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Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to Slutwalk
Melinda Chateauvert
Beacon Press
Paperback
9780807061237
2015
$22.00
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Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to Slutwalk
Melinda Chateauvert
Beacon Press
Hardcover
9780807061398
2014
$26.95
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Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
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Queering Anarchism: Addressing and Undressing Power and Desire
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
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