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1. Becoming Women: The Embodied Self in Image Culture

Author: Carla Rice
Publication date: 2014

2. Beyond Binaries: Trans Identities in Contemporary Culture

Editor: Mike Perez, Rachel Friedman, and John C. Lamothe
Publication date: 2021

3. Butts: A Backstory

Author: Heather Radke
Publication date: 2022

4. Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture

Author: Aria S. Halliday
Publication date: 2022

5. Can't Stop the Grrrls: Confronting Sexist Labels in Pop Music from Ariana Grande to Yoko Ono

Author: Lily E. Hirsch
Publication date: 2023

6. Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It

Author: Kaitlyn Tiffany
Publication date: 2022

7. Here She Is: The Complicated Reign of the Beauty Pageant in America

Author: Hilary Levey Friedman
Publication date: 2020

8. Made Up: How the Beauty Industry Manipulates Consumers, Preys on Women's Insecurities, and Promotes Unattainable Beauty Standards

Author: Martha Laham
Publication date: 2020

9. Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex

Author: Juana María Rodríguez
Publication date: 2023

10. Queer Forms

Author: Ramzi Fawaz
Publication date: 2022

11. Re-imagining Black Women: A Critique of Post-feminist and Post-racial Melodrama in Culture and Politics

Author: Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd
Publication date: 2021

12. Reality TV and Queer Identities: Sexuality, Authenticity, Celebrity

Author: Michael Lovelock
Publication date: 2019

13. Sex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions

Author: Ian Barnard
Publication date: 2020

14. She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

Author: Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
Publication date: 2019

15. The Color Pynk: Black Femme Art for Survival

Author: Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley
Publication date: 2022

16. The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance

Author: Celeste Vaughan Curington, Jennifer H. Lundquist, and Ken-Hou Lin
Publication date: 2021

17. Women at the Wheel: A Century of Buying, Driving, and Fixing Cars

Author: Katherine J. Parkin
Publication date: 2017