Women’s History Month 2023

A selection of powerful books highlighting women’s accomplishments and influence—featuring trailblazers in literature, art, science, politics, and more.

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Woman

The American History of an Idea

Lillian Faderman

$25.00

Paperback

Cleopatra

Her History, Her Myth

Francine Prose

$26.00

Hardcover

Catching the Light

Joy Harjo

$18.00

Hardcover

Radical Vision

A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry

Soyica Diggs Colbert

$18.00

Paperback

Domina

The Women Who Made Imperial Rome

Guy de la Bédoyère

$20.00

Paperback

Howardena Pindell

Reclaiming Abstraction

Sarah Louise Cowan

$60.00

Hardcover

Women of Abstract Expressionism

Joan Marter, Gwen F. Chanzit, Robert Hobbs, Ellen G. Landau, Susan Landauer, Irving Sandler

$65.00

Hardcover

Traitor, Survivor, Icon

The Legacy of La Malinche

Victoria I. Lyall, Terezita Romo, Karen Cordero, Sandra Messinger Cypess, Ines Hernandez-Avila, Camilla Townsend, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Charlene Villasenor Black, Emmanuel Ortega, Lisa Sousa, Luis Vargas-Santiago

$50.00

Hardcover

Joan Mitchell

Sarah Roberts, Katy Siegel, Paul Auster, Gisele Barreau, Eric de Chassey, Jennifer Hickey, David Reed, Eileen Myles, Richard Shiff, Joyce Pensato, Jenni Quilter

$65.00

Hardcover

Georgia O'Keeffe, Photographer

Lisa Volpe, Ariel Plotek

$50.00

Hardcover

Yield

The Journal of an Artist

Anne Truitt, Alexandra Truitt, Rachel Kushner

$26.00

Hardcover

The Bonds of Womanhood

"Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835

Nancy F. Cott

$20.00

Paperback

Princess of the Hither Isles

A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South

Adele Logan Alexander

$28.00

Hardcover

Devotion

Patti Smith

$15.95

Hardcover

From Sarah to Sydney

The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family

June Cummins, Alexandra Dunietz

$35.00

Hardcover

Louise Bourgeois

Paintings

Clare Davies, Briony Fer

$45.00

Hardcover

Carolee Schneemann

Body Politics

Lotte Johnson, Chris Bayley, Jo Applin, Karen Di Franco, Jennifer Doyle, Elena Gorfinkel, Alison Green, Emily LaBarge, Thomas (T.) Jean Lax, Eileen Myles, Melissa Ragona, Amy Sillman, Kenneth White

$50.00

Hardcover

Women Artists in Paris, 1850-1900

Laurence Madeline, Bridget Alsdorf, Jane R. Becker, Joëlle Bolloch, Vibeke Waallann Hansen, Richard Kendall

$70.00

Hardcover

Artful Subversion

Empress Dowager Cixi's Image Making

Ying-chen Peng

$50.00

Hardcover

A Revolution on Canvas

The Rise of Women Artists in Britain and France, 1760-1830

Paris Spies-Gans

$55.00

Hardcover

Jane Austen

A Brief Life

Fiona Stafford

$12.95

Paperback

Sister Citizen

Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America

Melissa V. Harris-Perry

$18.00

Paperback

Calamity

The Many Lives of Calamity Jane

Karen R. Jones

$28.00

Hardcover

Minerva's French Sisters

Women of Science in Enlightenment France

Nina Rattner Gelbart

$40.00

Hardcover

Empress

Queen Victoria and India

Miles Taylor

$20.00

Paperback

Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s

Jill Dawsey, Michelle White, Amelia Jones, Alena J Williams, Ariana Reines, Kyla McDonald, Molly Everett

$50.00

Hardcover

The Women’s Khutbah Book

Contemporary Sermons on Spirituality and Justice from around the World

Sa’diyya Shaikh, Fatima Seedat

$35.00

Hardcover

A Good and Dignified Life

The Political Advice of Hannah Arendt and Rosa Luxemburg

Joke J Hermsen, Brendan Monaghan

$20.00

Hardcover

The Woman Reader

Belinda Jack

$22.00

Paperback

The Grounding of Modern Feminism

Nancy F. Cott

$33.00

Paperback

Barbra Streisand

Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power

Neal Gabler

$15.00

Paperback

Sarah

The Life of Sarah Bernhardt

Robert Gottlieb

$16.00

Paperback

Peggy Guggenheim

The Shock of the Modern

Francine Prose

$16.00

Paperback

Emma Goldman

Revolution as a Way of Life

Vivian Gornick

$17.95

Paperback

Lillian Hellman

An Imperious Life

Dorothy Gallagher

$26.00

Hardcover

Ruth

A Migrant’s Tale

Ilana Pardes

$26.00

Hardcover

Marie-Antoinette

The Making of a French Queen

John Hardman

$20.00

Paperback

Claretta

Mussolini's Last Lover

R. J. B. Bosworth

$20.00

Paperback

Bessie

Chris Albertson

$34.00

Paperback

Two Lives

Gertrude and Alice

Janet Malcolm

$13.95

Paperback

The Dance Claimed Me

A Biography of Pearl Primus

Peggy Schwartz, Murray Schwartz

$28.00

Paperback

Louisa Catherine

The Other Mrs. Adams

Margery M. Heffron, David L. Michelmore

$28.00

Paperback

Sarah Osborn's World

The Rise of Evangelical Christianity in Early America

Catherine A. Brekus

$33.00

Paperback

Astrid Lindgren

The Woman Behind Pippi Longstocking

Jens Andersen, Caroline Waight

$32.00

Hardcover

The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright

Ann M. Little

$33.00

Paperback

Matilda

Empress, Queen, Warrior

Catherine Hanley

$22.00

Paperback

Eliza Lucas Pinckney

An Independent Woman in the Age of Revolution

Lorri Glover

$38.00

Hardcover

The Life of Christina of Hane

Christina of Hane, Racha Kirakosian

$30.00

Hardcover

The Capital of Free Women

Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico

Danielle Terrazas Williams

$65.00

Hardcover