An incisive and deeply candid account that explores autistic women in culture, myth, and society through the prism of the author’s own diagnosis.

Award-winning sports journalist Maggie Mertens tells the propulsive story of how women broke into competitive running over the last century, getting faster and fiercer with every race and changing our understanding of gender and power in athletics and beyond. 

A love letter to those who have been minimized and forgotten, this collection repositions Black women’s intellectual and political work at the center of today’s liberation movements. 

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A biography of stunt performer Helen Gibson, known as “the most daring actress in pictures” during the Golden Age of Hollywood. 

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A luminous chronicle of the most famous woman in the history of science, and the untold story of the many remarkable young women trained in her laboratory who were launched into stellar scientific careers of their own. 

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With engaging prose, compelling stories, and a beautiful full-page image of each object, Annabelle Hirsch curates a diverse compendium of women and their things, uncovering the thoughts and feelings at the heart of women’s daily lives. The result is an intimate and lively alternative history of humans in the world. 

Drawn from NPR Music’s acclaimed, groundbreaking series “Turning the Tables,” the definitive book on the vital role of Women in Music–from Beyoncé to Odetta, Taylor Swift to Joan Baez, Joan Jett to Dolly Parton–featuring archival interviews, essays, photographs, and illustrations. A must-have for music fans, songwriters, feminist historians, and those interested in how artists think and work. 

From the first silent reels to modern independent films, in this book you’ll discover the creepy, horrible, grotesque, beautiful, wrong, good, and fantastic — and the one thing they share in common. This is the true history of women directing horror movies. 

A dazzlingly ambitious history of the ancient world that places women at the center–from Cleopatra to Boudica, Sappho to Fulvia, and countless other artists, writers, leaders, and creators of history. 

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Inspired by her own foremothers’ legacies and the friendships formed throughout her life, Rozella Kennedy centers and celebrates the stories of 100 Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous women–both famous and little-known–who changed the course of US history. 

Award-winning historian Jules Gill-Peterson’s richly detailed narrative takes us from New York, London, and Paris to the colonial districts of the British Raj, the Philippines, and Hawai’i to tell a richly detailed story of the emergence of trans misogyny. 

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