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Themes: Women's Studies • Women • Social Science

Secrets of the Sprakkar Iceland’s Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World — Eliza Reid

Secrets of the Sprakkar Iceland’s Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World

Themes: Women's Studies • Women • Social Science

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Dear Black Girls How to Be True to You — A’ja Wilson

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Themes: Women's Studies • Women • Social Science

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I Survived the Holocaust To Share His Glory

James L. Larson

Themes: Women's Studies • Women • Social Science

Far More Terrible for Women Personal Accounts of Women in Slavery — Patrick Neal Minges

Far More Terrible for Women Personal Accounts of Women in Slavery

Patrick Neal Minges

Themes: Women's Studies • Women • Social Science

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Lives of Roman Christian Women

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Themes: Women's Studies • Women • Social Science

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Themes: Women's Studies • Women • Social Science

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Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush

Themes: Women's Studies • Women • Social Science

Women in Long Island’s Past A History of Famous Eminent and Everyday Lives — Natalie A. Naylor

Women in Long Island’s Past A History of Famous Eminent and Everyday Lives

Natalie A. Naylor

Themes: Women's Studies • Women • Social Science

Hattie McDaniel Black Ambition, White Hollywood — Jill Watts

Hattie McDaniel Black Ambition, White Hollywood

Themes: Women's Studies • Women • Social Science

Rosa Luxemburg — Paul Frölich

Themes: Women's Studies • Women • Social Science

Why Am I So Angry? My Search for the Truth — Helen Gerondis

Why Am I So Angry? My Search for the Truth

Themes: Women's Studies • Women • Social Science

$A to Z of Women in Science and Math — Lisa Yount$

A to Z of Women in Science and Math

Themes: Women's Studies • Women • Social Science

Portia The World of Abigail Adams — Edith B. Gelles

Portia The World of Abigail Adams

Edith B. Gelles

Themes: Women's Studies • Women • Social Science

War Child Memories of a World War II Childhood — Maurine Murchison

War Child Memories of a World War II Childhood

Maurine Murchison

Themes: Women's Studies • Women • Social Science

Murder of a Medici Princess — Caroline Murphy

Murder of a Medici Princess

Caroline Murphy

Themes: Women's Studies • Women • Social Science

The Beekeeper Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq — Dunyā Mīkhāʼīl

The Beekeeper Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq

Dunyā Mīkhāʼīl

Themes: Women's Studies • Women • Social Science

The Better Angels Five Women Who Changed Civil War America — Robert C. Plumb

The Better Angels Five Women Who Changed Civil War America

Robert C. Plumb

Themes: Women's Studies • Women • Social Science

Nine Continents A Memoir in and Out of China — Xiaolu Guo

Nine Continents A Memoir in and Out of China

Themes: Women's Studies • Women • Social Science

The Women of the Cousins’ War The Duchess; The Queen; The King’s Mother — Philippa Gregory

The Women of the Cousins’ War The Duchess; The Queen; The King’s Mother

Philippa Gregory

Themes: Women's Studies • Women • Social Science

The Case of the Married Woman Caroline Norton and Her Fight for Women’s Justice — Antonia Fraser

The Case of the Married Woman Caroline Norton and Her Fight for Women’s Justice

Themes: Women's Studies • Women • Social Science

Challenge and Change Right-wing Women, Grassroots Activism, and the Baby Boom Generation — June Melby Benowitz

Challenge and Change Right-wing Women, Grassroots Activism, and the Baby Boom Generation

June Melby Benowitz

Themes: Women's Studies • Women • Social Science

Eilean Giblin A Feminist Between the Wars — Patricia Clarke

Eilean Giblin A Feminist Between the Wars

Patricia Clarke

Themes: Women's Studies • Women • Social Science

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