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Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind

The New Better Off: Reinventing the American Dream

Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol

Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution

The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965–2010

Her Body, Our Laws: On the Front Lines of the Abortion War, from El Salvador to Oklahoma

Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980

Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women’s Movements

Our Stories, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America

Fifty Million Rising: The New Generation of Working Women Transforming the Muslim World

The Mental Load: A Feminist Comic

A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home

Stop Telling Women to Smile: Stories of Street Harassment and How We’re Taking Back Our Power

A Black Women’s History of the United States

The Feminist Handbook: Practical Tools to Resist Sexism and Dismantle the Patriarchy

The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness

All Our Relations

I Never Called It Rape – Updated Edition: The Ms. Report on Recognizing, Fighting, and Surviving Date and Acquaintance Rape

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

Notes from a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life

Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race

Where To Begin: A Small Book About Your Power to Create Big Change in Our Crazy World

It’s Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

Empowered Boundaries: Speaking Truth, Setting Boundaries, and Inspiring Social Change

Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System

Oppression and the Body: Roots, Resistance, and Resolutions

Fighter in Velvet Gloves: Alaska Civil Rights Hero Elizabeth Peratrovich

Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change

Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

Stay Woke: A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter

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

We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump

Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol

Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions

Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares

What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance

The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter’s Journey to Reconciliation

Be Recorder: Poems

Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine

A Wild and Precious Life: A Memoir

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday

Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics

Don’t Touch My Hair

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States

All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies

Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

Arab, Australian, Other: Stories on Race and Identity

Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa

F*cked: Being Sexually Explorative and Self-Confident in a World That’s Screwed

Men We Reaped: A Memoir

The Witches Are Coming

No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane

We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent

White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue … and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation

Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters

The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion

Talking Back to the Indian Act: Critical Readings in Settler Colonial Histories

White Tears / Brown Scars

Getting Wrecked: Women, Incarceration, and the American Opioid Crisis

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics

Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture

Rape: From Lucretia to #MeToo

Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity

Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech

Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran

Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution

Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution

Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America

Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Thick: And Other Essays

Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity

Sisters in Spirit: Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influences on Early American Feminists

Powerarchy: Understanding the Psychology of Oppression for Social Transformation

On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal

My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction

Taking Up Space: The Black Girl’s Manifesto for Change

Unladylike: A Field Guide to Smashing the Patriarchy and Claiming Your Space

Outspoken: Why Women’s Voices Get Silenced and How to Set Them Free

Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History

Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements

The Boundaries of Her Body: A Shocking History of Women’s Rights in America

Superior: The Return of Race Science

Further To Fly: Black Women and the Politics of Empowerment

Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism

The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls

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

Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes

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

Citizen: An American Lyric

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

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

Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism

Why We March: Signs of Protest and Hope

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

The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

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

Feminist Queer Crip

Pussy Riot!: A Punk Prayer for Freedom

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

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

Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time

Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex

Pursuing Intersectionality, Unsettling Dominant Imaginaries

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

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

Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity

Femininity

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

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

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

The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

Everyday Sexism: The Project that Inspired a Worldwide Movement

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

Living a Feminist Life

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America

The Good Immigrant

The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory

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

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

Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism

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

Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

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

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

Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger

The Secret History of Wonder Woman

Your Art Will Save Your Life

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

We Are Displaced

Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights

Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China

Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

So You Want to Talk About Race

He’s a Stud, She’s a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know

The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture, and Social Change

Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America

Women, Race, & Class

Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual (for a Sexist Workplace)

Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution

Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist

We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement

Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World

Men Explain Things to Me

No is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need

Do It Like a Woman …and Change the World

Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories Wild Possibilities

Bad Feminist

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape

The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women

Florynce “Flo” Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical

We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria

Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

Finding Feminism: Millennial Activists and the Unfinished Gender Revolution

Under the Bus: How Working Women Are Being Run Over

Woman’s Consciousness Man’s World

Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults

Assata: An Autobiography

Transgender History

Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters

Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive 

When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America

A Little F’d Up: Why Feminism Is Not a Dirty Word

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It

Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk

#BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America

The Geek Feminist Revolution

Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty