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Books for Women, by Women, about Women

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These are books that are on my wish list that I do not currently own in my personal library, books that have been recommended to me by family/friends, and popular books I just haven't had a chance to read yet! These books are meant to bring awareness...
 
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THIS BOOK HAS KEPT ME UP AT NIGHT!!!! Imagine you have been locked up, underground, with a group of 40 other older women since before you could remember. The other women have vague memories of their life before, however this is all you have ever know...
I Who Have Never Known Men
 
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This is the first book I read that got be interested in women’s history and I have been hooked ever since. Imagine a society where women are worshipped as spiritual leaders. This book examines how history was shaped by men for men, disregarding matri...
When God Was a Woman
 
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If you want to be horrified, read this book. It will change the way you view men around you, but I believe it’s so so necessary. As women, we need to be aware what we are up against.
Men Who Hate Women: Incels to Pickup Artists
 
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This is one of Emma Watsons book club picks! 
Description- Within every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. But she is an endangered species. For thoug...
Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths & Stories
 
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Anyone who is interested in women's history or the origins of the sexes, I would highly recommend adding this book to your library.
Description- The Chalice and the Blade tells a new story of our cultural origins. It shows that warfare and the war of the sexes are neither divinely nor biologically ordained. It provides verification that a better future is possible—and is in fac...
The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
 
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This book takes a more spiritual look at what it means to be a female / feminine.
Description- The bridge from Maiden to Mother has been broken. When the goddess culture was stolen and buried, so too were women’s rites of passage into our wild, intuitive femininity and maturity. With Maiden to Mother, Sarah Durham Wilson excavat...
Maiden to Mother: Unlocking Our Archetypal Journey
 
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This book can be described as a rally cry for women to embrace a new wave of feminine energy - to awaken something deep inside us that has been lost for generations.
Description- Like Women who Run with the Wolves, this is powerful rallying cry to women to embrace a different kind of femininity. Described as both transformative and essential, Sharon Blackie leads the reader on a quest to find their place in the...
If Women Rose Rooted: Journey to Authenticity
 
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Men dominate history because men write history. There have been many heroes, but no heroines. Here, in Who Cooked the Last Supper?, is the history you never learned--but should have! Without politics or polemics, this brilliant and witty book overtu...
The Women's History of the World
 
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This one wasn’t written by a women but I believe it is a must read, especially in the wake of the most recent election. Who knows, this book could be banned. Get it while you can!
Eve's Herbs: History of Contraception
 
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This book examines the history of environmental health inequities for women in Appalachia
Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Appalachian Women
 
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Beautiful, breathtaking, heartbreaking. You just need to read it
A Woman - Books
 
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Truth bomb after truth bomb
Recollections of My Non-Existence