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Military participation Female United States United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Biography United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Women Women Women Social conditions Women United States Biography Women United States History 18th century Women United States History 19th century Women United States Social conditionsHarness, Cheryl.
Summary: Presents twenty women in America's history who fought for men's and women's rights, including Ann Lee, Jane Adams, Alice Paul, Dolores Huerta, and Sojourner Truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 HARRoberts, Cokie.
Summary: Explores the lives of women who helped shape the United States, profiling such key figures as Abigail Adams, Eliza Pinkney, Dolley Payne Madison, Deborah Read Franklin, and Catherine Littlefield Greene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2005
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Summary: Cokie Roberts's number one New York Times bestseller, We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, examined the nature of women's roles throughout history and led USA Today to praise her as a "custodian of time-honored values." Her second bestseller, From This Day Forward, written with her husband, Steve Roberts, described American marriages throughout history, including the romance of John and Abigail...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.3 ROBCastrovilla, Selene
Summary: "Introduces the reader to the founding mothers of the United States"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.4 CASCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 CASHill, Anita
Summary: "From the woman who gave the landmark testimony against Clarence Thomas as a sexual menace, a new manifesto about the origins and course of gender violence in our society; a combination of memoir, personal accounts, law, and social analysis, and a powerful call to arms from one of our most prominent and poised survivors. In 1991, Anita Hill began something that's still unfinished work. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 HILCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 HILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 HILHartman, Saidiya V.
Summary: "A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, queer relations,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: C&T Pub. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7082 BRAFleshman, Lauren
Summary: "Fueled by her years as an elite runner and advocate for women in sports, Lauren Fleshman offers her inspiring personal story and a rallying cry for reform of a sports landscape that is failing young female athletes. Lauren Fleshman has grown up in the world of running: one of the most decorated collegiate athletes of all time and a national champion as a pro, she was a major face of women's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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Summary: "In World War I, telephones linked commanding generals with soldiers in muddy trenches. A woman in uniform connected almost every one of their calls, speeding the orders that won the war. Like other soldiers, the "Hello Girls" swore the Army oath and stayed for the duration. A few were graduates of elite colleges. Most were ordinary, enterprising young women motivated by patriotism and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wom CobbsHendricks, Nancy
Summary: "From Beatniks to Sputnik and Princess Grace to Peyton Place, this book illuminates the female half of America's population as they entered a "brave new world" that revolutionized women's lives"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwood 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 HENOrenstein, Peggy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 OREBingham, Emily.
Summary: "Raised like a princess in one of the most powerful families in the American South, Henrietta was offered the helm of a publishing empire. Instead, she ripped through the Jazz Age like an F. Scott Fitzgerald character: intoxicating and intoxicated, selfish and shameful, seductive and brilliant, and often terribly troubled. In New York, Louisville, and London she drove men and women wild with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BINGHAM, HENRIETTA WORTH BINChambers, Veronica
Summary: "Who was at the forefront of women's right to vote? We know a few famous names, like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, but what about so many others from diverse backgrounds--black, Asian, Latinx, Native American, and more--who helped lead the fight for suffrage? On the hundredth anniversary of the historic win for women's rights, it's time to celebrate the names and stories of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 CHATaylor, Susan
Summary: "Introduces the reader to women during World War II"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, An imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 TAYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 TAYMonson, Marianne
Summary: North, South, black, white, Native American, immigrant-- the women in these micro biographies were wives, mothers, sisters and friends whose purposes ranged from supporting husbands and sons during wartime to counseling President Lincoln on strategy. Monson brings to light the incredible stories of women from the Civil War that remain relevant to our nation today. -- Adapted from jacket
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 MONCollins, Gail
Summary: A lively, fascinating, eye-opening look at women and aging in America, by a <i>New York Times<i> columnist who illustrates the ways in which age is an arbitrary concept that has swung back and forth over the centuries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.26 COLCollins, Gail.
Summary: Recounts the astounding revolution in women's lives over the past fifty years. A comprehensive mix of oral history and Gail Collin's keen research--covering politics, fashion, popular culture, economics, sex, families, and work--this is the definitive book on five crucial decades of progress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 COLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.4097 COLSummary: Ever wish you could visit with a group of Amish or Mennonite women over a cup of coffee? In the pages of Homespun, Amish and Plain Mennonite women swap stories and spin yarns while we listen in. Lorilee Craker, bestselling author of Money Secrets of the Amish, collects these personal writings about hospitality, home, grief, joy, and walks with God. Hear from one woman who struggles with feeling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Herald Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289 CRAKazdin, Cole
Summary: "Blending personal narrative and investigative reporting, Emmy Award-winning journalist Cole Kazdin reveals that disordered eating is an epidemic crisis killing millions of women. Women of all ages struggle with disordered eating, preoccupation with food, and body anxiety. Journalist Cole Kazdin was one such woman, and she set out to see if the impossibility of her own full recovery from an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Essentials 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 KAZMojica Rodríguez, Prisca Dorcas
Summary: "For generations, women of color have had to push against powerful forces of sexism, racism, and classism in this country, and too often, they have felt that they had to face these challenges alone. Through her writing, her activism, and through founding Latina Rebels, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez fought to create community to help women fight together. Now her new book For Brown Girls with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.48 MOJStern, Scott W.
Summary: In 1918, shortly after her eighteenth birthday, Nina McCall was told to report to the local health officer to be examined for sexually transmitted infections. Confused and humiliated, Nina did as she was told, and the health officer performed a hasty (and invasive) examination and quickly diagnosed her with gonorrhea. Insisting she could not possibly have an STI, Nina was coerced into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.74 STEGriswold, Mac K.
Summary: "The story of Bunny Mellon, the great landscape architect and interior designer, becomes a revelatory exploration of extreme wealth in the American century"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MELLON, BUNNY GRIFrank, Lisa Tendrich (EDT)
Summary: Covers the role of women in the Civil War, from battlefield to home front.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABC-CLIO 2008
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2 available in Reference, Call number: R 973.7082 WOM V1Call number: R 973.7082 WOM V2