A vibrant history of women’s bodies, expertise, and work from a major new writer—stylish, revelatory, and liberating.Today, we understand the mind and the body to be distinct; that the mind exercises control over the flesh. But as Erin Maglaque...

A provocative and wide-ranging conversation between two distinctive women—one American and one French—on the dilemmas, rewards, and demands of womanhood.Lisa Alther and Françoise Gilot have been friends for more than twenty-five years. Although from...

The renowned analyst and author here provides deep insight into the process required to bring feminize wisdom to consciousness in a patriarchal culture—as struggle in which many women are more fully engaged today that ever before. Presenting the personal...

Today, in Western countries, we are seeing both the fragmentation of the gender binary (the division of the social world into two and only two genders) and its persistence. Multiple genders, gender-neutral pronouns and bathrooms, X designations, and...

The food on our plates has long been designed, twisted, and elevated by queer hands. Piecing together a dazzling mosaic of queer lives, spaces, and meals, beloved food writer John Birdsall unfolds the complex story of how, through times of fear and...

A powerful and hilarious personal history that tells the true story of the queer '90s and how it transformed queer life in the decades that followed The 1990s were a decade of transformation. Globalization reshaped geopolitics, and the rise of the World...

A perennial New York Times bestseller and enduring classic of modern American culture. "Each offering from bell hooks is a major event, as she has so much to give us." -- Maya Angelou In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States,...

She's too angry. Too weird. Too messy. And now, she's the main character. Unlikeable Female Characters is a fierce, funny, and razor-sharp takedown of the cultural obsession with "likeable" women--and a celebration of the flawed female icons who broke...

Takes up the work of artists and theorists who ask what happens when we learn to linger, dwell, live, and work with queer griefWhat if, instead of overcoming grief, we learned to live with it? Unfinished Grief invites readers to linger within loss and to...

A tender, moving, and insightful account of queer motherhood and an interrogation of life on the margins of American culture as a self-described “ugly” woman“A rigorous ladyballs-out polemic that also tells the most raw, tender, against-all-odds story of...

"No one can understand how feminism has evolved without reading this radical, inflammatory second-wave landmark." —Naomi WolfOriginally published in 1970, when Shulamith Firestone was just twenty-five years old, and going on to become a bestseller, The...

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Slate“Reading this book is a joy . . . much to say about the trans journey and will undoubtedly become a standard for those in need of guidance...

A New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book • Named one of the Best Books of the Year by TIME, NPR, Elle, and The Boston Globe“Searing… rigorously researched but never stuffy… Gilbert has compiled perhaps the first comprehensive examination of...

Following its publication in 1949, The Second Sex quickly became one of the fundamental works of feminist thought. In it, Simone de Beauvoir (1908–86) offered up a statement that has informed nearly all feminist and gender scholarship that has followed,...

A gay Christian's behind-the-scenes account of evangelical megachurches and eight years in conversion therapy before finding wholeness and authenticity. Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez was an invisible architect behind evangelical Christianity's digital...

Queerness remains one of the most stigmatized and overlooked aspects of Holocaust history, often erased due to the lingering homophobia of survivors. People Without History Are Dust challenges this silence, weaving together compelling stories of German,...

The next phase of the war over reproduction in America "Personhood is a field guide to the seemingly boundless tactical resourcefulness of the anti-abortion movement."--Margaret Talbot, New Yorker What's next for the battle over abortion? Mary...

A revelatory new lens on patriarchy-as a force that governs how we see the world, live in our bodies, and imagine our futures In Real Men on Top, Robin Dembroff shows us that we don't just live in a patriarchal world. We live in a world that patriarchy...

From the author of Unwell Women comes a powerful and groundbreaking new narrative history of motherhood and mothering.Mothers make history. But what it has meant for mothers to do the physical and emotional work of mothering has, for centuries, been...

'A radical feminisation of the world' McKenzie Wark, author of Reverse Cowgirl'Recover femininity. Negate gender. Abolish androcentrism. Realise communism. With her tour-de-force, Ciara Cremin shows us we can because we must' Jodi Dean, author of...