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You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War (Hardcover)

By Elizabeth Becker

$28.00

ISBN: 9781541768208

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Published: PublicAffairs - February 23rd, 2021
Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue: A Life's Work Fighting for a More Perfect Union (Law in the Public Square #2) (Hardcover)

By Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Amanda L. Tyler

$26.95

ISBN: 9780520381926

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Published: University of California Press - March 16th, 2021
The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote (Paperback)

By Elaine Weiss

$18.00

ISBN: 9780143128991

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Published: Penguin Books - March 5th, 2019
The Women's Suffrage Movement (Paperback)

By Sally Roesch Wagner (Editor), Sally Roesch Wagner (Introduction by), Gloria Steinem (Foreword by)

$18.00

ISBN: 9780143132431

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Published: Penguin Classics - March 5th, 2019
Becoming (Hardcover)

By Michelle Obama

$32.50

ISBN: 9781524763138

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Published: Crown - November 13th, 2018
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race (Paperback)

By Margot Lee Shetterly

$17.99

ISBN: 9780062363602

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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - December 6th, 2016
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women (Hardcover)

By Kate Moore

$26.99

ISBN: 9781492649359

Availability: Special Order—Subject to Availability

Published: Sourcebooks - April 18th, 2017
A Black Women's History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY #5) (Hardcover)

By Daina Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross

$27.95

ISBN: 9780807033555

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Published: Beacon Press - February 4th, 2020

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