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March - The Amoral Majority: Women's Ability to Chart Their Own Life Course
 As Governor of California Reagan signed a Pro-Choice bill, but in order to secure the support of the Religious Right he switched camps and emboldened the push of the Republican Party into the arms of the Pro-Life activists. 

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Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People by Frances Ryan

Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People

Frances Ryan

7 hours, 5 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Hare House by Sally Hinchcliffe

Hare House

Sally Hinchcliffe

8 hours, 10 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction horror dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence by Kristen R. Ghodsee

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence

Kristen R. Ghodsee

240 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history politics informative reflective medium-paced
A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult

A Spark of Light

Jodi Picoult

384 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary emotional tense slow-paced
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Fairyland #1

Catherynne M. Valente

247 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

fiction fantasy middle grade adventurous lighthearted medium-paced
Bloodchild by Octavia E. Butler

Bloodchild

Octavia E. Butler

31 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)

fiction horror science fiction short stories challenging dark tense fast-paced
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Mikki Kendall

6 hours, 58 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction feminism politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Say Anarcha: A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women's Health by J. C. Hallman
Say Anarcha: A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women's Health
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J. C. Hallman

Say Anarcha: A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women's Health

J. C. Hallman

448 pages • missing pub info (editions)

challenging emotional informative medium-paced
Jane Against the World: Roe V. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights by Karen Blumenthal

Jane Against the World: Roe V. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights

Karen Blumenthal

8 hours • first pub 2020 (editions) user-added

nonfiction feminism history politics informative slow-paced
Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan

Brotherless Night

V.V. Ganeshananthan

432 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction literary emotional reflective medium-paced