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200 women : who will change the way you see the world /
Blackwell, Geoff.
Paper Book
200 incredible women. 126 hours of interviews. 16,000 photographs. 5 questions. This landmark project is the realization of an epic global journey to find 200 women with diverse backgrounds and to ask them what really matters to them. This book was inspired by the...
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A room of one's own /
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
Paper Book
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings...
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A thousand ships.
Haynes, Natalie
Paper Book
This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of all of them... They have waited to have their story told, and I will make them wait no longer.In the early hours of the morning, Creusa wakes to find her beloved Troy engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of brutal conflict...
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Amelia Earhart : a life in flight
Jones, Victoria Garrett.
Paper Book
Knowing the risks, but taking the chance anyway--that was the internal compass that guided Amelia Earhart. This fascinating biography captures: - Amelia's impressive sense of daring, evident from a very young age -...
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I am Malala : the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban /
Yousafzai, Malala, 1997-
Paper Book
A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE As seen on Netflix with David Letterman "I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took control of the Swat...
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Bad feminist : essays /
Gay, Roxane
Paper Book
"Roxane Gay is so great at weaving the intimate and personal with what is most bewildering and upsetting at this moment in culture. She is always looking, always thinking, always passionate, always careful, always right there." -- Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be...
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Catch and kill : lies, spies, and a conspiracy to protect predators /
Farrow, Ronan, 1987-
Paper Book
Now an HBO documentary series streaming on HBO Max. In this instant New York Times bestselling account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests...
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Dear Ijeawele, or, A feminist manifesto in fifteen suggestions /
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-
Paper Book
An instant feminist classic, and perfect gift for all parents, women, and people working towards gender equality. Here is a brilliant, beautifully readable, and above all practical expansion of the ideas this iconic author began to explore in her bestselling manifesto, We Should All Be...
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Entitled : how male privilege hurts women
Manne, Kate
Paper Book
Male entitlement takes many forms. To sex, yes, but more insidiously to admiration, bodily autonomy, knowledge, power, even care. In this urgent intervention, philosopher Kate Manne offers a radical new framework for understanding misogyny. In clear-sighted, powerful prose, she ranges...
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Fat is a feminist issue
Orbach, Susie
Paper Book
THE ORIGINAL ANTI-DIET BOOK IS BACK - in one volume together with its best-selling sequel. When it was first published, Fat Is A Feminist Issue became an instant classic and it is as relevant today as it was then. Updated throughout, it includes a frank new...
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Feminist Baby
Brantz, Loryn
Paper Book
Feminist Baby likes pink and blue. Sometimes she'll throw up on you! Feminist Baby chooses what to wear and if you don't like it she doesn't care! Meet the irrepressible Feminist Baby in this refreshing, clever board book about a girl who's not afraid to do...
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Fight like a girl : 50 feminists who changed the world
Barcella, Laura
Paper Book
Nearly every day there's another news story or pop cultural anecdote related to feminism and women's rights. #YesAllWomen, conversations around consent, equal pay, access to contraception, and a host of other issues are foremost topics of conversation in American (and worldwide) media right now....
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Good night stories for rebel girls. 2
Cavallo, Francesca
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This sequel to the sensational New York Times bestseller, Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, showcases 100 brand-new bedtime stories of incredible women throughout history and around the world. In this book, readers...
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Harriet Tubman
SO anchez Vegara, Ma Isabel
Paper Book
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Harriet Tubman and the freedom train /
Gayle, Sharon Shavers
Paper Book
Ready-to-Read Level 3Reading Proficiently Rich vocabulary More-challenging stories Longer chapters Harriet Tubman was born a slave. But she always knew that someday she would be free. After realizing her dream Harriet decided she had to help others find freedom too. So she became a guide on the...
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I know why the caged bird sings
Angelou, Maya.
Paper Book
Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS's American Masters. Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself....
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It's not about the burqa : Muslim women on faith, feminism, sexuality and race /
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Paper Book
When was the last time you heard a Muslim woman speak for herself without a filter? It's Not About the Burqa is an anthology of essays by Muslim women about the contemporary Muslim female experience. Now in paperback.In 2016, Mariam Khan read that David Cameron had linked the...
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Ladies get paid : the ultimate guide to breaking barriers, owning your worth, an
Wasserman, Claire
Paper Book
From career coach and founder of the startup Ladies Get Paid--the eponymous organization leading the fight for equality in the workplace--comes a "powerful call to action" (Reshma Saujani, CEO and author of Brave, Not Perfect) that provides the tools you need to strategically...
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Living a feminist life
Ahmed, Sara
Paper Book
In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work. Building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship in particular, Ahmed offers a poetic and personal meditation on how...
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Lean in : women, work, and the will to lead
Sandberg, Sheryl.
Paper Book
#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * "A landmark manifesto" (The New York Times) that's a revelatory, inspiring call to action and a blueprint for individual growth that will empower women around the world to achieve their full potential. In her famed TED...
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Malala's magic pencil /
Yousafzai, Malala, 1997-
Paper Book
Nobel Peace Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Malala Yousafzai's first picture book, inspired by her own childhood. Malala's first picture book will inspire young readers everywhere to find the magic all around them. As a child in Pakistan, Malala...
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Men explain things to me. [online electronic book]
Solnit, Rebecca
Ebook
The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author delivers a collection of essays that serve as the perfect "antidote to mansplaining" (The Stranger). In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in...
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My body /
Ratajkowski, Emily, 1991-
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "My Body offers a lucid examination of the mirrors in which its author has seen herself, and her indoctrination into the cult of beauty as defined by powerful men. In its more transcendent passages . . . the author steps...
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Mother Teresa
S©?nchez Vegara, Ma Isabel
Paper Book
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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...
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Pleasure activism : [online electronic book] the politics of feeling good.
Brown, Adrienne M.
Ebook
How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls "Pleasure Activism," a politics of...
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My own words /
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader
Paper Book
The New York Times bestselling book from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg--"a comprehensive look inside her brilliantly analytical, entertainingly wry mind, revealing the fascinating life of one of our generation's most influential voices in both law and public opinion" (Harper...
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Sontag : her life and work
Moser, Benjamin
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Named one of the Best Books of the Year by: O Magazine, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Seattle Times The definitive portrait of one of...
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