100 Non-Fiction Books by Women on Women
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Language, Writing, Reading
Women and Autobiography in the Twentieth Century, Linda R. Anderson
Women and Writing, Virginia Woolf
Women in the Language and Society of Japan: The Linguistic Roots of Bias, Naoko Takemaru (also: Womansword: What Japanese Words Say About Women, Cherry Kittredge)
Man-Made Language, Dale Spender
Edging Women Out: Victorian Novelists, Publishers and Social Change, Gaye Tuchman
Women’s Reading in Britain, 1750-1835, Jacqueline Pearson
Black Women Writing Autobiography: A Tradition Within a Tradition, Joanne Braxton
Diaries and Journals of Literary Women from Fanny Burney to Virginia Woolf, Judy Simons
Between Ourselves: Letters Between Mothers & Daughters, Karen Payne
How to Suppress Women’s Writing, Joanna Russ
Chloe plus Olivia : an anthology of lesbian literature from the 17th century to the present, Lillian Faderman
Reading Women’s Worlds from Christine de Pizan to Doris Lessing: A Guide to Six Centuries of Women Writers Imagining Rooms of Their Own, Sharon L. Jansen
The Hidden Writer, Alexandra Johnson
Women in Chains: The Legacy of Slavery in Black Women’s Fiction, Venetria K. Patton
Embodied Shame: Uncovering Female Shame in Contemporary Women’s Writings, J. Brooks Bouson
The World Split Open: Four Centuries of Women Poets, ed. Louise Bernikow
History
Fearless Wives and Frightened Shrews: The Construction of the Witch in Early Modern Germany, Sigrid Bauner
Women, the Family and Peasant Revolution in China, Kay Ann Johnson
A Quiet Revolution: The resurgence of the Veil in the Middle East and America, Leila Ahmed
The Encyclopedia of Amazons: Women Warriors from Antiquity to the Modern Era, Jessica Salmonson
Hearts And Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote, Jane Robinson
Memoirs of Victorian Working-Class Women, Florence S. Boos
Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights / Black Power Movement, Bettye Collier-Thomas
Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times, Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII, Karen Lindsey
A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France, Caroline Moorehead
‘Criminals, Idiots, Women, and Minors’: Victorian Writing by Women on Women, Susan Hamilton
The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy, Gerda Lerner
Women’s Work: An Anthology of African-American Women’s Historical Writings from Antebellum America to the Harlem Renaissance, ed. Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp and Kathryn Lofton
The Girl With 7 Names: A North Korean’s Defector Story, Hyeonseo Lee
Seeing and Knowing: Women and Learning in Medieval Europe, Anneke Mulder-Bakker
To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America - A History, Lillian Faderman,
Women in the Holocaust: A Feminist History, Zoë Waxman
The Undaunted Women of Nanking: The Wartime Diaries of Minnie Vautrin and Tsen Shui-fang, ed. Hua-ling Hu and Zhang Lian-hong
Gentlemen and Amazons: The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory, 1861-1900, Cynthia Eller
Modern, Contemporary
Women’s Lifeworlds: Women’s narratives on shaping their realities, ed. Edith Sizoo
Writing Women’s Worlds: Bedouin Stories, Lila Abu-Lughod
Femicide in Global Perspective, ed. Diana Russell
Silenced No More: Voices of Comfort Women, S.J. Friedman
Practicing Feminism in South Korea: The women’s movement against sexual violence, Kyungja Jung
Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues, Catharine MacKinnon
Women’s Voices from the Rainforest, Janet Townsend
Women, Resistance and Revolution: A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern World, Sheila Rowbotham
Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women through the Ages, ed. Anne Commire and Deborah Klezmer
The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture, Bonnie J. Morris
Contested Voices: Women Immigrants in Today’s World, Mariane Githens
The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, Nawal El Saadawi
Making a Killing: Femicide, Free Trade, and La Frontera, Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism, Uma Narayan
Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women, Martha Ackelsberg
With All Our Strength: The Revolutionary Association of the Women in Afghanistan, Anne Brodsky
Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China, Leta Hong Fincher
Religion, Spirituality, Myth
Women and Mystical Experience in the Middle Ages, Frances Beer
The Wisdom of the Beguines: The Forgotten Story of a Medieval Women’s Movement, Laura Swan
Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate, Leila Ahmed
Wandering Women and Holy Matrons: Women as Pilgrims in the Later Middle Ages, Leigh Ann Craig
Unspoken Worlds: Women’s Religious Lives, Nancy Auer Falk
Women and Indigenous Religions, ed. Sylvia Marcos
Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement, Kathryn Joyce
Beyond God the Father, Mary Daly
Convent Chronicles: Women Writing About Women and Reform in the Late Middle Ages, Anne Winston-Allen
Immortality and Reincarnation: Wisdom from the Forbidden Journey, Alexandra David-Néel
The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women’s Anthology, ed. Irena Klepfisz and Melanie Kaye Kantrowitz
Women Living Zen: Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns, Paula Kane Robinson Arai
Spiders & Spinsters: Women and Mythology, Marta Weigle
The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance, Elizabeth Wayland Barber
The Female Mystic: Great Women Thinkers of the Middle Ages, Andrea Dickens
Science, Medicine
Blazing the Trail: Essays by Leading Women in Science, ed. Emma Ideal & Rhiannon Meharchand
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race, Margot Lee Shetterly
Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor, Hali Felt
Complexities: Women in Mathematics, Bettye Anne Case
The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight, Martha Ackmann
Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, Brenda Maddox
The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science, Julie Des Jardins
Women and Madness, Phyllis Chesler
The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World, Shelley Emling (for a fictionalised version: Tracy Chevalier’s Remarkable Creatures)
Women in Science: Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century, Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie
Feminism & Bioethics, Susan M. Wolf
Chrysalis: Maria Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis, Kim Todd
Lifting the Veil: The feminine face of science, Linda J. Shepherd
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women, Kate Moore
Mary Somerville: Science, Illumination, and the Female Mind, Kathryn A. Neeley
Pandora’s Breeches: Women, Science and Power in the Enlightenment, Patricia Fara
Economics, Politics
Women and Economics, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Political Economy of Violence against Women, Jacqui True
Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Economics, Drucilla Barker (also her Liberating Economics: Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization)
Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Use Women’s Labor and Ideas to Exploit the World, Hester Eisenstein
The Poverty of Life-Affirming Work: Motherwork, Education, and Social Change, Mechthild U. Hart
Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics, Cynthia Enloe
Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World, Andrea Barnet
Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism, Melissa W. Wright
Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner?: A Story of Women and Economics, Katrine Marçal
The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR’S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience, Kirstin Downey
If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics, Marilyn Waring (also her Counting For Nothing: What Men Value and What Women are Worth)
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, Silvia Federici
A lot of the books that aren’t available on OpenLibrary can be found here, if you have no morals and don’t mind piracy.
