It's No Wonder: The Life and Times of Motown's Legendary Songwriter Sylvia Moy landed on the top reads for February by Ms. magazine!
The celebrated biography about Hitsville U.S.A.'s first woman to earn a multi-hyphenate in the role as both songwriter and producer in the Sixties while working simultaneously, consistently, and consecutively alongside all men. The historical corrective is listed among 28 books, which are either feminist or written through an intersectional feminist lens.
Read the complete list and learn about others who made the list.
When Ms. was launched as a “one-shot” sample insert in New York magazine in December 1971, few realized it would become the landmark institution in both women’s rights and American journalism that it is today. The founders of Ms., many of whom are now household names, helped to shape contemporary feminism, with Ms. editors and authors translating “a movement into a magazine.”
Ms. was the first U.S. magazine to feature prominent American women demanding the repeal of laws that criminalized abortion, the first to explain and advocate for the Equal Rights Amendment, to rate presidential candidates on women’s issues, to put domestic violence and sexual harassment on its cover, to commission and feature a national study on date rape and to blow the whistle on the undue influence of advertising on magazine journalism. In short, Ms. was the first national magazine to make feminist voices audible, feminist journalism tenable and a feminist worldview available to the public.
It's No Wonder is available for preorder and released everywhere on Tuesday, February 10, 2026.
Media contact
Tara Kennedy, Publicity Director
Grand Central Publishing and Da Capo
Tara.Kennedy@hbgusa.comI
The celebrated biography about Hitsville U.S.A.'s first woman to earn a multi-hyphenate in the role as both songwriter and producer in the Sixties while working simultaneously, consistently, and consecutively alongside all men. The historical corrective is listed among 28 books, which are either feminist or written through an intersectional feminist lens.
Read the complete list and learn about others who made the list.
When Ms. was launched as a “one-shot” sample insert in New York magazine in December 1971, few realized it would become the landmark institution in both women’s rights and American journalism that it is today. The founders of Ms., many of whom are now household names, helped to shape contemporary feminism, with Ms. editors and authors translating “a movement into a magazine.”
Ms. was the first U.S. magazine to feature prominent American women demanding the repeal of laws that criminalized abortion, the first to explain and advocate for the Equal Rights Amendment, to rate presidential candidates on women’s issues, to put domestic violence and sexual harassment on its cover, to commission and feature a national study on date rape and to blow the whistle on the undue influence of advertising on magazine journalism. In short, Ms. was the first national magazine to make feminist voices audible, feminist journalism tenable and a feminist worldview available to the public.
It's No Wonder is available for preorder and released everywhere on Tuesday, February 10, 2026.
Media contact
Tara Kennedy, Publicity Director
Grand Central Publishing and Da Capo
Tara.Kennedy@hbgusa.comI
