Gender Studies

A revised and updated edition of Emily Nagoski’s game-changing New York Times best seller Come As You Are, featuring new information and research on mindfulness, desire, and pleasure that will radically transform your sex life....

First published three years ago before the print edition of Women Who Run with the Wolves made publishing history, this original audio edition quickly became an underground best seller....

In his classic guide to understanding the opposite sex, Dr. John Gray provides a practical and proven way for men and women to improve their communication and relationships by acknowledging the differences between them....

I Thought It Was Just Me shines a long-overdue light on an important truth: Our imperfections are what connect us to each other and to our humanity....

A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' ""Love Song to the Nation"" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about...

The Heroine’s Journey describes contemporary woman’s search for wholeness in a society where she has been defined according to masculine values....

“One of those life-changing reads that makes you see—or, in this case, hear—the whole world differently.” —Megan Angelo, author of Followers “At times chilling, often funny, and always perceptive and cogent, Cultish is a bracing reminder that the scariest thing about cults is that...

In this life-changing book that blends myth, memoir, and modern-day mentors, renowned psychologist Dr. Sharon Blackie journeys from the wasteland of modern society to a place of nourishment and connection....

Unearths the stories of the little-known but powerful elder women in European myth and folklore, inspiring listeners to radically reimagine the last decades of their lives as the most dynamic of all....

Most men today are sent off into society with a broken belief system, which they use to make choices that get them terrible results with life and women....

Conversations we never had about sex, body image, work and relationships: This part-memoir, part feminist-manifesto meets women where they are and as they are.

UNABRIDGED AND AVAILABLE ON AUDIO FOR THE FIRST TIME Simone de Beauvoir’s essential masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of “woman,” and a revolutionary exploration of inequality and otherness. This unabridged edition of the text reinstates significant portions of the...

From New York Times bestselling author, feminist pioneer, and cultural icon bell hooks, a timelessly necessary treatise on how patriarchy and toxic masculinity hurts us all.

Clementine Ford's incendiary debut, Fight Like a Girl, is an essential manifesto for feminists new, old and soon to be and exposes just how unequal the world continues to be for women....

Clementine Ford is a person who has loved deeply, strangely and with curiosity. She is fascinated by love and how it makes its home in our hearts and believes that the way we continue to surrender ourselves to love is an act of great faith and bravery....

An intelligent and comprehensive guide to polyamory, open relationships, and other forms of alternative love, The Smart Girl's Guide to Polyamory offers relationship advice radically different from anything you'll find on the magazine rack....

Learn how the female body has been racialized for more than 200 years....

Women in War uncovers over twenty raw, true accounts of the fearless women who fought and served, from ancient battlefields to the jungles of Vietnam and the deserts of Iraq and Afghanistan.

An empowering audiobook about standing your ground in dating, in marriage, in your career, and anywhere else....

An inspiring and radical celebration of 70 women, girls, and gender nonbinary people who have changed--and are still changing--the world, from the Civil Rights Movement and Stonewall riots through Black Lives Matter and beyond. With a radical and inclusive approach to history, Modern HERstory...

For centuries, a hidden current has run through the world's wisdom traditions, a dark, positive, feminine energy represented by such striking symbols as...

The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity....

It's time to create a future where feminine power and leadership is celebrated. It's time for a radical awakening and a revolution. It's time for women to rise.

Frame is the first in a series, descripting the work of thousands of men over a decade who have learned how to create a positive male identity in a world that not only lacks it, but punishes it....

Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women is the story of Brooks’ intrepid journey toward an understanding of the women behind the veils.....

To be a woman is to be half the world’s population but, in many countries, unfortunately still now and for most of history, women were decidedly second class, normally no more than chattels and the bearers and nurturers of children. As society involved into a complex and overlapping system where education and equality begin to seek space things began to change. In this volume our authors describe and reveal how life actually felt for almost all women before the recent past.

Com mais de 600 mil exemplares vendidos, esta obra se tornou uma referência de empoderamento feminino, uma mensagem de esperança e otimismo para todas as mulheres que desejam viver com menos obrigações e mais alegria. Apesar da aparente liberdade que nós, mulheres, possuímos hoje, continuamos desempenhando papéis que nos impedem de manifestar nosso verdadeiro eu.

Sophie Gilbert identifica un punto de inflexión a finales de los 90 y principios de los 2000, cuando la energía del feminismo de tercera ola se desplomó y entramos en un periodo regresivo de hiperobjetivación, sexualización e infantilización de la mujer. En este audiolibro explora el lado más oscuro de la nostalgia, centrando su aguda mirada analítica en los objetos culturales más reveladores del siglo XXI, en la música, el cine, la televisión, la moda, el periodismo sensacionalista y más.

