Summary: Examines "hyper-masculinity" as a destructive force in the personal development and socialization of boys and young men. Discusses the roles of popular culture and peer pressure in influencing boys to adopt a masculine pose.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MASLesser, Elizabeth
Summary: "In her new book, bestselling author Elizabeth Lesser looks to the stories told about women over the ages and how they contribute to persistent misogyny and gender inequality, and offers a path towards framing new stories that honor all people"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 LESBates, Laura
Summary: "Women's rights activist Laura Bates is no stranger to misogynistic attacks online, but over time, the vitriol hinted at something widespread and toxic. Men Who Hate Women examines the rise of secretive extremist communities who despise women as Bates traces the roots of misogyny across a complex spiderweb of groups. Drawing parallels to other extremist movements around the world, Bates shows...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.3 BATLeser, David
Summary: In Women, Men, and the Whole Damn Thing, author David Leser presents an essential and incisive investigation, unearthing the roots of misogyny, its inextricable links to the patriarchy, and how history brought us to the #MeToo movement and the wave of incandescent female rage that is sweeping the world. his book calls on men (yes, all men) to be accountable for their contribution to the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.3 LESCaletti, Deb
Summary: When Charlotte wins a scholarship to a writing workshop in Venice with the charismatic and brilliant Luca Bruni, it's a dream come true. Writing is her passion, she loves Bruni's books, and going to that romantic and magical sinking city gives her the chance to solve a long-time family mystery about a Venetian poet deep in their lineage, Isabella Di Angelo, who just might be the real author of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2021
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Rissman, Rebecca
Summary: When Houston fifth-grader Audrey's ingenuity helps the Apollo 11 astronauts during their 1969 Moon landing, her dream of becoming a NASA scientist one day, despite sexism, seems possible.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2020
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE RISCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC RISGarmus, Bonnie
Summary: "Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with--of all...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Bardhan-Quallen, Sudipta
Summary: Illustrations and simple, rhyming text follow chicks of all ilks as they work together to puzzle out how to respond to a sign forbidding chicks from attending the Rocket Club meeting.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BARJenner, Natalie
Summary: "Bloomsbury Books is an old-fashioned new and rare bookstore that has persisted and resisted change for a hundred years, run by men and guided by the general manager's unbreakable fifty-one rules. But in 1950, the world is changing, especially the world of books and publishing, and at Bloomsbury Books, the girls in the shop have plans: Vivien Lowry: Single since her aristocratic fiance was...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022