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Advocacy 
  • Bias Interrupted: Creating Inclusion for Real and for Good by Joan C. Williams
  • Busting the brass ceiling: How a heroic female cop changed the face of policing by Fanchon Blake and Lindon Gross
  • Powered By Girl: A Field Guide for Supporting Youth Activists by Lyn Mikel Brown
  • Showing Up: How Men Can Become Effective Allies in the Workplace by Ray Arata
  • Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement by Tarana Burke
  • Unfinished Business by Anne-Marie Slaughter

Body Positive Women's Health
  • Bodies Out Of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression by Jana Evans Braziel
  • Bodymap by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
  • Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski
  • Hijas Americanas: Beauty, Body Image and Growing Up Latina by Rosie Molinary
  • Hunger: A Memoir of My Body by Roxanne Gay
  • The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf
  • The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
  • The Color of My Mind: Mental Health Narratives From People of Color by Dior Vargas

Counseling Women
  • Girls’ and Women’s Wellness: Contemporary Counseling Issues and Interventions by Laura Hensley Choate
  • Counseling the Contemporary Woman: Strategies and Interventions Across the Lifespan by Suzanne Degge-White; Marcela Kepic and Wendy Killam
  • Counseling Women Across the Lifespan (2017) Jill Schwarz
  • Culturally Alert Counseling (2020) Garret McAuliffe & Associates
  • Relational Cultural Therapy (2010) by Judith V. Jordan

Feminism
  • Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
  • Feminism is for Everybody by bell hooks
  • Hood Feminism: Notes for the Women that a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
  • In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens by Alice Walker
  • Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
  • Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown
  • Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black by bell hooks
  • Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMilan Cottom

Girls
  • Enough As She Is: How To Help Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success to Live Healthy, Happy, and Fulfilling Lives by Rachel Simmons
  • Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris
  • Sing a Rhythm Dance a Blues: Liberatory Education for Black and Brown Girls by Monique W. Morris 
  • The Confidence Code for Girls: Taking Risks, Messing Up, & Becoming Your Amazingly Imperfect, Totally Powerful Self by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman

Leadership
  • Dare to Lead: Brave Work, Tough Conversations, Whole Hearts by Brene Brown
  • How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back From Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job by Sally Helgesen and Marshall Goldsmith
  • Silenced and Sidelined: How Women Leaders Find Their Voices and Break Barriers by Carrie Lynn Arnold
  • The Female Vision: Women’s Real Power at Work by Sally Helgesen and Julie Johnson

Motherhood
  • Business and Bad Policy by Courtney Jung
  • Good Enough Is The New Perfect by Becky B. Gillespie & Hollee S. Temple
  • Lactivism: How Feminists and Fundamentalists, Hippies and Yuppies, and Physicians and Politicians Made Breastfeeding Big Business and Bad Policy by Courtney Jung
  • Parenting Beyond Pink & Blue: How to raise your kids free of gender stereotypes by Christina Spears Brown
  • The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women by Susan Douglas and Meredith Michaels

Confidence and Self-Esteem
  • I Thought It Was Just Me: Making the Journey from “What Will People Think?” to “I Am Enough” by Brené Brown
  • Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With The Heart Of A Buddha by Tara Brach
  • The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance – What Women Should Know by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman
  • The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed To Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brené Brown
  • Untamed by Glennon Doyle
  • You Are Your Best Thing by Tarana Burke and Brené Brown

Setting Boundaries
  • The Power of a Positive No by William Ury

The Gender Pay Gap
  • Knowing Your Value: Women, Money, and Getting What You’re Worth by Mika Brzezinski

The Second Shift
  • Drop The Ball: Achieving More By Doing Less by Tiffany Dufu
  • Fair Play by Eve Rodsky

Women Professors
  • Building Gender Equity in the Academy: Institutional Strategies for Change by Sandra Laursen and Ann E. Austin
  • Establishing the Family-Friendly Campus: Models for Effective Practice edited by Jaime Lester and Margaret Sallee
  • The Coach’s Guide For Women Professors Who Want a Successful Career and a Well-Balanced Life by Rena Seltzer
  • The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy by Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber

Working Women
  • Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski
  • What Works For Women At Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know by Joan C. Williams and Rachel Dempsey

Worldwide Women’s Issues
  • Call me a woman: On our way to equality and peace by Laurie Levin
  • Half the Sky: Turn Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
  • I am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World by Malala Yousafzai
  • Malala: My Story of Standing up for Girls' Rights by Malala Yousafzai

Articles
Glamour Exclusive: President Barack Obama Says, "This Is What a Feminist Looks Like" 

Post-Pandemic Working Motherhood: The End of the Superwoman Era by Mary A. Hermann and Cheryl Neale-McFall
 
Speaking to the Needs of Women in Counseling by Bethany Bray 

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Working Mothers: A Phenomenological Study by Mary A. Hermann, Cheryl Neale-McFall, and Jiale Man

Why It’s Harder To Be A Mother Today Than It Was 30 Years Ago: And How the COVID-19 Crisis Is Creating New Challenges and Opportunities by Mary A. Hermann
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Women and Alcohol: Drinking to Cope by Bethany Bray 

Women at Midlife and Beyond by Lynne Shallcross
 
Working with Women from All Walks of Life by Lynne Shallcross 
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