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The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

“She looked at what biology, history and literature had to say about what it meant to be a woman and she came to the conclusion that these things really only gave people a definition of what it meant to be a woman from the standpoint of famous men. Nobody had ever asked, to her satisfaction, the question of what it means to be a woman to women themselves.”

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    The best books on Women’s Suffrage, recommended by Susan Ware

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    The best books on Women’s Suffrage - The Myth of Seneca Falls by Lisa Tetrault

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    The Myth of Seneca Falls
    by Lisa Tetrault

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    The best books on Women’s Suffrage - The Concise History of Woman Suffrage by Mari Jo Buhle & Paul Buhle

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    The Concise History of Woman Suffrage
    by Mari Jo Buhle & Paul Buhle

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    The best books on Women’s Suffrage - All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900 by Martha S. Jones

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    All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900
    by Martha S. Jones

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    The best books on Women’s Suffrage - The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine Weiss

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    The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
    by Elaine Weiss

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    The best books on Women’s Suffrage - The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States by Alexander Keyssar

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    The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States
    by Alexander Keyssar

The best books on Women’s Suffrage, recommended by Susan Ware

How many suffragists can you name? Feminist historian Susan Ware, author of a new history of the American women’s suffrage movement, urges us to remember how important suffrage was in the fight for women’s rights, on the cusp of its US centennial—and reveals the story of women getting the right to vote didn’t just begin at Seneca Falls.

    The best books on Feminism, recommended by Kirsten Swinth

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    The best books on Feminism - No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women by Estelle Freedman

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    No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women
    by Estelle Freedman

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    The best books on Feminism - The Solitude of Self: Thinking about Elizabeth Cady Stanton by Vivian Gornick

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    The Solitude of Self: Thinking about Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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    The best books on Feminism - The Grounding of Modern Feminism by Nancy Cott

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    The Grounding of Modern Feminism
    by Nancy Cott

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    The best books on Feminism - Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States by Premilla Nadasen

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    Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States
    by Premilla Nadasen

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    The best books on Feminism - Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women's Liberation Movement by Linda Gordon & Rosalyn Baxandall

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    Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women's Liberation Movement
    by Linda Gordon & Rosalyn Baxandall

The best books on Feminism, recommended by Kirsten Swinth

The fight for women’s liberation and equality under patriarchy spans centuries of history, and is still being waged today—but what lessons can feminist movements like #MeToo learn from suffragettes and black feminist activists? Fordham historian Kirsten Swinth explores the best books on feminism, and makes a powerful case for modern feminists listening to early foremothers.

    The best books on Alternative Futures, recommended by Catherine Mayer

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    The best books on Alternative Futures - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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    The best books on Alternative Futures - Idoru by William Gibson

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    Idoru
    by William Gibson

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    The best books on Alternative Futures - The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin

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    The Left Hand of Darkness
    by Ursula Le Guin

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    The best books on Alternative Futures - Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

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    Binti
    by Nnedi Okorafor

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    The best books on Alternative Futures - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

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    The Handmaid's Tale
    by Margaret Atwood

The best books on Alternative Futures, recommended by Catherine Mayer

Catherine Mayer—author, journalist and president of the Women’s Equality Party—talks to Five Books about her optimism for a more equal future for society by way of her favourite science fiction visionaries and their work.

    Katie Kitamura on Marriage (and Divorce) in Literature

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    Katie Kitamura on Marriage (and Divorce) in Literature - Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

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    Rebecca
    by Daphne Du Maurier

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    Katie Kitamura on Marriage (and Divorce) in Literature - The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

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    The Portrait of a Lady
    by Henry James

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    Katie Kitamura on Marriage (and Divorce) in Literature - Lust by Elfriede Jelinek & Translated by Michael Hulse

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    Lust
    by Elfriede Jelinek & Translated by Michael Hulse

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    Katie Kitamura on Marriage (and Divorce) in Literature - My First Wife by Jakob Wassermann & Translated by Michael Hofmann

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    My First Wife
    by Jakob Wassermann & Translated by Michael Hofmann

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    Katie Kitamura on Marriage (and Divorce) in Literature - The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

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    The Argonauts
    by Maggie Nelson

Katie Kitamura on Marriage (and Divorce) in Literature

Love and marriage may go together like a horse and carriage, but what happens when the horses are spooked and the whole procession is run off the road? Katie Kitamura, whose new novel A Separation charts the disastrous—and tragic—failure of a marriage, considers some of literature’s most heartfelt accounts of relationship failure

    Kayla Rae Whitaker on Stories about Women Artists

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    Kayla Rae Whitaker on Stories about Women Artists - The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow

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    The Dollmaker
    by Harriette Arnow

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    Kayla Rae Whitaker on Stories about Women Artists - The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather

