Landmark, groundbreaking, classic — these adjectives barely describe the earthshaking and long-lasting effects of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. This is the book that defined "the problem that has no name," that la...
In this personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from her much-admired TEDx talk of the same name—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award-winning author of Americanah, offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first ...
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifest...
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieA few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a childhood friend, a new mother who wanted to know how to raise her baby girl to be a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie’s letter of response: fifteen invaluable sugg...
The Secret History of Wonder Woman
Jill LeporeWonder Woman, created in 1941, on the brink of World War II, is the most popular female superhero of all time. Aside from Superman and Batman, she has lasted the longest and commanded the most vast and wildly passionate following. Li...
WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unlea...
Abby Wambach"Abby is a relatable revolutionary ― with WOLFPACK, she inspires the confidence, leadership and sisterhood we all so desperately need right now." ― Amy SchumerThis program is read by the author.Based on her inspiring, vi...
Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own
Kate BolickA New York Times Book Review Notable Book"Whom to marry, and when will it happen—these two questions define every woman's existence."So begins Spinster, a revelatory and slyly erudite look at the pleasures and possibiliti...
Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own
Kate BolickA bold, original, moving book that will inspire fanatical devotion and ignite debate."Whom to marry, and when will it happen—these two questions define every woman's existence." So begins Spinster, a revelatory and slyly e...
Thoroughly updated and expanded, the second edition of A History of U.S. Feminisms is an introductory text that will be used as supplementary material for first-year women's studies students or as a brush-up text for more advanced stu...
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk...
Aubrey GordonFrom the creator of Your Fat Friend and co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people. Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What We Don’t Talk About When...
Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election Tha...
Rebecca TraisterBig Girls Don't Cry offers a startling appraisal of the 2008 presidential campaign and brilliantly demonstrates that it was transformative for American women and for the nation. The campaign for the presidency reopened some of the mos...
A Little F'd Up: Why Feminism Is Not ...
Julie ZeilingerYoung women today have a bad reputation, and for good reason: They're sexting their classmates, they spend more time on FaceBook than they do in class, and their appetite for material possessions and reality TV is matched only by thei...
Echolocation: Black Feminist Lessons ...
Undrowned is a book-length meditation for social movements and our whole species based on the subversive and transformative guidance of marine mammals. Our aquatic cousins are queer, fierce, protective of each other, complex, shaped b...
Turn This World Inside Out: The Emerg...
As Nora Samaran writes, “violence is nurturance turned backwards.” In its place, she proposes “nurturance culture” as the opposite of rape culture, suggesting that models of care and accountability—different from “call-out...
Power Shift: The Longest Revolution (...
Sally ArmstrongThe facts are indisputable. When women get even a bit of education, the whole of society improves. When they get a bit of healthcare, everyone lives longer. In many ways, it has never been a better time to be a woman: a fundamental sh...
Your Next Level Life: 7 Rules of Powe...
Karen ArrinstonHow Big Do You Want to Live?Channel your black girl magic: If you're feeling stuck or trapped by other people's expectations of what you can achieve, it's time to stop playing small and start redefining what success can mean for you....
White Feminism: From the Suffragettes...
Koa BeckWritten “with passion and insight about the knotted history of racism within women’s movements and feminist culture” (Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author), this whip-smart, timely, and impassioned cal...
Audacious Voices: Profiles in Interse...
Holly BlakeInspiring and hopeful, Audacious Voices is a collection of twelve stories from alumnae/alumni of WILL*, a feminist model for education. Each author featured in this book is working, in their own distinct way, to make their communities...
Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap...
Sesali Bowen“Sesali Bowen is poised to give Black feminism the rejuvenation it needs. Her trendsetting writing and commentary reaches across experiences and beyond respectability. I and so many Black girls still figuring out who they are in...
The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Si...
Alexandra BrodskyWhat do we want?In this groundbreaking collection, more than fifty cutting-edge voices, including Melissa Harris-Perry, Janet Mock, Sheila Heti, and Mia McKenzie, invite us to imagine a truly feminist world. An abortion provider reinv...
We Will Not Cancel Us: Breaking the C...
Adrienne Maree BrownCancel culture addresses real harm...and sometimes causes more. It’s time to think this through.\n\n“Cancel” or “call-out” culture is a source of much tension and debate in American society. The infamous ...
Newly Single Woman: The Guidebook to ...
Joy CasillasThis book is written for Newly Single Women. It delivers powerful information on tons of relevant topics, empowering women to live and be Happy, Healthy, and Safe! The format is an easy-to-read guidebook where the sections are purpose...
LETTERS TO A YOUNG FEMINIST is a visionary message from a leading feminist to the next generation of feminists. Phyllis Chesler discusses basic aspects of feminism, explains feminism’s relevance in a world that has taken it for ...
Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guid...
Sarah Hays CoomerA manual for activism that begins with our most powerful asset--our bodiesEven as a wave of renewed feminism swells, too many women continue to starve, stuff, overwork, or neglect our bodies in pursuit of paper-thin ideals. "Fitn...
A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Myst...
Stephanie CoontzIn 1963, Betty Friedan unleashed a storm of controversy with her bestselling book, The Feminine Mystique. Women wrote to her by the hundreds to say that the book had transformed, even saved, their lives. Nearly half a century later, m...
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Disco...
Brittney CooperAn Emma Watson "Our Shared Shelf" Selection for November/December 2018 • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018/ MENTIONED BY:The New York Public Library• Mashable • The Atlantic •Bustle • The Root • NPR • Fast Company (&qu...
She Speaks: Women's Speeches That Cha...
Yvette CooperA powerful celebration of brilliant speeches by women throughout the ages, from Boudica to Greta Thunberg. Looking at lists of the greatest speeches of all time, you might think that powerful oratory is the preserve of men. But the tr...
Learning Good Consent: On Healthy Rel...
Cindy CrabbCindy Crabb provides a DIY tour of the promise and perils of sexual relationships in Learning Good Consent. Building ethical relationships is one of the most important things we can do, but sex, consent, abuse, and support can get com...
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World...
Caroline Criado PerezA landmark, prize-winning, international bestselling examination of how a gender gap in data perpetuates bias and disadvantages women, now in paperbackWinner of the 2019 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award Win...
Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist M...
Jessa CrispinOutspoken critic Jessa Crispin delivers a searing rejection of contemporary feminism . . . and a bracing manifesto for revolution.Are you a feminist? Do you believe women are human beings and that they deserve to be treated as such? T...
It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo...
Anna DahlqvistEvery day 800,000,000 people menstruate. Yet menstruation is still seen by many as a mark of shame. We are told not to discuss it in public, that tampons and sanitary pads should be hidden away, the blood rendered invisible. In many p...