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Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a “brilliant, well-documented” celebration (Le Monde) by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch as a symbol of female rebellion and independence in the face of misogyny and persecution.Centuries after the infamous witch hunts that swept through Europe and A... Read More about In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

An engaging illustrated history of feminism from antiquity through third-wave feminism, featuring Sappho, Mary Magdalene, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sojourner Truth, Simone de Beauvoir, and many others.The history of feminism? The right to vote, Susan B. Anthony, Gloria Steinem, white pantsuits? Oh, but t... Read More about A Brief History of Feminism

From best-selling Brazilian novelist Patr cia Melo comes a genre-defying tale of women in the Amazon and their reckoning with brutal oppression--by turns poetic, humorous, dark, and inspiring. The Simple Art of Killing a Woman vividly conjures the epidemic of femicide in Brazil, the power women can ... Read More about The Simple Art of Killing a Woman

"An unmitigated delight."--The New York Times What exactly is a piece of art? What is it meant to capture? And how do we find the courage to believe in our work? It's the week of her gallery opening and none of Paty's paintings are ready. She asks her friends to pose in her studio, and the outcome... Read More about How Dreadful!

After enduring a vicious bear attack in the Russian Far East's Kamchatka Peninsula, a French anthropologist undergoes a physical and spiritual transformation that forces her to confront the tenuous distinction between animal and human.In the Eye of the Wild begins with an account of the French anthr... Read More about In the Eye of the Wild

What if we could do better than the family? We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families can be filled with love and care, but for many they are sites of pain: from abandonment and neglect, to abuse and violence. Nobody is more likely to harm you than your family. Even in so-c... Read More about Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation