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Short-Haired Women and Long-Haired Men The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left By Landon R.Y. Storrs
Reviewed by Alice Kessler-Harris

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WRB Celebrating 30 Years Feminist Superbooster By Courtney Martin

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Superheroines Womanthology: Heroic Edited by Mariah Huehner
Reviewed by Joan Hilty

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Poet and Marketing “Mastermind” Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage By Vincent Carretta
Reviewed by Joycelyn Moody

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Outlaw Texts In Contempt: Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature By Kristen Kalsem
Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady By Kate Summerscale
Reviewed by Lisa Rodensky

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Wages for Housework Sex, Race, and Class: The Perspective of Winning: A selection of Writings, 1952-2011 By Selma James
Reviewed by Kate Weigand

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Pursued By Hounds Marmee & Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother By Eva LaPlante
Reviewed by Martha Saxton

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Poetry By Kelly Cherry

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Cartoon By Gina Kamentsky

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Good Reads Passionate Strangers 
Homesick By Roshi Fernando
The Third Son By Julie Wu
The Vanishing Act By Mette Jakobsen
Reviewed by Trish Crapo

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The Warrior Spirit Crazy Brave: A Memoir By Joy Jarjo
Reviewed by Janice Gould

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The Union of Forgotten Wives Heroine By Kate Zambreno
Reviewed by Nancy Gray

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Women’s Struggles in the Arab World Mapping Arab Women’s Movements: A Century of Transformations from Within Edited by Pernille Arenfeldt and Nawar Al-Hassan Golley
Reviewed by Marilyn Booth

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Smoking Liberation Sex, Lies and Cigarettes: Canadien Women, Smoking, and Visual Culture, 1880-2000 By Sharon Anne Cook
Reviewed by Rosemary Elliot

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Writing and Remembering The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture after the Holocaust By Marianne Hirsch
Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Simaite By Julija Sukys
Reviewed by Rochelle Ruthchild

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The Chick Slicks Airbrushed Nation: The Lure and Loathing of Women’s Magazines By Jennifer Nelson
Reviewed by Andi Zeisler