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1	The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male by Janice G. Raymond 2.95 avg rating — 382 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism by Mary Daly 3.89 avg rating — 1,566 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism by J. Michael Bailey 3.28 avg rating — 326 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Sex Changes: A Memoir of Marriage, Gender, and Moving On by Christine Benvenuto (Goodreads Author) 3.07 avg rating — 353 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism by Dorchen Leidholdt (Editor) 4.18 avg rating — 102 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Unpacking Queer Politics: A Lesbian Feminist Perspective by Sheila Jeffreys 3.90 avg rating — 250 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science by Alice Domurat Dreger 3.73 avg rating — 2,228 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men by Robert Jensen (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 134 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism by Sheila Jeffreys 3.88 avg rating — 324 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Sex Change-It's Suicide by Walt Heyer 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Trans Life Survivors by Walt Heyer 3.83 avg rating — 86 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	A Transgender's Faith by Walt Heyer really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 44 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Paper Genders by Walt Heyer 3.58 avg rating — 64 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Gender, Lies and Suicide by Walt Heyer 4.04 avg rating — 23 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Men Trapped in Men's Bodies: Narratives of Autogynephilic Transsexualism by Anne A. Lawrence 3.58 avg rating — 80 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Sex Science Self: A Social History of Estrogen, Testosterone, and Identity by Bob Ostertag 3.90 avg rating — 31 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Conundrum by Jan Morris 3.89 avg rating — 2,383 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West by Sheila Jeffreys 4.03 avg rating — 449 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	In Defence of Separatism by Susan Hawthorne (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 32 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Lesbian Separatism: An Amazon Analysis by Lesbian Separatist Group it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Blood and Visions: Womyn Reconciling with Being Female by Autotomous Womyn's Press 3.78 avg rating — 23 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto 4.04 avg rating — 8,197 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche by Ethan Watters 4.10 avg rating — 4,570 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Girls on the Edge: Why So Many Girls Are Anxious, Wired, and Obsessed-And What Parents Can Do by Leonard Sax (Goodreads Author) 4.30 avg rating — 218 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences by Leonard Sax (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 3,691 ratings score: 76, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	TRANS/gressive: How Transgender Activists Took on Gay Rights, Feminism, the Media & Congress ... and Won! by Riki Anne Wilchins 3.77 avg rating — 30 ratings score: 75, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	TRANS: Exploring Gender Identity and Gender Dysphoria by Az Hakeem 3.48 avg rating — 61 ratings score: 74, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	El libro negro de la nueva izquierda by Nicolás Márquez 3.93 avg rating — 1,411 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Female Erasure: What You Need to Know About Gender Politics' War on Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights by Ruth Barrett (Editor) 4.08 avg rating — 168 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought by Jonathan Rauch (Goodreads Author) 4.44 avg rating — 928 ratings score: 71, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	You're Teaching My Child What?: A Physician Exposes the Lies of Sex Education and How They Harm Your Child by Miriam Grossman 4.08 avg rating — 151 ratings score: 70, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Making Room for Madness in Mental Health: The Psychoanalytic Understanding of Psychotic Communication (Tavistock Clinic Series) by Marcus Evans it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 69, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Parenting Beyond Pink & Blue: How to Raise Your Kids Free of Gender Stereotypes by Christia Spears Brown (Goodreads Author) 3.99 avg rating — 1,257 ratings score: 68, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 11,644 ratings score: 67, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	The Pimping of Prostitution: Abolishing the Sex Work Myth by Julie Bindel 4.07 avg rating — 236 ratings score: 66, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Straight Expectations by Julie Bindel 3.05 avg rating — 102 ratings score: 65, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	The Apartheid of Sex: A Manifesto on the Freedom of Gender by Martine Rothblatt 3.88 avg rating — 43 ratings score: 64, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	From Transgender to Transhuman: A Manifesto On the Freedom Of Form (Volume 2) by Martine Rothblatt 3.30 avg rating — 54 ratings score: 63, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Sex and Gender: On the Development of Masculinity and Femininity by Robert J. Stoller 3.36 avg rating — 11 ratings score: 62, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Sexual signatures: On being a man or a woman by John Money 3.38 avg rating — 24 ratings score: 61, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Man and Woman, Boy and Girl: Differentiation and Dimorphism of Gender Identity from Conception to Maturity by John Money 2.19 avg rating — 16 ratings score: 60, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics by Mark Lilla (Goodreads Author) 3.82 avg rating — 2,579 ratings score: 59, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Outercourse by Mary Daly 3.78 avg rating — 72 ratings score: 58, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability by Lierre Keith 3.72 avg rating — 2,913 ratings score: 57, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	Conditions of War by Lierre Keith 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings score: 56, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Ecologie en résistance T01 by Vandana Shiva 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings score: 55, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	Skyler Gabriel by Lierre Keith 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 54, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet by Derrick Jensen 3.94 avg rating — 388 ratings score: 53, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Sexuality Debates by Sheila Jeffreys (Editor) 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings score: 52, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars