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    Women's Studies

    Cover of No Steps Behind: Beate Sirota Gordon’s Battle for Women’s Rights in Japan
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    No Steps Behind: Beate Siro­ta Gordon’s Bat­tle for Women’s Rights in Japan
    Jeff Gottesfeld, Shiella Witanto (illus.)
    Essay

    Fre­quen­cy Hop­ping: The Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty of Hedy Lamarr in Children’s Books

    Emi­ly Schneider
    May 25, 2020
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    Chil­dren’s
    Miri­am at the River
    Jane Yolen; Khoa Le, illus.
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    A Con­ver­sa­tion with Pamela Nadell

    JBC Staff, Pamela S. Nadell
    May 5, 2020
    Essay

    ‘The Obvi­ous Hero­ine’: Anna Solomon on the Book of Esther

    Anna Solomon
    May 4, 2020
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    Dressed for a Dance in the Snow: Wom­en’s Voic­es from the Gulag
    Monika Zgustova; Julie Jones, trans.
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    Fic­tion
    The Con­vert
    Stefan Hertmans; David McKay, trans.
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    Fic­tion
    The Book of V. 
    Anna Solomon
    From the Journal

    A Wom­an’s Voice: Books by Four Redis­cov­ered Authors

    Ruth Andrew Ellenson
    March 26, 2020
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    Her Sto­ry, My Sto­ry? Writ­ing About Women and the Holocaust
    Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz and Dalia Ofer (eds.)
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    Andrea Dworkin: The Fem­i­nist as Revolutionary
    Martin Duberman
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    Here She Is: The Com­pli­cat­ed Reign of the Beau­ty Pageant in America
    Hilary Lev­ey Friedman
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    Fun­ny, You Don’t Look Like a Rab­bi: A Mem­oir of Unortho­dox Transformation
    Lyn­n­da Targan
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    Me, My Self­ie & Eye: A Midlife Con­ver­sa­tion About Lost Iden­ti­ty, Grief, and See­ing Who You Are
    Jan­na Lopez
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    The Sound of Her Voice
    Sara Gel­bard
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    The Water­gate Girl: My Fight for Truth and Jus­tice Against a Crim­i­nal President
    Jill Wine-Banks
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