• The best books on Prehistoric Women - Femmes de la préhistoire by Claudine Cohen
  • The best books on Prehistoric Women - Femmes, naissance de l'homme: Icônes de la préhistoire by Alexandre Hurel & Florian Berrouet
  • The best books on Prehistoric Women - L'homme préhistorique est aussi une femme by Marylène Patou-Mathis
  • The best books on Prehistoric Women - The Invisible Sex: Uncovering the True Role of Women in Prehistory J. M. Adovasio, Olga Soffer and Jake Page
  • The best books on Prehistoric Women - Our Human Story by Chris Stringer & Louise Humphrey

The best books on Prehistoric Women, recommended by Thomas Cirotteau

Thanks to scientific advances, we’re finding out more and more about prehistoric people, including women and their lives during the Upper Paleolithic era. French filmmaker Thomas Cirotteau, director of the documentary and co-author of a book about Lady Sapiens, recommends books to find out more about our female ancestors, who while separated from us by tens of thousands of years, have been brought tantalizingly close by new techniques and discoveries.

  • The best books on African American Women’s History - Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920 by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
  • The best books on African American Women’s History - To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War by Tera Hunter
  • The best books on African American Women’s History - Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement by Barbara Ransby
  • The best books on African American Women’s History - Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism by Erik McDuffie
  • The best books on African American Women’s History - Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom by Keisha N. Blain

The best books on African American Women’s History, recommended by Keisha N. Blain

Black women’s stories are often untold, but their critical role in American society and politics is finally being broadly acknowledged. Black activists today are building upon the legacy of African American women who have been using every open avenue to seek social justice for centuries. And “no matter how many obstacles are erected to impede them,” says award-winning historian Keisha N. Blain, Black women “are unstoppable.”

  • The Best Philosophy Books by Women - Women, Race & Class by Angela Davis
  • The Best Philosophy Books by Women - Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne
  • The Best Philosophy Books by Women - What Is Philosophy for? by Mary Midgley
  • The Best Philosophy Books by Women - American Citizenship: The Quest for Inclusion by Judith Shklar
  • The Best Philosophy Books by Women - The Rights of Others by Seyla Benhabib

The Best Philosophy Books by Women, recommended by Lisa Whiting & Rebecca Buxton

When it comes to the big names in philosophy, very few people think of women and the books that make the canon have, traditionally, almost always been written by European or American men. Here, Rebecca Buxton and Lisa Whiting, editors of The Philosopher Queens, a book that collects together articles about the most important women philosophers, talk through their selection of the best philosophy books written by women.