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  • WOMEN IN DARK TIMES
    WOMEN IN DARK TIMES
    JACQUELINE ROSE
    Women in Dark Timesbegins with three remarkable women: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon; and film icon Marilyn Monroe. The story of these women, bound together by their struggles against iniquity, blazes a trail across some of the defining features of the twentieth century - revolution, totalitarianism and the American dream - and ...
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    Q. 310

  • SAME RIVER, TWICE
    SAME RIVER, TWICE
    OKSANEN, SOFI
    Blending the call to action of We Should All Be Feminists with the journalistic rigor of Masha Gessen, "an exquisite feminist critique of Russia's oppressive tactics" (Kirkus Reviews) revealing how modern Russia's history of weaponizing sexual violence plays a crucial role in its current geopolitical strategy "It's one of those books that can truly change a reader's life. . . ....
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  • SHAME ON YOU
    SHAME ON YOU
    MELISSA PETRO
    In the spirit of Rebecca Traister's Good and Mad and Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist comes a courageous, in-depth investigation into the modern epidemic of shame in our society—what it is, why women are uniquely susceptible, and how we can shift the shame off our plates and live our best lives in an over-exposed, image-obsessed world.For millions of women, shame is a vicious predator...
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  • IMMACULATE FORMS
    IMMACULATE FORMS
    HELEN. KING
    Throughout history, religious scholars, medical men and - occasionally - women themselves, have moulded thought on what 'makes' a woman. She has been called the weaker sex, the fairer sex, the purer sex, among many other monikers. Often, she has been defined simply as 'Not A Man'. Today, we are more aware than ever of the complex relationship between our bodies and our identiti...
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    Q. 340

  • WANT
    WANT
    GILLIAN ANDERSON
    THE INSTANT NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Want makes for addictive reading . . . compelling' Guardian 'I just loved reading it. It's exceptional' Fearne Cotton, Happy Place 'An empowering project' Stylist 'Extremely sexy . . . Want is the horny manifesto your TBR list will thank you for' Cosmopolitan What do you want when no one is watching? Who do you fantasise about when th...
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  • THE MYTH OF MAKING IT
    THE MYTH OF MAKING IT
    MUKHOPADHYAY, SAMHITA
    We can bury the girlboss, but what comes next? The former executive editor of Teen Vogue tells the story of her personal workplace reckoning and argues for collective responsibility to reimagine work as we know it."One of the smartest voices we have on gender, power, capitalist exploitation, and the entrenched inequities of the workplace."—Rebecca Traister, author of Good and M...
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  • EVE
    EVE
    CAT BOHANNON
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION FINALIST • THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is, how it came to be, and how this evolution still shapes all our lives today "A page-turning whistle-stop tour of mammalian development that...
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    Q. 170

  • THE BOOK OF MOTHERS
    THE BOOK OF MOTHERS
    CARRIE MULLINS
    "Timely and evergreen, engaging and infuriating, personal and universal—a necessary reintroduction to some of fiction's most familiar mothers." —Cecile Richards, bestselling author of Make Trouble and former president of Planned ParenthoodThis treasure trove for book lovers explores fifteen classic novels with memorable maternal figures, and examines how our cultural notions of...
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    Q. 300

  • FIRST LOVE
    FIRST LOVE
    LILLY DANCYGER
    A "vivid, thoughtful and nuanced collection of essays" (Associated Press) that treats women's friendships as the love stories they truly are, from the critically acclaimed author of Negative Space"A tender, unswerving homage to her found family, but also an insightful study of friendship as identity-crafting."—ElleLilly Dancyger always thought of her closest friendships as grea...
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  • A DIFFERENT SOUND
    A DIFFERENT SOUND
    ELIZABETH BOWEN / DAPHNE DU MAURIER / ELIZABETH TAYLOR
    Elegant, timeless, and riveting: an exciting anthology of short stories by mid-century women writers from Britain and Ireland—many being published in America for the first timeThese remarkable short stories from the 1940s and 50s depict women and men caught between the pull of personal desires and profound social change. From a remote peninsula in Cornwall to the drawing rooms ...
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    Q. 170

