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Beyond Boundaries

 to equality cannot offer us the ideas, language, or framework to create fulfilling lives,” Marcie Bianco writes in her encyclopedic new book, . Her bold and expansive book may rankle some in the trenches for equal pay or marriage equality, but Bianco’s “book of ideas,” as she describes , is tied in part to her experience. She also states early on that she is, “a capital-A, capital-F Angry Feminist,” inviting readers to “stereotype me further: I am an angry lesbian feminist.” Through astute academic analysis, an exhaustive knowledge of court cases that have decided privacy rights, and a dash of and other pop culture references, Bianco makes an irrefutable argument for freedom.

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