Kisner, Adrienne.
Summary: Raina Petree is crushing her senior year, until her boyfriend dumps her, the drama club (basically) dumps her, the college of her dreams slips away, and her arch-nemesis triumphs. Things aren't much better for Millie Goodwin. Her father treats her like a servant, and the all-boy Mock Trial team votes her out, even after she spent the last three years helping to build its success. But then, an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KISSummary: A double portrait of a young boy slowly coming out of the closet and of the lady that was, even more than his mother, the woman in his life, his grandmother. The film takes viewers on an intimate journey where Caroline, a flamboyant 90-year-old grandmother, and her filmmaker grandson Stephane explore the development and transmission of gender identity in a patriarchal environment. Stephane...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MADTsamaase, Tlotlo
Summary: This genre-bending Africanfuturist horror novel blends The Handmaid's Tale with Get Out in an adrenaline-packed, cyberpunk body-hopping ghost story exploring motherhood, memory, and a woman's right to her own body. Nelah seems to have it all: fame, wealth, and a long-awaited daughter growing in a government lab. But, trapped in a loveless marriage to a policeman who uses a microchip to monitor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Erewhon, an imprint of Kensington Publishing Corp. 2024
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Summary: "The election of an unabashedly patriarchal man as US President was a shock for many--despite decades of activism on gender inequalities and equal rights, how could it come to this? What is it about patriarchy that seems to make it so resilient and resistant to change? Undoubtedly it persists in part because some people benefit from the unequal advantages it confers. But is that enough to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Polity Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 GILJohnson, Allan G.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Temple University Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.3 JOHGlass, Jenna
Summary: "In a feminist fantasy epic, a revolutionary spell gives women the ability to control their own fertility--with consequences that rock their patriarchal society to its core. When a nobleman's first duty is to produce a male heir, women are treated like possessions and bargaining chips. But as the aftereffects of a world-altering spell ripple out physically and culturally, women at last have a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GLATempler, Hannah
Summary: "For this ragtag band of space gays, liberation means beating the patriarchy at its own game. Pan's life used to be very small. Work in her dad's body shop, sneak out with her friend Tara to go dancing, and watch the skies for freighter ships. It didn't even matter that Tara was a princess... until one day it very much did matter, and Pan had to say goodbye forever. Years later, when a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Top Shelf Productions 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 COSBrown, Karma
Summary: Alice Hale left a career in publicity to become a writer and follow her husband to the New York suburbs. Unaccustomed to filling her days alone in a big, empty house, she is captivated by a vintage cookbook found buried in a box in the old home's basement, and by the cookbook's previous owner. As Alice cooks her way through 1950s housewife Nellie Murdoch's past, she realizes that within the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROGlass, Jenna
Summary: "In this feminist fantasy series, the ability to do magic has given women control over their own bodies. But as the patriarchy starts to fall, they must now learn to rule as women, not men. Alys may be the acknowledged queen of Women's Well--the fledgling colony where women hold equal status with men--but she cares little for politics in the wake of an appalling personal tragedy. It is grief...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2020
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Summary: From New Yorker and Onion writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men is a comedy philosophy book aimed at interrogating what it means to date men within the trappings of modern society. Blythe Roberson's sharp observational humor is met by her open-hearted willingness to revel in the ugliest warts and shimmering highs of choosing to live our lives amongst other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 ROBBreen, Marta
Summary: "Patriarchy means "the rule of the father" and describes a system where men are in control. At least since the time of Aristotle, loud-mouthed men have called women weak and inferior. In entertaining comic book form, Smash the Patriarchy shames the culprits and salutes more than 100 inspiring women--from Pharaoh Hatshepsut to Mary Wollstonecraft to Petra Herrera--who stood up to them. The book...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HELVETIQ (Halvetiq Sari) 2023
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Summary: One ordinary spring morning in Reykjavik, Iceland, Thordis Elva kisses her son and partner goodbye before boarding a plane to do a remarkable thing: fly seven thousand miles to South Africa to confront the man who raped her when she was just sixteen. Meanwhile, in Sydney, Australia, Tom Stranger nervously embarks on an equally life-changing journey to meet Thordis, wondering whether he is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELVA, THORDIS ELVLeser, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.3 LESCrawford, Stanley G.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dalkey Archive Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRALerner, Gerda
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.409 LERMolfino, Majo
Summary: "In Break the Good Girl Myth, women's leadership expert and podcast host Majo Molfino shares how design thinking methods can help women identify and dismantle the self-sabotaging myths that negatively impact their work, relationships, and wellbeing"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperColinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.3 MOLCorban, Jess
Summary: In Nedé--a safe haven for women--seventeen-year-old Reina draws strength from a forbidden friendship when torn between her formidable grandmother and her mother as she faces a decision that could change their world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wander, an imprint of Tyndale House Publishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CORCard, Orson Scott.
Summary: The first novel in a trilogy on the women of Genesis, focusing on the life of Sarah, a devoted wife, and follower of the God of Abraham, who is chosen to experience a miracle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARHill, Jess
Summary: "A deeply researched account from an award-winning journalist that uncovers the ways in which abusers exert control in the darkest-and most intimate-ways imaginable We fear dark alleys when in truth, home is the most dangerous place for a woman. Of the 87,000 women killed globally in 2017, more than a third (30,000) were killed by an intimate partner, and another 20,000 were killed by a family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.82 HILTheroux, Paul.
Summary: Jay, one of seven living children, contemplates his mother's influence on the family and his life, as he struggles with her disappointment in him and suspects she may have sabotaged a budding relationship.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC THETheroux, Paul.
Summary: Jay, one of seven living children, contemplates his mother's influence on the family and his life, as he struggles with her disappointment in him and suspects she may have sabotaged a budding relationship.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC THESummary: More thrills and chills in the steamy second season of the supernatural drama. Home to psychics, vampires, witches and other outcasts, the remote town of Midnight is a mysterious safe-haven for those seeking refuge from the outside world. As the town members' bond is stronger than ever, the mysterious arrival of new hotel owners threatens the balance of Midnight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019