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Women : our story / by Roberts, Rebecca Boggs,writer of foreword.; DK Publishing, Inc.,editor.;
The birth of the patriarchy : up to 600ce -- Purity, piety, and property : 600-1500 -- From empire to enlightenment : 1500-1800 -- Knowledge and power : 1800-1914 -- The age of empowerment : 1914-1960 -- Smashing the glass ceiling : 1960 to present day.Packed full of evocative images, this gloriously illustrated book reveals the key events in women's history--from early matriarchal societies through women's suffrage, the Suffragette movement, 20th-century feminism, and gender politics, to recent movements such as #MeToo and International Women's Day--and the key role women have had in shaping our past. Learn about the everyday lives of women through the ages as well as the big names of women's history--powerful, inspirational, and trailblazing women such as Cleopatra, Florence Nightingale, Emmeline Pankhurst, Eva Peron, and Rosa Parks--and discover the unsung contributions of lesser-known women who have changed the world, and the "forgotten" events of women's history. Placing women firmly center stage, Women: Our Story shows women where they came from, and in celebrating the achievements of women of the past, offers positive role models for women of today.
Subjects: Biographies.; Women; Women;
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Smart women / by Blume, Judy.;
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Love stories.; Women; Female friendship; Divorced women; Single mothers;
© 2005, c1983., Berkley Books,
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Dangerous women / by De Castrique, Mark,author.;
"This urgent, cleverly plotted high stakes thriller is set in motion by a botched attack on two law clerks, leaving one dead and the other in a coma. The ensuing cover up leaves a string of bodies and too many players at cross-purposes. It also leaves Chief Justice Clarissa Baxter with a target on her back. They'll need an off the grid hero with friends in high places: enter retired FBI agent-turned-boardinghouse landlady, Ethel Fiona Crestwater (legend) and her double-first-cousin-twice-removed Jesse Cooper (sidekick). Although in her mid-seventies, Ethel is no bumbling amateur sleuth; she's a seasoned pro with razor-sharp instincts and Bond-worthy skills. College-aged Jesse brings tech savvy and boundless enthusiasm, along with an innate talent for intrigue. Together, the unlikely duo will face malicious back-stabbing political sycophants, conniving lobbyists, and a motivated assassin bent on removing the Chief Justice from the equation-- along with Ethel, who stands defiantly between the hitman and his payday" --
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Political fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Murder; Law clerks; Assassins; Lobbyists; Judges; Older women;
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Women talking / [electronic resource]. by Toews, Miriam.; Edison, Matthew.;
Narrator: Matthew Edison.A transformative and necessary work—as completely unexpected as it is inspired—by the award-winning author of the bestselling novels All My Puny Sorrows and A Complicated Kindness . Based on actual events that happened between 2005 and 2009 in a remote Mennonite community where more than 100 girls and women were drugged unconscious and assaulted in the night by what they were told (by the men of the colony) were "ghosts" or "demons," Miriam Toews' bold and affecting novel Women Talking is an imagined response to these real events. The novel takes place over forty-eight hours, as eight women gather in secret in a neighbour's barn while the men are in a nearby town posting bail for the attackers. They have come together to debate, on behalf of all the women and children in the community, whether to stay or leave before the men return. Taking minutes is the one man trusted and invited by the women to witness the conversation—a former outcast whose own surprising story is revealed as the women speak. By turns poignant, witty, acerbic, bitter, tender, devastating, and heartbreaking, the voices in this extraordinary novel are unforgettable. Toews has chosen to focus the novel tightly on a particular time and place, and yet it contains within its 48 hours and setting inside a hayloft an entire vast universe of thinking and feeling about the experience of women (and therefore men, too) in our contemporary world. In a word: astonishing.Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 167514 KB).
Subjects: Electronic books.; Fiction.; Literature.;
© 2019., Recorded Books Inc.,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=4606280 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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First women : [electronic resource] : the grace and power of America's modern First Ladies. by Brower, Kate Andersen.; White, Karen.;
Narrator: Karen White.From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the groundbreaking backstairs look at the White House, The Residence, comes an intimate, news-making look at the true modern power brokers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: the First Ladies, from Jackie Kennedy to Michelle Obama.One of the most underestimated—and challenging—positions in the world, the First Lady of the United States must be many things: an inspiring leader with a forward-thinking agenda of her own; a savvy politician, skilled at navigating the treacherous rapids of Washington; a wife and mother operating under constant scrutiny; and an able CEO responsible for the smooth operation of countless services and special events at the White House. Now, as she did in her smash #1 bestseller The Residence, former White House correspondent Kate Andersen Brower draws on a wide array of untapped, candid sources—from residence staff and social secretaries to friends and political advisers—to tell...Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 349092 KB).
