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Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women
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The Love of a Bad Man
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An electrifying debut short story collection about the wives, lovers, and mistresses of history's...
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Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
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A sensual, dazzling introduction to the work of Kathleen Collins, a pioneering African-American...
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Love Letters of Great Men and Women
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Gender and French Identity After the Second World War, 1944-1954: Engendering Frenchness
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The enfranchisement of women in Charles de Gaulle's France in 1944 is considered a potent element in...
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And the Twain Shall Meet: Three Countries and Three Generations, a Doctor's Story
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Set between three countries, Burma, India and England, and spanning three very different...
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