Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews Who Shaped America

Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews Who Shaped America

A quippy and irreverent collection of illustrated profiles of the great American women who weren’t attractive, well-spoken, demure, or sinless enough to receive their rightful place in history, until …

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