Journalist Michelle McIvor’s "The Glow Code" is a factual, friendly guide to enjoying and enhancing life in middle age. With the goal of empowering women and helping them feel better about aging in their own skins, this book draws on... Read More

N. S. Nuseibeh’s "Namesake" is a brilliant collection of essays threaded together by reflections on an early Muslim warrior. Nuseibeh’s family members believe they are direct descendants of Nusaybah bint Ka’ab, one of the first... Read More

In her memoir, cofounder of the National Organization for Women (NOW) Muriel Fox celebrates thirty crusaders in the women’s movement whom history shouldn’t forget. Fox shares perspective on the movement in which she played a key... Read More

Rebecca Kormos’s sociology text focuses on the disparate involvement of women in the climate change movement. Women bear the global brunt of climate change, from droughts and extreme temperature fluctuations to the ravages of flooding,... Read More

Marie Carter’s cultural history text "Mortimer and the Witches" focuses on infamous fortune-tellers and the nineteenth-century New York cityscape they occupied. Mortimer Thomson wrote for a variety of newspapers under the pseudonym... Read More

Iman Mersal’s biography explores the troubled, unfulfilled life of Egyptian writer Enayat al-Zayyat. In 1963, twenty-six-year-old Enayat al-Zayyat committed suicide using sleeping pills. Enayat had finished one novel and was working on... Read More

Katherine Leyton relates her pregnancy experiences to larger issues of femininity, parenthood, and bodily autonomy in her memoir "Motherlike". Leyton and her husband planned to have a child, but not quite so fast: when she learned she... Read More

Diverse women throughout history are celebrated in the intimate profiles collected in "The Unique Women of the Venetian Republic". Connie Spenuzza’s "The Unique Women of the Venetian Republic" is a sumptuous historical review that... Read More