lovely_librarian's review against another edition

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5.0

Feminists come in all shapes and sizes, Helen Gurley Brown was no exception. The author does not shrink away from Helen's imperfections or at times grossly anti-feminist viewpoints, but instead shows her life and work as it was, complicated and multifaceted.

bookcrazylady45's review

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3.0

Regressive politicians in USA this year make this book a timely reminder of where we came from, how far we've come and how often we've had to fight to keep the rights acquired and how easy it would be to lose them if we are not vigilant.

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4.0

This was incredible. I'm only just venturing into biographies and non-fiction (if I've read maybe 200 books in my lifetime, I'd say I've read 40 that aren't fiction, at best), but this was such an interesting deep-dive into a really complex figure in the feminist movement and the sexual revolution
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