Three Women and a Piano Tuner
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Ella's got a project. After ten years she has completed her piano concerto, and now she needs the...
Politics of Morality: The Church, the State, and Reproductive Rights in Postsocialist Poland
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"...A compelling and horrifying account of how Polish institutions intervened and gained command...
Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family
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Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Books 2016 Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey...
Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World
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WITH ESSAYS BY: ROWAN BLANCHARD - SENATOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH - AMERICA FERRERA - ROXANE GAY - ILANA...
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Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
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Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. What is misogyny, exactly? Who deserves to be...
Steam Trains: The Magnificent History of Britain's Locomotives from Stephenson's Rocket to BR's Evening Star
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Most people are under a misapprehension: the Rocket was not the first steam engine. Quite a few were...
Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women
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Beyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and...
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My main problem with this book was how it read like a text book. Honestly, it felt like I was back in history class getting ready to hear about the women who helped win the war. This would have been a very compelling powerpoint presentation but I did feel that it was monotonous.
I loved the concept of the book, unfortunately I felt like I was reading a text book.
Blowing the Lid: Gay Liberation, Sexual Revolution and Radical Queens
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The Gay Liberation Front founded in 1970 urged gay men and gay women to unite around a simple set of...