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  • Abortion

    Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win

    by Jessica Valenti ...
    In a stirring and succinct examination of post-Roe America, “one of the most successful and visible feminists of her generation” (Washington Post) takes on what’s become the country’s most resonant political issue.In her most urgent book yet, New York Times bestselling author Jessica Valenti shines a light on the conservative assault on women’s freedom, cutting through the misinformation and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Want

    Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous

    by Gillian Anderson ...
    A collection of confessions from women around the world, Want is a revelatory, sensational and game-changing exploration of women’s sexuality that asks, and answers: How do women feel about sex when they have the freedom to be totally anonymous?What do you want, when no one is watching?What do you want, when the lights are off?What do you want, when you are anonymous?When we talk abou... ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

    by Rebecca Skloot ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The story of modern medicine and bioethics—and, indeed, race relations—is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”—Entertainment WeeklyNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO® STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE • ONE OF THE “MOST INFLUENTIAL” (CNN), “DEFINING” (LITHUB), AND “BEST” (THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Invention Of Women

    Making An African Sense Of Western Gender Discourses

    by Oyeronke Oyewumi ...
    The “woman question,” this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society. A work that rethinks gender as a Western construction, The Invention of Women offers a new way of understanding both Yoruban and Western cultures. Author Oyeronke Oyewumi reveals an ideology of biological determinism at the heart of Western social categories-the idea that biology provides ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Refusing Compulsory Sexuality

    A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture

    by Sherronda J. Brown, Grace B Freedom ...
    For readers of Ace and Belly of the Beast: A Black queer feminist exploration of asexuality--and an incisive interrogation of the sex-obsessed culture that invisibilizes and ignores asexual and A-spec identity.Everything you know about sex and asexuality is (probably) wrong.The notion that everyone wants sex--and that we all have to have it--is false. It’s intertwined with our ideas about ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Against Our Will

    Men, Women and Rape

    by Susan Brownmiller ...
    Susan Brownmiller’s groundbreaking bestseller uncovers the culture of violence against women with a devastating exploration of the history of rape—now with a new preface by the author exposing the undercurrents of rape still present todayRape, as author Susan Brownmiller proves in her startling and important book, is not about sex but about power, fear, and subjugation. For thousands of years, it ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • All This Hell

    U.S. Nurses Imprisoned by the Japanese

    by Evelyn M. Monahan, Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee ...
    Heroic accounts of American women who faced combat, surrender, and captivity. “One chapter in the annals of World War II that must be told.” —Rear Admiral Frances Shea Buckley, Nurse Corps, US Navy (Ret.)Before December 1941 drew to a close, five navy nurses on Guam became the first American military women of WWII to be taken prisoner by the Japanese. More than seventy army nurses survived five ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Zen Women

    Beyond Tea Ladies, Iron Maidens, and Macho Masters

    by Grace Schireson ...
    This landmark presentation at last makes heard the centuries of Zen's female voices. Through exploring the teachings and history of Zen's female ancestors, from the time of the Buddha to ancient and modern female masters in China, Korea, and Japan, Grace Schireson offers us a view of a more balanced Dharma practice, one that is especially applicable to our complex lives, embedded as they are in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Virtual Equality

    The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation (Stonewall Book Award Winner)

    by Urvashi Vaid ...
    **A veteran activist tackles urgent questions about where the gay movement should go and what the movement wants with a unique combination of visionary politics and hard-earned pragmatism."A valuable, encyclopedic compendium of the gay movement’s modern history and challenges." —San Francisco Chronicle**Since the decade to lift the ban on gays in the military, the emergence of gay conservatives, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $6.99 USD

  • The Revolution Will Not Be Funded

    Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

    by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence INCITE! ...
    A trillion-dollar industry, the US non-profit sector is one of the world's largest economies. From art museums and university hospitals to think tanks and church charities, over 1.5 million organizations of staggering diversity share the tax-exempt 501(c)(3) designation, if little else. Many social justice organizations have joined this world, often blunting political goals to satisfy government ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Menopause Manifesto

    Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism

    by Dr. Jen Gunter ...
    An Instant New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller!A Next Avenue Influencer in Aging 2021**#1 Canadian BestsellerJust as she did in her groundbreaking bestseller The Vagina Bible, Dr. Jen Gunter, the internet’s most fearless advocate for women’s health, brings you empowerment through knowledge by countering stubborn my... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Trans/Rad/Fem

    by Talia Bhatt ...
    Can a synthesis of trans liberation and feminism be easily arrived at? This collection asserts that, as a matter of fact, we possessed the answer to that question decades ago.Second-Wave feminism is, today, nearly synonymous with 'transphobia'. Any mention of this era or the movement of 'radical feminism' conjures images of feminists allying with right-wingers and the authoritarian state, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Goddesses in Older Women

