and 15 Others on Intersectionality, Identity, and the Way Forward for Feminism

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Out of the Vinyl Deeps: On Rock Music

My Beloved World

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

You’re on an Airplane: A Self-Mythologizing Memoir

Cool, Calm & Contentious

Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger

What Do We Need Men For?: A Modest Proposal

The Secret History of Wonder Woman

Your Art Will Save Your Life

Inside The Gender Jihad: Women’s Reform in Islam

Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World

Evil: The Science Behind Humanity’s Dark Side

I Know What I’m Doing and Other Lies I Tell Myself: Dispatches from a Life Under Construction

Busy as F*ck

Cozy: The Art of Arranging Yourself in the World

Money: A User’s Guide

Black Feminist Archaeology

Tonight I’m Someone Else

Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession

Figuring

Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship

I Had a Nice Time And Other Lies…: How to find love sh*t like that

The Clitoral Truth: The Secret World at Your Fingertips

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

We Are Displaced

Silent Spring

Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights

Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms

Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China

Anna Julia Cooper, Visionary Black Feminist: A Critical Introduction

Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

Educated

Outside the Box: Interviews With Contemporary Cartoonists

How Not to Fall Apart