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The Nervous System Reset

After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art

Drawn Testimony: Sketching a generation’s most iconic criminal cases

Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life’s Emergence

Group Living and Other Recipes

Governing the Feminist Peace: The Vitality and Failure of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda

Beauvoir and Belle: A Black Feminist Critique of The Second Sex

A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

Thinking at the Speed of Bias: How to Shift Our Unconscious Filters

The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine

Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains

Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage

Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks

Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir

Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—and How You Can, Too

Women and Warfare in the Ancient World: Virgins, Viragos and Amazons

The Witch’s Garden: Plants in Folklore, Magic and Traditional Medicine

Slippery Beast: A True Crime Natural History, with Eels

Take Care of Them Like My Own: Faith, Fortitude, and a Surgeon’s Fight for Health Justice

Girls Write Now On the Other Side of Everything: 2023 Anthology

To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction

My Life at Grey Gardens: 13 Months and Beyond

Hellions: Pop Culture’s Rebel Women

Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film

The Disney Princess Phenomenon: A Feminist Analysis

Feminist Lives: Women, Feelings, and the Self in Post-War Britain

Contesting the Far Right: A Psychoanalytic and Feminist Critical Theory Approach

Women and Film Animation: A Feminist Corpus at the National Film Board of Canada 1939-1989

The Short Story of Women Artists

Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation

How to Not Work Forever

Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan

Will I Ever Have Sex Again?

How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory

Endo Unfiltered: How to take charge of your endometriosis and PCOS

Women’s Agency in the Dune Universe: Tracing Women’s Liberation through Science Fiction

Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve

The Case of Lizzie Borden and Other Writings: Tales of a Newspaper Woman

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s

The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973

The Money-Saving Gardener: Create Your Dream Garden at a Fraction of the Cost

The Missing Thread: A New History of the Ancient World Through the Women Who Shaped It

Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women

Housewife: Why Women Still Do It All and What to Do Instead

The Empowerment Cycle: Embrace your powerful Goddess cycle

A Devil Went Down to Georgia: Race, Power, Privilege, and the Murder of Lita McClinton

All the Rage: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty: A History of Pain, Pleasure, and Power: 1860-1960

Scent: A Natural History of Fragrance

Raver Girl: Coming of Age in the 90s

Always Reaching: The Selected Writings of Anne Truitt

This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

Who’s Afraid of Gender?

Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story

Whiskey Tender

Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth

I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

Building a New Leadership Ladder: Transforming Male-Dominated Organizations to Support Women on the Rise

The Global Beauty Industry: Colorism, Racism, and the National Body

Diamond in the Rough: A Memoir

This Dark Country

Just Add Water: My Swimming Life

The New Hot: Cruising Through Menopause with Attitude and Style

Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

Help, Thanks, Wow

Fighting for Our Friendships: The Science and Art of Conflict and Connection in Women’s Relationships

Females in the Frame: Women, Art, and Crime

Trust Life, Trust Yourself, Find Peace

Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy

Smart, Not Loud: How to Get Noticed at Work for All the Right Reasons

Writing on Empty: A Guide to Finding Your Voice

True to You: A Therapist’s Guide to Stop Pleasing Others and Start Being Yourself

The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever

The Once & Future Witch Hunt: A Descendant’s Reckoning from Salem to the Present

Tudor Feminists: 10 Renaissance Women Ahead of their Time

15 Lies Women Are Told at Work: …And the Truth We Need to Succeed

The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

Grief Is a Sneaky Bitch: An Uncensored Guide to Navigating Loss

A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune

Self-Portrait

Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay

Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions

First Love: Essays on Friendship

A Tale of Two Titties: A Writer’s Guide to Conquering the Most Sexist Tropes in Literary History

At the Pond: Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies’ Pond

Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity

The Secret Language Of Cats: How to understand your cat for a better, happier relationship

First in Line: How COVID-19 Placed Me on the Frontlines of a Health Care Crisis

Reimagining the Revolution: Four Stories of Abolition, Autonomy, and Forging New Paths in the Modern Civil Rights Movement

Duchess of Palms: A Memoir

Drawn to the Garden

Winifred Sanford: The Life and Times of a Texas Writer

Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood

Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

The Birds, the Bees, and the Elephant in the Room: Talking to Your Kids About Sex & Other Sensitive Topics

Dress Like a Woman: Working Women and What They Wore

The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle

Loving Me After We: The Essential Guide to Healing, Growing, and Thriving After a Toxic Relationship

Mad Woman

Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age

Drop In: The Gender Rebels Who Changed the Face of Skateboarding

Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch

Sharks Don’t Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist

The Modern Loss Handbook: An Interactive Guide to Moving Through Grief and Building Your Resilience

A Purposeful Life: What I’ve Learned About Breaking Barriers and Inspiring Change

Life Stories of Women Artists, 1550-1800: An Anthology

The Emotionary: A Dictionary of Words That Don’t Exist for Feelings That Do

Thank You, More Please: A Feminist Guide to Breaking Dumb Dating Rules and Finding Love

Entry Lessons: The Stories of Women Fighting for Their Place, Their Children, and Their Futures After Incarceration

Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters

The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts

Woman of Interest

Zero Waste Fashion Design

Darkness Now Visible: Patriarchy’s Resurgence and Feminist Resistance

Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully

Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves

What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice

Fashion-ology: Fashion Studies in the Postmodern Digital Era

It’s Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (but Were Never Told)

The Book of Japanese Folklore

The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

ADHD Is Awesome: A Guide to (Mostly) Thriving with ADHD

The Lucky Ones

All In Her Head: How Gender Bias Harms Women’s Mental Health

The Book of Bitch

How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone

The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us

The Big Freeze: A Reporter’s Personal Journey into the World of Egg Freezing and the Quest to Control Our Fertility

Gender History: A Very Short Introduction

The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture

Financially Lit!: The Modern Latina’s Guide to Level Up Your Dinero & Become Financially Poderosa

In True Face: A Woman’s Life in the CIA, Unmasked

Women

She Fights Back

Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1

Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner

Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl

Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival

There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America’s Biggest Catfish

Shakespeare’s Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance

The Confidence Code for Girls: Taking Risks, Messing Up, & Becoming Your Amazingly Imperfect, Totally Powerful Self

Joining the Resistance

Getting Pregnant with PCOS

Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide

Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea

The Fearless Birth Book: Find Your Power, Influence Your Birth

Secret Voices: A Year of Women’s Diaries

Survival of the Thickest

Love Is a Burning Thing

My Roman History

The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions

Women Making Art

Hormone Repair Manual: Every Woman’s Guide to Healthy Hormones After 40

The Conscious Style Guide: A Flexible Approach to Language That Includes, Respects, and Empowers

To Be a Problem: A Black Woman’s Survival in the Racist Disability Rights Movement

Wonderland: A Tale of Hustling Hard and Breaking Even

I Curse You with Joy

She Must Be Mad

The Devil’s Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South’s Most Notorious Slave Jail

Consent

True Gretch: What I’ve Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between

Surf Like a Woman

Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema

Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net

Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable

Hysterical: Why We Need to Talk About Women, Hormones, and Mental Health

Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius

Farewell to the Muse: Love, War, and the Women of Surrealism

Women Money Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality

Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews That Shaped America

Lee Miller, Photography, Surrealism and the Second World War: From Vogue to Dachau

Getting to Know Death: A Meditation

Lady Secrets: Real, Raw, and Ridiculous Confessions of Womanhood

More than a Body: Your Body Is an Instrument, Not an Ornament

Reinventing Love: How the Patriarchy Sabotages Heterosexual Relations

Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence

Modern Friendship: How to Nurture Our Most Valued Connections

Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today

Uncultured

Raising Critical Thinkers: A Parent’s Guide to Growing Wise Kids in the Digital Age

The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life

The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince

Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism

Why Tammy Wynette Matters

A History of Women in 101 Objects

How We Age: The Science of Longevity

The Ballad of Speedball Baby

The Glass Cliff: Why Women in Power Are Undermined – and How to Fight Back

Carson McCullers: A Life

So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (and Why We’re Still So Obsessed with It)

Woman on Trial

The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors

The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law – A Hidden History

The Made-from-Scratch Life: Your Get-Started Homesteading Guide

Self-Care Activities for Women: 101 Practical Ways to Slow Down and Reconnect With Yourself