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    The Song of the Lark
    by Willa Cather

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    Kayla Rae Whitaker on Stories about Women Artists - True Confections by Katharine Weber

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    True Confections
    by Katharine Weber

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    Kayla Rae Whitaker on Stories about Women Artists - Wonderland by Stacey D'Erasmo

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    Wonderland
    by Stacey D'Erasmo

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    Kayla Rae Whitaker on Stories about Women Artists - The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt

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    The Blazing World
    by Siri Hustvedt

Kayla Rae Whitaker on Stories about Women Artists

Kayla Rae Whitaker composes an ode to ‘women who make things’, from wooden dolls to indie music, and post-modern triptychs to the best candy bar you’ll ever taste. These are tales about what happens when the muse becomes the artist

    The best books on Ageing, recommended by Margaret Drabble

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    The best books on Ageing - Late Call by Angus Wilson

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    Late Call
    by Angus Wilson

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    The best books on Ageing - The Coming of Age by Simone de Beauvoir

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    The Coming of Age
    by Simone de Beauvoir

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    The best books on Ageing - Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time by Penelope Lively

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    Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time
    by Penelope Lively

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    The best books on Ageing - The Long Life by Helen Small

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    The Long Life
    by Helen Small

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    The best books on Ageing - Unexpected Lessons in Love by Bernardine Bishop

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    Unexpected Lessons in Love
    by Bernardine Bishop

The best books on Ageing, recommended by Margaret Drabble

Is old age necessarily degrading? Should we leave home in our final years? Is there ever a good time to go? Novelist, biographer and critic Dame Margaret Drabble, now aged 80, discusses the difficult questions that arise as we age—and recommends five books that examine them in depth.

    The best books on Women and Work, recommended by Myra Strober

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    The best books on Women and Work - Getting to 50/50: How Working Parents Can Have It All by Sharon Meers and Joanna Strober

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    Getting to 50/50: How Working Parents Can Have It All
    by Sharon Meers and Joanna Strober

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    The best books on Women and Work - A Grand Gender Convergence: Its Last Chapter by Claudia Goldin

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    A Grand Gender Convergence: Its Last Chapter
    by Claudia Goldin

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    The best books on Women and Work - Tempered Radicals by Debra E Meyerson

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    Tempered Radicals
    by Debra E Meyerson

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    The best books on Women and Work - Behind the Kitchen Door by Sarumathi Jayaraman

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    Behind the Kitchen Door
    by Sarumathi Jayaraman

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    The best books on Women and Work - Living Wages, Equal Wages: Gender and Labour Market Policies in the United States by Deborah M. Figart and Ellen Mutari and Marilyn Power

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    Living Wages, Equal Wages: Gender and Labour Market Policies in the United States
    by Deborah M. Figart and Ellen Mutari and Marilyn Power

The best books on Women and Work, recommended by Myra Strober

Despite having slightly higher education levels, women working full-time in the US still only earn 79% of what men do. Stanford economist and author of Sharing the Work, Myra Strober, picks the best books—and one article—that explain the gender wage gap, and, more importantly, show us what we can do about it.

    The best books on Memoirs of Dauntless Daughters, recommended by Nancy Goldstone

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    The best books on Memoirs of Dauntless Daughters - The Memoirs Of Marguerite De Valois by Marguerite De Valois

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    The Memoirs Of Marguerite De Valois
    by Marguerite De Valois

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    The best books on Memoirs of Dauntless Daughters - Why Not Say What Happened?: A Memoir by Ivana Lowell

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    Why Not Say What Happened?: A Memoir
    by Ivana Lowell

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    The best books on Memoirs of Dauntless Daughters - Casting with a Fragile Thread: A Story of Sisters and Africa by Wendy Kann

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    Casting with a Fragile Thread: A Story of Sisters and Africa
    by Wendy Kann

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    The best books on Memoirs of Dauntless Daughters - The Mighty Queens of Freeville by Amy Dickinson

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    The Mighty Queens of Freeville
    by Amy Dickinson

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    The best books on Memoirs of Dauntless Daughters - Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

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    Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
    by Cheryl Strayed

The best books on Memoirs of Dauntless Daughters, recommended by Nancy Goldstone

In her book The Rival Queens, historian Nancy Goldstone explored the destructive relationship between Marguerite de Valois and her mother Catherine de’ Medici. Here she chooses five different memoirs that best explore the emotionally complex dynamics that characterise mother-daughter relationships.

