Sex and gender books

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Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia
Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia 4.49 avg rating — 185 ratings
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What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety
What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety 3.97 avg rating — 1,491 ratings
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What Kind of Woman: Poems
What Kind of Woman: Poems
by: Kate Baer
4.05 avg rating — 19,757 ratings
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Men Who Hate Women
Men Who Hate Women 4.34 avg rating — 25,112 ratings
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Space Between: Explorations of Love, Sex, and Fluidity
Space Between: Explorations of Love, Sex, and Fluidity 3.79 avg rating — 716 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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Fat Off, Fat On
Fat Off, Fat On 3.96 avg rating — 227 ratings
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What Do We Need Men For?: A Modest Proposal
What Do We Need Men For?: A Modest Proposal 3.55 avg rating — 1,407 ratings
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She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy
She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy 3.43 avg rating — 1,718 ratings
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The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making
The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making 4.20 avg rating — 1,384 ratings
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Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology 4.14 avg rating — 2,409 ratings
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Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace
Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace 3.76 avg rating — 8,248 ratings
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Trans Like Me
Trans Like Me 4.28 avg rating — 1,949 ratings
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The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls 4.21 avg rating — 3,109 ratings
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The Problem That Has No Name
The Problem That Has No Name 4.22 avg rating — 1,437 ratings
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Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women
Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women 4.64 avg rating — 4,091 ratings
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Vagina Problems
Vagina Problems 3.72 avg rating — 1,188 ratings
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Black Queer Hoe
Black Queer Hoe 4.43 avg rating — 931 ratings
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What's Your Pronoun? Beyond He and She
What's Your Pronoun? Beyond He and She 3.60 avg rating — 916 ratings
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Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto
Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto 3.50 avg rating — 4,173 ratings
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How to Date Men When You Hate Men
How to Date Men When You Hate Men 3.17 avg rating — 8,810 ratings
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Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language 4.24 avg rating — 25,823 ratings
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals 4.43 avg rating — 4,693 ratings
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The Descent of Man
The Descent of Man 4.02 avg rating — 8,494 ratings
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White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind
White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind
by: Koa Beck
4.25 avg rating — 2,290 ratings
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Beyond the Gender Binary
Beyond the Gender Binary 4.48 avg rating — 12,823 ratings
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Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story 4.05 avg rating — 9,413 ratings
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Difficult Women
Difficult Women 3.95 avg rating — 30,034 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 — 612,699 ratings
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What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat 4.40 avg rating — 16,827 ratings
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Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women 4.13 avg rating — 4,175 ratings
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Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger 4.34 avg rating — 10,375 ratings
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Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis
Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis 3.69 avg rating — 9,050 ratings
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Period. It's About Bloody Time
Period. It's About Bloody Time 3.92 avg rating — 2,772 ratings
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All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership
All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership 4.15 avg rating — 2,557 ratings
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Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex 4.34 avg rating — 18,724 ratings
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Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny 4.22 avg rating — 4,381 ratings
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Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women 4.20 avg rating — 5,685 ratings
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How to Suppress Women's Writing
How to Suppress Women's Writing 4.28 avg rating — 2,736 ratings
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I'm Afraid of Men.
