sociology – The Staircase Window

Childfree by Choice: The Movement Redefining Family and Creating a New Age of Independence

On Immunity: An Inoculation

Bodies on the Line: At the Front Lines of the Fight to Protect Abortion in America

The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation

Aesthetic Labour: Rethinking Beauty Politics in Neoliberalism

Merlin Stone Remembered: Her Life and Works

Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad: Stories

Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male Power

Stigmata

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

Radical Intimacy

Whorephobia: Strippers on Art, Work, and Life

I Was Told There’d Be a Village: Transforming Motherhood through the Power of Connection

Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World

Reviving Ophelia 25th Anniversary Edition: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls

Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form

The Age of Diagnosis: How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker

Twelve Stories by American Women

The Portable Feminist Reader

Motherdom: Breaking Free of Bad Science and Good Mother Myths

The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier

Feminism in the Wild: How Human Biases Shape Our Understanding of Animal Behavior

Right-Wing Women

The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom

You Didn’t Hear This from Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip

Lost & Found: 9 Life-Changing Lessons About Stuff from Someone Who Lost Everything

What’s Real about Race?: Untangling Science, Genetics, and Society

Feminism in the United States

Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation

Humans: A Monstrous History

Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us

Pink Sari Revolution: A Tale of Women and Power in India

Feminism, Young Women, and Cultural Studies: Birmingham Essays from 1975 Onwards

The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home

Who Cooked the Last Supper: The Women’s History of the World

Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans

Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives—and How We Break Free

Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women

Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

The Origins Of Totalitarianism

A Bit on the Side

Singular Women: Writing the Artist

Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory

Justice and the Politics of Difference

Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion

The Cultural Politics of Emotion

Being the Change: Lessons and Strategies to Teach Social Comprehension

From the Ground Up: The Women Revolutionizing Regenerative Agriculture

Sexism & Sensibility: Raising Empowered, Resilient Girls in the Modern World

Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s

Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond

I Do (I Think): Conversations About Modern Marriage

Murder, We Spoke

Corridors of Contagion: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration

Feminism, Young Women, and Cultural Studies: Birmingham Essays from 1975 Onwards

Not So Sorry: Abusers, False Apologies, and the Limits of Forgiveness

Memento Mori: The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life

From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire

The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages

Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe

Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America

Tits Up: What Our Beliefs about Breasts Reveal about Life, Love, Sex and Society

If Love Could Kill: The Myths and Truths of Women Who Commit Violence

Loving Corrections

Complicit: How Our Culture Enables Misbehaving Men

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

Who’s Afraid of Gender?

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

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

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

Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood

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

Fashion-ology: Fashion Studies in the Postmodern Digital Era

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

Women Money Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality

Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence

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

Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity

Setting Boundaries that Stick

The Dollar

Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

F the Fairy Tale: Rewrite the Dating Myths and Live Your Own Love Story

Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

Female Body Image in Contemporary Art: Dieting, Eating Disorders, Self-Harm, and Fatness

I Had a Miscarriage: A Memoir, a Movement

Silent Racism: How Well-meaning White People Perpetuate the Racial Divide

Creep: Accusations and Confessions

In Their Time: A History of Feminism in Western Society

Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood

Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire

Raising Hell, Living Well: Freedom from Influence in a World Where Everyone Wants Something from You (Including Me)

In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

Class: A Memoir

Seeing Others: How Recognition Works—and How It Can Heal a Divided World

Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood

Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London

The Parenthood Dilemma: Procreation in the Age of Uncertainty

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control

Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet

Seven Days in the Art World

Feminisms: A Global History

Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism

The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America

Acceptance: A Memoir

The Plague: Living Death in Our Times

Girls, Aggression, and Intersectionality: Transforming the Discourse of “Mean Girls” in the United States

Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem

Women in the Picture: Women, Art and the Power of Looking

Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity

Resilient Grieving: How to Find Your Way Through a Devastating Loss (Finding Strength and Embracing Life After a Loss that Changes Everything)

Is There No Place on Earth for Me?

Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

On Violence and On Violence Against Women

Abolition. Feminism. Now.

Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service

Wedded Wife: A Feminist History of Marriage

Queering Family Trees: Race, Reproductive Justice, and Lesbian Motherhood

Young and Restless: The Girls Who Sparked America’s Revolutions

In Control: Dangerous Relationships and How They End in Murder

Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women

Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood

Know Your Place

Feminism or Death: How the Women’s Movement Can Save the Planet

What We Don’t Talk About: Sex and the Mess of Life

Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing

Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism

Belonging: A Culture of Place

How to Make the Matriarchy: The Power and Promise of Prioritizing Women

Midlife Crisis: The Feminist Origins of a Chauvinist Cliché

Regarding the Pain of Others

The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

Dangerous Bodies: New Global Perspectives on Fashion and Transgression

On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession

Mind the Inclusion Gap: How allies can bridge the divide between talking diversity and taking action

Getting Me Cheap: How Low-Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty

Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

Dress Code: Unlocking Fashion from the New Look to Millennial Pink

Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times

Heal Your Ancestral Roots: Release the Family Patterns That Hold You Back

Fashioning Politics and Protests: New Visual Cultures of Feminism in the United States

Beyond the Periphery of the Skin: Rethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism

Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies

All Made Up: A Girl’s Guide to Seeing Through Celebrity Hype and Celebrating Real Beauty

The Way We Eat Now: How the Food Revolution Has Transformed Our Lives, Our Bodies, and Our World

The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation

Love Without Reason: The Lost Art of Giving a F*ck

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking

Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America’s Future

Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers

Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother

I Am Not a Slut: Slut-Shaming in the Age of the Internet

The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality

What Has Life Taught You?: 10 Eternal Questions Answered by 40 Exceptional People

Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong

Complaint!

The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike’s Elite Running Team

The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing: From Christine de Pizan to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Thinking Through Fashion: A Guide to Key Theorists

Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream

Wilful Blindness

Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn’t Enough

More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech

Black Futures

Worn Out: How Our Clothes Cover Up Fashion’s Sins

Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion

Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming

The Pain We Carry: Healing from Complex PTSD for People of Color

On Belonging: Finding Connection in an Age of Isolation

The Women’s History of the Modern World: How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years

Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing

Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time

All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence

Dressed: A Philosophy of Clothes

On the Inconvenience of Other People

White Women: Everything You Already Know about Your Own Racism and How to Do Better

The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women

Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear

Serial Girls: From Barbie to Pussy Riot

Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America

Enjoy me among my ruins

Matriarchal Societies of the Past and the Rise of Patriarchy: West Asia and Europe

Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse

All the Living and the Dead: from Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life’s Work

Living a Committed Life: Finding Freedom and Fulfillment in a Purpose Larger Than Yourself

The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It

Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It’s Everyone’s Business

Butts: A Backstory

The Lonely Hunter: How the Search for Love Is Broken

How to Stand Up to a Dictator

Why Women Are Blamed for Everything: Exploring Victim Blaming of Women Subjected to Violence and Trauma

Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School

Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art