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The Handmaid's Tale
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The Handmaid's Tale

By Margaret Atwood ,

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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places

By Le Ly Hayslip , Jay Wurts ,

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The Heat of the Day
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The Heat of the Day

By Elizabeth Bowen ,

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The Stone Angel
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The Stone Angel

By Margaret Laurence ,

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Woman at Point Zero
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Woman at Point Zero

By Nawal El Saadawi , Sherif Hetata (translator) ,

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The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
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The Courage to Heal

By Ellen Bass , Laura Davis ,

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Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature
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Reading the Romance

By Janice A. Radway ,

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The Homesman
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The Homesman

By Glendon Swarthout ,

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Moll Flanders
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Moll Flanders

By Daniel Defoe , David Blewett (editor) ,

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The Group
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The Group

By Mary McCarthy ,

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City of Women
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City of Women

By Christine Stansell ,

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The Scarlet Letter
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The Scarlet Letter

By Nathaniel Hawthorne ,

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Writing a Woman's Life
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Writing a Woman's Life

By Carolyn G. Heilbrun ,

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Anywhere But Here
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Anywhere But Here

By Mona Simpson ,

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Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady
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Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady

By Florence King ,

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Dalva
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Dalva

By Jim Harrison ,

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Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South
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Womenfolks

By Shirley Abbott ,

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Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind
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Women's Ways of Knowing

By Mary Field Belenky , Blythe McVicker Clinchy , Nancy Rule Goldberger , Jill Mattuck Tarule

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Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
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Good Wives

By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich ,

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The Moon and the Virgin: Reflections on the Archetypal Feminine
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The Moon and the Virgin

By Nor Hall ,

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Femininity
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Femininity

By Susan Brownmiller ,

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The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement: 1890-1920
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The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement

By Aileen S. Kraditor ,

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Love Lessons
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Love Lessons

By Joan Wyndham ,

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A Flame in Byzantium
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A Flame in Byzantium

By Chelsea Quinn Yarbro ,

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Grania: She-King of the Irish Seas
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Grania

By Morgan Llywelyn ,

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The Ladies of Missalonghi
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The Ladies of Missalonghi

By Colleen McCullough ,

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The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships
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The Dance of Anger

By Harriet Lerner ,

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The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine
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The Subversive Stitch

By Rozsika Parker ,

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Miss Mapp
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Miss Mapp

By E.F. Benson ,

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The Creation of Patriarchy
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The Creation of Patriarchy

By Gerda Lerner ,

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Khul-Khaal: Five Egyptian Women Tell Their Stories
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Khul-Khaal

By Nayra Atiya ,

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The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships
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The Dance of Intimacy

By Harriet Lerner ,

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This Sex Which Is Not One
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This Sex Which Is Not One

By Luce Irigaray , Catherine Porter (translator) , Carolyn Burke (translator)

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Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey
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Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey

By Lillian Schlissel ,

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