Women's History Month

Hood Feminism

Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot

By: Mikki Kendall
Narrated by: Mikki Kendall
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

“Hood Feminism touches on many subjects that mainstream feminists may not think of as feminist issues. Issues like food and housing insecurity, parenting, and disability rights, among others. Mikki Kendall calls out mainstream feminism as existing only for the advancement of white women, to the detriment of women of color. Some of my biggest... Read more

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Invisible Women

Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

By: Caroline Criado-Perez
Narrated by: Caroline Criado-Perez
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

“This book is as utterly fascinating as it is frustrating and eye-opening. I blew through it in a day and a half because I simply could not stop listening to it and appreciating with rising vexation Perez's breakdown of the data at every level of the world we live in today. This is a book I wish I could share with everyone and talk about to get... Read more

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Reclaiming Two-Spirits

Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America

Queer Ideas/Queer Action: Book #12

By: Gregory Smithers
Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Winner of the 2023 Prose Award in Cultural Anthropology and SociologyFinalist for the 2023 Publishing Triangle Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction

A sweeping history of Indigenous traditions of gender, sexuality, and resistance that reveals how, despite centuries of colonialism, Two-Spirit people are reclaiming their place in Native... Read more

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A Place of Our Own

Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture

By: June Thomas
Narrated by: June Thomas
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

A deeply researched and highly readable cultural history of queer women’s lives in the second half of the twentieth century, told through six iconic spaces. For as long as queer women have existed, they’ve created gathering grounds where they can be themselves. From the intimate darkness of the lesbian bar to the sweaty camaraderie of the... Read more

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Eve

How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

By: Cat Bohannon
Narrated by: Cat Bohannon
Length: 15 hours 54 minutes

An ambitious, eye-opening, myth-busting, and groundbreaking history of the evolution of the female body, by a brilliant new researcher and writer

Why do women live longer than men? Why do women have menopause? Why are women more likely to get Alzheimer’s? Why do girls score better at every academic subject than boys until puberty, when suddenly... Read more

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In Defense of Witches

The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

By: Mona Chollet
Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

“A spellbinding look into the legacy of misogyny and how its roots spread into the worldwide witch trials. Insightful, rage-inducing, and deeply provocative, Chollet examines the dark, violent time in our history and asks whether culture has really shifted in the independent woman's favor. Read more

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A Black Women's History of the United States

ReVisioning History: Book #5

By: Daina Ramey Berry & Kali Nicole Gross
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

The award-winning Revisioning American History series continues with this “groundbreaking new history of Black women in the United States” (Ibram X. Kendi)—the perfect companion to An Indigenous People’s History of the United States and An African American and Latinx History of the United States.

An empowering and intersectional history that... Read more

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Freedom is a Constant Struggle

Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

By: Angela Y. Davis
Narrated by: Angela Y. Davis & Coleen Marlo
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

“The audiobook, which I listened to, is read by Davis herself, and in these times of multiple crises it was amazing to hear her voice and listen to her words - steadying, galvanising, wise, clear and sharp. Read more

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The Making of Biblical Womanhood

How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

By: Beth Allison Barr
Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Biblical womanhood—the belief that God designed women to be submissive wives, virtuous mothers, and joyful homemakers—pervades North American Christianity. From choices about careers to roles in local churches to relationship dynamics, this belief shapes the everyday lives of evangelical women. Yet biblical womanhood isn't biblical, says Baylor... Read more

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Vagina Obscura

An Anatomical Voyage

By: Rachel E. Gross
Narrated by: Siho Ellsmore
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

“A wild journey into a long-neglected and maligned body part. I found myself equally enraptured and enraged the whole way through. Complete with haunting illustrations by Armando Veve, Vagina Obscura provides scientific, philosophical, psychological, and historical perspective on the past, present, and future of the vagina. Read more

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