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  • Women Without Kids

    The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood

    “A startling, confronting, and liberating treatise.”—Holly Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of Quit Like a WomanWhat is “woman” if not “mother”?Anything she wants to be.Forgoing motherhood has traditionally marked a woman as “other.” With no official place setting for her in our society, she has hovered on the sidelines: the quirky girl, the neurotic career obsessi... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Trans Man Walks Into a Gay Bar

    A Journey of Self (and Sexual) Discovery

    'On the bookshelves, there was plenty of stuff on being gay, and much needed, joyous accounts of what it is to be trans, but nothing really that encapsulates what is it to be both - to exist in the hazy terrain between.'After his relationship with his girlfriend of 5 years ended, Harry realised he was a single adult for the first time - not only that, but a single, transmasculine and newly out gay ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Fighting for Life

    Contest, Sexuality, and Consciousness

    by Walter J. Ong ...
    What accounts for the popularity of the macho image, the fanaticism of sports enthusiasts, and the perennial appeal of Don Quixote's ineffectual struggles? In Fighting for Life, Walter J. Ong addresses these and related questions, offering insight into the role of competition in human existence. Focusing on the ways in which human life is affected by contest, Ong argues that the male agonistic ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • MY TRANSVESTITE ADDICTIONS

    The Story Of One Individual's Odyssey Through Crossdressing, Alcohol, Escorts, Strippers, Sex, and Money

    My Transvestite Addictions is about a middle-aged crossdresser/transvestite who has long struggled with his gender identity as well as various addictions, including those involving alcohol and sex. The fiction-inspired-by-fact account is based on the life of the author and the lives of acquaintances of the author, though the names of all people and places have been changed from actual names, as ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Slug

    The Sunday Times Bestseller

    by Hollie McNish ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An intoxicating mixture of poetry and prose, Slug is a taboo-busting delight' SCOTSMAN'One of the best poets we have' MATT HAIG'She writes with honesty, conviction, humour and love' KAE TEMPESTThe bestselling collection of poetry and prose from the Ted Hughes Award-winning author of Nobody... ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Out of Time

    The Pleasures and the Perils of Ageing

    by Lynne Segal ...
    A leading feminist thinker reflects on her own life and the lives of other artists to explore the ups and downs of growing old.This “thoughtful, reflective book” on aging “encourages people to keep dreaming, keep fighting, and perhaps most of all keep living” (Pop Matters).How old am I? Don’t ask, don’t tell. As the baby boomers approach their sixth or seventh decade, they are faced with new ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Come As You Are: Revised and Updated

    The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life

    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

  • 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

  • Naked

    On Sex, Work, and Other Burlesques

    by Fancy Feast ...
    In Naked, a celebrated burlesque performer, sex educator, and social worker bares it all, with incisive and hilarious essays about selling, performing, and consuming desire.Fancy Feast draws back the curtain to reveal a world that most denizens of the daytime never see. Part exclusive backstage pass, part long-form literary striptease, these essays confront our culture’s tightly held beliefs—like ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Of Boys and Men

    Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It

    Lost.Disaffected.Adrift.Checked out.Dislocated.Withdrawn.What is happening with so many of our boys and men? Economists lament inexplicable drops in male labor force participation. Public health officials point to disproportionately male “deaths of despair” from suicide or overdose. Parents see their sons struggling and worry what it means for their future.In Of Boys and Men, Richard Reeves ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Eve

    How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

    by 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 begins in the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy

    Four Women Undercover in the Civil War

    by Karen Abbott ...
    Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and “pioneer of sizzle history” (USA Today), tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War.Karen Abbott illuminates one of the most fascinating yet little known aspects of the Civil War: the stories of four courageous women—a socialite, a farmgirl, an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • This American Ex-Wife

    How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

    by Lyz Lenz ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply validating manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America today, and an argument that the former needs a reboot—from journalist and proud divorcée Lyz Lenz“This American Ex-Wife is a bomb, a bouquet (but not a wedding bouquet), a memoir, a manifesto, and a total joy to read.”—Rebecca Solnit, author of Men ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Beyond My Control

