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Women's Studies

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Moth­ers & Mur­der­ers: A True Sto­ry of Love Lies Obsession…and Sec­ond Chances
Kather­ine Ellison
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All Stirred Up: Suf­frage Cook­books Food and the Bat­tle for Wom­en’s Right to Vote
Lau­ra Kumin
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Home is a Stranger
Par­naz Foroutan
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The Firsts: The Inside Sto­ry of the Women Reshap­ing Congress
Jen­nifer Steinhauer
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I Am My Moth­er’s Daugh­ter: Wis­dom on Life, Loss, and Love
Dara Kurtz
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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

‘Sacred Sto­ries as Metaphor’: A Mod­ern Retelling of Bib­li­cal Stories

Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg
August 19, 2019
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Calm Sea and Pros­per­ous Voy­age: Select­ed Stories
Bette How­land
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Wel­come to Wher­ev­er We Are: A Mem­oir of Fam­i­ly, Care­giv­ing, and Redemption
Deb­o­rah J. Cohan
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Hol­ly­wood’s Eve 
Lili Ano­lik
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Amer­i­ca’s Jew­ish Women: A His­to­ry from Colo­nial Times to Today
Pamela S. Nadell
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Mar­i­lyn Sachs, For­got­ten Pio­neer in Chil­dren’s Literature 

At a time when chil­dren’s lit­er­a­ture was filled with pic­ture-per­fect fam­i­lies, Mar­i­lyn Sachs paint­ed a dark­er, rich­er reality.

Emi­ly Schneider
June 3, 2019
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