Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction 4.02 avg rating — 24,960 ratings
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches 4.53 avg rating — 39,725 ratings
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Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism 4.50 avg rating — 18,479 ratings
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Women Who Run With the Wolves
Women Who Run With the Wolves 4.11 avg rating — 90,540 ratings
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Women, Race & Class
Women, Race & Class 4.59 avg rating — 33,015 ratings
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity 4.05 avg rating — 18,775 ratings
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Living a Feminist Life
Living a Feminist Life 4.31 avg rating — 3,181 ratings
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The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader
The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader 4.49 avg rating — 260 ratings
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Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center 4.45 avg rating — 8,771 ratings
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Men Explain Things to Me
Men Explain Things to Me 3.83 avg rating — 85,147 ratings
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Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics 4.16 avg rating — 27,174 ratings
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Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity 4.27 avg rating — 8,773 ratings
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Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza 4.33 avg rating — 13,222 ratings
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Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape 4.05 avg rating — 4,079 ratings
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This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color 4.52 avg rating — 9,683 ratings
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Violated: Exposing Rape at Baylor University amid College Football's Sexual Assault Crisis
Violated: Exposing Rape at Baylor University amid College Football's Sexual Assault Crisis 4.13 avg rating — 301 ratings
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Feminist, Queer, Crip
Feminist, Queer, Crip 4.39 avg rating — 987 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 568,939 ratings
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We Should All Be Feminists
We Should All Be Feminists 4.40 avg rating — 320,728 ratings
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The Vagina Monologues
The Vagina Monologues 3.87 avg rating — 37,998 ratings
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She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement 4.34 avg rating — 43,155 ratings
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On Intersectionality: The Essential Writings of Kimberlé Crenshaw
On Intersectionality: The Essential Writings of Kimberlé Crenshaw 4.42 avg rating — 248 ratings
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 3.92 avg rating — 26,298 ratings
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The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls 3.82 avg rating — 3,737 ratings
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Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" 4.12 avg rating — 3,683 ratings
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Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers
Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers 4.02 avg rating — 6,460 ratings
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Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality 4.16 avg rating — 2,792 ratings
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Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics, and Literature (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics, and Literature (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies) 4.40 avg rating — 191 ratings
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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race 4.38 avg rating — 99,861 ratings
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Asking For It
Asking For It really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23,888 ratings
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban 4.16 avg rating — 612,700 ratings
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose 4.29 avg rating — 8,252 ratings
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Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire 4.47 avg rating — 1,649 ratings
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The Cultural Politics of Emotion
The Cultural Politics of Emotion 4.33 avg rating — 1,223 ratings
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But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies: All the Women are White, All the Blacks are Men
But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies: All the Women are White, All the Blacks are Men 4.40 avg rating — 1,782 ratings
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The Second Sex
The Second Sex 4.18 avg rating — 45,863 ratings
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Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement 4.44 avg rating — 33,944 ratings
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Slut!: Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation
Slut!: Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation 3.88 avg rating — 1,961 ratings
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The Promise of Happiness
The Promise of Happiness 4.28 avg rating — 1,211 ratings
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Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence 3.89 avg rating — 10,595 ratings
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Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights
Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights 4.28 avg rating — 2,091 ratings
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Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town 4.12 avg rating — 57,731 ratings
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An Autobiography
An Autobiography 4.44 avg rating — 10,447 ratings
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Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples 4.47 avg rating — 1,945 ratings
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Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies) 4.02 avg rating — 120 ratings
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Queer: A Graphic History
Queer: A Graphic History 3.92 avg rating — 7,149 ratings
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An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures
An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures 4.15 avg rating — 590 ratings
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Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community 4.52 avg rating — 467 ratings
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A Room of One's Own
A Room of One's Own 4.22 avg rating — 246,444 ratings
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II 4.24 avg rating — 50,738 ratings
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Women & Power: A Manifesto
Women & Power: A Manifesto 4.02 avg rating — 38,436 ratings
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Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It
Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It 4.37 avg rating — 4,206 ratings
