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Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms

The Case for the Green New Deal

Outraged: Why Everyone is Shouting and No One is Talking

American Women’s Suffrage: Voices from the Long Struggle for the Vote 1776-1965

The Right to Be Elected: 100 Years Since Suffrage

Behind Closed Doors: Sex Education Transformed

Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality

Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto

Yes, I Can Say That: When They Come for the Comedians, We Are All in Trouble

Queens of the Resistance: Elizabeth Warren

We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide

The Double X Economy: The Epic Potential of Empowering Women

She Proclaims: Our Declaration of Independence from a Man’s World

Get It Together: Why We Deserve Better Politics

The End of White Politics: How to Heal Our Liberal Divide

Queens of the Resistance: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

How to Talk About Climate Change in a Way That Makes a Difference

Feminist Accountability: Disrupting Violence and Transforming Power

They Didn’t See Us Coming: The Hidden History of Feminism in the Nineties

Running

Say It Louder!: Black Voters, Voices & the Shaping of American Democracy

Queens of the Resistance: Maxine Waters

The Business of Women’s Empowerment: Corporate Gender Politics in the Global South

Disability Visibility : First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

Use the Power You Have: A Brown Woman’s Guide to Politics and Political Change

Autobiography as Activism

Protocol: The Power of Diplomacy and How to Make It Work for You

From Angel to Office Worker: Middle-Class Identity and Female Consciousness in Mexico, 1890–1950

Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration

Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy

No Modernism Without Lesbians

Queens of the Resistance: Nancy Pelosi

Raising Our Hands: How White Women Can Stop Avoiding Hard Conversations, Start Accepting Responsibility, and Find Our Place on the New Frontlines

Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power

Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present

Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture

The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President’s Black Family

The AOC Way: The Secrets of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Success

Gender and the Mexican Revolution: Yucatán Women and the Realities of Patriarchy

Brick by Brick: Building Hope and Opportunity for Women Survivors Everywhere

Slay In Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible

Minnie Lansbury: Suffragette, Socialist, Rebel Councillor

How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Destruction of the Syrian Arab Kingdom in 1920 and the Rise of Anti-Liberal Islamism

See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

Choice Words: Writers on Abortion

Arm the Spirit: A Story from Underground and Back

How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide

Teaching To Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

Why Race Still Matters

Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It

The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having—or Being Denied—an Abortion

Surviving Autocracy

Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness

Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation

Wages for Housework: A History of an International Feminist Movement, 1972–77

We Resist: Defending the Common Good in Hostile Times

Revolution And Evolution In The Twentieth Century

Living For Change: An Autobiography

Overground Railroad: The Green Book & Roots of Black Travel in America

Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot

Our Bodies Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women

Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula

Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate

This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Separate and Dominate: Feminism and Racism after the War on Terror

Modesty: A Fashion Paradox: Uncovering The Causes, Controversies And Key Players Behind The Global Trend To Conceal Rather Than Reveal

Muslim Women Are Everything: Stereotype-Shattering Stories of Courage, Inspiration, and Adventure

The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop–and Why It Matters

AOC: Fighter, Phenom, Changemaker

Thank You for Voting: The Maddening, Enlightening, Inspiring Truth About Voting in America

How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community

Sway: Unravelling Unconscious Bias

Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment

Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

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

If They Come in the Morning … Voices of Resistance

Gramsci’s Common Sense: Inequality and Its Narratives

There Is No Outside: Covid-19 Dispatches

Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

Racism And Anti-Racism In Europe

Our Time is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America

What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About #MeToo: Essays on Sex, Authority and the Mess of Life

Enter the Aardvark

The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias

The Book of Rosy: A Mother’s Story of Separation at the Border

Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960

The Future of Whiteness

No, You Shut Up: Speaking Truth to Power and Reclaiming America

The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters

Seeing Race Again: Countering Colorblindness across the Disciplines

America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century

The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness

Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court

“Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?”: A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity

Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity

Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News

Death in Ten Minutes: The Forgotten Life of Radical Suffragette Kitty Marion

Trans Like Me: A Journey for All of Us

One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965

The Bitter Taste of Victory: Life, Love, and Art in the Ruins of the Reich

Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women

Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement

Burying the Typewriter: A Memoir

Behind the Smile: A Story of Carol Moseley Braun’s Historic Senate Campaign

In Our Prime: How Older Women Are Reinventing the Road Ahead

Freedom Fallacy: The Limits of Liberal Feminism

Sexual Politics

Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest

Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would Be President

A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story

Women’s Oppression Today: The Marxist/Feminist Encounter

Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers’ Rights at Wal-Mart

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution

This Is All I Got

Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health

The Return of the Political

The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political

Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War

Racism: A Very Short Introduction

Against Empire: Feminisms, Racism and the West

Women, Resistance and Revolution A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern World

Europe’s Fault Lines: Racism and the Rise of the Right

Accessorizing the Body: Habits of Being I

The Women’s Atlas

Resistance: A Songwriter’s Story of Hope, Change, and Courage

Woman’s Estate

Yemen in Crisis: Autocracy, Neo-Liberalism and the Disintegration of a State

The Xenofeminist Manifesto: A Politics for Alienation

Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life

Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond

Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?

State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious

Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

Pelosi

Fortunes of Feminism. From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis

Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism, and History

Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy

Beyond Female Masochism: Memory-Work and Politics

Women’s Work, Men’s Property: The Origins of Gender and Class

The Way We Never Were: American Families & the Nostalgia Trap

No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women

The End of Imagination

The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade

Jacinda Ardern: A New Kind of Leader

Woman’s Consciousness, Man’s World

The History of White People

Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States

Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics

Straight Sex: Rethinking the Politics of Pleasure

We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays

Nevertheless, We Persisted: 48 Voices of Defiance, Strength, and Courage

The Undocumented Americans

Writing In An Age Of Silence

History Vs Women: The Defiant Lives That They Don’t Want You to Know

Close To Home: A Materialist Analysis Of Women’s Oppression

De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century

The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here

The Well-Spoken Woman Speaks Out: How to Use Your Voice to Drive Change

Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World

the boys i’ve loved & the end of the world

The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America

The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

100 Nasty Women of History

Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era

Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA

Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir

Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future

Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray

Language and Woman’s Place: Text and Commentaries

Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality

Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter

Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

Sex and Lies

Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman

SCUM Manifesto

Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild

This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook

It’s Time to Talk (and Listen): How to Have Constructive Conversations About Race, Class, Sexuality, Ability & Gender in a Polarized World

Glamour: Women, History, Feminism

Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture

It’s up to the Women

How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation

Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe

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

Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression

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