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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
For the freedom of her race	Lisa G. Materson	"Focusing on Chicago and downstate Illinois politics during the incredibly oppressive decades between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932 - a perio…	OL12048834W
Benazir Bhutto	Corinne J. Naden	""Presents the biography of Benazir Bhutto against the backdrop of her political, historical, and cultural environment."-Provided by publisher"--Provided by publisher.	OL14856458W
Gender and power in Britain, 1640-1990	Susan Kingsley Kent	Gender and Power in Britain is an original and exciting history of Britain from the early modern period to the present focusing on the interaction of gender and power in political, social, cultural a…	OL14864491W
Why women should rule the world	Dee Dee Myers	What would happen if women ruled the world?Everything could change, according to former White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers. Politics would be more collegial. Businesses would be more productiv…	OL15845947W
Bushwomen	Laura Flanders	"The Bushwomen - the women appointed to the inner circle of the president's cabinet and sub-cabinet - are cast in the public mind as moderate, malleable, maverick, irrelevant or benign. Their careful…	OL15848614W
After the vote was won	Katherine H. Adams	"Because scholars have traditionally only examined the efforts of American suffragettes in relation to electoral politics, the history books have missed the story of what these women sought to achiev…	OL16980916W
Breakthrough	Nancy L. Cohen	"From Hollywood to the halls of Congress, a lively conversation about women's leadership, equal pay, and family-work balance is underway. On the cusp of a historic breakthrough-- the potential electi…	OL17912752W
Off the sidelines	Kirsten Gillibrand	"Fourteen years before Kirsten Gillibrand succeeded Hillary Rodham Clinton as senator from New York, she heard her future mentor say these life-changing words: 'Decisions are being made every day in …	OL18022212W
Sandra Day O'Connor	Beverly Gherman	Follows Sandra Day O'Connor from her childhood on an Arizona ranch, through her days as a young lawyer, to her appointment as the first female named to the Supreme Court.	OL1950711W
My Face Is Black Is True	Mary Frances Berry	"My face is black is true but its not my fault but I love my name and my honest in dealing with my fellow man."~Callie House (1899)In her groundbreaking new book, My Face Is Black Is True, historian …	OL1956913W
Wolf whistle politics	Naomi Wolf	"The 2016 election year may be remembered as a year to forget, but for American women in politics and feminists alike it was unforgettably distressing--a flash point illuminating both the true state …	OL19718988W
Girls of Liberty	Margalit Shilo	Following the Balfour Declaration and the British conquest of Palestine (1917-1918), the small Jewish community that lived there wanted to establish an elected assembly as its representative body. Th…	OL20932424W
Khartoum at Night	Marie Grace Brown	1 online resource	OL21300731W
Protestantism, politics, and women in Britain, 1660-1714	Melinda S. Zook	"This book is the study of how women writers, booksellers, spies, rebels, outlaws, poets, widows, wives, mothers, gentlewomen, shopkeepers, and one queen - all of whom were spiritually inspired - mad…	OL23119198W
Women in politics and media	Maria Raicheva-Stover,Elza Ibroscheva	"Although women constitute half of the world's population, their participation in the political sphere remains problematic. While existing research on women politicians from the United States, the Un…	OL23186132W
The political consequences of motherhood	Jill S. Greenlee	" From civically and politically engaged women linking their identity as "mothers" to their fight for prohibition, public sanitation, and protective labor laws to the general call to arms of "mama gr…	OL23334947W
Benita : Wo ein Wille, Da ein Weg	Benita Ferrero-Waldner	419 pages : 22 cm	OL28008163W
Founding Mothers	Cokie Roberts	From #1 New York Times bestselling author Cokie Roberts comes New York Times bestseller Founding Mothers, an intimate and illuminating look at the fervently patriotic and passionate women whose tirel…	OL507694W
Condi vs. Hillary	Dick Morris	Who will be president in 2008? Many believe that the White House is Hillary Clinton's to lose. As long-time strategists Dick Morris and Eileen McGann reveal in Condi vs. Hillary, however, Hillary's p…	OL520354W
Indira Gandhi	Trevor Fishlock	Describes how Indira Gandhi, intimately involved in Indian political life even from childhood, became prime minister and the first woman to lead her country.	OL664024W