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#MeToo: Women Speak Out Against Sexual Assault

New York Times Company · New York Times Edu Pub
Pages: 221
Format: Paperback

It started with an article and grew into a movement. #MeToo was born in the wake of a Pulitzer-prize winning New York Times investigative report on producer Harvey Weinstein's habitual sexual harassment of young women. The hashtag empowered women around the world to share their stories...
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A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland

DaMaris Hill · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

A Publishers Weekly Top 10 History Title for the seasonA revelatory work in the tradition of Claudia Rankine's Citizen, DaMaris Hill's searing and powerful narrative-in-verse bears witness to American women of color burdened by incarceration."It is costly to stay free and appear / sane."From...
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Disrupt-Her: A Manifesto for the Modern Woman

Miki Agrawal · Hay House Inc.
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover

From the co-founder of THINX and hellotushy.com, start-ups collectively valued at more than $150 million, comes DISRUPT-HER, a rallying cry for women to radically question the status quo.Miki Agrawal has faced patriarchal pushback, fought girl-on-girl hate, ridden the roller coaster of building...
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Caroline Criado Perez · Abrams Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women...
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Women Warriors: An Unexpected History

Pamela D. Toler · Beacon Press
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover

Who says women don't go to war? From Vikings and African queens to cross-dressing military doctors and WWII Russian fighter pilots, these are the stories of women for whom battle was not a metaphor.The woman warrior is always cast as an anomaly--Joan of Arc, not GI Jane. But women, it turns...
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Woman of Color

LaTonya Yvette · Abrams Image
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

A powerful and inspired collection of essays and real-world advice on style, beauty, and motherhood from the popular blogger LaTonya Yvette LaTonya Yvette, the blogger and stylist behind the eponymous site, is unapologetically candid about life's trials, including motherhood, love, death,...
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The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

Toni Morrison · Knopf
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Arguably The most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection--a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades.The Source of Self-Regard is brimming with all the elegance of mind and style,...
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape

Sohaila Abdulali · The New Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

"What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape is brilliant, frank, empowering, and urgently necessary. Sohaila Abdulali has created a powerful tool for examining rape culture and language on the individual, societal, and global level that everyone can benefit from reading." - Jill...
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We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood

Dani McClain · Bold Type Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A warm, wise, and urgent guide to parenting in uncertain times, from a longtime reporter on race, reproductive health, and politicsIn We Live for the We, first-time mother Dani McClain sets out to understand how to raise her daughter in what she, as a black woman, knows to be an unjust--even...
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The Feminism Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

DK · DK
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Discover more than 85 of the most important ideas, movements, and events that have defined feminism and feminist thought throughout history with this original, graphic-led book.Using the Big Ideas series' trademark combination of authoritative, accessible text and bold graphics, this book...
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The Women's Suffrage Movement

Sally Roesch Wagner · Penguin Classics
Pages: 560
Format: Paperback

An intersectional anthology of works by the known and unknown women that shaped and established the suffrage movement, in time for the 2020 centennial of women's right to vote, with a foreword by Gloria SteinemComprised of historical texts spanning two centuries, The Women's Suffrage Movement...
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The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick

Mallory O'Meara · Hanover Square Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A Tor.com Most Anticipated Book of 2019A PureWow "Book We Can't Wait to Read in 2019"A Bustle Nonfiction Book Coming Out In 2019 To Start Getting Excited AboutThe Lady from the Black Lagoon uncovers the life and work of Milicent Patrick - one of Disney's first female animators...
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Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait?: Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the Fight for the Right to Vote

Tina Cassidy · Atria / 37 INK
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

An eye-opening, inspiring, and timely account of the complex relationship between notable suffragist Alice Paul and President Woodrow Wilson in her fight for women's equality. Woodrow Wilson lands in Washington, DC in March of 1913, a day before he is set to take the presidential oath of office....
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The Future is Feminist: Radical, Funny, and Inspiring Writing by Women

Jessica Valenti · Chronicle Books
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

A star-studded roster of iconic women write powerfully about what it means to be a feminist yesterday, today, and tomorrow. These poets, essayists, activists, actors, and professors address topics ranging from workplace harassment to resting bitch face. The results are by turns refreshing,...
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Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin

Andrea Dworkin · Semiotext
Pages: 408
Format: Paperback

Selections from the work of radical feminist author Andrea Dworkin, famous for her antipornography stance and role in the feminist sex wars of the 1980s.Radical feminist author Andrea Dworkin was a caricature of misandrist extremism in the popular imagination and a polarizing figure within...
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