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Feminism And Pop Culture
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Lesbian Feminism: Essays Opposing Global Heteropatriarchies
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Women and the Irish Revolution: Feminism, Activism, Violence
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Hit Girls: Britney, Taylor, Beyoncé, and the Women Who Built Pop’s Shiniest Decade
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Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains
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Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses
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Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free
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The Courtiers: Splendor and Intrigue in the Georgian Court at Kensington Palace
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No Human Involved: The Serial Murder of Black Women and Girls and the Deadly Cost of Police Indifference
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The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
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In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
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Bird Lore: The Myths, Folklore and Meaning of Birds
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Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
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Agents of Change: The Women Who Transformed the CIA
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Alanis: Thirty Years of Jagged Little Pill
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Delphi Complete Works of Ida B. Wells
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Super Visible: The Story of the Women of Marvel Comics
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Trailblazer
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Access: Inside the Abortion Underground and the Sixty-Year Battle for Reproductive Freedom
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Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings
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Menopause Is Hot: Everything You Need to Know to Thrive
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The War of Art: A History of Artists’ Protest In America
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Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer’s Legendary Editorship
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María Izquierdo and Frida Kahlo: Challenging Visions in Modern Mexican Art
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Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe
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How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek Literature
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Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism
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BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine
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Penelope’s Bones: A New History of Homer’s World through the Women Written Out of It
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The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege
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Jumping Through Hoops: Performing Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Circus
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A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 
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Feminism: A Graphic Guide
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Patternalia: An Unconventional History of Polka Dots, Stripes, Plaid, Camouflage, & Other Graphic Patterns
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Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior
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The Woman Who Knew Everyone: The Power of Perle Mesta, Washington’s Most Famous Hostess
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Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores
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Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance
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Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition
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Mythic Plants: Potions and Poisons from the Gardens of the Gods
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Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books
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They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals
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Lincoln’s Lady Spymaster: The Untold Story of the Abolitionist Southern Belle Who Helped Win the Civil War
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The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex
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On Immunity: An Inoculation
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When We Ruled: The Rise and Fall of Twelve African Queens and Warriors
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Just For One Day: Adventures in Britpop
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The Miniature Painter Revealed: Amalia Kussner’s Gilded Age Pursuit of Fame and Fortune
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Doing It All: The Social Power of Single Motherhood
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The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler’s All-Female Concentration Camp
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Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures
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Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global 
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The Apothecary’s Wife: The Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity
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The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe
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The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service
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Stolen Fragments: Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts
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Empire of Purity: The History of Americans’ Global War on Prostitution
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Merlin Stone Remembered: Her Life and Works
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Big Girls Don’t Cry: A Memoir About Taking Up Space
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Makers and Takers: How Wall Street Destroyed Main Street
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Changing of The Gods: Feminism and the End of Traditional Religions 
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Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange
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Inconvenient Women: Australian radical writers 1900–1970
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Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump
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Lionessheart: The Life and Times of Joanna Plantagenet
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Nightshining
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Jane Against the World: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights
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Women Holding Things & Still Life with Remorse
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Feminism in Revolt: An Anthology 
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Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility
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Speaking of Feminism: Today’s Activists on the Past, Present, and Future of the U.S. Women’s Movement
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The Allure of Elsewhere: A Memoir of Going Solo
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All Roads Lead to Rome: Why We Think about the Roman Empire Daily
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Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male Power
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Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins
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Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens
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Aggregated Discontent: Confessions of the Last Normal Woman
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The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us
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Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us
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Hashtag
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The Rainbow Ain’t Never Been Enuf: On the Myth of LGBTQ+ Solidarity
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Stars to Steer By: Celebrating the 20th century women who went to sea
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Gulag: A History
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A Biographical Dictionary of Women’s Movements and Feminisms: Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th Centuries 
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America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History
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The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
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Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder
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How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time
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The Mother Code: My Story of Love, Loss, and the Myths That Shape Us
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How to Be Queer: An Ancient Guide to Sexuality
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Hear Me Roar
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The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation
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Broken Silence: Voices of Japanese Feminism
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Green River, Running Red
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Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
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Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land
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At Last She Stood: How Joey Guerrero Spied, Survived, and Fought for Freedom
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Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II
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Is Peace Possible?
