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[2019]
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English
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"A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes...
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Mischief Bay volume 2
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English
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While Gabby Schaefer reels in the face of crushing news that has thwarted her plans to return to work, Hayley Batchelor pursues high-risk fertility treatments and Nicole Lord fears falling in love after emerging from a divorce from a man who barely touched her heart.
11) Tidelands
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Fairmile novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Midsummer's Eve, 1648, England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches to every corner of the kingdom, even the remote Tidelands - the marshy landscape of the south coast. Alinor a descendant of wise women, crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband. Instead, she meets James, a young man on the...
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2017.
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English
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"A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist. [This book] is Adichie's letter of response. Here are fifteen ... suggestions ... for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman"--Amazon.com.
16) Marriage on the street corners of Tehran: a novel based on the true stories of temporary marriage
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English
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Married off at the age of twelve, Ateesh finds the courage to escape her abusive arranged marriage, only to find herself trapped in the oppressive but socially accepted practice of temporary marriage. Here is her touching and tragic story of strength and survival.
17) The whole woman
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2000.
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English
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Thirty years after the publication of "The Female Eunuch" comes the sequel Germaine Greer vowed never to write--a piercing wake-up call that assesses the state of feminism today and predicts its place in the new millennium.--
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English
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The author of the hugely successful Why We Buy and The Call of the Mall, reports on the growing importance of women in everybody's marketplace-what makes a package, product, space, or service 'female friendly.' Underhill offers a tour of the world's marketplace-with shrewd observations and practical applications to help everybody adapt to the new realities.
As large numbers of women become steadily wealthier, more powerful, and more independent,...
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