Summary: It is set in Switzerland in 1971 where, despite the worldwide social upheavals of the previous decade, women, were still denied the right to vote. When unassuming and dutiful housewife Nora is forbidden by her husband to take a part-time job, her frustration leads to her becoming the poster child of her town's suffragette movement. Her newfound celebrity brings humiliation, threats, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DIVTetrault, Lisa.
Summary: "The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cherished American myth. The standard account credits founders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott with defining and then leading the campaign for women's suffrage. In her provocative new history, Lisa Tetrault demonstrates that Stanton, Anthony, and their peers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.6 TerFinch, Jamie Lee
Summary: "Rooted in her experiences growing up in an Evangelical Christian family, Jamie Lee Finch's "You Are Your Own" offers an overview of Evangelicalism and the painful confusion and anxiety experienced under its demands. Finch explores the mechanisms of trauma and how fundamentalist denominations match the patterns connected with PTSD. She elaborates on the doubt, guilt, fear, and grief that haunt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Jamie Lee Finch] 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.8 FINSummary: On April 30, 1971, a standing-room-only crowd of New York's intellectual elite packed the city's Town Hall theater to see Norman Mailer, fresh from the controversy over his essay 'The Prisoner of Sex' and the backlash it received from leaders of the women's movement, tangle with a panel of four prominent female thinkers and activists: Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TOWSummary: Parvana is an eleven-year-old girl growing up under the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001. When her father is wrongfully arrested, Parvana cuts off her hair and dresses like a boy in order to support her family. Working alongside her friend Shauzia, Parvana discovers a new world of freedom, and danger. With undaunted courage, Parvana draws strength from the fantastical stories she invents, as she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRESherman, Jill
Summary: Discover 25 women who challenged the status quo and fought for what they believed in. From all corners of the world, these women show us that barriers are meant to be broken and obstacles can be overcome. Learn about some of the fierce women who persevered in the face of adversity to fight for what they thought was right.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Point Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J920 SHEGugino, Carla
Summary: A head basketball coach at a small women's Catholic college works to help her team go to the championships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Mighty 2012Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MiHarris, Duchess
Summary: Eleanor Roosevelt is well known for her time as First Lady of the United States, but she also made important contributions to women's rights before, during, and after her husband's presidency. Eleanor Roosevelt Champions Women's Rights examines her efforts from multiple perspectives, including those of Roosevelt herself, her husband, Franklin, and later feminist activists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, An Imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.917 HARSchwabach, Karen
Summary: In 1848, eleven-year-old Bridie runs away to Seneca Falls, New York, where she meets a free black girl named Rose and gets caught up in Elizabeth Cady Stanton's plans for a women's rights convention. Includes historical notes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCHWickenden, Dorothy
Summary: Chronicles the revolutionary activities of Harriet Tubman, Frances Seward, and Martha Wright--friends and neighbors in Auburn, New York--discussing their vital roles in the Underground Railroad, abolition, and the early women's rights movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 WICCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WICHopkinson, 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
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J900 WHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Social What HopkinsonSummary: In this gorgeously animated drama, the lives of several strong-willed women and a young musician intersect. Their stories reveal the hypocrisies of modern Iranian society, where sex, drugs, and corruption coexist with strict religious law. In the bustling metropolis of Tehran, avoiding prohibitions has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TEHCarter, Jimmy
Summary: "The world's discrimination and violence against women and girls is the most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: This is President Jimmy Carter's call to action. President Carter was encouraged to write this book by a wide coalition of leaders of all faiths. His urgent report covers a system of discrimination that extends to every nation. Women are deprived of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 323.3 CARStern, Scott W.
Summary: In 1918, shortly after her eighteenth birthday, Nina McCall was told to report to the local health officer to be examined for sexually transmitted infections. Confused and humiliated, Nina did as she was told, and the health officer performed a hasty (and invasive) examination and quickly diagnosed her with gonorrhea. Insisting she could not possibly have an STI, Nina was coerced into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.74 STEMonir, Alexandra
Summary: Dinah Lance was seven years old when she overheard the sound of a girl singing. It was something she was never meant to hear, not in Gotham City, taken over by the Court of Owls. The sinister organization rules Gotham as a patriarchal dictatorship, all the while spreading their influence like a virus across the globe. Diane is beginning to discover that her own voice is just as powerful. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MONWollstonecraft, Mary
Summary: First published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman created a scandal in its day, largely, perhaps, because of the unconventional lifestyle of its creator. Today, it is considered the first great manifesto of women’s rights, arguing passionately for the education of women: "Tyrants and sensualists are in the right when they endeavor to keep women in the dark, because the former want...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1996
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Actress/advocates and New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof meet individuals who are doing work to empower women and girls everywhere. These are stories of challenge, transformation and hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Docuramafilms 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HALChin-Lee, Cynthia
Summary: "Introduces the reader to women's right to vote"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 CHISummary: On January 21, 2017, five million people in 82 countries and on all seven continents stood up with one voice. The Women's March began with one cause, women's rights, but quickly became a movement around the many issues that were hotly debated during the 2016 U.S. presidential race--immigration, health care, environmental protections, LGBTQ rights, racial justice, freedom of religion, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Image 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 WHYOkamoto, Nadya
Summary: "This is a book about gender equality in the United States and how to engage in activism to get there"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 613 OKAGriffith, Elisabeth
Summary: "The Nineteenth Amendment was an incomplete victory. A century later, women are still grappling with how to use the vote and their political power to expand civil rights, confront racial violence, improve maternal health, advance educational and employment opportunities, and secure reproductive rights. Formidable chronicles the efforts of white and Black women to advance sometimes competing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 GRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.42 GRIKelly, Kate
Summary: "We are all living through modern constitutional history in the making, and Ordinary Equality helps teach about the past, present, and future of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) through the lives of bold fearless women. Based on author Kate Kelly's acclaimed podcast of the same name, Ordinary Equality recounts a story a century in the making-about how constitutional equality for women and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gibbs Smith 2022
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Summary: "The 1964 Civil Rights Act is best known as a monumental achievement of the civil rights movement, but it also revolutionized the lives of American women. Title VII of the law made it illegal to discriminate "because of sex." But Congress gave little guidance about how much it wanted to change in a "Mad Men" world where women played mainly supporting roles. It was up to the Supreme Court, then,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016