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The Feminist and the Cowboy: An Unlikely Love Story
Written by Alisa Valdes
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Named among the 25 most influential Hispanics in the U.S. by Time, best-selling author Alisa Valdes has also been hailed as one of the top feminist writers by Ms. Magazine. In her engrossing memoir The Feminist and the Cowboy, Valdes reveals how falling in love with a conservative cowboy forced her to rethink the feminist beliefs she's always held dear.
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Alisa Valdes
Alisa Valdes is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of six commercial women's fiction novels, including the dirty girls social club. She has a master's in journalism from Columbia and is a Pulitzer-nominated, award-winning former staff writer for the Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times. Alisa has written and sold pilot scripts to Nickelodeon, NBC, and Lifetime Television as well as a teen crossover feature film based on The Kindred.
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