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All About Love: New Visions
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All About Love

By bell hooks ,

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Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
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Teaching to Transgress

By bell hooks ,

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The Second Sex
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The Second Sex

By Simone de Beauvoir , Constance Borde (translator) , Sheila Malovany-Chevallier (translator)

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Alanna
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Alanna

By Tamora Pierce ,

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Ship of Magic
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Ship of Magic

By Robin Hobb ,

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Pavilion of Women
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Pavilion of Women

By Pearl S. Buck ,

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Anne Sexton: A Biography
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Anne Sexton

By Diane Wood Middlebrook ,

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Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate
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Women and Gender in Islam

By Leila Ahmed ,

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Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
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Women's Work

By Elizabeth Wayland Barber ,

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The Early Years
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The Early Years

By Blanche Wiesen Cook ,

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Dirty Weekend
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Dirty Weekend

By Helen Zahavi ,

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He, She and It
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He, She and It

By Marge Piercy ,

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Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media
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Where the Girls Are

By Susan J. Douglas ,

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Portia: The World of Abigail Adams
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Portia

By Edith B. Gelles ,

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The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
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The Beauty Myth

By Naomi Wolf ,

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Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics
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Beyond Economic Man

By Marianne A. Ferber , Julie A. Nelson ,

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Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance
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Western Women and Imperialism

By Nupur Chaudhuri (editor) , Margaret Strobel (editor) ,

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Gender on Ice, Volume 10: American Ideologies of Polar Expeditions
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Gender on Ice, Volume 10

By Lisa Bloom ,

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Decolonizing Feminisms: Race, Gender & Empire Building
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Decolonizing Feminisms

By Laura E. Donaldson ,

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The Spectacular Modern Woman: Feminine Visibility in the 1920s
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The Spectacular Modern Woman

By Liz Conor ,

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The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas
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The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas

By Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz ,

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Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life
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Wounds of Passion

By bell hooks ,

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Women of Ideas: And What Men Have Done to Them
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Women of Ideas

By Dale Spender ,

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Gender in International Relations: Feminist Perspectives on Achieving Global Security
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Gender in International Relations

By J. Ann Tickner ,

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Spending: A Utopian Divertimento
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Spending

By Mary Gordon ,

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Shakti Woman: Feeling Our Fire, Healing Our World
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Shakti Woman

By Vicki Noble ,

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A Frozen Woman
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A Frozen Woman

By Annie Ernaux , Linda Coverdale (translator) ,

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The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton
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The Complete Poems

By Anne Sexton ,

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Fruitful: A Real Mother in the Modern World
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Fruitful

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The Most Beautiful Girl in the World: Beauty Pageants and National Identity
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The Most Beautiful Girl in the World

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Feminists, Islam, and Nation: Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt
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Feminists, Islam, and Nation

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Reading Ruth: Contemporary Women Reclaim a Sacred Story
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Reading Ruth

By Judith A. Kates (editor) , Gail Twersky Reimer (editor) ,

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Sister, Sister
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Sister, Sister

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Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?
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Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?

By Susan Moller Okin , Joshua Cohen (editor) , Matthew Howard (editor) , Martha C. Nussbaum (editor)

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If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him...
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If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him...

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Listen to Me Good: The Life Story of an Alabama Midwife
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Listen to Me Good

By Margaret Charles Smith , Linda Janet Holmes ,

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Dawn
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Dawn

By Octavia E. Butler ,

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Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape
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Against Our Will

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The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
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The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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The Start of the End of it All: Short Fiction
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The Start of the End of it All

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The Blazing World and Other Writings
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The Blazing World and Other Writings

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Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
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Backlash

By Susan Faludi ,

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The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: In the School of Anti-Slavery, 1840 to 1866
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The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

By Ann D. Gordon (editor) ,

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My Dearest Enemy
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My Dearest Enemy

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Toward a Recognition of Androgyny
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Toward a Recognition of Androgyny

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What We Keep
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What We Keep

By Elizabeth Berg ,

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Discovering Men
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Discovering Men

By David H. J. Morgan ,

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Feeling Power
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Feeling Power

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Gyn/Ecology
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Gyn/Ecology

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