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Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975

"A fine introduction to the bold, contentious, complicated women who categorically refused to be good little girls, and thereby changed the way our culture defines male-female relations".—Voice Literary Supplement.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 440 pages

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