Hood, Susan
Summary: Fresh, accessible, and inspiring, Shaking Things Up introduces fourteen revolutionary young women--each paired with a noteworthy female artist--to the next generation of activists, trail-blazers, and rabble-rousers. From the award-winning author of Ada's Violin, Susan Hood, this is a poetic and visual celebration of persistent women throughout history. In this book, you will find Mary Anning,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harpercollins Children's Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 HOOJohnson, Rebecca May
Summary: "Cooking is thinking! The spatter of sauce in a pan, a cook's subtle deviation from a recipe, the careful labour of cooking for loved ones: these are not often the subjects of critical enquiry. Cooking, we are told, has nothing to do with serious thought; the path to intellectual fulfilment leads directly out of the kitchen. In this electrifying, innovative memoir, Rebecca May Johnson rewrites...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pushkin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 392.3 JOHAuður A. Ólafsdóttir
Summary: "Iceland in the 1960s. Hekla always knew she wanted to be a writer. In a nation of poets, where each household proudly displays leatherbound volumes of the Sagas, and there are more writers per capita than anywhere else in the world, there is only one problem: she is a woman. After packing her few belongings, including James Joyces's Ulysess and a Remington typewriter, Hekla heads for Reykjavik...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: "In One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Scaachi Koul deploys her razor sharp humor to share all the fears, outrages, and mortifying moments of her life. She learned from an early age what made her miserable, and for Scaachi anything can be cause for despair. Whether it's a shopping trip gone awry; enduring awkward conversations with her bikini waxer; overcoming her fear of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KOUL, SCAACHI KOUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B KOUL KOUJones, J. Nicole
Summary: "J. Nicole Jones is the only daughter of a prominent South Carolina family, a family that grew rich building the hotels and seafood restaurants that draw tourists to Myrtle Beach. But at home, she is surrounded by violence and capriciousness: a grandfather who beats his wife, a barman father who dreams of being a country music star. At one time, Jones's parents can barely afford groceries; at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JONES, J. NICOLE JONCalvert, Jennifer
Summary: This fascinating book features 30 young women who accomplished remarkable things before their twentieth birthdays. Visually compelling with original illustrations, this book will inspire the next generation of strong, fearless women.. -- Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Castle Point Books 2018
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT 920.72 Calvert 2018Dickerson, Melanie
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Melanie Dickerson comes a fresh reimagining of the classic Mulan tale. Mulan isn't afraid to pretend to be a son and assume her father's soldier duties in war. But what happens when the handsome son of a duke discovers her secret? Mulan is trying to resign herself to marrying the village butcher for the good of her family, but her adventurous spirit just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DICManley, Alex
Summary: "From AskMen senior editor and non-binary writer Alex Manley comes The New Masculinity: A Roadmap for a 21st-Century Definition of Manhood, a guide for escaping the shackles of toxic masculinity, unlearning what it means to be a man, and pushing back against the various ways masculinity teaches people to hurt rather than help, and to harm rather than heal. Manley charts a course for a wholly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ECW Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.31 MANSummary: The second offering in the Gerald Kraak annual anthology, As You Like It, is a collection of the short-listed entries submitted for the Gerald Kraak Award. This anthology offers a window into deeply located visions and voices across Africa. It brings together stories of self-expression, identity, sexuality, and agency, all located within Africa and its legacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jacana 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 ASDonnelly, Jennifer.
