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4) Jane Goodall
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Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Describes the life and work of animal scientist Jane Goodall.
12) Rosa Parks
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Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of the woman whose years of working for civil rights led her to refuse to give up her seat to a white person, setting off the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and who became known as "the mother of the civil rights movement."
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Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Colonial women often had one goal as they grew up: to get married. They often married young and not commonly for love. Though their lives were full of hardship and hard work, they lived during interesting times! Fun, surprising, and silly facts engage readers in the lives of women during the colonial era. From plantation owners' wives to indentured servants, the women in the colonies had varied duties and experiences that readers will find fascinating...
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Series
Publisher
Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Women have made a difference in every field imaginable, and they continue to do so today. Women's Lives in History introduces readers to dozens of these remarkable people. Women in Business features groundbreaking figures in beauty, food, banking, technology, and many other areas. Compelling text and vivid photographs bring these women to life. Features include essential facts, a timeline, a glossary, additional resources, source notes, and an index....
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University of Illinois Press
Language
English
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Description
"In 1945, four African American female privates who were members of the Women's Army Corps (WAC) participated in a strike at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, and opted to take a court martial rather than accept discriminatory work assignments. As the army prepared for the court-martial and civil rights activists investigated the circumstances, competing commentaries in African American and mainstream newspapers ignited a passionate public response across...
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Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Language
English
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"Often condemned as a form of oppression, fashion could and did allow women to express modern gender identities and promote feminist ideas. Einav Rabinovitch-Fox examines how clothes empowered women, and particularly women barred from positions of influence due to race or class. Moving from 1890s shirtwaists through the miniskirts and unisex styles of the 1970s, Rabinovitch-Fox shows how the rise of mass media culture made fashion a vehicle for women...
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
During the 1970s, grassroots women activists in and outside of prisons forged a radical politics against gender violence and incarceration. Emily L. Thuma traces the making of this anticarceral feminism at the intersections of struggles for racial and economic justice, prisoners' and psychiatric patients' rights, and gender and sexual liberation.
All Our Trials explores the organizing, ideas, and influence of those who placed criminalized...
All Our Trials explores the organizing, ideas, and influence of those who placed criminalized...