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Author
Series
Publisher
Portable Press, an imprint of Printers Row Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
93 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Learn about the amazing Susan B. Anthony as she fought for social equality and women's suffrage"--
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
30 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the life of Susan B. Anthony, who campaigned for equal rights for women during her long life.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cokie Roberts' husband Steve Roberts reflects not only on her many accomplishments, but on how she lived each day with a devotion to helping others. For Steve, Cokie's private life was as significant and inspirational as her public one. Her commitment to celebrating and supporting other women was evident in everything she did, and her generosity and passion drove her personal and professional endeavors.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 59 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Passionate Politics tells the story of Charlotte Bunch, from idealistic young civil rights organizer to lesbian activist, to internationally-recognized leader of a campaign to put women's rights on the global human rights agenda. Charlotte has been both a product and creator of her times: every chapter in her life is a chapter in the story of modern feminist activism, from its roots in the 1960's struggles for social justice to international campaigns...
Author
Publisher
Yellow Jacket
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Written in verse, this inspiring biography chronicles the life of a queer civil rights and women's rights activist who fought for many of the rights taken for granted today, working tirelessly for human rights and the dignity of life for all.
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Third edition.
Physical Desc
xxx, 358 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Angela Y. Davis has been a political activist at the cutting edge of the Black liberation, feminist, queer, and prison abolitionist movements. Fifty years after its original publication, the author revisits her life's story in print.
9) With her fist raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the transformative power of Black community activism
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xi, 161 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The first biography of Dorothy Pitman Hughes, co-founder of Ms. Magazine and trailblazing Black feminist activist whose work made children, race, and welfare rights central to the women's movement"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Describes the unlikely friendship between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Pauli Murray, a granddaughter of a mixed race slave and a lesbian, who became a lawyer and civil rights pioneer, and the important work they each did, taking stands for justice and freedom, "--NoveList.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions has sold over half a million copies since its original publication in 1983, acclaimed for its witty, warm, and life-changing view of the world, "as if women mattered." Steinem's truly personal writing is here, from the now-famous exposé, "I Was a Playboy Bunny," to the moving tribute to her mother "Ruth's Song (Because She Could Not Sing It)". Her prescient essays on female genital mutilation and the difference...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sue Monk was a 'conventionally religious, churchgoing woman, a traditional wife and mother' with a thriving career as a Christian writer until she began to question her role as a woman in her culture, her family, and her church. From a jarring encounter with sexism in a suburban drugstore to monastery retreats and rituals in the caves of Crete, Kidd takes readers through the fear, anger, healing, and transformation of her awakening. Retaining a meaningful...
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
vii, 408 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 25 cm
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
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 22 cm
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 that anger is a powerful source of energy that can give us the strength to keep on fighting. Yet too often Black women's anger has been caricatured into an ugly and destructive force that threatens the civility and social fabric of American democracy. But Cooper shows us that there is more to...
15) Nellie Bly
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
137 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Born in 1864, Nellie Bly was a woman who did not allow herself to be defined by the time she lived in, she rewrote the narrative and made her own way. Bly's story is told through Miriam, a fictionalized female student at the Columbia School of Journalism in 1921. While interviewing the famous journalist, Miriam learns not only about Bly's more sensational adventures, but also about her focus on self-reliance from an early age, the scathing letter...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 296 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Candace Pert stood at the dawn of three revolutions: the women's movement, integrative health, and psychopharmacology. A scientific prodigy, she was 30 years ahead of her time, preaching a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to healthcare and medicine long before yoga hit the mainstream and "wellness" took root in our vernacular. Her bestselling book Molecules of Emotion made her the mother of the Mind/Body Revolution, launching a paradigm shift...
Author
Publisher
Salaam Reads, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Young readers edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An inspiring and empowering young readers edition of We Are Not Here to be Bystanders, the memoir by Women's March coorganizer and activist Linda Sarsour. In this middle grade edition of We Are Not Here to be Bystanders, Linda Sarsour shares the memories that shaped her into the activist she is today, and how these pivotal moments in her life led her to being an organizer in one of the largest single-day protests in US history. From the Brooklyn...
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