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To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War
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4.18 avg rating — 667 ratings
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Working 9 to 5: A Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie
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4.05 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Women's Work: A Reckoning with Work and Home
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3.78 avg rating — 1,354 ratings
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Working Women's Music: The Songs and Struggles of Women in the Cotton Mills, Textile Plants, and Needle Trades
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Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865-1960
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Reform, Labor, and Feminism: Margaret Dreier Robins and the Women's Trade Union League
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The Cocktail Waitress: Women's Work in a Man's World
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3.60 avg rating — 63 ratings
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On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union
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4.24 avg rating — 450 ratings
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Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights
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4.11 avg rating — 2,119 ratings
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Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them
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3.73 avg rating — 1,097 ratings
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Getting Me Cheap: How Low-Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty
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4.08 avg rating — 132 ratings
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The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet
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4.02 avg rating — 1,353 ratings
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Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work
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3.59 avg rating — 961 ratings
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She Was Aye Workin': Memories of Tenement Women in Edinburgh and Glasgow
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4.26 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
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3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Radicals of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1860-1912
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4.03 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South
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4.25 avg rating — 398 ratings
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Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court
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3.93 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York
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3.81 avg rating — 839 ratings
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They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
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4.29 avg rating — 5,299 ratings
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The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History
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4.19 avg rating — 3,326 ratings
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Work, Family, and Faith: Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century
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4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Carry it On!: A History in Song and Picture of the Working Men and Women of America
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4.65 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present
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4.19 avg rating — 278 ratings
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Mama Learned Us to Work: Farm Women in the New South
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3.57 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Kalamazoo Gals: A Story of extraordinary Women and Gibson's "Banner" Guitars of WWII
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3.89 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America
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Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 18961926 (Revolutionary Pocketbooks)
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4.08 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Labor's Untold Story: The Adventure Story of the Battles, Betrayals and Victories of American Working Men and Women
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3.84 avg rating — 275 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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4.16 avg rating — 187,232 ratings
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Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930-2000
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4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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We Just Keep Running the Line: Black Southern Women and the Poultry Processing Industry
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The Traffic in Women and Other Essays on Feminism
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4.01 avg rating — 134 ratings
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson
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4.05 avg rating — 311 ratings
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To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice
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4.30 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America
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3.83 avg rating — 267 ratings
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The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience
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4.22 avg rating — 2,596 ratings
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Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story
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3.81 avg rating — 1,791 ratings
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Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South
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4.19 avg rating — 1,476 ratings
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A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman
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3.78 avg rating — 558 ratings
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The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail
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3.59 avg rating — 900 ratings
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Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century
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3.83 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Fly Girl: A Memoir
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3.81 avg rating — 8,117 ratings
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The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
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3.79 avg rating — 2,440 ratings
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On the Job: The Untold Story of America's Work Centers and the New Fight for Wages, Dignity, and Health
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4.08 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Sisters of Mokama: The Pioneering Women Who Brought Hope and Healing to India
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3.94 avg rating — 227 ratings
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The Public Health Nurses of Jim Crow Florida
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Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers
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4.02 avg rating — 6,950 ratings
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Medicine Women: A Pictoral History of Women Healers
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3.72 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Women Healers of the World: The Traditions, History, and Geography of Herbal Medicine
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4.13 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women: Sweetening the Spirits, Healing the Sick
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4.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy
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4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings
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They Called Them Angels: American Military Nurses of World War II
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4.20 avg rating — 45 ratings
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No Time for Fear: Voices of American Military Nurses in World War II
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4.32 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Bedpan Commando: The Story of a Combat Nurse During World War II
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4.34 avg rating — 367 ratings
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Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps
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4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Ooooooh Doctor!: Pictorial History of Classic Nurse Paperback Cover
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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African American and Cherokee Nurses in Appalachia: A History, 1900-1965 (Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, 37)
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3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Combat Nurses of World War II (Landmark Books #116)
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4.26 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific
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4.19 avg rating — 648 ratings
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The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and Medics Behind Nazi Lines
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3.75 avg rating — 2,086 ratings
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G.I. Nightingales: The Army Nurse Corps in World War II
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3.95 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Year of the Nurse: A 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic Memoir
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4.07 avg rating — 515 ratings
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The Spirit of Our Work: Black Women Teachers (Re)member
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4.55 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Torches of Light: Georgia Teachers and the Coming of the Modern South
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3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Frontier Teachers: Stories Of Heroic Women Of The Old West, First Edition
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3.74 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Soldiers of Light and Love: Northern Teachers and Georgia Blacks, 1865-1873 (Brown Thrasher Books)
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3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century
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4.26 avg rating — 447 ratings
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The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
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4.41 avg rating — 3,300 ratings
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A Woman's Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women's Soccer
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4.02 avg rating — 725 ratings
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Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer
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4.06 avg rating — 527 ratings
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Courageous Women of the Vietnam War: Medics, Journalists, Survivors, and More
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3.97 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Film Makers: 15 Groundbreaking Women Directors
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Two Women in Their Time: The Belarus Free Theatre and the Art of Resistance (Diverse Humanity: An LGBTQ+ Photobook Series)
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3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Hillbilly Maidens, Okies, and Cowgirls: Women's Country Music, 1930-1960
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Lita & Jean: Memoirs of Two Generations of Military Women
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4.18 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Quake Chasers: 15 Women Rocking Earthquake Science
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3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Entry Lessons: The Stories of Women Fighting for Their Place, Their Children, and Their FuturesAfter Incarceration
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4.27 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Animal Allies: 15 Amazing Women in Wildlife Research
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4.03 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement
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3.91 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Comic Book Women: Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age (World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series)
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3.70 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Shadow Lives: The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror
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4.30 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Discover Her Art: Women Artists and Their Masterpieces
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4.50 avg rating — 30 ratings
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An Unladylike Profession: American Women War Correspondents in World War I
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3.73 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Stormy Weather: The Music and Lives of a Century of Jazz Women
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3.71 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
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4.05 avg rating — 1,112 ratings
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Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement
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4.34 avg rating — 586 ratings
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Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination
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3.97 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power
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4.33 avg rating — 175 ratings
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Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science
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3.98 avg rating — 99 ratings
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The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
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4.09 avg rating — 19,463 ratings
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Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women's Football League
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4.11 avg rating — 290 ratings
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Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America
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3.63 avg rating — 2,841 ratings
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The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II
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4.26 avg rating — 886 ratings
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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
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3.59 avg rating — 6,070 ratings
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Come Fly The World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am
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3.65 avg rating — 14,483 ratings
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You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War
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4.32 avg rating — 1,387 ratings
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The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II
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4.20 avg rating — 2,433 ratings
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Worth a Dozen Men: Women and Nursing in the Civil War South
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3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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