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I've had The Gift of Fear and I would definitely recommend it, especially to women.
Gavin de Becker spends a portion of the book talking about how women are socialized into being polite and accommodating. Predators know this and will use it to their advantage. We need to give ourselves permission to be rude so that we don't end up as victims.
We also need to follow our gut instincts. They evolved over thousands and thousands of years for a reason and we ignore our gut instincts at our peril.