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English
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A journalist explores how the Seven Deadly Sins still circumscribe women’s behavior, revealing how we’ve been programmed to obey the rules represented by these sins and how doing so qualifies us as “good,” and showing how we can break free and discover the integrity and wholeness we seek.
Author
Publisher
Simon Element
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
With laugh-out-loud impertinence and tongue-in-cheek humor, a best-selling author profiles the unforgettable, impressive 19th- and early 20th-century women—unjustly called sluts, shrews, sinners and scolds—who refused to conform to social standards and who were collectively unbecoming as women, but forever changed what women can become.
Author
Series
Montague siblings volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Hoping to travel to Germany to ask for help enrolling in medical school, Felicity has no money for the trip until a mysterious woman offers to travel with her and pay her way, which ends up entangling Felicity in a perilous quest across Europe.
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English
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**One of AudioFile Magazine's Best Audiobooks of 2019**
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Now with a new afterword!
How can we summon a moment of lift for human beings—and especially for women? Because when you lift up women, you lift up humanity.
For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission to find solutions for people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live. Throughout
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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A fun and fascinating graphic novel-style primer that covers the key figures and events that have advanced women's rights from antiquity to the modern era. In addition, this compelling book illuminates the stories of notable women throughout history--from queens and freedom fighters to warriors and spies--and the progressive movements led by women that have shaped history, including abolition, suffrage, labor, civil rights, LGBTQ liberation, reproductive...
Author
Series
Gilded hour novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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A black obstetrician returns to Manhattan in 1884 to move in with her best friend and fellow physician after the tragic loss of her family.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the suffering, discrimination, and abuse suffered by women throughout the world, often as a result of distorted readings of religious texts, as witnessed by the author and the testimony of women representing different regions and religions.
10) Mona Lisa smile
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
An independent-minded woman accepts a teaching position at Wellesley, an all women's college in 1953, and tries to help her students see the opportunities available to them.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
October 1840. A young woman staggers alone through a forest in the English countryside as a huge pair of impossible wings rip themselves from her shoulders. In London, rumors of a "fallen angel" cause a frenzy across the city, and a surgeon desperate for fame and fortune finds himself in the grips of a dangerous obsession, one that will place the women he seeks in the most terrible danger.
Author
Publisher
Revela Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Women's rights advocate Dr. Nina Ansary takes readers on a 4,000-year historical journey to expose the repercussions of centuries of gender inequality. The book's biographical profiles of fifty forgotten innovators--brought to life by international illustrator Petra Dufkova--shatter deeply rooted gender myths to tell remarkable stories about groundbreaking contributions to the global community.
Author
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In Small Fires, Rebecca May Johnson reinvents cooking -- that simple act of rolling up our sleeves, wielding a knife, spattering red hot sauce on our books -- as a way of experiencing ourselves and the world. Cooking is thinking: about the liberating constraint of tying apron strings; the transformative dynamics of shared meals; the meaning of appetite and bodily pleasure; the wild subversiveness of the recipe, beyond words or control. Small Fires...
14) Emma
Publisher
Distributed in the USA by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A young gentlewoman's matchmaking schemes for herself and others cause upheaval in her English village.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Set in a small southern town in 1964, fourteen-year-old Lily, haunted by the death of her mother, leaves home to escape her cruel father to live with their African American housekeeper and the Boatwright sisters.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"While the story of women's liberation has often been framed by the growing acceptance of pants over the twentieth century, the most important and influential female fashions of the era featured skirts. Suffragists and soldiers marched in skirts; the heroines of the Civil Rights Movement took a stand in skirts. Frida Kahlo and Georgia O'Keeffe revolutionized modern art and Marie Curie won two Nobel Prizes in skirts. Skirts looks at the history of...
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