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Alanna
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Alanna

By Tamora Pierce ,

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Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought
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Reversed Realities

By Naila Kabeer ,

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First Test
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First Test

By Tamora Pierce ,

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City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London
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City of Dreadful Delight

By Judith R. Walkowitz ,

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Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars
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Fighting for American Manhood

By Kristin L. Hoganson ,

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The Story of an African Farm
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The Story of an African Farm

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The Invention Of Women: Making An African Sense Of Western Gender Discourses
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The Invention Of Women

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

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Decolonizing Feminisms: Race, Gender & Empire Building
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Decolonizing Feminisms

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Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917
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Manliness and Civilization

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Rebels in White Gloves: Coming of Age with Hillary's Class--Wellesley '69
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Rebels in White Gloves

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Tales of Nevèrӱon
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A Republic of Men: The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics
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A Republic of Men

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Masculinities
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Masculinities

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Our Only May Amelia
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Our Only May Amelia

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Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud
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Making Sex

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Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest
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Imperial Leather

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Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction
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Gendered Strife and Confusion

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The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work
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The Time Bind

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Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia
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Trouble on Triton

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