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Feminism & Men

American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation

A Woman of Firsts: The midwife who built a hospital and changed the world

What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading

Women Artists of the Harlem Renaissance

The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls

Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

Lean Out: The Struggle for Gender Equality in Tech and Start-Up Culture

Lean Out: The Truth About Women, Power, and the Workplace

American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

Pick Your Yoga Practice: Exploring and Understanding Different Styles of Yoga

Face It

Scarred: The True Story of How I Escaped NXIVM, the Cult that Bound My Life

Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes

Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

Cunt: A Declaration of Independence

Life Among the Savages

This Is the Place: Women Writing About Home

Women of Courage: Inspiring Stories from the Women Who Lived Them

Hate Crimes in Cyberspace

The Early Feminists: Radical Unitarians and the Emergence of the Women’s Rights Movement, 1831-51

The Sociopath Next Door

Migra!: A History of the U.S. Border Patrol

What Would Beyoncé Do?!

The Barefoot Woman

Fifty-One Key Feminist Thinkers

Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection

Boys in Zinc

Breathe, Empower, Achieve: 5-Minute Mindfulness for Women Who Do It All—Ditch the Stress Without Losing Your Edge

Citizen: An American Lyric

Design Elements, Typography Fundamentals: A Graphic Style Manual for Understanding How Typography Affects Design

Eggshell Skull: A Memoir About Standing Up, Speaking Out and Fighting Back

Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss

The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir

Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays

The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

Inside Out: A Memoir

Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology

Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth

The Big Book of the Dead

Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick

Burn This Book: PEN Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word

True Crime Files: My Most Memorable Cases

Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives

Cheer Up, Love: Adventures in Depression with the Crab of Hate

Gendered Frames, Embodied Cameras: Varda, Akerman, Cabrera, Calle, and Maiwenn

What are You Doing Here?: A Black Woman’s Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal

Fight Like A Girl

When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt

Schaum’s Quick Guide to Writing Great Short Stories

Belle de Jour: Diary of an Unlikely Call Girl

The Sex Myth: Why Everything We’re Told Is Wrong

Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings

A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder

Nobody’s Looking at You

The Dance of Anger: A Woman’s Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships

The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman’s Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships

Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power

How to Date Men When You Hate Men

The Suffragette: The History of the Women’s Militant Suffrage Movement

The Yellow House

Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America’s Soul

Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers

Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Political Worlds of Women: Activism, Advocacy, and Governance in the Twenty-First Century

My Misspent Youth: Essays

Your Story Is Your Power: Free Your Feminine Voice

Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids

F-Bomb: Dispatches from the War on Feminism

DIY Rules for a WTF World: How to Speak Up, Get Creative, and Change the World

A Girl’s Guide to Joining the Resistance: A Feminist Handbook on Fighting for Good

Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism

Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World

Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism

Pretty Good for a Girl: Women in Bluegrass

Why We March: Signs of Protest and Hope

Enough As She Is: How to Help Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success to Live Healthy, Happy, and Fulfilling Lives

Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany

Moranifesto

If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won’t)

Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life

Screwnomics: How the Economy Works Against Women and Real Ways to Make Lasting Change

#GIRLBOSS

The Worrier’s Guide to Life

She Means Business: Turn Your Ideas into Reality and Become a Wildly Successful Entrepreneur

This Is Really Happening

How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job

Ask for It: How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want

The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran

Work Wife: The Power of Female Friendship to Drive Successful Businesses

Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste

Women Change the World

Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq

The Book of Latina Women: 150 Vidas of Passion, Strength, and Success

Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder

Worn Stories

All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf

Sex, Race and Class: The Perspective of Winning: A Selection of Writings 1952-2011

The Life of Elizabeth I

Whatever Gets You Through: Twelve Women on Life After Sexual Assault

Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music

Moranthology

Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention

Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law

Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps

The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

Why Not Me?

The Vagenda: A Zero Tolerance Guide to the Media

a modern way to cook: Over 150 quick, smart and flavour-packed recipes for every day

Bloody Brilliant Women: The Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work

The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

Reading the Women of the Bible: A New Interpretation of Their Stories

Simple Habits for Complex Times: Powerful Practices for Leaders

Black Writers Matter

The Politics of Promotion: How High-Achieving Women Get Ahead and Stay Ahead

The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker

Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes

Vegan Casseroles: Pasta Bakes, Gratins, Pot Pies, and More

Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia

33 1/3: Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville

Pretty Unhealthy: Why Our Obsession with Looking Healthy is Making Us Sick

The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life’s Direction and Purpose

That’s What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) about Working Together

Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded

Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness

Little Black Book: A Toolkit for Working Women

The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

even this page is white

The Complete Houseplant Survival Manual: Essential Gardening Know-how for Keeping (Not Killing!) More Than 160 Indoor Plants

Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout

Women and Film: Both Sides of the Camera

15 Minute Vegan Comfort Food: Simple & Satisfying Vegan Recipes

This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America’s Middle Class

Feminist Queer Crip

Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have

Feminist Perspectives on Social Work Practice: The Intersecting Lives of Women in the 21st Century

Pussy Riot!: A Punk Prayer for Freedom

Crazy Brave: A Memoir

Fierce Woman: Wake Up Your Badass Self

The Delusions of Certainty

Save Me the Plums

The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come: One Introvert’s Year of Saying Yes

Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir

Flagged and Removed

Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement

I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor’s Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope

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