Feminist Books by Women of Color

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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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Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza 4.33 avg rating — 13,222 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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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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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches 4.53 avg rating — 39,726 ratings
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Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging
Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging 4.47 avg rating — 62 ratings
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The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,195 ratings
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Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism
Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism 4.20 avg rating — 3,243 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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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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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name 4.40 avg rating — 23,083 ratings
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From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i
From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i 4.47 avg rating — 747 ratings
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This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation
This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation 4.33 avg rating — 588 ratings
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King Akbar's Daughter: Stories for Everyone as Told by Noor Inayat Khan
King Akbar's Daughter: Stories for Everyone as Told by Noor Inayat Khan really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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We Should All Be Feminists
We Should All Be Feminists 4.40 avg rating — 320,734 ratings
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Women, Race & Class
Women, Race & Class 4.59 avg rating — 33,015 ratings
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The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf
The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf 3.74 avg rating — 1,600 ratings
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I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings
I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings 4.57 avg rating — 388 ratings
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape
What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape 4.39 avg rating — 2,406 ratings
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Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide 4.33 avg rating — 1,362 ratings
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The Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology
The Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology 4.34 avg rating — 1,392 ratings
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Making Space for Indigenous Feminism
Making Space for Indigenous Feminism 4.36 avg rating — 156 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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Resurrecting Cybele
Resurrecting Cybele 3.87 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions
The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions 4.06 avg rating — 686 ratings
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Bad Feminist
Bad Feminist 3.92 avg rating — 117,715 ratings
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A Spy in the House (The Agency #1)
A Spy in the House (The Agency #1)
by: Y.S. Lee
3.79 avg rating — 18,096 ratings
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My Beloved World
My Beloved World 4.09 avg rating — 33,500 ratings
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The Bluestockings Of Japan: New Women Essays And Fiction From Seito, 1911-16 (Michigan Monograph Series In Japanese Studies)
The Bluestockings Of Japan: New Women Essays And Fiction From Seito, 1911-16 (Michigan Monograph Series In Japanese Studies) 4.38 avg rating — 21 ratings
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I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism
I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism 4.33 avg rating — 691 ratings
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Beyond Veiled Clichés: The Real Lives of Arab Women
Beyond Veiled Clichés: The Real Lives of Arab Women
by: Amal Awad
3.80 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America
Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America 4.16 avg rating — 704 ratings
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Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics 4.16 avg rating — 27,175 ratings
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A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland
A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland 4.03 avg rating — 792 ratings
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So You Want to Talk About Race
So You Want to Talk About Race 4.49 avg rating — 107,277 ratings
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Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective
Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective 4.23 avg rating — 2,311 ratings
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Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism 3.89 avg rating — 3,799 ratings
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Seeing Like a Feminist
Seeing Like a Feminist 4.26 avg rating — 1,550 ratings
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Can We All Be Feminists?: New Writing from Brit Bennett, Nicole Dennis-Benn, and 15 Others on Intersectionality, Identity, and the Way Forward for Feminism
Can We All Be Feminists?: New Writing from Brit Bennett, Nicole Dennis-Benn, and 15 Others on Intersectionality, Identity, and the Way Forward for Feminism 4.26 avg rating — 1,294 ratings
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Assata: An Autobiography
Assata: An Autobiography 4.59 avg rating — 29,691 ratings
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Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity
Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity 4.24 avg rating — 2,011 ratings
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Motherwit
Motherwit 4.28 avg rating — 116 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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I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation (Prophetic Christianity
I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation (Prophetic Christianity 4.72 avg rating — 289 ratings
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Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought 4.46 avg rating — 946 ratings
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Difficult Women
Difficult Women 3.95 avg rating — 30,034 ratings
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My Life, My Love, My Legacy
My Life, My Love, My Legacy 4.22 avg rating — 1,726 ratings
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf 4.29 avg rating — 34,461 ratings
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Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone
Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone 4.19 avg rating — 870 ratings
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¡Chicana Power!: Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement
¡Chicana Power!: Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement 4.25 avg rating — 140 ratings
