
Men Explain Things to Me (Essays – Solnit Trilogy) by Rebecca Solnit
In her comic, scathing essay “Men Explain Things to Me,”…

Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It by Kate Harding
Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s arrest. Congressman Todd Akin’s…

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (Translator)
The story begins in the 1950s, in a poor but vibrant neighborhood…

Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in…

How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics, and the War on Sex by Cristina Page
With a new preface by the author. In the tradition of Backlashand The…

Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America by Melissa V. Harris-Perry
Jezebel's sexual lasciviousness, Mammy's devotion, and Sapphire's…

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
"Searing . . . captures an exquisite range of self-awareness…

My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem—writer, activist, organizer, and one of the…

Intercourse by Andrea Dworkin, Ariel Levy (Foreword by)
Andrea Dworkin, once called “Feminism’s Malcolm X,” has…

Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture by Peggy Orenstein
Sweet and sassy or predatory and hardened, sexualized girlhood…




