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Carved in Ebony : Lessons from the black women who shape us
by Jasmine L. Holmes
277.3 HOL
Through the lives of Elizabeth Freeman, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Mamie Till and others, Jasmine Holmes shares the significant role that Black women have played in the formation of our faith. As these historical figures take the stage, you will be inspired by what the stories of these women can teach us about education, birth, privilege, and so much more.
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Come Fly the World : The jet-age story of the women of Pan Am
by Julia Cook
387.742 COO
Documents the high standards once required of Pan Am stewardesses, from second-language fluency and a college education to youth and a trim figure, sharing the stories of remarkable, high-achieving women who served during the jet age.
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The Secret History of Home Economics : How trailblazing women harnessed the power of home and changed the way we live
by Danielle Dreilinger
640.92 DRE
The surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, yet barely known, history of home economics. The term "home economics" may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken cakes, but obscured by common conception is the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the 20th century by reducing domestic work and providing jobs as professors, engineers, chemists, and businesspeople that were otherwise foreclosed.
In "The Secret History of Home Economics," Dreilinger traces the field's history from small farms to the White House, from Victorian suffragists to Palo Alto techies. Home economics followed the currents of American culture even as it shaped them; Dreilinger brings forward the racism within the movement along with the strides taken by Black women who were influential leaders and innovators. She also looks at the personal lives of home economics' women, as they chose being single, shared lives with women, or tried for egalitarian marriages.
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Windswept : Walking the paths of trailblazing women
by Annabel Abbs
796.51 ABB
A meditation and memoir that reflects on that most fundamental way of connecting with the outdoors: the simple act of walking. In absorbing and transporting prose, Abbs follows in the footsteps of groundbreaking women, including Georgia O'Keeffe in the empty plains of Texas and New Mexico, Nan Shepherd in the mountains of Scotland, Gwen John following the French River Garonne, Daphne du Maurier following the River Rhône, and Simone de Beauvoir--who walked as much as 25 miles a day in a skirt and espadrilles--in the mountains and forests of France.
These trailblazing women were reclaiming what had historically been considered male domains. The stories of these incredible women and artists are laced together by the wilderness walking in Abbs's own life, beginning with her poet father who raised her in the Welsh countryside as an "experiment," according to the principles of Rousseau. "Windswept" is an inventive retrospective and an arresting look forward to the way walking brings about a kind of clarity of thought not found in any other activity, and how it has allowed women throughout history to reimagine their lives and break free from convention.
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Originals! : Black women breaking barriers
by Jessie Carney Smith
920.72 SMI
Profiles the lives and accomplishments of hundreds of African American women throughout history in fields including entertainment, business, education, religion, politics, literature and journalism, civil rights, nonprofit organizations, the military, and science and medicine.
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Wake : The hidden history of women-led slave revolts
by Rebecca Hall
GN HAL
Part graphic novel, part memoir, this book, using in-depth archival research and a measured use of historical imagination, tells the story of women-led slave revolts, uncovering the truth about these women warriors who, until now, have been left out of the historical record.
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Until I am free : Fannie Lou Hamer's enduring message to America
by Keisha N. Blain
SWAN libraries
Blending together social commentary, biography and history, an award-winning historian challenges us to listen to Fannie Lou Hamer, a working-poor and disabled Black woman activist, intellectual and unsung heroes of the civil rights movement in the 1960s who influenced the passing of the Civil Rights Voting Act of 1965.
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Out of the Shadows : Six visionary Victorian women in search of a public voice
by Emily Midorikawa
133.91 MID
"Out of the Shadows" tells the stories of six enterprising Victorian women whose apparent ability to move between the realms of the dead and the living allowed them to cross rigid boundaries of gender and class, and to summon unique political voices. The clairvoyance of the Fox sisters from upstate New York inspired some of the era's best-known female suffrage activists and set off an international séance craze. Emma Hardinge Britten left behind a career on Broadway for the life of a "trance lecturer," whose oration on the death of Abraham Lincoln was celebrated by tens of thousands. The meteoric rise of Victoria Woodhull, born into poverty in Ohio, took her from childhood medium to Wall Street broker to America's first female presidential candidate. And Georgina Weldon, whose interest in spiritualism nearly saw her confined to an asylum, went on to become a favorite of the press and a successful campaigner against Britain's archaic lunacy laws. These extraordinary tales illuminate a radical history of female influence that has been--until now-confined to the dark.
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A History of Islam in 21 women
by Hossein Kamaly
297.082 KAM
Beginning in seventh-century Mecca and Medina, "A History of Islam in 21 Women" takes us around the globe, through eleventh-century Yemen and Khorasan, and into sixteenth-century Spain, Istanbul, and India.
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Girly drinks : a world history of women and alcohol
by Mallory O'Meara
362.292 OME
Provides a tour through the feminist history of women drinking, revealing the untold female distillers, drinkers, and brewers that played vital roles in potent potable history, from ancient Sumerian beer goddess Ninkasi to 1920s bartender Ada Coleman.
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Forces of Nature : The women who changed science
by Anna Reser
509.22 RES
From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked, their stories lost, distorted, or actively suppressed. "Forces of Nature" sets the record straight and charts the fascinating history of women's discoveries in science.
In the ancient and medieval world, women served as royal physicians and nurses, taught mathematics, studied the stars, and practiced midwifery. As natural philosophers, physicists, anatomists, and botanists, they were central to the great intellectual flourishing of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment. More recently women have been crucially involved in the Manhattan Project, pioneering space missions and much more
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The Chancellor : The remarkable odyssey of Angela Merkel
by Kati Marton
B MERKEL
Part riveting political biography, part intimate human story of a complete outsider, this great morality tale paints a fascinating portrait of a woman who, surviving extraordinary challenges, transformed her own country and returned it to the global stage.
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