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Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Cobbs traces the long history of American feminism, dating back to the Revolution, when the founding principle of equality became a battering ram against hierarchy. She tells this story through the public and private lives of 16 women who pushed the boundaries of their times and insisted on their right to control their bodies and their lives"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of the prominent feminist, highlighting her career and influence as a writer, political activist, and co-founder of "Ms." magazine.
Author
Publisher
Business Publications Corporation, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
This is the first in-depth biography of Roxanne Barton Conlin, who rose from a difficult childhood where she faced an abusive father, to become a leading Iowa attorney, feminist, political candidate, and community leader dedicated to fighting for the underdog. Her lifelong passion of stomping out injustice and lifting people up has given a voice to the voiceless.There were bumps in the road and failures along the way, but Conlin persisted, breaking...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"So what if it's true that Black women are mad as hell? They have the right to be. In the Black feminist tradition of Audre Lorde, Brittney Cooper reminds us [in this memoir] that anger is a powerful source of energy that can give us the strength to keep on fighting"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Sasha Marcus was once the epitome of contemporary success: an internet sensation, social media darling, and a creator of a high profile wellness brand for women. But a confrontation with an abusive troll has taken a horrifying turn, and now she's at rock bottom: canceled and doxxed online, fired from her waitress job and fortressed in her apartment while men's rights protestors rage outside. All that once glittered now condemns. Sasha confides in...
Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Making headlines when it was launched in 2015, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley's undergraduate course "Beyonce Feminism, Rihanna Womanism" has inspired students from all walks of life. In Beyonce in Formation, Tinsley now takes her rich observations beyond the classroom, using the blockbuster album and video Lemonade as a soundtrack for vital next-millennium narratives. Woven with candid observations about her life as a feminist scholar of African studies...
Publisher
A Library of America
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique in 1963, the book exploded into women's consciousness. Before the decade was out, what had begun as a campaign for women's civil rights transformed into a diverse and revolutionary movement for freedom and social justice that challenged many aspects of everyday life long accepted as fixed: work, birth control and abortion, childcare and housework, gender, class, and race, art and literature, sexuality...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"The story follows Hetty 'Handful' Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid. "The Invention of Wings" follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist), Kidd allows herself to go...
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"For the first time in history, women are increasingly serving as successful leaders of countries, corporations, and communities -- and the qualities that are contributing to their unbridled success are not the ones patriarchal societies have long held to be most effective. Veteran journalist Lori Sokol PhD takes readers inside the offices, classrooms, and homes of thirty women -- from Gloria Steinem to Billie Jean King to Nobel Peace Prize recipient...
Author
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"We are all living through modern constitutional history in the making, and Ordinary Equality helps teach about the past, present, and future of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) through the lives of bold fearless women. Based on author Kate Kelly's acclaimed podcast of the same name, Ordinary Equality recounts a story a century in the making-about how constitutional equality for women and Americans of all marginalized genders has been systematically...
31) The Bostonians
Author
Series
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
"The story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to control her."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Clementine Ford is a person who has loved deeply, strangely and with curiosity. She is fascinated by love and the multiple ways it makes its home in our hearts and believes that the way we continue to surrender ourselves to love is an act of great faith and bravery. This tender and lyrical memoir explores love in its many forms through Clementine's own experiences. With clear eyes and an open heart, she writes about losing her adored mother far too...
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Judy Chicago is America's most dynamic living artist. Her works comprise a dizzying array of media from performance and installation to the glittering table laid for thirty-nine iconic women in The Dinner Party (now permanently housed at the Brooklyn Museum), the groundbreaking Birth Project, and the meticulously researched Holocaust Project. She designed the monumental installation for Dior's 2020 Paris couture show and, in 2019, established the...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Often condemned as a form of oppression, fashion could and did allow women to express modern gender identities and promote feminist ideas. Einav Rabinovitch-Fox examines how clothes empowered women, and particularly women barred from positions of influence due to race or class. Moving from 1890s shirtwaists through the miniskirts and unisex styles of the 1970s, Rabinovitch-Fox shows how the rise of mass media culture made fashion a vehicle for women...
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The feminist writer and activist Betty Friedan (1921–2006), pathbreaking author of The Feminine Mystique, was powerful and polarizing. In this biography, the first in more than twenty years, Rachel Shteir draws on Friedan’s papers and on interviews with family, colleagues, and friends to create a nuanced portrait.
Author
Publisher
Lonely Planet Global Limited
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Discover the lives and locations of trailblazing women who changed the course of history as you journey to the heart of women's activism, history and creativity through the ages. From the temple of Queen Hatshepsut in Egypt and Empress Dowager Cixi's summer palace in Beijing, to the homes and meeting sites of suffragette heroes Sylvia Pankhurst and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the creative workrooms of Frida Kahlo and Virginia Woolf, and the tennis courts...
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Sometimes we need a joyful, visual timeline to reflect on just how far the women's movement has come over its 150-year history. Honoring women's collective and individual achievements, We Are Feminist is an accessible and fully illustrated book that serves as the perfect overview of modern feminism for anyone who doesn't know much about the global women's rights movement or wants to know more. Organized into feminist waves, We Are Feminist tells a...
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