Women & Children First

Your local feminist bookstore since 1979!

 

Women & Children First believes in the transformative power of literature. As intersectional trans-inclusive feminists, we believe books are tools for liberation. Since 1979, we have celebrated and amplified underrepresented voices. In order for feminism to remain relevant, it must be forever evolving. 

 

We hope to realize our dream of an inclusive feminist future.

Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, Second Edition
Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law
Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary
Queer: A Graphic History
Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence
Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis
Never Silent: ACT Up and My Life in Activism
Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, New Edition: Collected Stories
Queer as All Get Out: 10 People Who've Inspired Me
After Silence: A History of AIDS Through Its Images
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989
Kathy Acker: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
Legends of Drag: Queens of a Certain Age
What Is the Women's Rights Movement?
Stand Up!: 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change
Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion
An Equal Shot: How the Law Title IX Changed America
She Persisted: Maya Lin
Queen of Physics: How Wu Chien Shiung Helped Unlock the Secrets of the Atom Volume 6
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
Women in Science: Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World
Women in Sports: 50 Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win
Women in Art
Civil Rights: Women Who Made a Difference (Super Sheroes of History): Women Who Made a Difference
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race
Severn Speaks Out
She Sang for India: How M.S. Subbulakshmi Used Her Voice for Change
Play Like a Girl
No More Police: A Case for Abolition
The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
How to Raise a Feminist Son: A Memoir & Manifesto
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
Choice Words: Writers on Abortion
Angela Davis: An Autobiography
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
Radicalizing Her: Why Women Choose Violence
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
To Be a Water Protector: The Rise of the Wiindigoo Slayers
Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement
Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones
Feminist Freedom Warriors: Genealogies, Justice, Politics, and Hope
A Black Women's History of the United States
Leila Khaled: Icon of Palestinian Liberation
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women's Digital Resistance
Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women's Liberation Movement
Café Con Lychee
Ramón and Julieta
Melt with You
So We Meet Again
Sadie on a Plate
Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors
Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake
Fake It Till You Bake It
A PHO Love Story
The Romance Recipe: An LGBTQ+ Romcom (Original)
For Butter or Worse: A ROM Com (Original)
Tweet Cute
The Donut Trap
Battle Royal
Witchful Thinking
The Lost Witch
Witcha Gonna Do?
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Improbable Magic for Cynical Witches
Small Town, Big Magic: A Witchy Rom-Com (Original)
Go Hex Yourself
Not the Witch You Wed
The League of Gentlewomen Witches
Mooncakes Collector's Edition
The Ex Hex
Xeni: A Marriage of Inconvenience
Payback's a Witch
When We Were Sisters
Fruiting Bodies: Stories
Solito: A Memoir
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
Tender Is the Flesh
Afterparties: Stories
Best of Friends
Nora Goes Off Script
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
The Marriage Portrait
Marrying the Ketchups
All This Could Be Different
Sorrowland
Crying in the Bathroom: A Memoir
Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win
Feels Right: Black Queer Women and the Politics of Partying in Chicago
Who Is the City For?: Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago
Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood
The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service
Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City, 1940-1977
oh, you thought this was a date?!: Apocalypse Poems
Latina/O/X Education in Chicago: Roots, Resistance, and Transformation
Woman Without Shame: Poems
Chicago Exposed: Defining Moments from the Chicago Sun-Times Photo Archive
Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew
What's for Dessert: Simple Recipes for Dessert People: A Baking Book
Korean American: Food That Tastes Like Home
Fresh Midwest: Modern Recipes from the Heartland
Justice of the Pies: Sweet and Savory Pies, Quiches, and Tarts Plus Inspirational Stories from Exceptional People: A Baking Book
The Wok: Recipes and Techniques
Mi Cocina: Recipes and Rapture from My Kitchen in Mexico: A Cookbook
Savory Baking: Recipes for Breakfast, Dinner, and Everything in Between
Half Baked Harvest Every Day: Recipes for Balanced, Flexible, Feel-Good Meals: A Cookbook
Jacques Pépin Art of the Chicken: A Master Chef's Paintings, Stories, and Recipes of the Humble Bird
Ghetto Gastro Presents Black Power Kitchen
The Mexican Vegetarian Cookbook: 400 Authentic Everyday Recipes for the Home Cook
The Cookie Bible
I Dream of Dinner (So You Don't Have To): Low-Effort, High-Reward Recipes: A Cookbook
Snacks for Dinner: Small Bites, Full Plates, Can't Lose