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Our female ancestors had it pretty tough, but they still managed to grace the pages of books in style, shutting. While that probably isnt realistic for most of us, here are five books starring women who are ready to kick ass and take names. About people like you and me who struggled for survival. Pressed for a preference, many men also found it much more difficult to like or admire a novel authored by a woman for them great writing was male writing oh apart from jane austen, of. First published in 1976, it has become a classic in its innovative portrayal of multiple and intersecting identitiesimmigrant, female, chinese, american. Features previously unknown depictions and stories of women in the sikh military history. Memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts paperback april 23, 1989.
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