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Author
Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in Alix E. Harrow's powerful novel of magic and the suffragette movement. In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box. But when the Eastwood sisters -- James...
42) Crane
Author
Series
Five ancestors volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In China in the mid-seventeenth century, twelve-year-old Hok, disguised as a boy for most of her life, must now assume her proper identity as a girl and try to save her brothers' lives by entering the notorious Jinan City Fight Club.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Eye surgeon and tennis player Renée Richards tells her life story with a focus on the three decades since her sex-change, covering such topics as her first years as a woman, her relationship with her son, her years as Martina Navratilova's coach, her love life, and her return to her medical career after tennis.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant collection of thought-provoking essays on gender, nature, passion, and society from an acclaimed feminist, philosopher, and poet In The Eros of Everyday Life, one of America's most provocative writers and thinkers offers insightful and compelling views on a wide range of social, ecological, and gender issues. From a distinctly feminist point of view, Susan Griffin explores the intricate connections between science and religion, nature...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Be the best feminist you can be-or at least look like one-with this definitive manual, from the satirical creators of the wildly popular feminist Onion" humor website, Reductress. From hot feminist sex to a trendy feminist up-do, the bold and brilliant minds behind Reductress reveal the secrets to being super progressive-and cool, hip, and pretty. Feminism today means demanding gender equality-and a fabulous manicure. After all, we're not wearing...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Communication scholar Sut Jhally applies the late sociologist Erving Goffman's groundbreaking analysis of advertising to the contemporary commercial landscape in this provocative new film about gender as a ritualized cultural performance. Uncovering a remarkable pattern of gender-specific poses, Jhally explores Goffman's central claim that the way the body is displayed in advertising communicates normative ideas about masculinity and femininity. The...
Author
Publisher
Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Anything he can do, I can do better. At least that was what Cassie Bucknell thought before she pinned on Ben Wilder's badge and took to patrolling the streets of Cactus Creek, Texas. Cassie has been in love with Ben since primer school, but Ben treats her like a little sister. When they are picked to swap jobs for a month as part of the annual Cactus Creek Challenge in their Texas hometown, the schoolhouse is thrown into an uproar, the jail becomes...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
If you've ever questioned the logic of basing an entire identity around what you have between your legs, it's time to embark on a daring escape outside of the binary box...
Open your eyes to what it means to be a boy or a girl - and above and beyond! Within these pages, you get to choose which path to forge. Explore over one hundred different scenarios that embrace nearly every definition across the world, over history, and in the ever-widening realms...
52) The grace year
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Tierney James, sixteen, struggles to endure the year in which she and other young women are banished to the wild until, purified, the survivors are allowed to return home and marry.
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Letters to a Young Feminist is a visionary message from a leading feminist to the next generation of feminists, both women and men. Phyllis Chesler discusses basic aspects of feminism, explains feminism's relevance in a world that has taken it for granted and derided it and helps the next generation reclaim feminism for itself. Chesler examines sisterhood, sex, families, motherhood, work, feminist heroism and the economics of power, providing guidance...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Feminist icon Phyllis Chesler's pioneering work, Women and Madness, remains startlingly relevant today, nearly 50 years since its first publication in 1972. With over 2.5 million copies sold, this seminal book is unanimously regarded as the definitive work on the subject of women's psychology. Now back in print this completely revised and updated edition from 2005 adds to her original research and findings perspectives on the issues of eating disorders,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Leadership, an imprint of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
This guide shows men in the workplace how to create a corporate culture that maintains a comfortable work environment for their female co-workers and engage them in a way that builds cohesion instead of division.
There are numerous books that coach women to deal with bias and harassment in a male-dominated workplace. However,The Man's Guide to Corporate Culture is one of the only books that coaches men on how to be a part of the solution so they...
Publisher
Crossway
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Male and female he created them." -- Genesis 1:27 It's one of the most important -- and controversial -- topics of our time. God created men and women in his image -- equal in value and complementary in roles. These distinctive roles are not the vestiges of a bygone era, but integral to God's timeless good design for humanity. Designed for Joy includes fresh contributions from fourteen young leaders, casting a unified vision for Christian manhood...
58) Bound
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year-old stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child's feet so that she alone might marry well.
Publisher
Crossway
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A Guide to Navigate Evangelical Feminism In a society where gender roles are a hot-button topic, the church is not immune to the controversy. In fact, the church has wrestled with varying degrees of evangelical feminism for decades. As evangelical feminism has crept into the church, time-trusted resources like Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood help remind Christians of what the Bible has to say. In this edition of the award-winning best seller,...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The social perception of masculinity is very black and white -- one is either an Alpha Male or a Beta Male, and there can be no variation. However, this is not the reality of masculinity in today's society. Non-Alpha Males exist somewhere in the middle of the masculinity spectrum and are far more common than most people realize. These Non-Alpha Males are prone to developmental and behavioral issues caused by gender role conflict, toxic shame, and...
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