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Feminism Feminism United States History Feminism United States History 20th century Feminism United States History Juvenile literature Feminists Feminists United States Biography United States Women's rights Women's rights United States History Women's rights United States History Juvenile literatureKulling, Monica
Summary: "It's not fair." Susan B. Anthony was very concerned about fairness and equality for women and girls in America. She knew it wasn't fair to pay a woman less than a man for the same job. She knew it wasn't fair not to allow women to vote in elections. In fact, it was illegal for women to vote. But she felt so strongly, she voted in an election--and was arrested--anyway. Young readers will learn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN KULHopkinson, Deborah
Summary: Chronicles the women's rights movement in the United States, from the beginning of the movement in the nineteenth century and the fight for equal rights in the 1960s to such present-day events as the Women's March in 2017.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.4 HOPCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Social What HopkinsonTraister, Rebecca
Summary: In the year 2018, it seems as if women's anger has suddenly erupted into the public conversation. But long before Pantsuit Nation, before the Women's March, and before the #MeToo movement, women's anger was not only politically catalytic but politically problematic. The story of female fury and its cultural significance demonstrates the long history of bitter resentment that has enshrouded...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 TRACobble, Dorothy Sue.
Summary: Traces the origins of the feminist movement to the 1920s and follows the post-Suffrage movements, which exposed the exploitation of women in the workplace and fought for sexual rights and freedoms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 COBTraister, Rebecca
Summary: "In a provocative, groundbreaking work, National Magazine Award­-finalist Rebecca Traister, "the most brilliant voice on feminism in this country" (Anne Lamott), traces the history of unmarried women in America who, through social, political, and economic means, have radically shaped our nation. For legions of women, living single isn't news; it's life. In 2009, the award-winning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8 TRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.81 TRACarpenter, Angelica Shirley
Summary: Radical, feminist, writer, suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage changed the course of history. She fought for equal rights not dependent on sex, race, class, or creed. Yet her name has faded into obscurity. She is forgotten when her comrades, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, are celebrated. To explain, Angelica Shirley Carpenter explores Gage's life, including her rise and fall within the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: South Dakota Historical Society Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 GAGGaines, James R.
Summary: "A bold and original argument that upends the myth of the Fifties as a decade of conformity to celebrate the solitary, brave, and stubborn individuals who pioneered the radical gay rights, feminist, civil rights, and environmental movements, from historian James R. Gaines"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 GAICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 GAIJones, Martha S.
Summary: This volume explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements and the consequences of elevating women into positions of visibility and leadership. Martha Jones reveals how, throughout the 19th century, the "woman question" was at the core of movements against slavery and for civil rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.6 JonHogan, 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 HOGDworkin, Andrea
Summary: "Radical feminist author Andrea Dworkin was a caricature of the manhater in the popular imagination as well as a polarizing figure within the women's movement, infamous for her antipornography stance in the 1970s and 1980s. Now, more than a decade after her death, this timely collection of her writing showcases the prescience of her analyses: of the genocidal character of sexual violence; of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Semiotext(e) 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 DWOCobbs, Elizabeth
Summary: "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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 COBBartoletti, Susan Campbell
Summary: "A history of the iconic first women's march in 1913 and the suffragists who led the way to passing the 19th amendment"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2020
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT 324.6 BartolettiHunt, 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 HUNSummary: Nineteen graduates of the Class of '69 of the all women's Skidmore College discuss what it was like to live through the tumultuous era of the late '60s and how the experience defined and empowered them as women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WOMContents: Reawakening -- An early victory -- Sisterhood -- "We cannot rely on existing ideologies" -- Our bodies -- Working for change -- Themes of the eighties and nineties.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 FEMFaderman, Lillian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.48 FADMarcus, Sara
Summary: A history of Riot Grrrl, a radical feminist movement that was started in the 1990s by young women who were fed up with sexism and harrassment and decided to make some noise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 MARTurk, 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 TURTalbot, David
Summary: 'By the Light of Burning Dreams' chronicles some of the most important moments of activism from the 60s and 70s, and ties them into the arrival of today's major political players and major progressive movements. David and Margaret Talbot are both very well-connected, with contacts such as Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., George R.R. Martin,Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Klein, and Oliver Stone. From the founder...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 TALBakshi, Kelly
Summary: Offers 12 different views on the fight for gender equality. Each page provides information about what happened during the Women s Rights Movement and how it affected different people, along with interesting sidebars, questions to consider, and historical images.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 12-Story Library 2018
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Summary: Explore the role the bicycle played in the women's liberation movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Books 1981
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 FRILepore, Jill
Summary: A cultural history of Wonder Woman traces the character's creation and enduring popularity, drawing on interviews and archival research to reveal the pivotal role of feminism in shaping her seven-decade story
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LEPScutts, Joanna
Summary: Presents a cultural history of independent single women between the 1920s and the 1950s through the reclaimed life of glamorous guru Marjorie Hillis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2018