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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
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Sister Outsider

By Audre Lorde ,

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When God Was a Woman
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When God Was a Woman

By Merlin Stone ,

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Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
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Of Woman Born

By Adrienne Rich ,

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The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
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The Will to Change

By bell hooks ,

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How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
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How to Say Babylon

By Safiya Sinclair ,

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Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
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Rage Becomes Her

By Soraya Chemaly ,

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So You Want to Talk about Race
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So You Want to Talk about Race

By Ijeoma Oluo ,

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Cranford
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Cranford

By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ,

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We Should All Be Feminists
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We Should All Be Feminists

By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ,

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There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
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There Is Nothing for You Here

By Fiona Hill ,

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The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality
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The Patriarchs

By Angela Saini ,

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The Orwell Mystique: A Study in Male Ideology
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The Orwell Mystique

By Daphne Patai ,

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Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan
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Kabul in Winter

By Ann Jones ,

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Home Rule: Households, Manhood, and National Expansion on the Eighteenth-Century Kentucky Frontier
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Home Rule

By Honor Sachs ,

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Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Notorious RBG

By Irin Carmon , Shana Knizhnik ,

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Circle of Stones: Woman's Journey to Herself
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Circle of Stones

By Judith Duerk ,

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The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
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The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium

By Alexander P. Kazhdan (editor) ,

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

By Mark E. Kann ,

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The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image
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The Alphabet Versus the Goddess

By Leonard Shlain ,

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Patriarchy and the Pangolin: A Field Guide to Indian Men and Other Species
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Patriarchy and the Pangolin

By Aditi Patil ,

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Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life That Matters to You
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Unfollow Your Passion

By Terri Trespicio ,

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Shamans, Housewives, and Other Restless Spirits: Women in Korean Ritual Life
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Shamans, Housewives, and Other Restless Spirits

By Laurel Kendall ,

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Rumi: The Path of Love
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Rumi

By Jalal Al-Din Rumi ,

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Strangely Familiar: Protofeminist Interpretations of Patriarchal Biblical Texts
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Strangely Familiar

By Nancy Calvert-Koyzis , Heather E. Weir ,

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The New Don't Blame Mother: Mending the Mother-Daughter Relationship
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The New Don't Blame Mother

By Paula Caplan ,

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Liberating Motherhood: Birthing the Purplestockings Movement
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Liberating Motherhood

By Vanessa Olorenshaw ,

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Goddesses in World Mythology
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Goddesses in World Mythology

By Martha Ann , Dorothy Myers Imel ,

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Work Like a Woman
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Work Like a Woman

By Mary Portas ,

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Women at the Dawn of History
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Women at the Dawn of History

By Agnete W. Lassen (editor) , Klaus Wagensonner (editor) ,

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Sex and Subterfuge: Women Writers to 1850
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Sex and Subterfuge

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The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine
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The Dance of the Dissident Daughter

By Sue Monk Kidd ,

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A Bigger Sky: Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism
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A Bigger Sky

By Pamela Weiss ,

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The Other Daughters of the Revolution: The Narrative of K. White (1809) and the Memoirs of Elizabeth Fisher (1810)
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The Other Daughters of the Revolution

By Sharon Halevi (editor) , K. White , Elizabeth Fisher

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The Creation of Patriarchy
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The Creation of Patriarchy

By Gerda Lerner ,

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The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience
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The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience

By Emory M. Thomas ,

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The Rise of Women and Wealth: Our Fight for Freedom, Equality, and Control of Our Financial Future
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The Rise of Women and Wealth

By Cindy Couyoumjian , R.F. Georgy ,

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A Sor Juana Anthology
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A Sor Juana Anthology

By Juana Inés de la Cruz , Alan S. Trueblood (translator) ,

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On Call: Political Essays
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On Call

By June Jordan ,

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The Natural Way of Things
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The Natural Way of Things

By Charlotte Wood ,

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The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
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The Chalice and the Blade

By Riane Eisler ,

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Paternal Tyranny
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Paternal Tyranny

By Arcangela Tarabotti , Letizia Panizza (translator) ,

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Better to Have Loved: the Life of Judith Merril
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Better to Have Loved

By Judith Merril , Emily Pohl-Weary ,

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The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
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The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls

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A Brief History of Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice
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A Brief History of Misogyny

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Space Crone
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Space Crone

By Ursula K. Le Guin ,

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Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Powerful Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning
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Disobedient Women

By Sarah Stankorb ,

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Matriarchy and the Goddess Culture
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Matriarchy and the Goddess Culture

By R K Fisher , Martini Fisher ,

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Break the Good Girl Myth: How to Dismantle Outdated Rules, Unleash Your Power, and Design a More Purposeful Life
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Break the Good Girl Myth

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Feminism for Women: The Real Route to Liberation
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Feminism for Women

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Abolishing State Violence: A World Beyond Bombs, Borders, and Cages
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Abolishing State Violence

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A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
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A Well-Trained Wife

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Gyn/Ecology
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Gyn/Ecology

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