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I Got Thunder: Black Women Songwriters and Their Craft by Lashonda Katrice Barnett
 Scan any mainstream music magazine's annual rundown of "great songwriters," and you'll likely see black men prominently represented. Regardless of genre, it's easy to list a few choice names: James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, Prince. Similarly, a list of great vocalists is likely to be populated by a...
City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman's Account of War and Resistance by Haifa Zangana
 Contrary to the cliché, ignorance is not bliss; it breeds destruction and despair -- a fact that is amply proved in Iraqi journalist Haifa Zangana's incisive look at women in Iraq, City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman's Account of War and Resistance.
Zangana, who is now based in London, and whose...
It's a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments by Amanda Marcotte
 It happens to every feminist at some point. You might be listening to a coworker bemoan the injustice of Ladies' Night bar specials or responding to an acquaintance who demands to know when you plan on getting pregnant. You know you're hearing sexist bullshit, but the situation leaves you, well...
Pushed: The Painful Truth about Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care by Jennifer Block
 In March of 2006, the National Institutes of Health convened a panel of obstetricians, pediatricians, midwives, and other experts to compile a state-of-the-science report on cesarean section, and to suggest avenues for future study surgical childbirth. The NIH decided to call this conference...
Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild by Deborah Siegel
 Within both feminist and mass media, it often seems like there's as much discussion of feminist infighting as there is of actual feminist theory and action. From the endless hand-wringing over generational conflict to the still-heated battles over the role of sexuality in feminist identity, you'd...
You Never Call! You Never Write!: A History of the Jewish Mother by Joyce Antler
 In You Never Call! You Never Write! Joyce Antler traces the origins and history of the Jewish mother from her arrival in New York's Yiddish theaters and early American cinema to her present-day manifestations in the standup routines and television shows where she's become a regular player. Along...
Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection by Katharine Park
 Anyone who has ever studied the history of the human body knows that the male form was considered the normative -- not to mention the ideal -- form by everyone from the ancient Greeks to American medical men of the 20th century. The female body was a weak copy, and a woman's ability to bear...
She's Such a Geek: Women Write about Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff by and Charlie Anders Annalee Newitz
 Geeks may be the consummate outsiders in our cliquey culture, having been seduced away from the social approval of their peers by powerful draw of obscure and technical topics. But if male geeks are self-selected outsiders, at least they have the company of their fellow geeks. Female geeks, on the...
Half/Life: Jew-Ish Tales from Almost, Not Quite, and In-Between by Laurel Snyder
 What's it like to celebrate both Easter and Passover at the same time? This smart, funny anthology of essays narrates the experiences of growing up with one Jewish parent or being half-Jewish, emphasis on ish. While these engaging essays deal explicitly with negotiating between Ashkenazi Jewish and ...
The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double Dutch to Hip-Hop by Kyra D Gaunt
 Jumping rope may look like kid stuff, but double Dutch separates the women from the girls. Two ropes turn alternately in a pulsing oval, like street art to the untrained eye. But breaching the ropes is a challenge -- and not stomping on a rope once you're inside is even harder. Some girls can...
James Tiptree, JR.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
by Julie Phillips
Women and Madness: Revised and Updated
by Phyllis Chesler
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