  • WHO'S AFRAID OF GENDER?
    WHO'S AFRAID OF GENDER?
    JUDITH BUTLER
    Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Los Angeles Times, ELLE, Cosmopolitan, Kirkus, Literary Hub, Autostraddle, The Millions, Electric Literature, and them."A profoundly urgent intervention." —Naomi Klein "A timely must-read for anyone actively invested in re-imagining collective futurity." —Claudia RankineFrom a global icon, a...
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    Q. 310

  • A HISTORY OF WOMEN IN 101 OBJECTS
    A HISTORY OF WOMEN IN 101 OBJECTS
    ANNABELLE HIRSCH
    Discover the hidden history of women—and the world—through this visual exploration of intimate objects and the surprising, sometimes shocking stories behind them."I adored this book!"—Olivia ColmanThis is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular: a single journey, picked out in 101 objec...
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    Q. 330

  • THE ONCE AND FUTURE SEX
    THE ONCE AND FUTURE SEX
    JANEGA, ELEANOR
    What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages, the era that bridged the ancient world and modern society, to unfurl its suppositions about women and reveal what's shifted over time-and what hasn't. Enshrined medieval thinkers, almost always male, subscribed to a blen...
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    Q. 175

  • HOUSEWIFE
    HOUSEWIFE
    LISA SELIN DAVIS
    Discover the complete social history of the housewife archetype, from colonial America to the 20th century, and re-examine common myths about the "modern woman." The notion of "housewife" evokes strong reactions. For some, it's nostalgia for a bygone era, simpler and better times when men were breadwinners and women remained home with the kids. For others, it's a sexist, opp...
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    Q. 310

  • OPINIONS
    OPINIONS
    ROXANE GAY
    From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, "a strikingly fresh cultural critic" (Washington Post) comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics, and everything in between. Since the publication of the groundbreaking Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society--state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, w...
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    Q. 180

  • STUFF MOM NEVER TOLD YOU
    STUFF MOM NEVER TOLD YOU
    ANNEY REESE / SAMANTHA MCVEY
    The concept of feminism has evolved and changed so much over the last few decades that it can be confusing for people to keep up. Luckily, Anney Reese and Samantha McVey break it all down every week on their popular iHeart podcast, Stuff Mom Never Told You In this book—their first—they explore the history, strategy, and emotion that went into several milestones and emergent iss...
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    Q. 330

  • FLAWLESS
    FLAWLESS
    ELISE HU
    A cutting-edge journalistic exposé of self-care consumerism, using the extreme case South Korea to both celebrate the astounding growth of K-Beauty and South Korean pop culture as a global export and examine the dark implications for women in a looks-obsessed patriarchy, in a debut that asks the question: What is the future of beauty?From 2014 to 2018, South Korean cosmetics ex...
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  • THE WOMEN'S HOUSE OF DETENTION
    THE WOMEN'S HOUSE OF DETENTION
    HUGH RYAN
    This singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window into the policing of queerness and radical politics in the twentieth century.The Women's House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women's imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But when it stood in New York City's Greenwich Village, from 1929 to 1974, it was ...
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  • THE LGBTQ + HISTORY BOOK
    THE LGBTQ + HISTORY BOOK
    DK
    Discover the rich and complex history of LGBTQ+ people around the world - their struggles, triumphs, and cultural contributions.Exploring and explaining the most important ideas and events in LGBTQ+ history and culture, this book showcases the breadth of the LGBTQ+ experience. This diverse, global account explores the most important moments, movements, and phenomena, from the f...
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  • NAKED FEMINISM
    NAKED FEMINISM
    VICTORIA BATEMAN
    Is it right that, despite the promises of feminism, women's bodies remain at the mercy of state, society and religion? Should a scantily clad woman, or a promiscuous one, be worth less than a fully covered woman, or a chaste one? Are being sexy and being smart really mutually exclusive? Can a woman be both body and brain? Victoria Bateman has confronted these questions with act...
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    Q. 310

