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1. A Body, Undone: Living on after Great Pain

Author: Christina Crosby
Publication date: 2016

2. A Politically Incorrect Feminist: Creating a Movement with Bitches, Lunatics, Dykes, Prodigies, Warriors, and Wonder Women

Author: Phyllis Chesler
Publication date: 2018

3. American Women

Editor: Mary K. Trigg
Publication date: 2016

4. An Unfinished Revolution: Edna Buckman Kearns and the Struggle for Women's Rights

Author: Marguerite Kearns
Publication date: 2021

5. Bertha Maxwell-Roddey: A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership

Author: Sonya Y. Ramsey
Publication date: 2022

6. Beyond the Call: Three Women on the Front Lines in Afghanistan

Author: Eileen Rivers
Publication date: 2018

7. Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins

Author: Mary Frances Phillips
Publication date: 2025

8. Caffie Greene and Black Women Activists: Unsung Women of the Black Liberation Movement

Author: Kofi-Charu Nat Turner
Publication date: 2022

9. First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies

Author: Kate Andersen Brower
Publication date: 2016

10. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics

Author: Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry, Minyon Moore, and Veronica Chambers
Publication date: 2018

11. Gender for the Warfare State: Literature of Women in Combat

Author: Robin Truth Goodman
Publication date: 2017

12. In Search of The Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece

Author: Salamishah Tillet
Publication date: 2021

13. Lena Horne: Goddess Reclaimed

Author: Donald Bogle
Publication date: 2023

14. Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead—My Life Story

Author: Cecile Richards
Publication date: 2018

15. Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Author: Sarah Scoles
Publication date: 2017

16. Making a Difference: My Fight for Native Rights and Social Justice

Author: Ada Deer
Publication date: 2019

17. Michelle Obama: A Life

Author: Peter Slevin
Publication date: 2015

18. Model Woman: Eileen Ford and the Business of Beauty

Author: Robert Lacey
Publication date: 2015

19. New Hampshire Women Farmers: Pioneers of the Local Food Movement

Author: Helen Brody and Leslie Tuttle
Publication date: 2015

20. Not Pretty Enough: The Unlikely Triumph of Helen Gurley Brown

Author: Gerri Hirshey
Publication date: 2016