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For the freedom of her race 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
Women & guerilla movements Women & guerilla movements Karen Kampwirth "The revolutionary movements that emerged frequently in Latin America over the past century promoted goals that included overturning dictatorships, confronting economic inequalities, and creating wha… OL12060775W
Benazir Bhutto 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 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
Eleanor Holmes Norton Eleanor Holmes Norton Hal Marcovitz Profiles Washington, D.C.'s member of the United States House of Representatives who, in a previous position as head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Council, wrote the guidelines on sexual harras… OL15054486W
Secrets of Powerful Women Secrets of Powerful Women Andrea Wong "There is something special that happens when you get a group of powerful women in a room . . . and shut the door."Andrea Wong, President and CEO, Lifetime Networks"There's such a reservoir of power … OL15190028W
Why women should rule the world 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 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
Girls like us Girls like us Rachel Lloyd,Rachel Lloyd With the power and verity of First They Killed My Father and A Long Way Gone, Rachel Lloyd’s riveting survivor story is the true tale of her hard-won escape from the commercial sex industry and her b… OL15975779W
Devotion and defiance Devotion and defiance Humaira Awais Shahid In this warm and intimate memoir, Humaira Awais Shahid tells her inspiring story. A bookish young woman who identified with the independent-minded heroines of Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf, she neve… OL17754756W
Breakthrough 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 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
Women and the unstable state in nineteenth-century America Women and the unstable state in nineteenth-century America Alison M. Parker,Stephanie Cole x, 164 p. ; 25 cm OL18707773W
Wüstenblume Wüstenblume Cathleen Miller,Waris Dirie,Miller Waris Dirie leads a double life -- by day, she is an international supermodel and human rights ambassador for the United Nations; by night, she dreams of the simplicity of life in her native Somalia … OL1872814W
My Face Is Black Is True 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
Nasty women Nasty women Kate Harding,Samhita Mukhopadhyay "In the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, there was shock, outrage, and, for some, satisfaction. When 53 percent of white women voted for Donald Trump and 94 percent of black women voted f… OL19722110W
Women's suffrage Women's suffrage Nancy Ohlin When people think about the women's suffrage movement, things like voting rights and protests may come to mind. But what was the movement all about, and what social change did it bring? This engaging… OL19733070W
My mantelpiece My mantelpiece Carolyn Goodman Carolyn Goodman's life was punctuated by tragedy, including a brother's premature death, childhood molestation, a father's suicide, and a son's infamous murder. But hers is foremost a tale of surviva… OL19981543W
She takes a stand She takes a stand Michael Elsohn Ross Offers portraits of women who have fought for such important issues as human rights, civil rights, women's rights, and world peace, including anti-lynching crusader Ida B. Wells, suffragist Alice Pau… OL20009476W
Why I march Why I march Samantha Weiner,Emma Jacobs 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 aro… OL20051869W
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