    The best books on Women in Society, recommended by Erica Jong

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    The best books on Women in Society - Of Woman Born by Adrienne Rich

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    Of Woman Born
    by Adrienne Rich

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    The best books on Women in Society - The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer

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    The Female Eunuch
    by Germaine Greer

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    The best books on Women in Society - The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

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    The Golden Notebook
    by Doris Lessing

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    The best books on Women in Society - Frankenstein (Book) by Mary Shelley

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    Frankenstein (Book)
    by Mary Shelley

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    The best books on Women in Society - The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

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    The Second Sex
    by Simone de Beauvoir

The best books on Women in Society, recommended by Erica Jong

The celebrated feminist gives us her view of essential reading for women – and says the gender revolution is far from over

    The best books on The History of Women Readers, recommended by Belinda Jack

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    The best books on The History of Women Readers - The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan

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    The Book of the City of Ladies
    by Christine de Pizan

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    The best books on The History of Women Readers - The Worth of Women by Moderata Fonte

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    The Worth of Women
    by Moderata Fonte

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    The best books on The History of Women Readers - The New Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish

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    The New Blazing World
    by Margaret Cavendish

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    The best books on The History of Women Readers - An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting by Jane Collier

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    An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting
    by Jane Collier

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    The best books on The History of Women Readers - The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

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    The Second Sex
    by Simone de Beauvoir

The best books on The History of Women Readers, recommended by Belinda Jack

The freedom to pick up a book is something we take almost for granted today but women readers have faced all manner of obstacles throughout history, as the author of The Woman Reader explains

    The best books on The 18th Century Sexual Revolution, recommended by Faramerz Dabhoiwala

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    The best books on The 18th Century Sexual Revolution - Social Bliss Considered by Peter Annet

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    Social Bliss Considered
    by Peter Annet

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    The best books on The 18th Century Sexual Revolution - The Journals of James Boswell by James Boswell

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    The Journals of James Boswell
    by James Boswell

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    The best books on The 18th Century Sexual Revolution - Clarissa by Samuel Richardson

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    Clarissa
    by Samuel Richardson

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    The best books on The 18th Century Sexual Revolution - A Letter to the Women of England by Mary Robinson

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    A Letter to the Women of England
    by Mary Robinson

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    The best books on The 18th Century Sexual Revolution - Ancient and Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplify'd by Thomas Cannon

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    Ancient and Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplify'd
    by Thomas Cannon

The best books on The 18th Century Sexual Revolution, recommended by Faramerz Dabhoiwala

The roots of our (generally) open attitude to sex lie not in the sixties but the 1760s, says the historian and author of The Origins of Sex, who explores this earlier sexual revolution through its literature.

    The best books on Strong Women in Bad Marriages, recommended by Nancy Goldstone

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    The best books on Strong Women in Bad Marriages - Eleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir

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    Eleanor of Aquitaine
    by Alison Weir

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    The best books on Strong Women in Bad Marriages - The Serpent and the Moon by Her Royal Highness Princess Michael of Kent

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    The Serpent and the Moon
    by Her Royal Highness Princess Michael of Kent

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    The best books on Strong Women in Bad Marriages - The Heptameron by Marguerite de Navarre

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    The Heptameron
    by Marguerite de Navarre

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    The best books on Strong Women in Bad Marriages - Murder of a Medici Princess by Caroline P Murphy

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    Murder of a Medici Princess
    by Caroline P Murphy

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    The best books on Strong Women in Bad Marriages - Wedlock by Wendy Moore

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    Wedlock
    by Wendy Moore

The best books on Strong Women in Bad Marriages, recommended by Nancy Goldstone

The author of The Maid and the Queen takes us on an enjoyable ride through European history, looking at well-connected women who outwitted their husbands or asserted their independence.

    The best books on Dutch Women (and Happiness), recommended by Ellen de Bruin

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    The best books on Dutch Women (and Happiness) - French Women Don’t Get Fat by Mireille Guiliano

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    French Women Don’t Get Fat
    by Mireille Guiliano

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    The best books on Dutch Women (and Happiness) - Women and the Birth of Capitalism in Western Europe by Tine de Moor and Jan Luiten van Zanden

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    Women and the Birth of Capitalism in Western Europe
    by Tine de Moor and Jan Luiten van Zanden

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    The best books on Dutch Women (and Happiness) - On Blondes by Joanna Pitman

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    On Blondes
    by Joanna Pitman

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    The best books on Dutch Women (and Happiness) - The Encyclopedia of Stupidity by Matthijs van Boxsel

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    The Encyclopedia of Stupidity
    by Matthijs van Boxsel

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    The best books on Dutch Women (and Happiness) - Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

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    Freedom
    by Jonathan Franzen

The best books on Dutch Women (and Happiness), recommended by Ellen de Bruin

The Dutch science journalist takes a light-hearted look at national stereotypes: why Dutch women are happy, and what it means to be blonde. She picks the best books on Dutch women.

