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Sexual Politics

Best Sexual Politics BooksMaureen Freely's Top 12 Sexual Politics Books

Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina (1873–7)

Kate Chopin

The Awakening (1899)

Radclyffe Hall

The Well of Loneliness (1928)

Virginia Woolf

Orlando (1928)

Madeleine Bourdouxhe

Marie (1943; and 1997 in English for the first time)

Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita (1955)

James Baldwin

Giovanni's Room (1956)

E. M. Forster

Maurice (written 1914, pub. 1971)

Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale (1985)

Jeanette Winterson

Oranges are Not the Only Fruit (1985)

Joseph Olshan

Night Swimmer (1994)

Michèle Roberts

Flesh and Blood (1994)