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  • Rosa Luxemburg

    by Paul Frölich
    The definitive partisan biography of Rosa Luxemburg, as only a contemporary and comrade could know her.

  • Sexuality and Socialism

    by Sherry Wolf
    An indispensable history and contemporary guide to the struggle for authentic sexual equality and liberation.

  • Song of the Stubborn One Thousand

    by Peter Shapiro
    An account of the successful strike by mainly Mexican women workers at the largest plant in Watsonville, California.

  • Undivided Rights

    by Marlene Gerber Fried, Elena Gutiérrez, et al.
    Undivided Rights captures the evolving and largely unknown activist history of women of color organizing for reproductive justice.

  • "When the Welfare People Come"

    by Don Lash
    Analyzes the history of the U.S. child welfare system and its implications today, offering ideas for reform and building solidarity.

  • Whose Story Is This?

    by Rebecca Solnit

    New feminist essays for the #MeToo era from the international best-selling author of Men Explain Things to Me and the forthcoming memoir Recollections of My Nonexistence.

  • Women and the American Labor Movement

    by Philip S. Foner

    A comprehensive account of the women who organized for labor rights and equality from the early factories to the 1970’s.

  • The Women Incendiaries

    by Edith Thomas
    The long out-of-print classic about women in the Paris Commune of 1871.

  • Women Strikers Occupy Chain Stores, Win Big

    by Dana Frank
    The first successful all women sit-in conducted by 'the counter girls' at the Detroit Woolworth's during the Great Depression.

  • The Women's Revolution

    by Judy Cox

    A captivating account of the central role women played in the Russian Revolution.

  • Writing Red

    Edited by Charlotte Nekola and Paula Rabinowitz

    A landmark volume showcasing the vital writing of revolutionary women during the 1930s.