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Provocations: Collected Essays on Art, Feminism, Politics, Sex, and Education
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Radicals, Volume 2: Memoir, Essays, and Oratory: Audacious Writings by American Women, 1830-1930
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Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores
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Free Ride: Heartbreak, Courage, and the 20,000-Mile Motorcycle Journey That Changed My Life
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What My Father and I Don’t Talk About: Sixteen Writers Break the Silence (What We Don’t Talk About, Book 2)
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Naked in the Rideshare: Stories of Gross Miscalculations
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Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
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Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey
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The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe
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Edge of the World: An Anthology of Queer Travel Writing
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Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility
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Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Mutants, Slayers and Freaks
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Things in Nature Merely Grow
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Aggregated Discontent: Confessions of the Last Normal Woman
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Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism
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My First Book
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Hunger Like a Thirst: From Food Stamps to Fine Dining, a Restaurant Critic Finds Her Place at the Table
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Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York
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Lessons from My Teachers: From Preschool to the Present
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Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them
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Broken Silence: Voices of Japanese Feminism
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Bee Reaved
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Silly Novels by Lady Novelists
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Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf
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Turning to Birds: The Power and Beauty of Noticing
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Ask Dr. Mueller: The Writings of Cookie Mueller
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Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction
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Human/Nature: On life in a wild world
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The Dinner Party: Restoring Women to History
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Stigmata
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A Wilder Way: How Gardens Grow Us
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Socialist Realism
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Afterimages: On Cinema, Women and Changing Times
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The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
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Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927-28
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First Days of the Year
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Unravelling Women’s Art: Creators, Rebels, & Innovators in Textile Arts
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We’ve Decided to Go in a Different Direction: Essays
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On The Body
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Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
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The Last Sex: Feminism and Outlaw Bodies
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A Girl Walks Into a Book: What the BrontĂ«s Taught Me about Life, Love, and Women’s Work
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Whorephobia: Strippers on Art, Work, and Life
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Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age
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Authority: Essays
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Being (Sick) Enough: Thoughts on Invisible Illness, Childhood Trauma, and Living Well When Surviving Is Hard
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Blue Nights
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Margaret Fuller: Collected Writings
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I’ll Have What She’s Having
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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying: Lessons From a Life in Comedy
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The Portable Feminist Reader
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How to Be a Good Girl: A Miscellany
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In My Remaining Years
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No Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays in Curiosity
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Artful
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I’ll Love You Forever: Notes from a K-Pop Fan 
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The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship
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You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
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Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life
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Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives
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Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals
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Another Day in the Colony
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Bloody Hell!: Adventures in Menopause From Around the World
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Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays
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Portrait of a Feminist: A Memoir in Essays
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It’s Complicated
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Sucker Punch: Essays
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Black Witness: The Power of Indigenous Media
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You Didn’t Hear This from Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip
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Letters To My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism
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Bread and Milk
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Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope
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The Joy Document: Creating a Midlife of Surprise and Delight
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Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
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A Certain Idea of America: Selected Writings
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A Decolonial Feminism
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The Lonely Stories: 22 Celebrated Writers on the Joys & Struggles of Being Alone
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Sweet Nothings: Confessions of a Candy Lover
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Who I Always Was: A Memoir
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Hello, Friends!: Stories of Dating, Destiny, and Day Jobs
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What Are We Doing Here?
