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A Heritage of her own : toward a new social history of American women / edited, with an introd., by Nancy F. Cott and Elizabeth H. Pleck.

Birth strike : the hidden fight over women's work / Jenny Brown.

From bondage to contract : wage labor, marriage, and the market in the age of slave emancipation / Amy Dru Stanley.

No choice : the destruction of Roe v. Wade and the fight to protect a fundamental American right / Becca Andrews.

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A Heritage of her own : toward a new social history of American women / edited, with an introd., by Nancy F. Cott and Elizabeth H. Pleck.

Birth strike : the hidden fight over women's work / Jenny Brown.

From bondage to contract : wage labor, marriage, and the market in the age of slave emancipation / Amy Dru Stanley.

No choice : the destruction of Roe v. Wade and the fight to protect a fundamental American right / Becca Andrews.