ON FEMINISM:
(*s are my favorites)
*Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
The Diet Survivor’s Handbook: 60 Lessons in Eating, Acceptance and Self-Care
*Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
Full Exposure: Opening Up to Sexual Creativity and Erotic Expression
Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters
The Good Body – Acting Edition
Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism
The Hungry Self: Women, Eating and Identity
I Can’t Believe She Did That!: Why Women Betray Other Women at Work
Losing It: America’s Obsession with Weight and the Industry that Feeds on It
*Manifesta [10th Anniversary Edition]: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future
A Passion for Friends (Toward a Philosophy of Female)
The Twisted Sisterhood: Unraveling the Dark Legacy of Female Friendships
Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
Vindication of the Rights of Woman
*What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl’s Shame-Free Guide to Sex and Safety
Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny
ON THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW, ITS CONTEXT, ITS HISTORY, AND ITS PLAYERS:
Sex and The Single Girl: Before There Was Sex in the City, There Was (Cult Classics)
Televi$ion, The Business Behind The Box
C’mon, Get Happy: Fear and Loathing on the Partridge Family Bus
On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio
Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon
Today I Am a Ma’Am: And Other Musings on Life, Beauty, and Growing Older
David Merrick – The Abominable Showman: The Unauthorized Biography (Applause Books)
Growing Up Again: Life, Loves, and Oh Yeah, Diabetes
Critiquing the Sitcom: A Reader (The Television Series)
The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes
Cue the Bunny on the Rainbow: Tales from Tv’s Most Prolific Sitcom Director (Television Series)
Second Act Trouble: Behind the Scenes at Broadway’s Big Musical Bombs
Tinker in Television: From General Sarnoff to General Electric
The Official Dick Van Dyke Show Book: The Definitive History of Television’s Most Enduring Comedy
Here We Go Again: My Life In Television
ON POP CULTURE:
Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970
I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution
Women Who Run the Show: How a Brilliant and Creative New Generation of Women Stormed Hollywood
Those Girls: Single Women in Sixties and Seventies Popular Culture (Culture America)
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
ON WRITING:
Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer
The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
How to Become a Famous Writer Before You’re Dead: Your Words in Print and Your Name in Lights
The Elements of Style (4th Edition)
On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction