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Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male Power

By Ijeoma Oluo

To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa

By Pat Shipman

The World: A Family History

By Montefiore, Simon Sebag

Unwell Women: A History of Medicine in a Man-Made World

By Elinor Cleghorn

Modern Women: 52 Pioneers

By Kira Cochrane

East London Suffragettes

By Sarah Jackson, Rosemary Taylor

Ultra Women: The Trailblazers Defying Sexism in Sport

By Lily Canter

A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)

By Virginia Woolf

All the Rage: Pleasure, Pain, Power: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960

By Virginia Nicholson

Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman's Astonishing Life of Seduction, Intrigue and Power

By Sonia Purnell

ELIZABETH HEYRICK: The Making of an Anti-slavery Campaigner

By JOCELYN. ROBSON

No Country for a Woman: The Adventurous Life of Lady Dorothy Mills, Explorer and Writer

By JANE. DISMORE

Unfortunately, She Was a Nymphomaniac: A New History of Rome's Imperial Women

By Joan Smith

Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess

By Adam Zamoyski

The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival

By Anne Sebba

Lionessheart: The Life and Times of Joanna Plantagenet

By Catherine Hanley

The Women’s Royal Army Corps

By Shelford Bidwell

Women who Went to War, 1938-46

By Eric Taylor

A History of Women in 101 Objects: A Walk Through Female History

By Annabelle Hirsch

Rehearsals for Living

By Robyn Maynard, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Robin D. G. Kelley

The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective: Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime

By Stapleton, Susannah

Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune

By Bill Dedman, Paul Clark Newell, Jr.

Women's Lives in Medieval Europe: A Sourcebook

By Emilie Amt

Mistresses: Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II

By Linda Porter

Female Eunuch (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

By Greer, Germaine

Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project

By Ruth H. Howes, Caroline Herzenberg

Origins of the Magdalene Laundries: An Analytical History

By Rebecca Lea McCarthy

Blood Sisters: French Revolution in Women's Memory

By Marilyn Yalom

Women in Caribbean History: The British-Colonised Territories /]ccompiled and Edited by Verene A. Shepherd; For the Social History Project, Dept. of History, Mona University of the West Indies

By Verene Shepherd

Boadicea's Chariot: The Warrior Queens

By Fraser, Antonia