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A memoir of Nobel laureate physicist Richard P. Feynman compiled from his recollections with Ralph Leighton, blending childhood adventures, scientific discoveries, and personal anecdotes with sharp wit.

A dystopian novel about a woman named Offred in a totalitarian theonomic society called Gilead, exploring themes of subjugated women and resistance.

A powerful anthology of essays by Audre Lorde that traces her intellectual evolution, highlights her advocacy for minority women writers, and examines the intersections of sex, race, and class.

A groundbreaking memoir that blends personal narrative with rigorous theory, charting Maggie Nelson’s queer romance, pregnancy, and the politics of love and family.

Judith Butler’s seminal text challenges essentialist views of sex and gender, proposing that identity is constructed through repeated social performances.

A guide for gay men to overcome shame, rejection, and anger, drawing on psychology and personal experience to offer stages of emotional well‑being and tips for authentic living, including updated discussions of marriage and diverse backgrounds.

A thoughtful meditation on Annie Dillard’s creative process, woven from anecdotes and vignettes that illuminate her distinctive prose style.

Gloria Steinem’s celebrated collection of essays spans humor, advocacy, and personal reflection, illustrating her lifelong fight for women’s rights and social change.

Women and Economics is Gilman's most original and famous work of nonfiction. In it she examines the origins of women's subordination and its function in society. Woman, she argues, makes a living by marriage - not by the work she does - and thus man becomes her economic environment. As a consequence, her "female" attributes dominate her "human" qualities because they determine her survival. Gilman's thesis challenges both biological and theological arguments about women's innate passivity and defies the virtual exclusion of women in classical sociological theory. If women are to fully engage in domestic and public life, Gilman contends that their emancipation requires both economic participation and adequate child care. Gilman's argument in this classic work resonates today, as women continue their struggle to find a meaningful independent identity and to balance work and family. Here reprinted with a new introduction, Women and Economics belongs on the same shelf as works by Betty Friedan, Simone de Beauvoir, and other pioneering feminists.

Lisaveta Lazaroff, a daring countess, defies polite society by surrendering innocence to Prince Stefan Bariatinsky, the czar’s most notorious general, while plotting to win Russia’s most elusive heart.

Drawing on 135 in‑depth interviews, the book explores why many women still feel silenced in family and school settings, even as the women’s movement advances.

Wounds of Passion is bell hooks’ memoir tracing her journey as an African‑American feminist writer: from her early work on birth control and the women’s movement to a fifteen‑year partnership with a poet and scholar that shaped her literary voice.