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Nonfiction Books to Read This Women's History Month
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items a little late list of some femminist nonfic books to read during this month and all the time
An inclusive and essential guide to reproductive health—including period problems, pelvic pain, menopause, fertility, sexual health, vaginal and urinary conditions, and overall wellbeing
It's Not Hysteria: Your Essential Guide
What do you want, when no one is watching? What do you want, when the lights are off? What do you want, when you are anonymous? When we talk about sex, we talk about womanhood and motherhood and more
I'm Sorry for My Loss: Reproductive Issues
A frank, funny and informative guide to menopause and aging by beloved actress Naomi Watts, one of the leading voices in menopause awareness
Dare I Say It: A Guide to Menopause
From breathwork practitioner and the founder of black girls breathing®, a practical path for Black women to heal trauma, combat chronic stress, and find freedom in their own bodies and minds
black girls breathing
Timely and thought-provoking, Nancy Reddy unpacks and debunks the bad ideas that have for too long defined what it means to be a "good" mom.
The Good Mother Myth - Macmillan Publishers
Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a Male World
Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, access to quality education, safe neighborh...
Hood Feminism: Notes from Women in Movement
A transformative book urging twenty-first century-women to embrace their anger and harness it as a tool for lasting personal and societal change.
Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
From celebrity gossip expert and BuzzFeed culture writer Anne Helen Petersen comes an accessible, analytical look at how female celebrities are pushing boundaries of what it means to be an "acceptable" woman.
Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise...
Renowned journalist and author of The Heart is a Shifting Sea Elizabeth Flock investigates what few dare to confront, or even imagine: the role and necessity of female-led violence in response to systems built against women.
The Furies - HarperCollins Publishers
This explosive book of history and cultural criticism argues that white feminism has been a weapon of white supremacy and patriarchy deployed against Black and Indigenous women and all colonized women.
White Tears/Brown Scars: Feminism Betrayal
An up-close and striking look at modern beauty culture―from Botox and Instagram filters to lip flips and editing apps―and the realities of coming of age online We live in a new age of beauty.
Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women
In this wickedly funny cultural critique, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir and Hulu series Shrill exposes misogyny in the #MeToo era. THIS IS A WITCH HUNT.WE’RE WITCHES,AND WE’RE HUNTING.
The Witches Are Coming: West, Lindy
A perfectly innocuous word devolving into a female insult is the case for tons more terms, including hussy, which simply meant “housewife,” or slut, which meant “untidy” and was also used to describe men. These words are just a few among history’s ma...
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to English
The first definitive exploration of the changing role of the twenty-first-century First Lady, painting a comprehensive portrait of Jill Biden —from a White House correspondent for The New York Times Since the Clinton era, shifts in media, politics, a...
American Woman: Transformation of Modern First
"Dahlia Lithwick, one of the nation's foremost legal commentators, tells the gripping and heroic story of the women lawyers who fought the racism, sexism, and xenophobia of Donald Trump's presidency-and won. After the sudden shock of Donald Trump's v...
Lady Justice: Women, Law, and America's Battle
From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays on how food and cooking stoke the flames of her feminism
If You Can't Take the Heat by Geraldine DeRuiter