Women Who Move the World: Remembering the Past and Empowering the Future

Updated March 19, 2026
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Without children : the long history of not being a mother
O'Donnell Heffington, Peggy
Paper Book
A historian of gender explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood In an era of falling births, it's often said that millennials invented the idea of not having kids. But history is full of women without children: some who chose childless lives, others who...
Tomboy : the surprising history and future of girls who dare to be different
Davis, Lisa
Paper Book
Based on the author's viral New York Times op-ed, this heartfelt book is a celebration and exploration of the tomboy phenomenon and the future of girlhood. We are in the middle of a cultural revolution, where the spectrum of gender and sexual identities is seemingly unlimited....
On violence and on violence against women
Rose, Jacqueline
Paper Book
A blazingly insightful, provocative study of violence against women from the peerless feminist critic. Why has violence, and especially violence against women, become so much more prominent and visible across the world? To explore this question, Jacqueline Rose tracks the...
White tears/brown scars How white feminism betrays women of color.
Hamad, Ruby.
Ebook
Called "powerful and provocative" by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the New York Times bestselling How to be an Antiracist, this explosive book of history and cultural criticism reveals how white feminism has been used as a weapon of white supremacy and patriarchy deployed against...
Unwell women : misdiagnosis and myth in a man-made world
Cleghorn, Elinor
Ebook
A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women's health--from the earliest medical ideas about women's illnesses to hormones and autoimmune diseases--brought together in a fascinating sweeping narrative.   Elinor Cleghorn became an unwell woman ten years ago....
A black women's history of the United States
Berry, Daina Ramey
Paper Book
The award-winning Revisioning American History series continues with this "groundbreaking new history of Black women in the United States" (Ibram X. Kendi)-the perfect companion to An Indigenous People's History of the United States and An African American and Latinx History of the...
Socialist feminism : a new approach
Afary, Frieda
Paper Book
A new take on a powerful and revolutionary movement. What is socialist feminism and why is it needed to fight the global rise of authoritarianism and fascism? Frieda Afary brings the insights gained through her study of feminist philosophy, her...

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