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BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine
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Our New Social Life: Science-Backed Strategies for Creating Meaningful Connection
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Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition
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The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex
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Doing It All: The Social Power of Single Motherhood
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Women Holding Things & Still Life with Remorse
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Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility
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Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male Power
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Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us
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The New Age of Sexism: How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny
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A Biographical Dictionary of Women’s Movements and Feminisms: Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th Centuries 
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Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the Twentieth Century
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Meaning: A Very Short Introduction
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A Protest History of the United States 
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Defund: Black Lives, Policing, and Safety for All
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Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
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Off-White: The Truth About Antisemitism
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Patriarchy Inc.: What We Get Wrong About Gender Equality and Why Men Still Win at Work
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Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals
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Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
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Feminism in the Wild: How Human Biases Shape Our Understanding of Animal Behavior
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The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom
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You Didn’t Hear This from Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip
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Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope
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Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
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Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
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Unassimilable: An Asian Diasporic Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century
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Feminism, Young Women, and Cultural Studies: Birmingham Essays from 1975 Onwards
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Aphro-ism: Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism, and Black Veganism from Two Sisters
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The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home
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Women Speak: The Eloquence of Women’s Lives
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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
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Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion
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Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
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In the Groove: The Vinyl Record and Turntable Revolution
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Horror Noire
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Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music
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Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing
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Feminism, Young Women, and Cultural Studies: Birmingham Essays from 1975 Onwards
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Tits Up: What Our Beliefs about Breasts Reveal about Life, Love, Sex and Society
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The New Science of Social Change: A Modern Handbook for Activists
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Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today
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Hellions: Pop Culture’s Rebel Women
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Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema
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Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health
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Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s
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Racism Untaught: Revealing and Unlearning Racialized Design
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Remaking the World: Decolonization and the Cold War
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Perfect: Feeling Judged on Social Media
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Into the Dark: What darkness is and why it matters
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Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell
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Dolls of Our Lives: Why We Can’t Quit American Girl
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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
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How to Be Multiple: The Philosophy of Twins
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Bite Back: Feminism, media, politics, and our power to change it all
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Misogyny Online: A Short (and Brutish) History
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How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
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The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
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Ghosts of the Orphanage
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Girls, Aggression, and Intersectionality: Transforming the Discourse of “Mean Girls” in the United States
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Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians
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The Fine Art of Small Talk: How to Start a Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills and Leave a Positive Impression
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Know Your Place
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A Society of Young Women: Opportunities of Place, Power, and Reform in Saudi Arabia
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Midlife Crisis: The Feminist Origins of a Chauvinist Cliché
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The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
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The Power of Hope: How the Science of Well-Being Can Save Us from Despair 
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Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society
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The Social Brain: The Psychology of Successful Groups
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Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
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Wilful Blindness
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Born Extraordinary: Empowering Children with Differences and Disabilities
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Black Futures
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The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World
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You Must Be This Happy to Enter
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Think Like a Feminist: The Philosophy Behind the Revolution
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Inside Voice: My Obsession with How We Sound
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Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse
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Inside Job: The Life of a Prison Psychologist.
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Butts: A Backstory
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Let’s Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World
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The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread
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Counting: How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters
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Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex
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Demonic Grounds: Black Women And The Cartographies Of Struggle
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Other, Please Specify: Queer Methods in Sociology
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Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
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Framed by Gender: How Gender Inequality Persists in the Modern World
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Attachment Theory: A Guide to Strengthening the Relationships in Your Life
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Supernormal: The Untold Story of Adversity and Resilience
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Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains
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The Womanist Reader: The First Quarter Century of Womanist Thought
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Letters to a Young Therapist
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Identity and Capitalism
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How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do—and What It Says About You
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The Right to Be Elected: 100 Years Since Suffrage
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Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy
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The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness
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Ink-Stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors: Superwomen in Modern Mythology
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In Our Prime: How Older Women Are Reinventing the Road Ahead
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Ordinary Insanity: Fear and the Silent Crisis of Motherhood in America
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The Way We Never Were: American Families & the Nostalgia Trap
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The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling
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Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics
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The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs
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Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
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Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief: A Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Healing the Impact of Loss
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The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born
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It’s Not Always Depression: Working the Change Triangle to Listen to the Body, Discover Core Emotions, and Connect to Your Authentic Self
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Beautiful Users: Designing for People
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The Firsts: The Inside Story of the Women Reshaping Congress
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Feminist Spirituality Under Capitalism: Witches, Fairies, and Nomads
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Marriage Markets: How Inequality is Remaking the American Family
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Stop Self-Sabotage: Six Steps to Unlock Your True Motivation, Harness Your Willpower, and Get Out of Your Own Way
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The Pleasure Gap: American Women and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution
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Cleverlands: The secrets behind the success of the world’s education superpowers
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The Happiness Effect: How Social Media Is Driving a Generation to Appear Perfect at Any Cost
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Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
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Modern Loss: Candid Conversation About Grief. Beginners Welcome.
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Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All
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Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content
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Seeing Like a Feminist
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Content Everywhere: Strategy and Structure for Future-Ready Content
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You Are What You Wear: What Your Clothes Reveal About You
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