Medical director of Planned Parenthood tells the myriad stories of diverse individuals whose abortion experiences bring vital and threatened reproductive rights to life

The first-ever comprehensive survey of the world’s female buccaneers, both real and legendary, who through the ages sailed alongside—and sometimes in command of—their male counterparts.

This presents the life story of African American revolutionary Shakur, previously known as JoAnne Chesimard.

“Nobody knows Dolly like Dolly,” declares Dolly Parton.

A collection of interviews spanning five decades of Dolly's career and featuring material gathered from celebrated publications including Rolling Stone, Cosmopolitan, Playboy, and Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine. Also included are interviews which have not been previously available in print.

Personalizes the realities of climate change by paralleling our relationship to the planet with the way we interact within our own homes. Blending the political with the personal, this memoir dives into what it means to advocate for the future, and for the people and places you love, all while ensuring your own voice doesn’t get lost in the process.

Emma Gatewood was the first woman to hike the entire Appalachian Trail alone, as well as the first person—man or woman—to walk it twice and three times and she did it all after the age of 65.

This is the first and only biography of Grandma Gatewood, who became a hiking celebrity in the 1950s and ’60s, and who's vocal criticism of the lousy, difficult stretches led to bolstered maintenance, and very likely saved the trail from extinction.

There is a new kind of witch emerging in our cultural consciousness: the bruja.

Witchcraft has made a comeback in popular culture, especially among feminists. Brujas chronicles the magical lives of these practitioners as they develop their healing arts, express their progressive politics, and extend their personal rituals into community activism.

In a universe full of superheroes, Lois Lane has fought for truth and justice for over 75 years on page and screen without a cape or tights.

Though her history is often troubling, Lois's journey, as revealed in Investigating Lois Lane, showcases her ability to always escape the gendered limitations of each era and of the superhero genre as a whole.

Dismiss the stereotype of the bearded brewer.

It’s women, not men, who’ve brewed beer throughout most of human history. Author Tara Nurin shows readers that women have been—and are once again becoming—relevant in the brewing world.

Anna May Wong remains one of Hollywood’s best-known Chinese American actors.

In a narrative that recalls the pathos of life in Los Angeles’s Chinese neighborhoods and the glamour of Hollywood’s pleasure palaces, Graham Russell Gao Hodges recovers the life of a Hollywood legend.

Twenty-five years after her passing, Audrey Hepburn remains the most beloved of all Hollywood stars. Several biographies have chronicled her stardom, but none has covered her intense experiences through five years of Nazi occupation in the Netherlands. Audrey’s own reminiscences, new interviews with people who knew her in the war, wartime diaries, and research in classified Dutch archives shed light on the riveting, untold story of Audrey Hepburn under fire in World War II.

45,000 years ago, rare and precious statues of faceless women with hourglass figures, sturdy hips and generous breasts surfaced across Europe. Spanning thousands of years and nurturing many a fantasy, they are known as the prehistoric Venus figurines. But what were the women who inspired these artifacts really like?

For the first time ever these ancient women are being resurrected before our very eyes, shedding light on a new theory of our origins!

Could you put your beliefs before your family?

The extraordinary true story of Annette Beaumanoir: brilliant and fierce, she was a medical student living in a world at war who, at nineteen years old, joined the French Resistance and saved the lives of two Jewish children in Paris on the eve of their deportation to the camps.

As a doctor and mother devoted to justice and equality, Annette was later found guilty of treachery for supporting the Algerian FLN in France and sentenced to ten years in prison.

The story of her dramatic escape, trial in absentia and decades in exile, separated from her children, resembles that of the great heroes whose love for individuals had to compete with their destiny and love of humanity. Annette will remain with you forever.

With this gripping personal tale of heroism and grief, author Anne Weber joins Homer in her ability to conjure a titan in an epic poem.

Presenting reproductive justice as the pathway to equity and the birthplace of liberation.