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1162) Girl up
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Laura Bates offers an empowering survival guide that provides no-nonsense advice on sex, social media, mental health, and sexism that young women face in their everyday life.
1164) All the women in my family sing: women write the world--essays on equality, justice, and freedom
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Hailed by the New Yorker as "a crucial forebear of generations," award-winning director Joyce Chopra came of age in the 1950s, prior to the dawn of feminism, and long before the #MeToo movement. As a young woman, it seemed impossible that she might one day realize her dream of becoming a film director-she couldn't name a single woman in that role. But with her desire fueled by a stay in Paris during the heady beginnings of the French New Wave, she...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First English-language edition.
Language
English
Description
"The author of The Mental Load returns with more 'visual essays which are transformative agents of change.' After the success of The Mental Load, Emma continues in her new book to tangle with issues pertinent to women's experiences, from consent to the 'power of love,' from the care and attentiveness that women place on others' wellbeing and social cohesion, and how it constitutes another burden on women, to contraception, to the true nature of gallantry,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of four pioneers of feminist art. Each made their mark in their own powerful way. Judy Chicago made us reassess the female body, Faith Ringgold taught us that feminism is for everyone, Ana Mendieta was a martyr to violence against women, while the Guerrilla Girls have taken the fight to the male-dominated museum"--
1172) Not that bad
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Cultural critic and bestselling author Roxane Gay presents a collection of essays that explore what it means to live in a world where women are frequently belittled and harassed due to their gender, and offers a call to arms insisting that "not that bad" must no longer be good enough.
1173) New moon girls
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
The magazine's content is written primarily by girls ages 8 and up, and covers topics such as personal hygiene, activism, bios of little-known women from history and meeting girls from other countries.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"What Makes Girls Sick and Tired is a feminist manifesto that denounces the discrimination against and unfairness felt by women from childhood to adulthood. The graphic novel, illustrated in a strikingly minimalist style with images of girls with varied body types and personalities, invites teenagers to question the sexism that surrounds us, in ways that are obvious and hidden, simple and complex."--
1175) Radical grace
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"What does it mean for women to be both devoted to and in conflict with a powerful religious institution? A riveting example of feminist disobedience, Radical Grace follows three extraordinary American Catholic nuns, including Sister Simone Campbell, who plays a pivotal role in the organization of the Nuns on the bus, who faithfully honor their vow of obedience to God, even when it means angering the Church hierarchy. As modern-day feminist nuns,...
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Julie Doucet arrived in comics in the 1990s as a fully formed cartoonist. Her comic book series Dirty Plotte was visionary both for the medium and for storytelling. Her stories are candid, funny, and intimate, plumbing the depths of the female psyche while charting the fragility of the men around her. Her artwork is dense and confident, never wavering in the wit and humour of its owner... Dirty Plotte: The Complete Julie Doucet collects the entire...
1180) Juliet takes a breath
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Juliet, a self-identified queer, Bronx-born Puerto Rican-American, comes out to her family to disastrous results the night before flying to Portland to intern with her feminist author icon--whom Juliet soon realizes has a problematic definition of feminism that excludes women of color"--
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