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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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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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Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books
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Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
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Inconvenient Women: Australian radical writers 1900–1970
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The Book of Promethea
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Reading Women: How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life
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Rational Creatures: Stirrings of Feminism in the Hearts of Jane Austen’s Fine Ladies
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Silly Novels by Lady Novelists
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Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes
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Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf
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Stigmata
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Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
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Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb
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Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927-28
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Clothes Make the Man: Female Cross Dressing in Medieval Europe
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First Days of the Year
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Greek Tragedy
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Helene Cixous: Writing the Feminine
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A Girl Walks Into a Book: What the Brontës Taught Me about Life, Love, and Women’s Work
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Authority: Essays
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Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form
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How to Be a Good Girl: A Miscellany
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Trauma Plot: A Life
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Artful
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The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective
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Reading Pride and Prejudice in the 21st Century
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Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting
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Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays
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Searching for Juliet: The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare’s First Tragic Heroine
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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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Warriors’ Wives: Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Experience
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Bibliophobia: A Memoir
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The Brothers Grimm: A Biography 
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Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood: The World and the Politics of Peace
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Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and other Airborne Females
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Sleepless: A Memoir of Insomnia
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Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women
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Women, Texts and Histories 1575-1760
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To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface
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Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire
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Dangerous Fictions: The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality
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Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
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Didion and Babitz
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The Lost Daughter
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Feminist Auteurs: Reading Women’s Films
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The Queen’s Path: A Revolutionary Guide to Women’s Empowerment and Sovereignty
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Somebody with a Little Hammer
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Dorothy Parker in Hollywood
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The Heroine’s Journey: For Writers, Readers, and Fans of Pop Culture
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Speak / Stop
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Perils of the Night: A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic
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Fairytale and Gothic Horror: Uncanny Transformations in Film
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Gothic Music: The Sounds of the Uncanny
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Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters
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The Brothers Grimm: A Biography
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Our Vampires, Ourselves
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It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
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Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth
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Against Interpretation and Other Essays
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Women’s Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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Salvage: Readings from the Wreck
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The Abandoners: On Mothers and Monsters
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The Word Pretty
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Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays
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The Haunting of Sylvia Plath
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The Medium of Leonora Carrington: A Feminist Haunting in the Contemporary Arts
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Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?
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Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers
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Writing Beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers
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The Weird Sister Collection: Writing at the Intersections of Feminism, Literature, and Pop Culture
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No Judgement: On Being Critical 
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Migratory Birds
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Artificial Women: Sex Dolls, Robot Caregivers, and More Facsimile Females
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To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction
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Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film
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Otherwise Than the Binary: New Feminist Readings in Ancient Philosophy and Culture
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Women’s Agency in the Dune Universe: Tracing Women’s Liberation through Science Fiction 
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Symbolism, Dada, Surrealisms: Selected Writing of Mary Ann Caws
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Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay
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A Tale of Two Titties: A Writer’s Guide to Conquering the Most Sexist Tropes in Literary History
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Quantum Justice: Global Girls Cultivating Disruption through Spoken Word Poetry
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Shakespeare’s Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance
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Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
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One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
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The Golden Girls
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Not Just Jane
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Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism
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On Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love 
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Girlhood
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The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture
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Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
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The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race
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Feminist Designer: On the Personal and the Political in Design
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Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination
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The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
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Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays
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Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution
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Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem
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Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World
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Uncut Funk: A Contemplative Dialogue
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The Light Room
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Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
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Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture
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The #Metoo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women
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On Women
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Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time
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Where the Stress Falls 
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The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture
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May Alcott Nieriker, Author and Advocate: Travel Writing and Transformation in the Late Nineteenth Century
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Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women’s Alliances in Early Modern England
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The Hidden Writer
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Fashion, Gender and Agency in Latin American and Spanish Literature
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Roads of Her Own: Gendered Space and Mobility in American Women’s Road Narratives, 1970-2000
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A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
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Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma
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Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature
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Grief and Women Writers in the English Renaissance
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Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction
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How to Read Now
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Once upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
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How to Suppress Women’s Writing
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Happily: A Personal History—with Fairy Tales
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Black Women Writers at Work
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Literary Identification from Charlotte Brontë to Tsitsi Dangarembga
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Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon
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On the Inconvenience of Other People
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Women Writing Race, Nation, and History: N/native
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The Mother of the Brontës: When Maria Met Patrick
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Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre
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Fierce Appetites: Loving, Losing and Living to Excess in My Present and in the Writings of the Past
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Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës
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Maya Angelou: The Iconic Self
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Spirits and Spirituality in Victorian Fiction
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Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread
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American Originality: Essays on Poetry
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A Life with Mary Shelley
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More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
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Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
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American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street
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Women of Will: The Remarkable Evolution of Shakespeare’s Female Characters
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The Artistry of Anger: Black and White Women’s Literature in America, 1820-1860
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Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll
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Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels
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Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose
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Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World
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My Life in Middlemarch
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Out of Time: The Pleasures and the Perils of Ageing
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Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature
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How Poetry Can Change Your Heart
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Free Woman: Life, Liberation, and Doris Lessing
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Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers
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Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore
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The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
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The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
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Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby
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These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
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The Interpretation of Fairy Tales
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Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader
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Motherlove in Shades of Black: The Maternal Psyche in the Novels of African American Women
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Borderwork: Feminist Engagements With Comparative Literature
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Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature
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Epistemology of the Closet
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Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women’s Poetry in America
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Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities
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The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition
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Women in Culture: An Intersectional Anthology for Gender and Women’s Studies
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Fashioning Horror: Dressing to Kill on Screen and in Literature
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Contemporary Arab Women Writers: Cultural Expression In Context
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading
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Contemporary Feminist Historical Crime Fiction
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Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion
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Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings
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Nobody’s Looking at You
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All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf
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Heroines
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Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance
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Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity
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The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
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Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare’s English Histories
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Poetry Will Save Your Life: A Memoir
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Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity
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Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
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Dangerous Books for Girls: The Bad Reputation of Romance Novels Explained
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The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
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What Is a Woman to Do? A Reader on Women, Work and Art, c. 1830-1890
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Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics
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A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare
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Last Things: Emily Brontë’s Poems
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You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Trainwrecks, & Other Mixed Messages
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