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• Sister Outsider

  Essays and Speeches

  Lorde, Audre,

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  At once a searing indictment of a racist, patriarchal society and a manual for claiming an intersectional identity, Sister Outsider is a comprehensive collection of the lauded poet and writer Audre Lorde's most famous and influential works of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dear Ijeawele, Or, A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

  Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-

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  A powerful, clear and inspiring distillation of Chimamanda's observations about contemporary feminism in fifteen suggestions to a friend, the new mother of a baby girl.

• Year of the Tiger

  An Activist's Life

  Wong, Alice, 1974-

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  This groundbreaking memoir offers a glimpse into an activist's journey to finding and cultivating community and the continued fight for disability justice, from the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project.

• Finding My Way

  a Memoir

  Yousafzai, Malala, 1997-

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  Thrust onto the public stage at fifteen years old after the Taliban's brutal attack on her life, Malala Yousafzai quickly became an international icon known for bravery and resilience. But away from the cameras and crowds, she spent years struggling…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Paper Bag Princess

  Munsch, Robert N., 1945-

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  Princess Elizabeth, robbed of her beautiful clothes and her castle destroyed by a fierce dragon, dons a paper bag and marches off to rescue her prince, only to realize he is not worthy of her efforts.

• Becoming a Matriarch

  a Memoir

  Knott, Helen, 1987-

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  When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behind, or to craft a new space. Helen Knott’s debut memoir, In My Own Moccasins, wowed reviewers, award-juries, and readers alike with its profoundly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Women Who Run With the Wolves

  Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

  Estés, Clarissa Pinkola,

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  The author's premise is that within every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. Here, the author unfolds…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Princess in Black

  Hale, Shannon

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  Princess Magnolia is having hot chocolate and scones with Duchess Wigtower when... Brring! Brring! The monster alarm! A big blue monster is threatening the goats! Stopping monsters is no job for dainty Princess Magnolia. But luckily Princess…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Women, Race & Class

  Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-

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  Angela Davis provides a powerful history of the social and political influence of whiteness and elitism in feminism, from abolitionist days to the present, and demonstrates how the racist and classist biases of its leaders inevitably hampered any…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Room of One's Own

  And, Three Guineas

  Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941,

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  A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction'. Ranging from the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister to Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Headstrong

  52 Women Who Changed Science-- and the World

  Swaby, Rachel

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  Headstrong delivers a powerful and entertaining response to the question- Who are the role models for today's female scientists? Covering Nobel Prize winners and major innovators, as well as lesser-known but hugely significant scientists who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Underground Girls of Kabul

  in Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan

  Nordberg, Jenny

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  An investigative journalist uncovers a hidden custom in Afghanistan that will transform your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girl. In Afghanistan, a culture ruled almost entirely by men, the birth of a son is cause for celebration…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Secrets of the Sprakkar

  Iceland's Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World

  Reid, Eliza,

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  For the past twelve years, the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report has ranked Iceland number one on its list of countries closing the gap in equality between men and women. Eliza Reid - Canadian born and raised, and now first lady of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Boulder

  Baltasar, Eva,

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  Working as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives her the nickname 'Boulder'. When Samsa gets a job in Reykjavik and the couple decides to move there together, Samsa decides that she wants to have a child.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Anna Politkovskaya

  No to Fear

  Conil, Dominique,

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  Say No to Fear, part of the They Said No series of histories, tells the story of Anna Politkovskaya's courageous life narrated from the perspective of her longtime mentor and friend, the dissident writer Vassily Pachoutinsev. From their first…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Daughters of Kobani

  a Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice

  Lemmon, Gayle Tzemach,

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  The extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and won In 2014, northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would expect to find a revolution centered on women's rights. And yet that year, an all-female militia faced…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Girl on Girl

  How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

  Gilbert, Sophie (Sophie G.),

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  From Atlantic critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sophie Gilbert, a blazing critique of how early-aughts pop culture turned women and girls against each other--and themselves--with disastrous consequences. An urgent read that addresses questions…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Different Kind of Power

  a Memoir

  Ardern, Jacinda, 1980-

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  From the former prime minister of New Zealand, then the world's youngest female head of government and just the second to give birth in office, comes a deeply personal memoir chronicling her extraordinary rise and offering inspiration to a new…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All We Know

  Three Lives

  Cohen, Lisa, 1962-

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  Esther Murphy was a brilliant New York intellectual who dazzled friends and strangers with an unstoppable flow of conversation. But she never finished the books she was contracted to write--a painful failure and yet a kind of achievement. The…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Martha Graham

  When Dance Became Modern : a Life

  Baldwin, Neil, 1947-

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  Time magazine called her “the Dancer of the Century.” Her technique, used by dance companies throughout the world, became the first long-lasting alternative to the idiom of classical ballet. Her pioneering movements—powerful, dynamic, jagged, edgy,…Read moreRead more of this annotation