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Four Mothers: An Intimate Journey Through the First Year of Parenthood in Four Countries
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Personhood: The New Civil War over Reproduction
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Everyday Intuition: What Psychology, Science, and Psychics Can Teach Us About Finding and Trusting Our Inner Voice
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Uncredited: Women’s Overlooked, Misattributed & Stolen Work
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Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the Twentieth Century
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LIVEBLOG
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Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf
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Ask Dr. Mueller: The Writings of Cookie Mueller
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Suffragettes to She-Devils: Women’s Liberation and Beyond
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Wendat Women’s Arts 
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The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria
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Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon and the Journey of a Generation
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Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O’Keeffe
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Bad Friend: A Century of Revolutionary Friendships
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The Last American Road Trip: A Memoir
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Finding Loretta: An Adopted Daughter’s Search to Define Family
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The Dinner Party: Restoring Women to History
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Clay: A Human History
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Labour of Love: A Midwife’s Stories of Birth, Life and Speaking Up for Women
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Protest!: A History of Social and Political Protest Graphics
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Cosmopolitan Cinema: Cross-cultural Encounters in East Asian Film 
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Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown
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Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature
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Women of War: The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis
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A Protest History of the United States 
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Syme’s Letter Writer: A Guide to Modern Correspondence
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Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb
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Afterimages: On Cinema, Women and Changing Times
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Clothes Make the Man: Female Cross Dressing in Medieval Europe
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Unravelling Women’s Art: Creators, Rebels, & Innovators in Textile Arts
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The Narrowing: A journey through anxiety and the body
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Greek Tragedy
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Crimes Unspoken: The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War
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Yves Klein
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The Acid Queen: The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary
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Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools
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Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
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On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters
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Fearless Beatrice Faust: Sex, Feminism and Body Politics
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The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity
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The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe
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Griselda Pollock on Gauguin
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A World of Our Own: Women Artists Against the Odds
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Authority: Essays
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Immaculate Forms: A History of the Female Body in Four Parts
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Inventing Human Rights: A History
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American Government 101: From the Continental Congress to the Iowa Caucus, Everything You Need to Know About US Politics
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The Singularity
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Inventing the Renaissance: Myths of a Golden Age
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Lucy R. Lippard on Pop Art
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Foghorn: The Nearly True Story of a Small Publishing Empire
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Surreal: The Extraordinary Life of Gala Dalí 
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Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome
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Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
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Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood’s First Stuntwoman
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Spirituality, Feminism, and Pre-Raphaelitism in Modern British Art and Culture
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Patriarchy Inc.: What We Get Wrong About Gender Equality and Why Men Still Win at Work
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Deficit: How Feminist Economics Can Change Our World
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The Scandalous Lady W
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Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress and Dr Crippen
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Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World’s Greatest Museum
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Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
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The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir
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Home Matters: How Our Homes Shape Us, and We Shape Them
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A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics
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The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion
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Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust 
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Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping’s China
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Funny Because It’s True: How The Onion Created Modern American News Satire
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Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor
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Regina: The Queens Who Could Have Been
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I’ll Love You Forever: Notes from a K-Pop Fan 
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You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
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Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy
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Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe
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The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier
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The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos
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This Thread of Gold: A Celebration of Black Womanhood
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We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine
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American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden
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Women Behind the Wheel: An Unexpected and Personal History of the Car
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COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War
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Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
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Boudicca
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An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
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Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
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The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive 
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The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
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Looking at Women, Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary from Ukraine, with a foreword from Margaret Atwood
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The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective
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Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
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Perfection: 400 Years of Women’s Quest for Beauty
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Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts 
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The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany
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Inside the Second Wave of Feminism: Boston Female Liberation, 1968-1972 An Account by Participants
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Rebel Queen: The Cold War, Misogyny, and the Making of a Grandmaster
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Do Not Cry When I Die: A Holocaust Memoir of a Mother and Daughter’s Survival In Jewish Ghettos, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belse
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Sex and Sexuality in Medieval England
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Pushback: The 2,500-Year Fight to Thwart Women by Restricting Abortion
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Secret Servants of the Crown: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence
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The Next One Is for You: A True Story of Guns, Country, and the IRA’s Secret American Army
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