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The Right to Be Cold: One Woman's Fight to Protect the Arctic and Save the Planet from Climate Change
The Right to Be Cold: One Woman's Fight to Protect the Arctic and Save the Planet from Climate Change 3.62 avg rating — 1,583 ratings
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Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire
Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire 3.98 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Becoming
Becoming 4.44 avg rating — 1,160,549 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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The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory (Weatherhead Books on Asia)
The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory (Weatherhead Books on Asia)
by: He Zhen
4.26 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Send My Roots Rain
Send My Roots Rain 3.96 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia
Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia 4.53 avg rating — 144 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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Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism
Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism 4.15 avg rating — 105 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 — 249 ratings
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The Fabulous Feminist
The Fabulous Feminist 3.92 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Daughters of a Nation: A Black Suffragette Historical Romance Anthology
Daughters of a Nation: A Black Suffragette Historical Romance Anthology 3.87 avg rating — 137 ratings
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The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations 4.30 avg rating — 4,085 ratings
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Ms Militancy
Ms Militancy 4.16 avg rating — 182 ratings
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Sorcerer to the Crown (Sorcerer Royal, #1)
Sorcerer to the Crown (Sorcerer Royal, #1)
by: Zen Cho
3.73 avg rating — 15,781 ratings
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday 4.28 avg rating — 1,707 ratings
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Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion 4.03 avg rating — 76,749 ratings
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Who Fears Death
Who Fears Death 3.93 avg rating — 27,810 ratings
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We Speak Your Names: A Celebration
We Speak Your Names: A Celebration 4.30 avg rating — 335 ratings
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Intersectionality
Intersectionality 4.05 avg rating — 510 ratings
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The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition 4.44 avg rating — 381 ratings
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Pearl Cleage and Free Womanhood: Essays on Her Prose Works
Pearl Cleage and Free Womanhood: Essays on Her Prose Works 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Loving in the War Years
Loving in the War Years 4.21 avg rating — 1,070 ratings
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Flyin' West and Other Plays
Flyin' West and Other Plays 3.98 avg rating — 169 ratings
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Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets
Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets 4.25 avg rating — 683 ratings
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Daughters of the Dust: The Making of an African American Woman's Film
Daughters of the Dust: The Making of an African American Woman's Film 4.37 avg rating — 213 ratings
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Daughters of the Dust
Daughters of the Dust 4.30 avg rating — 341 ratings
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Child of War, Woman of Peace
Child of War, Woman of Peace 3.85 avg rating — 240 ratings
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Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China
Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China 4.16 avg rating — 1,243 ratings
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A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness: Writings, 2000-2010
A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness: Writings, 2000-2010 4.40 avg rating — 132 ratings
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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace 4.12 avg rating — 4,293 ratings
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Bad Feminist: Essays
Bad Feminist: Essays 3.92 avg rating — 117,715 ratings
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The Nawal El Saadawi Reader
The Nawal El Saadawi Reader 4.05 avg rating — 79 ratings
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No Woman No Cry: My Life With Bob Marley
No Woman No Cry: My Life With Bob Marley 4.09 avg rating — 1,913 ratings
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We Should All Be Feminists
We Should All Be Feminists 4.40 avg rating — 320,734 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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This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President
This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President 3.99 avg rating — 1,962 ratings
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The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love 4.36 avg rating — 27,091 ratings
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Singing Away the Hunger: The Autobiography of an African Woman
Singing Away the Hunger: The Autobiography of an African Woman 3.94 avg rating — 484 ratings
89.
Women, Culture, and Politics
Women, Culture, and Politics 4.38 avg rating — 1,647 ratings
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Prepared for a Purpose: The Inspiring True Story of How One Woman Saved an Atlanta School Under Siege
Prepared for a Purpose: The Inspiring True Story of How One Woman Saved an Atlanta School Under Siege 4.19 avg rating — 299 ratings
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Whiter: Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism
Whiter: Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism 3.97 avg rating — 119 ratings
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Feminism FOR REAL: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism
Feminism FOR REAL: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism 4.15 avg rating — 409 ratings
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A Woman Like Me
A Woman Like Me 3.96 avg rating — 190 ratings
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Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations
Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations 4.30 avg rating — 4,085 ratings
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Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism
Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism 4.03 avg rating — 400 ratings
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Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China
Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China 3.68 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist
Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist 4.09 avg rating — 98 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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A Nation Of Women: An Early Feminist Speaks Out; Mi Opinion Sobre Las Libertades, Derechos y Deberes de la Mujer (Recovering the U.s. Hispanic Literary Heritage)
A Nation Of Women: An Early Feminist Speaks Out; Mi Opinion Sobre Las Libertades, Derechos y Deberes de la Mujer (Recovering the U.s. Hispanic Literary Heritage) 3.46 avg rating — 98 ratings
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