They range from foundational psychology to history and cultural critique, and they are a good place to start if you want to understand the ideas behind an Ellis education.

• All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation, Rebecca Traister
• Why Does Patriarchy Persist?, Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider
• In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development, Carol Gilligan
• Meeting at the Crossroads: Women’s Psychology and Girls’ Development, Lyn Mikel Brown and Carol Gilligan
• My Life on the Road, Gloria Steinem
• Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves, Alison Wood Brooks
• Gendered Citizenship: The Original Conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment, 1920–1963, Rebecca DeWolf
• Investing in the Educational Success of Black Women and Girls, edited by Lori D. Patton, Venus E. Evans-Winters, and Charlotte E. Jacobs
• The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance—What Women Should Know, Katty Kay and Claire Shipman
• Confidence Culture, Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill
• Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity, Ella L.J. Edmondson Bell and Stella M. Nkomo