Subjects: Electronic books.; Biographies; Nonfiction.; Presidents' spouses ; Presidents' spouses; Presidents' spouses; Presidents' spouses; History.; Women's Studies.;
© 2016., HarperAudio,
On-line resources: http://kirtland.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=8A9BC5F0-3387-4CF4-996A-244613F0F233 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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Little Women [videorecording] / by Alcott, Louisa May,1832-1888.Little women.; Alvarado, Trini.; Armstrong, Gillian,1950-; Byrne, Gabriel,1950-; COLUMBIA PICTURES.; COLUMBIA TRISTAR HOME VIDEO (FIRM); DINOVI, DENISE.; Dunst, Kirsten,1982-; MATHIS, SAMANTHA.; Newman, Thomas,1955-; Ryder, Winona,1971-; Sarandon, Susan,1946-; SWICORD, ROBIN.;
Cast: Winona Ryder, Susan Sarandon, Gabriel Byrne, Trini Alvarado, Samantha Mathis, Kirsten Dunst, Claire Danes.Story about the March family of four daughters and a strong mother (Sarandon) who, because her husband is away serving in the Army during the Civil War, must raise her "little women" on her own. The daughters include: spirited Jo (Ryder) who longs for a career as a writer; beautiful and conservative older sister Meg (Alvarado); fragile Beth (Danes); and the romantic Amy (Dunst/Mathis). Through the years, as they become women, the sisters share their most cherished and painful moments of self-discovery as their mother's pride and strength guide them through questions of independence, romance and virtue.Director of photography, Geoffrey Simpson ; production design, Jan Roelfs ; editor, Nicholas Beauman ; music, Thomas Newman.
Subjects: Sisters; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888.; Family; Massachusetts.; Maturation (Psychology); Mothers and daughters; Young women;
© c2000., Columbia TriStar Home Video,
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Fast women : the legendary ladies of racing / by McCarthy, Todd.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-306)Explores the women involved in automobile racing from the late nineteenth century through the 1950s, briefly profiling the careers of these daredevils and their impact on the sport and prevailing attitudes about women.
Subjects: Women automobile racing drivers.; Automobile racing; Women automobile drivers.; Automobile drivers.; Automobile racing;
© c2007., Miramax Books/Hyperion,
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Working women / by Berlatsky, Noah.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-178) and index.This collection of articles pro and con on working women examines whether women experience discrimination at work, how motherhood affects working women, whether the Lean In movement helps working women, and how workplace harassment affects working women.
Subjects: Women; Sex discrimination; Discrimination in employment;
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Women impressionists / by Morisot, Berthe,1841-1895.; Pfeiffer, Ingrid.; Hollein, Max.; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.; Legion of Honor (San Francisco, Calif.);
Includes bibliographical references (p. 316-317).Impressionism is feminine : on the reception of Morisot, Cassatt, GonzaleÌs, and Bracquemond / Ingird Pfeiffer -- Morisot's Wet nurse : the construction of work and leisure in Impressionist painting / Linda Nochlin -- "Catching a touch of the ephemeral" : Berthe Morisot and Impressionism / Sylvie Patry -- Seven unpublished letters from Mary Cassatt to Berthe Morisot and her daughter, Julie Manet / Hugues Wilhelm -- Mary Cassatt : the touch and the gaze, or Impressionism for thinking people / Griselda Pollock -- "So firm and powerful a hand" : Mary Cassatt's techniques and questions of gender / Pamela A. Ivinski -- Expressive red : Eva GonzaleÌs and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec / Marie-Caroline Sainsaulieu -- Marie Bracquemond : the lady with the parasol / Jean-Paul Bouillon -- A call to arms : women artists' struggle for professional recognition in the nineteenth-century art world / Ann Havemann.
Subjects: Morisot, Berthe, 1841-1895; Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926; GonzaleÌs, Eva, 1849-1883; Bracquemond, Marie, 1841-1916; Impressionism (Art); Impressionism (Art); Women artists; Women artists; Painting, French; Painting, American; Morisot, Berthe, 1841-1895; Cassat, Mary, 1844-1926; GonzaleÌs, Eva, 1849-1883; Bracquemond, Marie, 1841-1916; Impressionnisme (Art); Impressionnisme (Art); Femmes peintres; Femmes peintres; Peinture française; Peinture ameÌricaine;
© c2008., Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt ; Hatje Cantz,
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Little women : an annotated edition / by Alcott, Louisa May,1832-1888.; Shealy, Daniel,editor.;
Includes bibliographical references."In this richly annotated, illustrated edition, Daniel Shealy illuminates the novel's deep engagement with issues such as social equality, reform movements, the Civil War, friendship, love, loss, and of course the passage into adulthood. The editor provides running commentary on biographic contexts, social and historical contexts, literary allusions, and words likely to cause difficulty to modern readers. With Shealy as a guide, we appreciate anew the confusions and difficulties that beset the March sisters as they overcome their burdens and journey toward maturity and adulthood. This edition examines the novel's central question: How does one grow up well?--
Subjects: Domestic fiction, American.; American fiction; American fiction; March family (Fictitious characters); Mothers and daughters; Young women; Sisters;
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