If we hope to fight and eventually heal from misogyny, we must first be able to identify and understand it. Despite the undeniable progress for women and girls in the 20th and 21st centuries, misogyny is still alive and well in today's culture—often in ways that are more subtle and more...

Celebrating a decade of Columbia Global Reports, the Forerunners series revives groundbreaking works of investigative journalism and incisive analysis published a century before CGR’s founding. These texts, once forgotten or underexplored, reflect CGR’s core mission: fearless reporting...

In Indie Porn, Zahra Stardust examines the motivations and interventions of independent porn producers as they navigate criminal laws, risk-averse platforms, discriminatory algorithms, and rampant piracy. Herself a porn performer and participant, Stardust takes listeners behind the scenes, offering intimate insights into this sociopolitical movement. She finds politicians who watch porn in parliament, protesters leading face-sitting demonstrations, sex workers making COVID-safe pornography, and artists reverse-engineering porn detection software.

When eight-year-old Amy Erdman Farrell moved with her family to Akron, Ohio, in 1972, she found herself adrift in a sea of taunting boys and mean girls. Shy by nature, she dreaded her long, unhappy days at school. But a few years later, Farrell found an escape from bullying, the promise of sisterhood, a rising sense of confidence, adventure, and—best of all—lifelong friendship when she joined a Girl Scout troop.

Nach dem Attentat der Taliban auf ihr Leben wurde Malala unvermittelt auf die öffentliche Bühne gestoßen und schnell zur international bekannten Symbolfigur für Mut und Resilienz. Doch fern der Kameras und Menschenmengen brauchte sie Jahre, um ihren Platz in einer ihr nicht vertrauten Welt zu finden. Nun nimmt Malala in Finding My Way ihre Hörerinnen und Hörer erstmals mit in die Welt hinter den Schlagzeilen – in einem zutiefst verletzlichen und überraschenden Memoir voller Authentizität, Humor und Zärtlichkeit.

'An oracle' DOLLY ALDERTON 'Articulate[s] a universal, feminine wisdom with such ferocity it feels like she's slapping the reader around the face' OBSERVER 'Equal parts self-lacerating, tender and witty' GLAMOUR 'Furious, sharp, funny, honest' iPAPER Sometimes when I drink wine out of a...

Ever wondered what's really going on in the mind of the man beside you? In Men Explained, Finally, Tom Sturges pulls back the curtain and offers a candid, funny, and surprisingly tender guide to understanding the men in our lives—fathers, brothers, boyfriends, husbands, sons. With equal parts charm and honesty, Sturges explores why men love forts, fib without thinking, compartmentalize everything, and never quite stop being 14.

“No labirinto com Maria Homem” já diz a que veio em seu próprio nome: um programa que te convida a se perder nas labirínticas veredas do grande sertão da mente, explorando seus mistérios e impasses. E, quem sabe, em meio a essa jornada, você possa encontrar um fio de Ariadne e descobrir as raízes dos seus desejos - ou, pelo menos, daquilo que você acredita que deseja.

Balancing a devotion to activism with personal relationships can be incredibly difficult. Kitty Stryker shares her experience as an activist, street medic and relationship educator to help others pursue the important work while maintaining healthy relationships and without burning out. In what is both a call to action and a candid memoir, Stryker is open about what she has learned and her perceived limitations.

The Heart She Holds is a profound exploration of the essence of womanhood and the quiet, transformative power it brings to relationships. Rooted in emotional intelligence, empathy, and intuitive strength, this book delves into the nature of the feminine spirit—not as a role, but as a living force that nurtures connection, heals conflict, and fosters deep intimacy.

Offen, kraftvoll und berührend berichtet Alex Mariah Peter von Kindheit und Einsamkeit, Herkunft und Identität, von Schönheit und Schmerz, Übergriffigkeit, Verlust und einem medialen Rampenlicht, das nicht immer wärmt. In einer Welt, die ständig definiert, wer man sein darf, wagt sie den mutigsten Schritt: ihre Geschichte selbst zu erzählen, um als ganze Person gesehen zu werden – nicht trotz, sondern wegen allem, was dazugehört.

This powerful book uncovers the untold stories of 30 extraordinary African queens and heroines whose courage, wisdom, and resistance shook empires and shaped nations. From warrior leaders who stood against colonial invasion to visionary rulers who built thriving kingdoms, these women are the forgotten architects of history.