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• A Black Women's History of the United States

  Berry, Daina Ramey,

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  A Black Women's History of the United States reaches far beyond a single narrative to showcase Black women's lives in all their fraught complexities. Berry and Gross prioritize many voices: enslaved women, freedwomen, religious leaders, artists,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Movement

  How Women's Liberation Transformed America, 1963-1973

  Bingham, Clara,

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  For lovers of both Barbie and Gloria Steinem, The Movement is the first oral history of the decade that built the modern feminist movement. Through the captivating individual voices of the people who lived it, The Movement tells the intimate inside…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Be a Renaissance Woman

  the Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity

  Burke, Jill, 1971-

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  How to Be a Renaissance Woman will take readers from bustling Italian market squares, the places where the poorest women and immigrant communities influenced cosmetic products and practices, to the highest echelons of Renaissance society, where…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wages for Housework

  the Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor

  Callaci, Emily, 1981-

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  Women do more than three-quarters of all the world's unpaid care work, contributing over $9 trillion to the global economy each year. Dishes don't clean themselves; dinner is not magically made; children must be cared for. But why is this work not…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Women in White Coats

  How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine

  Campbell, Olivia,

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  Motivated by personal loss and frustration over inadequate medical care, Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Sophia Jex-Blake fought for a woman's place in the male-dominated medical field. For the first time ever, Women in White…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Fifth Star

  Ohio's Fight for Women's Right to Vote

  Capuzza, Jamie C.,

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  Conversations and legal battles surrounding voting rights, once again a topic looming large in the United States, reflect a long history of such debates and suffrage campaigns. The struggle for women's voting rights, in particular, required…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Working 9 to 5

  a Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie

  Cassedy, Ellen,

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  9 to 5 wasn't just a comic film--it was a movement built by Ellen Cassedy and her friends. Ten office workers in Boston started out sitting in a circle and sharing the problems they encountered on the job. In a few short years, they had built a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Book of Gutsy Women

  Clinton, Hillary Rodham,

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  Ensuring the rights and opportunities of women and girls remains a big piece of the unfinished business of the twenty-first century. While there's a lot of work to do, we know that throughout history and around the globe women have overcome the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fearless Women

  Feminist Patriots From Abigail Adams to Beyoncé

  Cobbs, Elizabeth,

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  Elizabeth Cobbs gives voice to fearless women on both sides of the aisle, most of whom considered themselves patriots. Rich and poor, from all backgrounds and regions, they show that the women's movement has never been an exclusive club.

• Come Fly the World

  the Jet-age Story of the Women of Pan Am

  Cooke, Julia,

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  Required to have a college education, speak two languages, and possess the political savvy of a Foreign Service officer during the Cold War, a jet-age stewardess serving on iconic Pan Am between 1966 and 1975 also had to be between 5'3" and 5'9",…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Starry and Restless

  Three Women Who Changed Work, Writing, and the World

  Cooke, Julia,

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  The page-turning story of three women reporters and the way they changed the world, work, and journalism.

• Suffrage

  Women's Long Battle for the Vote

  DuBois, Ellen Carol, 1947-

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  DuBois explains how suffragists built a determined coalition of moderate lobbyists and radical demonstrators in forging a strategy of winning voting rights in crucial states to set the stage for securing suffrage for all American women in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Missing Thread

  a Women's History of the Ancient World

  Dunn, Daisy,

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  In this monumental work, Dunn reconceives our understanding of the ancient world by emphasizing women's roles within it. The Missing Thread never relegates women to the sidelines and is populated with well-known names such as Cleopatra and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Girls Who Fought Crime

  the Untold True Story of the Country's First Female Investigator and Her Crime-fighting Squad

  Eder, Mari K.,

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  Mary "Mae" Foley was a force to be reckoned with. On one hip she held her makeup compact, on the other, her NYPD badge. When women were fighting for the vote, Mae was fighting crime in the heart of New York City - taking down rapists, boot-leggers,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line

  Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War II

  Eder, Mari K.,

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  From daring spies to audacious pilots, from innovative scientists to indomitable resistance fighters, these extraordinary women stepped out of line and into history, forever altering the world's landscape. This page-turning narrative, crafted with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Woman

  the American History of An Idea

  Faderman, Lillian,

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  What does it mean to be a "woman" in America? Award-winning gender and sexuality scholar Lillian Faderman traces the evolution of the meaning from Puritan ideas of God's plan for women to the sexual revolution of the 1960s and its reversals to the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Queen Mother

  Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore

  Farmer, Ashley D.,

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  In the world of Black radical politics, the name Audley Moore commands unquestioned respect. Across the nine decades of her life, Queen Mother Moore distinguished herself as a leading progenitor of Black Nationalism, the founder of the modern…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Her Space, Her Time

  How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe

  Ghose, Shohini

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  Women physicists and astronomers from around the world have transformed science and society, but the critical roles they played in their fields are not always well-sung. Her Space, Her Time, authored by award-winning quantum physicist Shohini Ghose,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Icon & the Idealist

  Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America

  Gorton, Stephanie, 1984-

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  A riveting history about the little-known rivalry between Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett that profoundly shaped the fight for reproductive rights in America.

• Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons

  the Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt

  Gray, Charlotte,

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  Born into upper-class America in the same year, 1854, Sara Delano (later to become the mother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt) and Jennie Jerome (later to become the mother of Winston Churchill) refused to settle into predictable, sheltered lives as…Read moreRead more of this annotation