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The Apothecary’s Wife: The Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity
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The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe
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Lionessheart: The Life and Times of Joanna Plantagenet
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Gulag: A History
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A Biographical Dictionary of Women’s Movements and Feminisms: Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th Centuries 
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The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
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Crimes Unspoken: The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War
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The Revolutionary Self: Social Change and the Emergence of the Modern Individual, 1770-1800
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The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe
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Inventing Human Rights: A History
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Inventing the Renaissance: Myths of a Golden Age
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Lucy R. Lippard on Pop Art
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The Scandalous Lady W
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Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World’s Greatest Museum
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Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust 
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Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe
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The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive 
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The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
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The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany
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Do Not Cry When I Die: A Holocaust Memoir of a Mother and Daughter’s Survival In Jewish Ghettos, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belse
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The Next One Is for You: A True Story of Guns, Country, and the IRA’s Secret American Army
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Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age
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What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France
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Black Elegies: Meditations on the Art of Mourning (On Seeing)
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Stories My Grandmothers Didn’t Tell Me: Two women’s journeys from war-torn Europe to a new life in Australia
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Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
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Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots 
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Being Here Is Everything: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker
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Freedom: Memoirs 1954 – 2021
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Museum Worthy: Nazi Art Plunder in Postwar Western Europe
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Politically Incorrect: Women Artists and Female Imagery in Early Modern Europe
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Isabella: The Warrior Queen
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The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages
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The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History 
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Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe
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Witch Hunt: A Traveler’s Guide to the Power and Persecution of the Witch
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Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic
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Shakespeare’s Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance
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How to Survive in Medieval England
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Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter: From the Battle for Moscow to Hitler’s Bunker
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Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close
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Artemisia Gentileschi
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Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna
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The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer
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Queer Lives Across the Wall: Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945-1970
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Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
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Kitty Fisher: The First Female Celebrity
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Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians
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Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
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The Families of Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Female Network of Power in the Middle Ages
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Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power
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My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds
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Elixir: A Parisian Perfume House and the Quest for the Secret of Life
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Voices in the Shadows: Women and Verbal Art in Serbia and Bosnia
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Dominican Women and Renaissance Art: The Convent of San Domenico of Pisa
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The Memory Keeper: A Journey Into the Holocaust to Find My Family
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Women Artists in the Early Modern Courts of Europe: c. 1450-1700
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Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Following Writers and Rebels in the Spanish Civil War
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No More Secrets: My Part in Codebreaking at Bletchley Park and the Pentagon
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Stealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe
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Visitors: An American Feminist in East Central Europe
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The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women
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The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It 
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Material Enlightenment: Women Writers and the Science of Mind, 1770-1830
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Silk Road: A New History
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The Roman Triumph
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The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
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Black Tudors: The Untold Story
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On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
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The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women’s Roles in Society
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Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore
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When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe
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Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing
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Cats in Medieval Manuscripts
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Matriarchal Societies of the Past and the Rise of Patriarchy: West Asia and Europe
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Hilma af Klint: A Biography
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Alicia: My Story
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What the Ermine Saw: The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Most Mysterious Portrait
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Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici
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Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It
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A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany
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The Divine Feminine in Ancient Europe: Goddesses, Sacred Women and the Origins of Western Culture
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The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily
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The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War
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Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe
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Royal Witches: From Joan of Navarre to Elizabeth Woodville
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Chasing Chopin: A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions
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The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul
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Delphi Complete Works of Artemisia Gentileschi
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
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She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
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The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual—and the Modern Home Began
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Viking Women: The Narrative Voice in Woven Tapestries
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Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
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Joan of Arc: A History
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Women Artists, 1550-1950
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Women in the Middle Ages: The lives of real women in a vibrant age of transition
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A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism
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Turkish Guest Workers in Germany: Hidden Lives and Contested Borders, 1960s to 1980s
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Rebel Daughters: Women and the French Revolution
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Women In Europe Between The Wars: Politics, Culture And Society
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Women of the Golden Dawn: Rebels and Priestesses: Maud Gonne, Moina Bergson Mathers, Annie Horniman, Florence Farr
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Ambition and Desire: The Dangerous Life of Josephine Bonaparte
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Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe
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The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy’s Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici
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The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance
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Medieval Single Women: The Politics of Social Classification in Late Medieval England
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The Life of Elizabeth I
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The Routledge History of Women in Europe Since 1700
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Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527-1204
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