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• To Those Who Have Confused You to Be a Person

  Words as Violence and Stories of Women's Resistance Online

  Dastagir, Alia

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  An urgently needed reckoning with the harm, harassment, and abuse women face on the internet, with insights from clinical experts on how to survive the trauma.

• Dream Count

  a Novel

  Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-

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  In Dream Count, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie trains her fierce eye on four women in a sparkling, transcendent novel that takes up the very nature of love itself. Is true happiness ever attainable or is it just a fleeting state? And how honest…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bad Friend : How Women Revolutionized Modern Friendship

  Watt Smith, Tiffany

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  A smart and thought-provoking memoir, history, and cultural critique about the turmoil and complexity of female friendship.

• Fundamentally

  a Novel

  Younis, Nussaibah

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  When Dr. Nadia Amin, a long-suffering academic, publishes an article on the possibility of rehabilitating ISIS brides, the United Nations comes calling, offering an opportunity to lead a deradicalization program for the ISIS-affiliated…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lonely Planet Women Travel Solo : 30 Inspiring Stories of Adventure, Curiosity and the Power of Self-Discovery

  Lonely Planet

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  Discover 30 inspirational stories from women who have harnessed the power of self-discovery and experienced amazing adventures around the world alone.

• All in Her Head

  the Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

  Comen, Elizabeth

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  A surprising, groundbreaking, and fiercely entertaining medical history that is both a collective narrative of women's bodies and a call to action for a new conversation around women's health.

• Blood

  the Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation

  Gunter, Jen

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  Dr. Jen Gunter dispels the shame, mythology, and misinformation around menstruation with scientific facts, medical expertise, and a fierce feminist perspective.

• Divine Might

  Goddesses in Greek Myth

  Haynes, Natalie

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  Divine Might is a female-centered look at Olympus and the Furies, focusing on the goddesses whose prowess, passions, jealousies, and desires rival those of their male kin.

• Normal Women

  900 Years of Making History

  Gregory, Philippa

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  The "normal women" you will meet in these pages went to war, ploughed the fields, campaigned, wrote, and loved. They rode in jousts, flew Spitfires, issued their own currency, and built ships, corn mills and houses. A landmark work of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ladies Rewrite the Rules

  a Novel

  Allain, Suzanne

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  Diana Boyle, a wealthy young widow, has no desire to ever marry again. Particularly not to someone who merely wants her for her fortune. So when she discovers that she's listed in a directory of rich, single women she is furious, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• B.F.F.

  a Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found

  Tate, Christie

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  This book reflects on the author's lifelong struggles to sustain female friendship and how the return of an old friend helped her explore the reasons she has avoided attachment.

• Flowers of Fire

  the Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide

  Jung, Hawon

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  An eye-opening firsthand account of the ongoing and trailblazing feminist movement in South Korea -- one that the world should be watching.

• Hijab Butch Blues

  a Memoir

  H, Lamya

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  Fourteen years old and growing up in the Middle East, Lamya is an overachiever and a class clown, qualities that help her hide in plain sight when she realizes she has a crush on her teacher -- her female teacher. She's also fourteen when…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black and Female

  Essays

  Dangarembga, Tsitsi

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  This paradigm-shifting essay collection weaves the personal and political in an illuminating exploration of race and gender. At once philosophical, intimate, and urgent, Black and Female is a powerful testimony of the pervasive and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Halal Sex

  the Intimate Lives of Muslim Women in North America

  Benembarek, Sheima

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  An unprecedented glimpse into the sex lives of female and gender-expansive Muslims living across Canada and the United States.

• The Bandit Queens

  a Novel

  Shroff, Parini

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  In the five years since her husband's disappearance, Geeta has become accustomed to a solitary life; you'd be surprised how difficult it is to make friends when your entire village believes you're a witch who murdered your husband. And…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• In Defense of Witches

  the Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

  Chollet, Mona, 1973-

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  Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a celebration by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch as a symbol of female rebellion and independence in the face of misogyny and persecution. With fiery prose and arguments that range from the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Manifesto

  on Never Giving Up

  Evaristo, Bernardine, 1959-

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  Both unconventional memoir and inspirational text, Manifesto is a unique reminder to us all to persist in doing work we believe in, even when we might feel overlooked or discounted. Bernardine shows us how we too can follow in her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Still Hopeful

  Lessons From a Lifetime of Activism

  Barlow, Maude

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  Maude Barlow has been a linchpin in three major movements in her life: second-wave feminism, the battle against free trade and globalisation, and the global fight for water justice. From each of these she draws her lessons of hope,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Handmaid's Tale

  Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

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  A look at the near future presents the story of Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, once the United States, an oppressive world where women are no longer allowed to read and are valued only as long as they are viable for…Read moreRead more of this annotation