Julia Gillard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s "Women and Leadership" takes a global look at women in places of power. The book examines the lives of eight prominent leaders from a variety of countries and continents, including Ellen Johnson... Read More

A fun, straight-talking history of the clitoris, "The Sweetness of Venus" is a win for feminism. The book opens with the scientific history of the body part, from the infamous treatment of hysteria to lesser-known Greek and Roman medical... Read More

Wendy Garling’s "The Woman Who Raised the Buddha" fills a gap in historical accounts of the origins of Buddhism, which, like most major religions, has erased or devalued the contributions of women. When her sister, Maya, died seven... Read More

A collection of essays tackling addiction, sexual violence, mental illness, and the colonization of witchcraft, "White Magic" is a delight and a challenge. Elissa Washuta is a refreshing narrator, her prose poetic and sparse. Describing... Read More

Katherine Angel’s excellent academic study "Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again" concerns the politics of sexual expression. The book addresses consent, desire, arousal, and vulnerability in turn, explaining each in terms of their history,... Read More

Alison M. Parker’s salient academic biography of undersung civil rights and women’s rights activist Mary Eliza Church Terrell analyzes excerpts from Terrell’s diary, letters, and autobiography to depict how personal and public... Read More

Garments as holy relics, crime scene evidence, and archives that signal absent bodies: in Laura Levitt’s eloquent, moving, meditative book "The Objects That Remain", things stand in for human witnesses to trauma. Years after being... Read More

"Surrender" is a gripping and defiant memoir about personal identity and motherhood. In her captivating memoir "Surrender", Marylee MacDonald reflects on her life as an adoptee and how it influenced the relinquishment of her firstborn... Read More