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Praise for The Ninth Guest:  'Very intriguing' Heat, Book of the Week  'Tess Little is a modern Agatha Christie, setting up her nine suspects, locking them in a sprawling Los Angeles mansion, and knocking them down one by one' Tanen Jones, author of The Better Liar  'A unique locked-room mystery . . . 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Throughout, Tess Little traces the creation and travel of feminist texts, protest tactics, and organisational methods, examining the ways activists adapted ideas to new contexts. How did a sketch drawn by a woman in New York appear on Parisian t-shirts? How did a derelict house in Hounslow lead to the international establishment of refuges? How did a French abortion manifesto inspire women abroad to speak out? And where were connections with other countries not so significant?  This is a history of the movement of feminism between groups, cities, regions, countries, a history of the travel of ideas. But it is also a history of the movement itself: how the women's liberation movement worked, how it operated, where it came from, and what it was. 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