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Penelope’s Bones: A New History of Homer’s World through the Women Written Out of It
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A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 
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They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals
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Lincoln’s Lady Spymaster: The Untold Story of the Abolitionist Southern Belle Who Helped Win the Civil War
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When We Ruled: The Rise and Fall of Twelve African Queens and Warriors
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The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler’s All-Female Concentration Camp
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The Apothecary’s Wife: The Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity
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Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange
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Inconvenient Women: Australian radical writers 1900–1970
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Reminiscences of a Student’s Life
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The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us
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Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us
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So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color
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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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Rational Creatures: Stirrings of Feminism in the Hearts of Jane Austen’s Fine Ladies
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At Last She Stood: How Joey Guerrero Spied, Survived, and Fought for Freedom
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Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II
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Uncredited: Women’s Overlooked, Misattributed & Stolen Work
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Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature
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Women of War: The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis
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Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb
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Crimes Unspoken: The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War
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The Acid Queen: The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary
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Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood’s First Stuntwoman
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The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion
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Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust 
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Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor
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The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos
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Women Behind the Wheel: An Unexpected and Personal History of the Car
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Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
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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 Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective
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Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts 
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Sex and Sexuality in Medieval England
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Pushback: The 2,500-Year Fight to Thwart Women by Restricting Abortion
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Secret Servants of the Crown: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence
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Expect Great Things!: How the Katharine Gibbs School Revolutionized the American Workplace for Women
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Emilie Du Chatelet: Daring Genius of the Enlightenment
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Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age
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Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
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Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS
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House of Huawei: The Secret History of China’s Most Powerful Company
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This Small Army of Women: Canadian Volunteer Nurses and the First World War
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A Short History of the World in 50 Lies
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A Fearless Eye: The Photography of Barbara Ramos: San Francisco and California, 1969–1973
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Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
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A History of the World in 21 Women: A Personal Selection
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The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Stor
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The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens: A History
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Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women
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Hearts And Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote
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The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne
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Who Cooked the Last Supper: The Women’s History of the World
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Being Here Is Everything: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker
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Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women
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The Weaker Vessel
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Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
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Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue
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Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
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The Jamestown Brides
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Feminist Auteurs: Reading Women’s Films
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The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
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Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe
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Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
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The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
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Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
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In the Chinks of the World Machine: Feminism and Science Fiction
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Something Wicked: The Lives, Crimes and Deaths of the Pendle Witches
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Liberating Abortion: Claiming Our History, Sharing Our Stories, and Building the Reproductive Future We Deserve
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The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
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Come By Here: A Memoir in Essays from Georgia’s Geechee Coast
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Vengeance Feminism: The Power of Black Women’s Fury in Lawless Times
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She-Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street
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Isabella: The Warrior Queen
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Bright I Burn
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Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad
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The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History 
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Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult
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Unruly Figures: Twenty Tales of Rebels, Rulebreakers, and Revolutionaries You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of
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The Traitor’s Daughter: Captured by Nazis, Pursued by the KGB, My Mother’s Odyssey to Freedom from Her Secret Past
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Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers
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Women Out of Bounds
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What’s Her Name: A History of the World in 80 Lost Women
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The Dragon from Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany
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The Powerful Women of Outremer: Forgotten Heroines of the Crusader States
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Boss Lady: How Three Women Entrepreneurs Built Successful Big Businesses in the Mid-Twentieth Century
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Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
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Women and Warfare in the Ancient World: Virgins, Viragos and Amazons
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My Life at Grey Gardens: 13 Months and Beyond
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The Short Story of Women Artists
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Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan
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The Case of Lizzie Borden and Other Writings: Tales of a Newspaper Woman
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
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The Missing Thread: A New History of the Ancient World Through the Women Who Shaped It
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The Other Side: A Story of Women in Art and the Spirit World
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This Dark Country
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Females in the Frame: Women, Art, and Crime
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The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
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Bluestockings: The First Women’s Movement
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The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle
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Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age
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Art Work: Women Artists and Democracy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York
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Life Stories of Women Artists, 1550-1800: An Anthology
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Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival
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Shakespeare’s Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance
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Secret Voices: A Year of Women’s Diaries
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The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions
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The Devil’s Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South’s Most Notorious Slave Jail 
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Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews That Shaped America
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Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women
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A History of Women in 101 Objects
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The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law – A Hidden History
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Survivors: A History of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade
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Juice: A History of Female Ejaculation
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Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years
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Vital Organs
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California a Slave State
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The Tigerbelles: Olympic Legends from Tennessee State
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The Jerrie Mock Story: The First Woman to Fly Solo around the World
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How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity
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The White Mosque
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Behind the Door: The Dark Truths and Untold Stories of the Cecil Hotel
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In Their Names: The Untold Story of Victims’ Rights, Mass Incarceration, and the Future of Public Safety
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Old Mistresses
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Overlooked: A Celebration of Remarkable, Underappreciated People Who Broke the Rules and Changed the World
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Lesbian Love Story: A Queer History of Sapphic Romance
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Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter: From the Battle for Moscow to Hitler’s Bunker
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The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA
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A Rome of One’s Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire
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Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science
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The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live
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Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History
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Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish
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A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women
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Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast
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Book of Queens: The True Story of the Middle Eastern Horsewomen Who Fought the War on Terror
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To Her Credit: Historic Achievements—and the Women Who Actually Made Them Happen
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When Women Ruled the Pacific: Power and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Tahiti and Hawai‘i
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The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes
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Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
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Abolition. Feminism. Now.
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Women on Wheels: The Scandalous Untold History of Women in Bicycling from the 1880s to the 1980s
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Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
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Marisa Mori and the Futurists: A Woman Artist in an Age of Fascism
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Out of the Cage: Women’s Experiences in Two World Wars
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We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
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Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote
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I Can’t Wait to Call You My Wife
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The Silver Women: How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal 
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Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
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Voices in the Shadows: Women and Verbal Art in Serbia and Bosnia
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The Hidden Writer
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A Hidden Wisdom: Medieval Contemplatives on Self-Knowledge, Reason, Love, Persons, and Immortality
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Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century
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Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo’s Hidden History
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Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States
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Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World
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The Fashion Forecasters: A Hidden History of Color and Trend Prediction
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Hidden in History: The Untold Stories of Women During World War I and World War II
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The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History
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