  • TRANSITIONAL
    TRANSITIONAL
    MUNROE BERGDORF
    The wise, life-changing, ground-breaking book from writer and activist Munroe Bergdorf.Transitioning is an alignment of the invisible and the physical. It is truth rising to the surface. It is one of the most fundamental aspects of the human condition--a part of our experience as a conscious being, no matter who we are.As time goes on, we all develop as people. None of us ever ...
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    Q. 270

  • WITHOUT CHILDREN
    WITHOUT CHILDREN
    O'DONNELL HEFFINGTON / PEGGY
    A historian explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood in this "timely, refreshingly open-hearted study of the choices women make and the cards they're dealt" (Ada Calhoun, author of Why We Can't Sleep).In an era of falling births, it's often said that millennials invented the idea of not having kids. But history is full of women without children: so...
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  • MOM RAGE
    MOM RAGE
    MINNA DUBIN
    "Mothers aren't supposed to be angry. Still, Minna Dubin was an angry mom: exhausted by hard, thankless full-time parenting work and feeling her career slip away from her, she would find herself screaming at her child or exploding in anger at her husband. Despite the pressure she felt to suffer in silence, Minna chose to talk publicly about her experiences, kicking off an inter...
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  • THE FEMINIST KILLJOY HANDBOOK
    THE FEMINIST KILLJOY HANDBOOK
    SARA AHMED
    "As long as feminists have existed, they have been accused of being "killjoys," "buzzkills," "party poopers," and "wet blankets." For having the audacity to insist on a more-just world, feminists are criticized for getting in the way of other people's happiness. In The Feminist Killjoy Handbook, renowned feminist theorist Sara Ahmed reclaims the feminist killjoy-showing how kil...
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  • LISTENING IN THE DARK
    LISTENING IN THE DARK
    VARIOS AUTORES
    Amber Tamblyn, Jessica Valenti, Lidia Yuknavitch, Jia Tolentino, Samantha Irby, Meredith Talusan, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, Amy Poehler, America Ferrera, Ada Limón, and Huma Abedin are among the impressive list of authors contributing to this powerful collection of essays that takes a fresh and powerful look at our relationship to intuition and how we can harness it to cha...
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  • EJACULATE RESPONSIBLY
    EJACULATE RESPONSIBLY
    GABRIELLE STANLEY BLAIR
    In a series of 28 brief arguments reframing the abortion issue, Gabrielle Blair deftly makes the case for moving the abortion debate away from controlling and legislating women's bodies and instead directs the focus on men's lack of accountability in preventing unwanted pregnancies. ...
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  • SEXUAL REVOLUTION
    SEXUAL REVOLUTION
    LAURIE PENNY
    u003cpu003eu003cbu003eAn urgent, hopeful, and unapologetically radical new book about consent, democracy, desire, and the future of sexual politics from award-winning writer Laurie Penny.u003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbu003eu003cbru003e"I can't really think of another writer who so consistently and bravely keeps thinking and talking and learning and trying to make the world bette...
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  • THIS MONK WEARS HEELS
    THIS MONK WEARS HEELS
    KODO NISHIMURA
    u003cbu003eKodo Nishimura rose to fame following his appearance in u003ciu003eQueer Eye: We're in Japan.u003c/iu003e Now this celebrity make-up artist and ordained Buddhist monk shares his unique and practical guide to positivity and self-acceptance. Readers will learn from the author's path to self-love and resilience and modern take on Buddhist teachings.u003c/bu003eu003cbru0...
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  • QUEER UP
    QUEER UP
    ALEXIS CAUGHT
    "A positive and uplifting book for young people who are queer or curious - and their allies looking to support them. In this empowering and uplifting book, award-winning podcaster Alexis Caught sets out to help queer and curious teenagers explore their LGBTQ+ identity and understanding. Alongside the author's personal experiences are first-hand stories from notable LGBTQ+ figur...
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  • ACE
    ACE
    ANGELA CHEN
    An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attraction, and what the ace perspective can teach all of us about desire and identity.What exactly is sexual attraction and what is it like to go through life not experiencing it? What does asexuality reveal about gender roles, about romance and consent, and the pressures of society? ...
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