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Feminist Nightmares: Women at Odds: Feminism and the Problem of Sisterhood
New York and London:
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Male-Female Relationships in Best-Selling "Modern Gothic" Novels
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Spinsters, war widows, and wounded soldiers: the Great War novels of Berta Ruck
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Islamic-Hausa Feminism and Kano Market Literature: Qur'anic Reinterpretation in the Novels of Balaraba Yakubu
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