Summary: A young woman in nineteenth-century New York City must struggle against gender and class boundaries when her father is found dead of a supposed suicide, and she believes there is more than meets the eye, so in order to uncover the truth she will have to decide how much she is willing to risk and lose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DONSummary: This program explores the pressures on female adolescents in the Third World through the stories of four young Kenyan women growing up in a time of cultural upheaval: Christine, a Masai who escaped an arranged marriage so she could study law; Dekha, brought up in a rigidly patriarchal Muslim town, who aspires to be a doctor; Anastasia, who works on her family's farm while yearning to become a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Schwartzman, Nancy
Summary: An incisive narrative about a teen rape case that divided a Rust Belt town, exposing the hostile and systemic undercurrents that enable sexual violence, and spotlighting ways to make change. In football-obsessed Steubenville, Ohio, on a summer night in 2012, an incapacitated sixteen-year-old girl was repeatedly assaulted by members of the "Big Red" high school football team. They took turns...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.15 SCHParks, Casey
Summary: "When Casey Parks came out as a lesbian in college back in 2002, she assumed her life in the rural South was over. Her mother shunned her, and her pastor asked God to kill her. But then Parks' grandmother, a stern conservative who grew up picking cotton, shared a story about her childhood friend, Roy Hudgins, a musician who was allegedly kidnapped as a baby and was "a woman who lived as a man."...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PARKS, CASEY PARSummary: Sociologically speaking, how does postmodernity differ from modernity? This multi-section program seeks to answer that question as it evaluates sociology's relationship to an evolving societal framework. Topics such as greater personal choice, increasingly fragmented identities, multiplying uncertainties, and media saturation are considered, along with some of the contradictions inherent in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Wardy, Melissa Atkins.
Summary: "Containing practical, specific parenting advice; strategies for effecting change with educators, store managers, corporations, and more; and tips for challenging and changing the media, this essential guide gives parents the tools they need to fight back against the modern stereotyping and sexualization of young girls. Activist Melissa Wardy shares tangible advice for getting young girls to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Independent Pub Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.23 WARBrown, Christia Spears.
Summary: Outlines psychology-based strategies for focusing on a child's unique strengths rather than on gender expectations, counseling parents on how to avoid cultural inclinations that limit a child's potential.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 BROSummary: In many Middle Eastern countries, honor is so highly prized that it is considered more valuable than life itself. This program examines the code of conduct that makes each woman a sacred vessel of her family's honor-and the practice of atoning for any family member's breach of that code with her blood. Scholars, judges, and clergymen discuss the culturally sanctioned practice of "honorable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Woolf, Virginia
Summary: A Room of One's Own. An examination of why "men have always had power, influence, wealth, and fame, while women have had nothing but children", and the proposal that women be provided with the two basics of freedom: a fixed income of 500 pounds per year and a room of one's own in which to write. Three Guineas. In response to three requests for donations (to a peace society; to a woman's college...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Book of the Month Club 1984
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Summary: An investigative journalist uncovers a hidden Afghan custom that will change your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girl. Expanding on her widely read New York Times article "Afghan boys are prized, so girls live the part," in which she uncovered the phenomenon of bacha posh (literally "dressed up like a boy" in Dari), the practice of disguising and raising young girls as boys,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 305.3 NORSummary: In the Samburu district of Kenya, women have only the rights they can seize for themselves. To break free from spousal abuse, forced marriage, genital mutilation, and the spread of HIV/AIDS-and to defend themselves against rape by local British soldiers-a group of abandoned Samburu women founded Umoja, a village off-limits to men. Two decades on, the tiny community is thriving, but in a growing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Gruenfeld, Deborah H
Summary: "Most of us tend to think that there are two kinds of people in world: those who have power, and those who don't. But in reality, says Stanford Business School professor Deborah Gruenfeld, we all have more power than we think. And success is not about howmuch power we have, but rather how we use it. It's often assumed that power flows to those with the highest rank, the loudest voice, or the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Currency 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.3 GRUHastings, Samantha
Summary: 1861. Miss Lucinda Leavitt is shocked when she learns the author of her favorite serialized novel has died before completing the story. Determined to learn how it ends, Lucinda reluctantly enlists the help of her father's young business partner, Mr. David Randall, to track down the reclusive author's former whereabouts. David is a successful young businessman, but is overwhelmed by his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Hastings 2019Reid, Rebecca
Summary: "During a TV interview with a comedian, Rebecca Reid found herself unable to get a word in edgewise. So, when she put her finger to her lips and shushed him, she became instantly known on the internet as "Rebecca Rude." It was only then that she realizedthat being rude could actually be her superpower. A captivating blend of advice and pop culture, Rude will show you how to utilize the power of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 REISittenfeld, Curtis
Summary: Presents a collection of ten short stories that feature both new and previously published pieces, including "The World Has Many Butterflies," in which married acquaintances play an intimate game, with devastating consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018