I'm Afraid of Men. 4.21 avg rating — 12,149 ratings
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Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,036 ratings
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Women Don't Owe You Pretty
Women Don't Owe You Pretty 3.70 avg rating — 66,120 ratings
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Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty 4.45 avg rating — 5,136 ratings
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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture 4.43 avg rating — 22,350 ratings
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The Story of Sex: A Graphic History Through the Ages
The Story of Sex: A Graphic History Through the Ages 3.97 avg rating — 1,431 ratings
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The Worm in the Bud: The World of Victorian Sexuality
The Worm in the Bud: The World of Victorian Sexuality 3.71 avg rating — 82 ratings
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The Humble Little Condom: A History
The Humble Little Condom: A History 3.48 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us
Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us 3.73 avg rating — 3,313 ratings
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Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America
Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America 4.06 avg rating — 1,025 ratings
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A Lover's Pinch: A Cultural History of Sadomasochism
A Lover's Pinch: A Cultural History of Sadomasochism 4.09 avg rating — 53 ratings
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The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction
The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction 3.91 avg rating — 918 ratings
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Vibrator Nation: How Feminist Sex-Toy Stores Changed the Business of Pleasure
Vibrator Nation: How Feminist Sex-Toy Stores Changed the Business of Pleasure 4.18 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History
Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History 3.84 avg rating — 2,632 ratings
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Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution
Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution 3.96 avg rating — 135 ratings
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The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution 3.98 avg rating — 3,555 ratings
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Pornified: How Pornography Is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families
Pornified: How Pornography Is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families 3.61 avg rating — 606 ratings
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When Sex Goes to School: Warring Views on Sex--and Sex Education--Since the Sixties
When Sex Goes to School: Warring Views on Sex--and Sex Education--Since the Sixties 3.68 avg rating — 152 ratings
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A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis
A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis 3.76 avg rating — 1,104 ratings
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Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations - From Adventure to Revenge
Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations - From Adventure to Revenge 3.95 avg rating — 1,557 ratings
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In the Body of the World
In the Body of the World 4.25 avg rating — 2,225 ratings
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Middlesex
Middlesex 4.04 avg rating — 657,102 ratings
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Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman 3.75 avg rating — 10,159 ratings
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches 4.53 avg rating — 39,726 ratings
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The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House 4.56 avg rating — 8,001 ratings
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Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature
Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 400 ratings
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Buzz: A Stimulating History of the Sex Toy
Buzz: A Stimulating History of the Sex Toy 3.82 avg rating — 478 ratings
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Sex Before Sexuality: A Premodern History
Sex Before Sexuality: A Premodern History 3.81 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Wolf Girls at Vassar: Lesbian & Gay Experiences 1930-1990
Wolf Girls at Vassar: Lesbian & Gay Experiences 1930-1990 3.94 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them
Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16,574 ratings
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Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights
Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights 4.22 avg rating — 4,493 ratings
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Faking It: The Lies Women Tell about Sex--And the Truths They Reveal
Faking It: The Lies Women Tell about Sex--And the Truths They Reveal 3.95 avg rating — 425 ratings
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The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities 3.94 avg rating — 26,255 ratings
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Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution
Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution 4.02 avg rating — 2,994 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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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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Who Cooked the Last Supper: The Women's History of the World
Who Cooked the Last Supper: The Women's History of the World 3.80 avg rating — 4,178 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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Girls Will Be Girls: Dressing Up, Playing Parts and Daring to Act Differently
Girls Will Be Girls: Dressing Up, Playing Parts and Daring to Act Differently 4.20 avg rating — 2,472 ratings
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment 4.41 avg rating — 5,475 ratings
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Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power 4.65 avg rating — 1,761 ratings
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Everyday Sexism
Everyday Sexism 4.26 avg rating — 12,320 ratings
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Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age
Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age 3.68 avg rating — 6,899 ratings
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How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective 4.47 avg rating — 4,610 ratings
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Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message That Feminism's Work Is Done
Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message That Feminism's Work Is Done 3.87 avg rating — 2,320 ratings
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The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women
The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women 3.91 avg rating — 955 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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Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today
Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today 3.50 avg rating — 1,137 ratings
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A History of the Wife
A History of the Wife 3.84 avg rating — 1,635 ratings
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Whores and Other Feminists
Whores and Other Feminists 4.17 avg rating — 583 ratings
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Going Gray: What I Learned about Beauty, Sex, Work, Motherhood, Authenticity, and Everything Else That Really Matters
Going Gray: What I Learned about Beauty, Sex, Work, Motherhood, Authenticity, and Everything Else That Really Matters 3.35 avg rating — 1,082 ratings
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Sex Work: Writings by Women in the Sex Industry
Sex Work: Writings by Women in the Sex Industry 3.95 avg rating — 402 ratings
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The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage
The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage 3.53 avg rating — 3,344 ratings
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Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls 4.30 avg rating — 5,842 ratings
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The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,248 ratings
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Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine 4.08 avg rating — 3,012 ratings
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A Black Women's History of the United States
A Black Women's History of the United States 4.29 avg rating — 3,590 ratings
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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body 4.17 avg rating — 118,954 ratings
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In Praise of Difficult Women: Life Lessons From 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules
In Praise of Difficult Women: Life Lessons From 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules 3.55 avg rating — 3,023 ratings
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Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World
Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World 4.23 avg rating — 441 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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