    The best books on Asian Women, recommended by Vishakha Desai

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    The best books on Asian Women - May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons by Elisabeth Bumiller

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    May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons
    by Elisabeth Bumiller

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    The best books on Asian Women - Dear to Behold by Krishna Hutheesing

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    Dear to Behold
    by Krishna Hutheesing

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    The best books on Asian Women - Songs of Blood and Sword by Fatima Bhutto

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    Songs of Blood and Sword
    by Fatima Bhutto

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    The best books on Asian Women - Wild Swans by Jung Chang

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    Wild Swans
    by Jung Chang

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    The best books on Asian Women - Women Writing in India by Susie Tharu and K Lalita (editors)

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    Women Writing in India
    by Susie Tharu and K Lalita (editors)

The best books on Asian Women, recommended by Vishakha Desai

The president of the Asia Society discusses the changing role of women in Asian countries and how women have reached positions of leadership there

    The Best Books about First Ladies, recommended by Carl Sferrazza Anthony

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    The Best Books about First Ladies - And Tyler Too by Robert Seager

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    And Tyler Too
    by Robert Seager

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    The Best Books about First Ladies - Mary Todd Lincoln by Jean H Baker

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    Mary Todd Lincoln
    by Jean H Baker

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    The Best Books about First Ladies - Edith and Woodrow by Phyllis Lee Levin

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    Edith and Woodrow
    by Phyllis Lee Levin

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    The Best Books about First Ladies - The Shadow of Blooming Grove by Francis Russell

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    The Shadow of Blooming Grove
    by Francis Russell

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    The Best Books about First Ladies - Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P Lash

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    Eleanor and Franklin
    by Joseph P Lash

The Best Books about First Ladies, recommended by Carl Sferrazza Anthony

From the annexation of Texas to the UN’s Commission on Human Rights, first ladies have played a key role in the history of the United States. Historian Carl Sferrazza Anthony recommends five engaging books about the tumultuous lives of some of the country’s first ladies.

    The best books on Women’s Empowerment, recommended by Zainab Salbi

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    The best books on Women’s Empowerment - A Thousand Sisters by Lisa J Shannon

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    A Thousand Sisters
    by Lisa J Shannon

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    The best books on Women’s Empowerment - Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

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    Half the Sky
    by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

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    The best books on Women’s Empowerment - The Essential Rumi by Jelaluddin Rumi

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    The Essential Rumi
    by Jelaluddin Rumi

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    The best books on Women’s Empowerment - Paradise Beneath her Feet by Isobel Coleman

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    Paradise Beneath her Feet
    by Isobel Coleman

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    The best books on Women’s Empowerment - Identity and Violence by Amartya Sen

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    Identity and Violence
    by Amartya Sen

The best books on Women’s Empowerment, recommended by Zainab Salbi

Founder and CEO of Women for Women International Zainab Salbi says we need to make the 21st century the time for women’s rights, and describes how reading Rumi’s poems helps her to find inner peace

    The best books on Rural Women in the Developing World, recommended by Khushi Kabir

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    The best books on Rural Women in the Developing World - Jhagrapur by Jenneke Arens and Jos Van Beurden

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    Jhagrapur
    by Jenneke Arens and Jos Van Beurden

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    The best books on Rural Women in the Developing World - Reversed Realities by Naila Kabeer

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    Reversed Realities
    by Naila Kabeer

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    The best books on Rural Women in the Developing World - Agunmukhar Meye by Nurjahan Bose

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    Agunmukhar Meye
    by Nurjahan Bose

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    The best books on Rural Women in the Developing World - A Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village by Betsy Hartmann and James K Boyce

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    A Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village
    by Betsy Hartmann and James K Boyce

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    The best books on Rural Women in the Developing World - Surja Dighal Bari (The Ominous House)

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    Surja Dighal Bari (The Ominous House)

The best books on Rural Women in the Developing World, recommended by Khushi Kabir

The Bangladeshi campaigner for lifting women out of poverty says village life has been wrongly idealised. It is not a harmonious whole, with the elders looking after the interests of all the villagers alike

    The best books on The History of American Women, recommended by Jay Kleinberg

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    The best books on The History of American Women - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

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    Little Women
    by Louisa May Alcott

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    The best books on The History of American Women - The Response to Industrialism by Samuel P Hays

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    The Response to Industrialism
    by Samuel P Hays

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    The best books on The History of American Women - Century of Struggle by Eleanor Flexner

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    Century of Struggle
    by Eleanor Flexner

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    The best books on The History of American Women - The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina by Gerda Lerner

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    The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina
    by Gerda Lerner

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    The best books on The History of American Women - Sisterhood Is Powerful by Robin Morgan

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    Sisterhood Is Powerful
    by Robin Morgan

The best books on The History of American Women, recommended by Jay Kleinberg

The feminist historian and author of History of Women in the Americas shares her book choices and explains why abortion will always remain a flashpoint in the United States.

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