    Archetypes in Women Over Fifty

    by Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. ...
    At some point after fifty, every woman crosses a threshold into the third phase of her life. As she enters this uncharted territory -- one that is generally uncelebrated in popular culture -- she can choose to mourn what has gone before, or she can embrace the juicy-crone years.In this celebration of Act Three, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Jungian analyst and bestselling author of Goddesses in Everywoman, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Come As You Are: Revised and Updated

    The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life

    by Emily Nagoski, Ph.D. ...
    A revised and updated edition of Emily Nagoski’s game-changing New York Times bestseller Come As You Are, featuring new information and research on mindfulness, desire, and pleasure that will radically transform your sex life.For much of the 20th and 21st centuries, women’s sexuality was an uncharted territory in science, studied far less frequently—and far less seriously—than its male counterpart ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Three Women

    by Lisa Taddeo ...
    **NOW A SERIES ON STARZ STARRING SHAILENE WOODLEY * BETTY GILPIN * DeWANDA WISE * GABRIELLE CREEVY * with BLAIR UNDERWOOD“Staggeringly intimate...Groundbreaking.” —Entertainment Weekly“A breathtaking and important book.” —Cheryl Strayed“Extraordinary...A nonfiction literary masterpiece.” —Elizabeth Gilbert#1 New York Times Bestseller and a Best Book of the Year by: The Washington Post * NPR * The ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • How to Live a Soft Life

    Using the Power of Feminine Energy

    by Reemus Bailey ...
    In a world that tends to see softness as weakness, “How to Live a Soft Life” is an inspirational guide that empowers women to embrace the strength of feminine energy. The book provides insights and practices to help you channel your inherent femininity into confidence, resilience, and life success. “How to Live a Soft Life” will totally transform the way that you live, by teaching you to reduce ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Game

    Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

    by Neil Strauss ...
    Hidden somewhere, in nearly every major city in the world, is an underground seduction lair. And in these lairs, men trade the most devastatingly effective techniques ever invented to charm women. This is not fiction. These men really exist. They live together in houses known as Projects. And Neil Strauss, the bestselling author and journalist, spent two years living among them, using the ... Read more

    $23.49 USD $1.99 USD

  • Burnout

    The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

    by Emily Nagoski PhD, Amelia Nagoski DMA ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This book is a gift! I’ve been practicing their strategies, and it’s a total game changer.”—Brené Brown, PhD, author of Dare to Lead“A primer on how to stop letting the world dictate how you live and what we think of ourselves, Burnout is essential reading [and] . . . excels in its intersectionality.”—BustleThis groundbreaking book explains why women experience burnout ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • More than a Glitch

    Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech

    by Meredith Broussard ...
    When technology reinforces inequality, it’s not just a glitch—it’s a signal that we need to redesign our systems to create a more equitable world.The word “glitch” implies an incidental error, as easy to patch up as it is to identify. But what if racism, sexism, and ableism aren’t just bugs in mostly functional machinery—what if they’re coded into the system itself? In the vein of heavy hitters ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Relationship Anarchy

    Occupy Intimacy!

    by Juan-Carlos Pérez-Cortés ...
    A non-fiction best-seller that intertwines the principles of social anarchism with an extension of politics to interpersonal relationships.This «relationship anarchy» endeavors to be a real revolution sparked from our affections, rooting not only in the long tradition of anarchism but also in contributions from the most recent sociology, anthropology, feminism, queer theory, and non-monogamous ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • All About Love

    New Visions

    by bell hooks ...
    Series Book 1 - Love Song to the Nation
    A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • White Tears/Brown Scars

    How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

    by Ruby Hamad ...
    Called “powerful and provocative" by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the New York Times bestselling How to be an Antiracist, this explosive book of history and cultural criticism reveals how white feminism has been used as a weapon of white supremacy and patriarchy deployed against Black and Indigenous women, and women of color.Taking us from the slave era, when white women fought in court to keep ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Blues Legacies and Black Feminism

    Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday

    by Angela Y. Davis ...
    From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens. Angela Davis provides the historical, social, and political contexts with which to reinterpret the performances and lyrics of Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday as powerful ... Read more

    $7.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • Becoming Cliterate

    Why Orgasm Equality Matters--And How to Get It

    by Dr. Laurie Mintz ...
    We’ve been thinking about sex all wrong. Mainstream media, movies, and porn have taught us that sex = penis + vagina, and everything else is just secondary. Standard penetration is how men most reliably achieve orgasm. The problem is, women don’t orgasm this way. We’ve separated our most reliable route to orgasm—clitoral stimulation—from how we feel we should orgasm—penetration. As a result, we’ve ... Read more

    $13.99 USD