Historian Nancy Goldstone documents how the empresses of France and Austria, Eugénie and Elisabeth, rebelled against tradition and ruled during the tempestuous 19th century.
In her vulnerable memoir, Jennifer Jones maps her emotional, trailblazing journey of becoming the first Black Radio City Rockette.
Staking new ground in the well-worn World War II setting, Propaganda Girls collects the stories of four women fighting—winning—the information war.
Cassidy Randall recounts the adventures of the “Denali Damsels”—the first all-woman team to ascend North America’s tallest mountain peak.
Susan Polgar, the awe-inspiring first female Grandmaster and only player to earn all six crowns in history, charts how she defied the odds and became one of the most decorated chess champions in the world.
Biographer Mayukh Sen celebrates Merle Oberon, the first actor of color to receive a performance nomination for an Academy Award, and reveals the complicated history of race exclusion in Hollywood.
Rare book dealer Rebecca Romney explores Jane Austen’s literary muses and investigates the disappearance of these writers’ work.
The inspiring, companionable Expect Great Things! celebrates the legacy of the Katharine Gibbs School for women and its tenacious scholars.
Daniel Stone shares the story of Alice Hamilton, the doctor and health advocate who spearheaded the investigation into the deadly effects of leaded gasoline in the 1920s.
The Icon and the Idealist is a compelling, warts-and-all dual biography of the warring leaders of the early 20th-century birth control movement: Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett.
Lydia Reeder celebrates the female physician who debunked sexist Victorian-era medicine in The Cure for Women.
Meticulously researched and beautifully written, The Bluestockings recounts the lives of 18th-century women who forged a path for feminist movements to come.
Vicki Valosik’s captivating Swimming Pretty charts the evolution of women’s swimming and aquatic performance.
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