Kathryn Aalto’s "Writing Wild" celebrates the women writers who bring insight, grace, and power to nature writing, their perspectives urgent and necessary. Human survival is linked to the natural world, and Aalto asserts that... Read More

“Dangerous the epiphany that you are old enough to have a history”: like a bullet through a pane of glass, so begins Julie Marie Wade’s hellacious essay collection, "Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing". In her nonlinear cavalcade of... Read More

Journalist Lauren McKeon interrogates the insidious and invisible power structures that keep women down, and shows how women “disrupt and reimagine” those structures, in "No More Nice Girls", a book all about the paradoxes of... Read More

Insightful, compelling, and necessary, "Anonymous Is a Woman" profiles women who made important historical contributions without recognition. Nina Ansary’s inspiring "Anonymous Is a Woman" analyzes how women’s achievements are... Read More

In 2020, the Nineteenth Amendment turns 100, and Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder’s "A Century of Votes for Women" examines its history and effects in direct, accessible terms. Moving chronologically, the book first details the... Read More

999 Jewish girls who were transported to Auschwitz became the initial victims of the Final Solution, but the girls disappeared from the historical record in the 1990s due to a methodological fillip. Heather Dune Macadam’s "999" rights... Read More

Since turning forty, journalist Ada Calhoun has been obsessed with the women of Generation X and their “struggles with money, relationships, work, and existential despair.” Playing devil’s advocate in Why We Can’t Sleep, Calhoun... Read More

E. Patrick Johnson’s oral history "Honeypot" takes a unique approach to preserving the lives of black queer women who were raised in the American South. Using a fictional framework to recount real-life oral histories, Johnson presents... Read More