Women Who Move the World: Remembering the Past and Empowering the Future

Updated March 19, 2026
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Hood feminism : notes from the women that a movement forgot
Kendall, Mikki
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The fights against hunger, homelessness, poverty, health disparities, poor schools, homophobia, transphobia, and domestic violence are feminist fights. Kendall offers a feminism rooted in the livelihood of everyday women." --Ibram X. Kendi,...
Stop telling women to smile : stories of street harassment and how we're taking back our power
Fazlalizadeh, Tatyana
Paper Book
The debut book from a celebrated artist on the urgent topic of street harassment Every day, all over the world, women are catcalled and denigrated simply for walking down the street. Boys will be boys, women have been told for generations, ignore it, shrug it off, take it as...
The trouble with white women : a counterhistory of feminism
Schuller, Kyla
Paper Book
An incisive history of self-serving white feminists and the inspiring women who've continually defied them Women including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, and Sheryl Sandberg are commonly celebrated as leaders of feminism. Yet they have fought for the...
White tears brown scars : how white feminism betrays women of color
Hamad, Ruby
Paper Book
Called "powerful and provocative" by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the New York Times bestselling How to be an Antiracist, this explosive book of history and cultural criticism reveals how white feminism has been used as a weapon of white supremacy and patriarchy deployed against...
Invisible labor : the untold story of the cesarean section
Somerstein, Rachel
Paper Book
An incisive yet personal look at the science and history of the most common surgery performed in America--the cesarean section--and an exposé on the disturbing state of women's health and maternal medical care When Rachel Somerstein had an unplanned C-section with her first child, the...
Unwell women : misdiagnosis and myth in a man-made world
Cleghorn, Elinor
Paper Book
A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women's health--from the earliest medical ideas about women's illnesses to hormones and autoimmune diseases--brought together in a fascinating sweeping narrative.   Elinor Cleghorn became an unwell woman ten years ago....
A black women's history of the United States
Berry, Daina Ramey
Paper Book
The award-winning Revisioning American History series continues with this "groundbreaking new history of Black women in the United States" (Ibram X. Kendi)-the perfect companion to An Indigenous People's History of the United States and An African American and Latinx History of the...
Together we rise : behind the scenes at the protest heard round the world
Paper Book
THE INSPIRING NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WITH ESSAYS BY: ROWAN BLANCHARD * SENATOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH * AMERICA FERRERA * ROXANE GAY * ILANA GLAZER * ASHLEY JUDD * VALARIE KAUR * CINDI LEIVE * DAVID REMNICK * JILL SOLOWAY * YARA SHAHIDI * JIA TOLENTINO * CONGRESSWOMAN MAXINE WATERS * ELAINE...
Unladylike : a field guide to smashing the patriarchy and claiming your space
Conger, Cristen
Paper Book
A funny, fact-driven, and illustrated field guide to how to live a feminist life in today's world, from the hosts of the hitUnladylikepodcast. Get ready to get unladylikewith this field guide to the what's, why's, and how's of intersectional feminism and practical...
How to be a woman online : surviving abuse and harassment, and how to fight back
Jankowicz, Nina
Paper Book
Finalist: PROSE Awards 2023 - Media and Cultural Studies "Blisteringly witty." Kirkus "An essential guide." Publisher's Weekly "Timely." Booklist When Nina Jankowicz's first book on online disinformation was...
Eve : how the female body drove 200 million years of human evolution
Bohannon, Cat
Paper Book
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...
We are not born submissive : how patriarchy shapes women's lives
Garcia, Manon
Paper Book
A philosophical exploration of female submission, using insights from feminist thinkers--especially Simone de Beauvoir--to reveal the complexities of women's reality and lived experience What role do women play in the perpetuation of patriarchy? On the one hand, popular media...

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