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Undoing Gender
Undoing Gender 4.11 avg rating — 3,237 ratings
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide 4.28 avg rating — 55,460 ratings
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The Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique 3.87 avg rating — 30,215 ratings
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Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women 4.04 avg rating — 9,233 ratings
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BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine
BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine 4.04 avg rating — 3,334 ratings
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The Awakening
The Awakening 3.69 avg rating — 222,558 ratings
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Female Masculinity
Female Masculinity 4.01 avg rating — 2,642 ratings
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Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality
Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality 3.78 avg rating — 1,117 ratings
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Seeing Gender: An Illustrated Guide to Identity and Expression
Seeing Gender: An Illustrated Guide to Identity and Expression 4.29 avg rating — 998 ratings
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I Love Female Orgasm: An Extraordinary Orgasm Guide
I Love Female Orgasm: An Extraordinary Orgasm Guide 4.08 avg rating — 816 ratings
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Laid and Confused: Why We Tolerate Bad Sex and How to Stop
Laid and Confused: Why We Tolerate Bad Sex and How to Stop 3.86 avg rating — 369 ratings
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Differences that Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism
Differences that Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism 3.58 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR): Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle
Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR): Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle 4.40 avg rating — 350 ratings
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Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America
Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America 4.11 avg rating — 83 ratings
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On Blossoming: Frank and Practical Advice on Our Bodies, Sexual Health, Sensuality, Pleasure, Orgasm, and More
On Blossoming: Frank and Practical Advice on Our Bodies, Sexual Health, Sensuality, Pleasure, Orgasm, and More
by: Gia Lynne
4.14 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower 4.38 avg rating — 13,757 ratings
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Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada
Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada 4.44 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others 4.33 avg rating — 1,587 ratings
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Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century 4.26 avg rating — 2,337 ratings
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Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work
Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work 3.89 avg rating — 2,117 ratings
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The Female Persuasion
The Female Persuasion 3.56 avg rating — 57,521 ratings
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The Time Has Come: Why Men Must Join the Gender Equality Revolution
The Time Has Come: Why Men Must Join the Gender Equality Revolution 3.88 avg rating — 146 ratings
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The Angela Y. Davis Reader
The Angela Y. Davis Reader 4.49 avg rating — 253 ratings
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You Play the Girl: And Other Vexing Stories That Tell Women Who They Are
You Play the Girl: And Other Vexing Stories That Tell Women Who They Are 3.89 avg rating — 1,613 ratings
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Shamans, Queens, and Figurines
Shamans, Queens, and Figurines 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues
The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues 4.47 avg rating — 824 ratings
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Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life 4.28 avg rating — 81,119 ratings
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Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory
Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory 4.22 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women 3.38 avg rating — 5,113 ratings
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The Social Sex: A History of Female Friendship
The Social Sex: A History of Female Friendship 3.16 avg rating — 301 ratings
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Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps
Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America
When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America 4.33 avg rating — 2,074 ratings
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If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance
If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance 4.44 avg rating — 1,301 ratings
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Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead 3.95 avg rating — 266,948 ratings
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Infidel
Infidel 4.20 avg rating — 91,944 ratings
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On Being Different: What It Means to Be a Homosexual
On Being Different: What It Means to Be a Homosexual 4.25 avg rating — 1,274 ratings
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Dolly Parton, Gender, and Country Music
Dolly Parton, Gender, and Country Music 3.56 avg rating — 57 ratings
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SCUM Manifesto
SCUM Manifesto 3.77 avg rating — 11,554 ratings
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Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation
Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation 4.22 avg rating — 123 ratings
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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America 4.26 avg rating — 3,391 ratings
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Women, Culture, and Politics
Women, Culture, and Politics 4.38 avg rating — 1,647 ratings
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Assata: An Autobiography
Assata: An Autobiography 4.59 avg rating — 29,691 ratings
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Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture 3.66 avg rating — 10,197 ratings
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Ill Composed: Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England
Ill Composed: Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Feminist and Queer Theory: An Intersectional and Transnational Reader
Feminist and Queer Theory: An Intersectional and Transnational Reader 4.79 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Sexual Politics
Sexual Politics 3.99 avg rating — 3,855 ratings
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Double Victory: How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II
Double Victory: How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II 3.90 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law 4.42 avg rating — 1,153 ratings
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