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The Soul of a Woman
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The Soul of a Woman

By Isabel Allende ,

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Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
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Pleasure Activism

By adrienne maree brown ,

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Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes
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Rebel Cinderella

By Adam Hochschild ,

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My Life on the Road
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My Life on the Road

By Gloria Steinem ,

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Groundswell: Grassroots Feminist Activism in Postwar America
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Groundswell

By Stephanie Gilmore ,

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Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women's Activism in Modern America
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Sophonisba Breckinridge

By Anya Jabour ,

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The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: A Biography
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The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe

By Elaine Showalter ,

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Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and The Scandalous Victoria Woodhull
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Other Powers

By Barbara Goldsmith ,

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The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights
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The Agitators

By Dorothy Wickenden ,

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Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life
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Wounds of Passion

By bell hooks ,

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A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark and Memoirs of the Author of the Rights of Women
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A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark and Memoirs of the Author of the Rights of Women

By Mary Wollstonecraft , William Godwin ,

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Women Build the Welfare State: Performing Charity and Creating Rights in Argentina, 1880-1955
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Women Build the Welfare State

By Donna J. Guy ,

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Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
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Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

By Dorothy Allison ,

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Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood
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Bone Black

By bell hooks ,

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Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin
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Last Days at Hot Slit

By Andrea Dworkin ,

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You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?
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You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?

By Jean Fritz ,

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No Rules: A Memoir
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No Rules

By Sharon Dukett ,

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Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage
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Song in a Weary Throat

By Pauli Murray ,

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Dressed for Freedom: The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism
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Dressed for Freedom

By Einav Rabinovitch-Fox ,

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Mistress Of Herself: Speeches and Letters of Ernestine L. Rose, Early Women's Rights Leader
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Mistress Of Herself

By Ernestine L. Rose , Paula Doress-Worters (editor) ,

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Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott
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Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott

By Beverly Wilson Palmer (editor) , Lucretia Coffin Mott , Holly Ochoa , Carol Faulkner

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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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Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment
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Claudia Jones

By Carole Boyce Davies (editor) ,

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The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman's Rights Convention
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The Road to Seneca Falls

By Judith Wellman ,

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Divided We Stand: The Battle Over Women's Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics
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Divided We Stand

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