The Cancer Journals
Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political as she reflects on her experience coping with breast cancer and a radical mastectomy. Includes photos…
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Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy, 2)
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Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
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Female Masculinity
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On Being Ill
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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
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