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Transforming a Rape Culture
Transforming a Rape Culture
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Emilie Buchwald (Editor)

4.36 avg rating — 747 ratings
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Asking for It: The Alarming...
Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It
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Kate Harding (Goodreads Author)

4.37 avg rating — 4,217 ratings
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What Soldiers Do: Sex and t...
What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France
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Mary Louise Roberts

3.92 avg rating — 383 ratings
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Rape and Sexual Power in Ea...
Rape and Sexual Power in Early America
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Sharon Block

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The V Girl: A Coming of Age...
The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story
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Mya Robarts

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Missoula: Rape and the Just...
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
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Jon Krakauer (Goodreads Author)

4.12 avg rating — 58,116 ratings
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The Rape of Nanking: The Fo...
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
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Iris Chang

4.25 avg rating — 51,764 ratings
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The Female of the Species
The Female of the Species
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Mindy McGinnis (Goodreads Author)

4.14 avg rating — 38,665 ratings
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He's a Stud, She's a Slut, ...
He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know
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Jessica Valenti (Goodreads Author)

3.89 avg rating — 3,272 ratings
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At the Dark End of the Stre...
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
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Danielle L. McGuire (Goodreads Author)

4.47 avg rating — 3,615 ratings
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Queering Sexual Violence: R...
Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement
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Jennifer Patterson (Goodreads Author) (editor)

4.40 avg rating — 221 ratings
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Against Our Will: Men, Wome...
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape
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Susan Brownmiller

4.05 avg rating — 4,093 ratings
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Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex, ...
Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood, and Privilege on Campus
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Peggy Reeves Sanday

3.80 avg rating — 190 ratings
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Rape Girl
Rape Girl
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Alina Klein (Goodreads Author)

3.98 avg rating — 599 ratings
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Women, Race & Class
Women, Race & Class
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Angela Y. Davis

4.59 avg rating — 33,590 ratings
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Redefining Rape: Sexual Vio...
Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation
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Estelle B. Freedman

4.41 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Rape in Marriage
Rape in Marriage
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Diana E.H. Russell (Goodreads Author)

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Lucky
Lucky
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Alice Sebold

3.77 avg rating — 101,575 ratings
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Rape on the Public Agenda: ...
Rape on the Public Agenda: Feminism and the Politics of Sexual Assault
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Maria Bevacqua

4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Asking For It
Asking For It
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Louise O'Neill

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Masters of Sex: The Life an...
Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love
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Thomas Maier

3.63 avg rating — 2,575 ratings
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The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar
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Sylvia Plath

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Scenes of Subjection: Terro...
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
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Saidiya Hartman

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Violated: Exposing Rape at ...
Violated: Exposing Rape at Baylor University amid College Football's Sexual Assault Crisis
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Paula Lavigne

4.13 avg rating — 304 ratings
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SLUT: A Play and Guidebook ...
SLUT: A Play and Guidebook for Combating Sexism and Sexual Violence
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Katie Cappiello (Editor)

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The Color of Violence: The ...
The Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology
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Incite! Women of Color Against Violence

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Toward a Feminist Theory of...
Toward a Feminist Theory of the State
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Catharine A. MacKinnon

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We Believe You: Survivors o...
We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out
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Annie E. Clark (Goodreads Author)

4.39 avg rating — 498 ratings
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Push
Push
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Sapphire (Goodreads Author)

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Angry White Men: American M...
Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era
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Michael S. Kimmel

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Guyland: The Perilous World...
Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men
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Michael S. Kimmel

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Documents on the Rape of Na...
Documents on the Rape of Nanking
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Timothy Brook (Editor)

4.57 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Nanking Road
Nanking Road
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Anne C. Voorhoeve

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Crimes Unspoken: The Rape o...
Crimes Unspoken: The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War
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Miriam Gebhardt

4.29 avg rating — 334 ratings
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Southern Horrors: Lynch Law...
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett

4.28 avg rating — 654 ratings
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The Rape of Nanking: An Und...
The Rape of Nanking: An Undeniable History in Photographs
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James Yin

4.58 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Mob Rule In New Orleans
Mob Rule In New Orleans
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett

4.15 avg rating — 234 ratings
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Virgin: The Untouched History
Virgin: The Untouched History
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Hanne Blank

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Southern Horrors: Women and...
Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching
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Crystal N. Feimster

4.34 avg rating — 218 ratings
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The V Girl: A Coming of Age...
The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story
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Mya Robarts

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Identical
Identical
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Ellen Hopkins (Goodreads Author)

4.29 avg rating — 66,572 ratings
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The Origins of Totalitarianism
The Origins of Totalitarianism
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Hannah Arendt

4.30 avg rating — 14,201 ratings
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Women, Culture, and Politics
Women, Culture, and Politics
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Angela Y. Davis

4.38 avg rating — 1,663 ratings
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Here We Are
Here We Are
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Kelly Jensen (Goodreads Author) (Editor)