    Forbidden Fantasies in an Uncensored Age

    by Nancy Friday ...
    The bestselling author of My Secret Garden exposes the wild and sexy fantasies that many of us have but are afraid to share.For over thirty years, Nancy Friday has written about eros, love, beauty, and seduction. Now she returns to the territory she pioneered during the sexual revolution—exploring our most taboo sexual desires. Fans of Fifty Shades of Grey will love this provocative collection of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Housewife

    Why Women Still Do It All and What to Do Instead

    **Amazon's Best Nonfiction Book of the Month for March 2024Discover 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 ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Emilia

    Series series Modern Plays
    Winner of the Noel Coward Award for Best Entertainment or Comedy at the 2020 Olivier AwardsIn 1611 Emilia Bassano wrote a volume of radical, feminist and subversive poetry. It was one of the first published collections of poetry written by a woman in England. The little we know of Emilia Bassano is restricted to the possibility that she may have been the 'Dark Lady' of Shakespeare's Sonnets – and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Whipping Girl

    A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

    by Julia Serano ...
    This classic manifesto is “a foundational text for anyone hoping to understand transgender politics and culture in the U.S. today.” (NPR)*Named as one of 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of All Time by Ms. Magazine*In Whipping Girl, biologist and trans activist Julia Serano shares her experiences and insights—both pre- and post-transition—to reveal the ways in which fear, suspicion, and dismissiveness ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Transgender History, second edition

    The Roots of Today's Revolution

    by Susan Stryker ...
    Series series Seal Studies
    A timely second edition of the classic text on transgender history, with a new introduction and updated material throughoutCovering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events. Chapters cover the transsexual and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • Mediocre

    The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

    by Ijeoma Oluo ...
    From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, an “illuminating” (New York Times Book Review) history of white male identity.What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color, instead of by actual accomplishments?Through the last ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Herland

    "Herland" is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The novel is a feminist fantasy about a world without men, a radical utopia in which mothering is socialized. Gilman envisions a society that lacks domination by the masculine traits of aggressiveness and combativeness. Three American men stumble on a community of women and are at first convinced that such a ... Read more

    $0.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Seizing the Means of Reproduction

    Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience

    Series series Experimental futures
    In Seizing the Means of Reproduction, Michelle Murphy's initial focus on the alternative health practices developed by radical feminists in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s opens into a sophisticated analysis of the transnational entanglements of American empire, population control, neoliberalism, and late-twentieth-century feminisms. Murphy concentrates on the technoscientific means ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Banzeiro Òkòtó

    The Amazon as the Center of the World

    by Eliane Brum ...
    Translated by Diane Grosklaus Whitty ...
    A confrontation with the destruction of the Amazon by a writer who moved her life into the heart of the forest.In lyrical, impassioned prose, Eliane Brum recounts her move from São Paulo to Altamira, a city along the Xingu River that has been devastated by the construction of one of the largest dams in the world. In community with the human and more-than-human world of the Amazon, Brum seeks to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A False Report

    A True Story of Rape in America

    Now the Netflix Limited Series Unbelievable, starring Toni Collette, Merritt Wever, and Kaitlyn Dever • Two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists tell the riveting true crime story of a teenager charged with lying about having been raped—and the detectives who followed a winding path to arrive at the truth.“Gripping . . . [with a] John Grisham–worthy twist.”—Emily Bazelon, New York Times Book Review ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $9.99 USD

  • Victory Girls, Khaki-Wackies, and Patriotutes

    The Regulation of Female Sexuality during World War II

    Victory Girls, Khaki-Wackies, and Patriotutes offers a counter-narrative to the story of Rosie the Riveter, the icon of female patriotism during World War II. With her fist defiantly raised and her shirtsleeves rolled up, Rosie was an asexual warrior on the homefront. But thousands of women supported the war effort not by working in heavy war industries, but by providing morale-boosting services ... Read more

    $21.99 USD $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus