Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne)
Summary: Feminist organizing by marginalized populations such as queer, anticapitalist, and non-white women, has pushed for abolition as a response to forms of state and interpersonal gender and sexual violence, but have largely been erased from this political moment. Leading scholar-activists trace historical genealogies, internationalist learnings, and everyday practices to grow our collective present...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 DAVHogan, Kristen
Summary: "From the 1970s through the 1990s more than one hundred feminist bookstores built a transnational network that helped shape some of feminism's most complex conversations. Kristen Hogan traces the feminist bookstore movement's rise and eventual fall, restoring its radical work to public feminist memory. The bookwomen at the heart of this story-mostly lesbians and including women of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Duke University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 381 HOGHurley, Kameron
Summary: "The book collects dozens of Hurley's essays on feminism, geek culture, and her experiences and insights as a genre writer, including "We Have Always Fought," which won the 2013 Hugo for Best Related Work. The Geek Feminist Revolution will also feature several entirely new essays written specifically for this volume."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 HURTurk, Katherine
Summary: In the summer of 1966, crammed into a D.C. hotel suite, twenty-eight women devised a revolutionary plan. Betty Friedan, the well-known author of The Feminine Mystique, and Pauli Murray, a lawyer at the front lines of the civil rights movement, had called this renegade meeting from attendees at the annual conference of state women's commissions. Fed up with waiting for government action and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 TURKunkel, Caitlin
Summary: "Imagine a world where erotica was written by feminists: Their daydreams include equal pay, a gender-balanced Congress, and Tom Hardy arriving at their doorstep to deliver a fresh case of LaCroix every week. Both light-hearted and empowering, New Erotica for Feminists is a sly, satirical take on all the things that turn feminists on. From a retelling of Adam and Eve to tales of respectful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817 KUNHiggins, Nadia Abushanab.
Summary: Presents a history of feminism, discussing the three waves of the movement and the issues that feminism addresses, including such topics as reproductive rights, domestic violence, income inequality, and body image.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.4 HIGBeck, Koa
Summary: "Join the important conversation about race, empowerment, and inclusion in the United States with this powerful new feminist classic and rousing call for change. Koa Beck, writer and former editor-in-chief of Jezebel, boldly examines the history of feminism, from the true mission of the suffragettes to the rise of corporate feminism with clear-eyed scrutiny and meticulous detail. She also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 BECWright, Michelle
Contents: Take it like a man -- If I'm ever over you -- Now & then -- One time around -- He would be sixteen -- The change -- Don't start with me -- Guitar talk -- Fastest healing wounded heart -- A little more comfortable.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Arista Records 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY WRIZeisler, Andi
Summary: "A critical assessment of feminism today by the founding editor and creative director of Bitch magazine draws on the stories of institutions and everyday women to illuminate how feminism has been compromised by market forces, subversive politics and popular culture, sharing strategic recommendations for how to reverse marginalizing trends,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 ZEISummary: Video version. Viewers meet two young managers who help workers with appropriate responses to feedback in different work situations. Whether feedback is true, unclear, or downright false, we discover how to respond in a way that enables us to develop confidence, separate our reactions from our feelings, and learn from the situation. Using live-action video, the CD-ROM program guides the user...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Swift, Jonathan
Summary: The voyages of an Englishman carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land of giants; and a country ruled by horses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2002
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Contents: Introducing James Bond: Ian Fleming and his feminine mystique -- Justifying James Bond: Taking 007 and Ian Fleming seriously -- The James Bond novels: women in print -- Before the Bond girl: women on film -- Introducing an archetype: Dr. No and From Russia with love -- A mystique of femininity: marriage, conformity, and a new voice -- Reinforcing an archetype: Goldfinger and Thunderball --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.914 CAPBeck, Earl Clifton
Contents: Alphabet song -- Bebe hung one on us -- The big Eau Claire -- Bold Jack Donahue -- Bung yer eye -- Camp Seven song -- Camp 13 on the Manistee -- Chance McGear -- The curst wife -- The death of Harry Bradford -- Don't come to Michigan -- Down by the wild Mustard River -- Drill ye terriers -- Driving logs on the Cass -- The dying hoopmaker -- The East Jordan Line -- The fate of the "Cumberland"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 1956
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 784.6 BEC1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 784 BEC
Washington, John E.
Summary: "Originally published in 1942 and now reprinted for the first time, They Knew Lincoln is a classic in African American history and Lincoln studies. Part memoir and part history, the book is an account of John E. Washington's childhood among African Americans in Washington, DC, and of the black people who knew or encountered Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln. Washington recounted stories told by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM WASAdams, Molly
Summary: Birding is more popular than ever, and for good reason. Birds are infinitely fascinating and inspiring, and can be found everywhere from forests to city parks to suburban backyards. Birding not only grounds us in our natural environment but is shown to reduce stress and support our mental well-being. It's something that can be done alone or in community, by anyone, anytime. In Birding for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Architectural Press, a division of Chronicle Books LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.072 ADADays of the New (Musical group)
Contents: Flight response 5:55. -- The real 4:19. -- Enemy 5:12. -- Weapon & the wounded 5:45. -- Skeleton key 3:03. -- Take me back then 4:16. -- Bring yourself 5:55. -- I think 5:51. -- Longfellow 1:56. -- [Untitled track] 1:42. -- Phobics of tragedy 3:27. -- Not the same 4:24. -- Provider 5:53. -- Last one 4:37.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Outpost Recordings 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DAYNew Christy Minstrels
Contents: disc 1. The old-timer (2:44) -- Denver (2:59) -- Liza Lee (2:07) -- Three wheels on my wagon (2:58) -- Californio (2:07) -- Deep blue sea (3:08) -- Stormy (2:48) -- Song of the pious itinerant (2:25) -- The cotton pickers' song (2:32) -- This ol' riverboat (2:54) -- Oh! Shenando (2:27) -- Silly ol' summertime (2:13) -- Mighty Mississippi (2:28) -- Joe Magarac (2:49) -- The wheeler dealers...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music Special Products 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK NEWEarth, Wind & Fire (Musical group)
Contents: Sign on -- Love is law -- My promise -- Guiding lights -- Got to be love -- Belo horizonte -- Dance floor -- Splashes -- Night of my life -- The rush.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Legacy 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES EARHunt, Helen
Summary: ""Let me suggest, then, that the opening Chapter go farther back than 1848. From the time of the first Convention on Women-in New York 1837-the battle began." - Lucretia Mott, to Elizabeth Cady Stanton A decade prior to the Seneca Falls Convention, blackand white women joined together at the 1837 Anti-Slavery Convention in the first instance of political organizing by American women, for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Feminist Press at CUNY 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 HUNScutts, Joanna
Summary: "On a Saturday afternoon in New York in late 1912, around the plain wooden tables of Polly's Restaurant in Greenwich Village, a group of women gathered, all of them convinced that they were going to change the world. It was the first meeting of "Heterodoxy," a secret supper club. The goals of the group were simple: They would meet to talk about their lives, their politics, and the still-not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 SCUGreen Day
Contents: Brutal love -- Missing you -- 8th Avenue serenade -- Drama queen -- X-Kid -- Sex, drugs & violence -- A little boy named Train -- Amanda -- Walk away -- Dirty rotten bastards -- 99 revolutions -- The forgotten.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Reprise 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GRELawrence, Tracy.
Contents: Used to the pain -- Paint me a Birmingham -- If I don't make it back -- If the world had a front porch -- Sticks and stones -- Is that a tear -- Time marches on -- I see it now -- How a cowgirl says goodbye -- Alibis -- Today's lonely fool -- Can't break it to my heart -- Lessons learned -- Texas tornado -- Stars over Texas -- My second home -- If the good die young.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mercury Records : distributed by Universal Music & Video Distribution 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY LAWJohnston Phelps, Ethel
Summary: "Long before Suzanne Collins created Katniss Everdeen and Octavia Butler wrote Parable of the Sower, there were many traditional folktales full of adventure, intrigue, and intrepid female characters. Feminist Folktales from Around the World collects these forgotten classics. Enjoy this collection of all four volumes."--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021