4.05 avg rating — 1,785 ratings
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Some Boys
Some Boys
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Patty Blount (Goodreads Author)

4.06 avg rating — 9,152 ratings
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Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway
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Virginia Woolf

3.78 avg rating — 347,382 ratings
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All the Rage
All the Rage
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Courtney Summers (Goodreads Author)

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All the Single Ladies
All the Single Ladies
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Rebecca Traister

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Speak
Speak
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Laurie Halse Anderson (Goodreads Author)

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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminis...
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

4.51 avg rating — 87,366 ratings
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Asking For It
Asking For It
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Louise O'Neill

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Rad American Women A-Z: Reb...
Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries who Shaped Our History . . . and Our Future!
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Kate Schatz (Goodreads Author)

4.41 avg rating — 3,150 ratings
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Faking Normal (Faking Norma...
Faking Normal (Faking Normal, #1)
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Courtney C. Stevens (Goodreads Author)

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Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me
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Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Gender Trouble: Feminism an...
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
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Judith Butler

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When Rape was Legal: The Un...
When Rape was Legal: The Untold History of Sexual Violence during Slavery
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Rachel A. Feinstein

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Privilege: A Reader
Privilege: A Reader
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Michael S. Kimmel (Editor)

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Intimate Partner Violence i...
Intimate Partner Violence in LGBTQ Lives
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Janice L. Ristock (Editor)

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Sold
Sold
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Patricia McCormick

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Bad Feminist
Bad Feminist
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Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author)

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Violence against Queer Peop...
Violence against Queer People: Race, Class, Gender, and the Persistence of Anti-LGBT Discrimination
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Doug Meyer

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We Should All Be Feminists
We Should All Be Feminists
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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The Rape of Lucrece
The Rape of Lucrece
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William Shakespeare

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Gendered Outcasts and Sexua...
Gendered Outcasts and Sexual Outlaws
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Christopher Kendall

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The Purity Myth: How Americ...
The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
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Jessica Valenti (Goodreads Author)

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The Hidden 1970s: Histories...
The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism
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Dan Berger (Goodreads Author)

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The Revolution Starts at Ho...
The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities
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Ching-In Chen (Goodreads Author) (Editor)

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Feminists Theorize the Poli...
Feminists Theorize the Political
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Judith Butler (Editor)

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Mapping the Margins: Inters...
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence against Women of Color
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Kimberlé Crenshaw

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In an Abusive State: How Ne...
In an Abusive State: How Neoliberalism Appropriated the Feminist Movement against Sexual Violence
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Kristin Bumiller

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Male Rape: The Emergence of...
Male Rape: The Emergence of a Social and Legal Issue
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Noreen Abdullah-Khan

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Framing the Rape Victim: Ge...
Framing the Rape Victim: Gender and Agency Reconsidered
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Carine M. Mardorossian

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Real Rape
Real Rape
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Susan Estrich

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Aftermath: Violence and the...
Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self
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Susan J. Brison

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Corregidora
Corregidora
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Gayl Jones

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Rape New York
Rape New York
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Jana Leo

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The Civil Contract of Photo...
The Civil Contract of Photography
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Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

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The Ballad of Sexual Depend...
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
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Nan Goldin (Photographer)

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Yes Means Yes!: Visions of ...
Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape
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Jaclyn Friedman (Goodreads Author)

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The Prison and the Gallows:...
The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America (Cambridge Studies in Criminology)
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Marie Gottschalk

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Entry Denied: Controlling S...
Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality At The Border
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Eithne Luibhéid

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Arrested Justice: Black Wom...
Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation
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Beth E. Richie

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Frames of War: When is Life...
Frames of War: When is Life Grievable?
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Judith Butler

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Globalization and Militaris...
Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link
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Cynthia Enloe

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Spectacular Rhetorics: Huma...
Spectacular Rhetorics: Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, Feminisms
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Wendy S. Hesford

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The Male Body at War: Ameri...
The Male Body at War: American Masculinity during World War II
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Christina S. Jarvis

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Terrorist Assemblages: Homo...
Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times
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Jasbir K. Puar

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Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A Reader
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Denise A. Segura (Editor)

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Race-Ing Justice, En-Gender...
Race-Ing Justice, En-Gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality
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Toni Morrison (Editor, Introduction)

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From #BlackLivesMatter to B...
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

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Rites of Men: Manhood, Poli...
Rites of Men: Manhood, Politics, and the Culture of Sport
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Varda Burstyn

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The Company He Keeps: A His...
The Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities
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Nicholas L. Syrett (Goodreads Author)

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Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Co...
Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Football and the Politics of Rape
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Jessica Luther (Goodreads Author)

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Manliness & Civilization: A...
Manliness & Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917
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Gail Bederman

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Exploring Masculinities: Id...
Exploring Masculinities: Identity, Inequality, Continuity and Change
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C.J. Pascoe

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I Am a Man!: Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement
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Steve Estes

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Manhood in the Making: Cult...
Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity
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David D. Gilmore

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Masculinities
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Raewyn W. Connell

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