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Wild West Village: Not a Memoir—Unless I Win an Oscar, Die Tragically, or Score a Country #1
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Tori Amos’s Boys for Pele
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Feminism, Young Women, and Cultural Studies: Birmingham Essays from 1975 Onwards
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Happy to Help: Adventures of a People Pleaser
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Aphro-ism: Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism, and Black Veganism from Two Sisters
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Doll Hospital – Issue 1
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Doll Hospital – Issue 2
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Doll Hospital – Issue 3
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Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything
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Sleepless: A Memoir of Insomnia
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Art on My Mind: Visual Politics
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Chick Flicks : Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement
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I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays
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Girls Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings From The Girl Zine Revolution
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I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying
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Singular Women: Writing the Artist
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Wet: On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture
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Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory
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An Image of My Name Enters America: Essays
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My Life: Growing Up Native in America
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Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
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Riot Woman: Using Feminist Values to Destroy the Patriarchy
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American Bulk: Essays on Excess
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All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
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Slowing: Discover Wonder, Beauty, and Creativity through Slow Living
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Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
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How to Fuck Like a Girl: Essays
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Stand in My Window: Meditations on Home and How We Make It
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We Oughta Know: How Céline, Shania, Alanis, and Sarah Ruled the ’90s and Changed Music
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The Time of My Life: Dirty Dancing
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Somebody with a Little Hammer
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Misfits: A Personal Manifesto
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Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing
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The Thinking Muse: Feminism and Modern French Philosophy
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Dancing with Iris: The Philosophy of Iris Marion Young
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Political Responsibility Refocused: Thinking Justice after Iris Marion Young
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Feminism in Women’s Detective Fiction
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Intersecting Voices
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One Garden Against the World: In Search of Hope in a Changing Climate
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Gory Details
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Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s
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Bloody Women: Women Directors of Horror
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How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency
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It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
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Conversations with Monsters: On Mortality, Creativity, And Neurodivergent Survival
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Lifeform
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Against Interpretation and Other Essays
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Women in Rock Memoirs: Music, History, and Life-Writing
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Listening in the Dark: Women Reclaiming the Power of Intuition
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The Observable Universe: An Investigation
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Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class
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If You Can’t Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
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Women Living Deliciously
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The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder Through Science & Poetry
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How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music
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The Abandoners: On Mothers and Monsters
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The Word Pretty
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Come By Here: A Memoir in Essays from Georgia’s Geechee Coast
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How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom
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Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays
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Practicing Liberation: Transformative Strategies for Collective Healing & Systems Change: Reflections on Burnout, Trauma & Building Communities of Care in Social Justice Work
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What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures
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Feminism, Young Women, and Cultural Studies: Birmingham Essays from 1975 Onwards
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A Muzzle for Witches
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Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous
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A Solemn Pleasure: To Imagine, Witness, and Write (The Art of the Essay)
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Crafting a Better World: Inspiration and DIY Projects for Craftivists
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Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority
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Scam Goddess: Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts, and Schemes
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Like Love: Essays and Conversations
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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We’re Alone
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How to Be Old: Lessons in Living Boldly from the Accidental Icon
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Pop Song: Adventures in Art and Intimacy
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The Snarling Girl and Other Essays
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I’ll Just Be Five More Minutes: And Other Tales from My ADHD Brain
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You Get What You Pay For: Essays
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Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?
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The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women
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What Things Cost: an anthology for the people
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The Weird Sister Collection: Writing at the Intersections of Feminism, Literature, and Pop Culture
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Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today
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The Age of Loneliness
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Rehearsals for Living
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No Judgement: On Being Critical 
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Migratory Birds
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You’re Embarrassing Yourself: Stories of Love, Lust, and Movies
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Girls Write Now On the Other Side of Everything: 2023 Anthology
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To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction
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Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation
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Otherwise Than the Binary: New Feminist Readings in Ancient Philosophy and Culture
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Always Reaching: The Selected Writings of Anne Truitt
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Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story
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Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay
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First Love: Essays on Friendship
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At the Pond: Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies’ Pond
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Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity
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Drawn to the Garden
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Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
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Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters
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The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
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Women
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Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1
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Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival
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Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
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Secret Voices: A Year of Women’s Diaries
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Survival of the Thickest
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I Curse You with Joy
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Lady Secrets: Real, Raw, and Ridiculous Confessions of Womanhood
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Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism
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Grief Is for People
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One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
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Fashion Knowledge: Theories, Methods, Practices and Politics
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Bad Girls of Ancient Greece
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Why Solange Matters
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I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This (But I’m Going to Anyway)
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Rock She Wrote: Women Write about Rock, Pop, and Rap
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There is No Blue
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An Anthology of Blackness: The State of Black Design
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