Celebrating Women - Non-Fiction

Celebrating Women

NON-FICTION

Women in POLITICS

Spirited suffragette speaks to a group of women from a podium.

Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers & Revolutionaries

Gathering of ethnically diverse women.

What She Said: the Art of Inspiring Action Through Speech

Cheerful illustrations of contemporary advocates.

She Represents: 44 Women Who Are Changing Politics...and the World

Silhouette of a woman standing triumphantly.

Represent: The Woman's Guide to Running for Office and Changing the World

Women of color running with raised fists.

Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics

Silhouette of women protesting hand-in-hand.

The Well-Spoken Woman Speaks Out: How to Use Your Voice to Drive Change

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Black Women in Politics: Demanding Citizenship, Challenging Power, and Seeking Justice

Photographs from a pro-Women's Rights protest and an anti-Equal Rights Amendment protest.

Divided We Stand: the Battle Over Women's Rights and Family Values that Polarized American Politics

Women in SPORTS

Indistinct athletic field.

In a League of Her Own: Celebrating Female Firsts in Sports

Three professional athletes: a runner, gymnast, and boxer.

When Women Stood: The Untold History of Females Who Changed Sports and the World

Tennis player serving the ball.

Trailblazers: the Unmatched Story of Women's Tennis

Young soccer player sits alone on a bench.

How College Athletics Are Hurting Girls' Sports: the Pay-to-Play Pipeline

Professional soccer player taking a shot on goal.

Gender Inequality in Sports: From Title IX to World Titles

Professional football player running the ball.

Women's American Football: Breaking Barriers On and Off the Gridiron

Photograph of two racing skaters.

Roller Derby: the History of an American Sport

Professional soccer players wearing medallions happily embrace.

The Sisterhood: the 99ers and the Rise of U.S. Women's Soccer

Women in ACTIVISM

Woman shouts into a megaphone.

Finding Feminism: Millennial Activists and the Unfinished Gender Revolution

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Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

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Rage Becomes Her: the Power of Women's Anger

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We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement

Women of color obscured by the book's cover.

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot

Woman with butterfly wings and a bandolier.

Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico: Portraits of Soldaderas, Saints, and Subversives

Photographs of Indigenous women.

Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism

Rusted scale weighs a white doll's head and a mound of cotton.

The Weight of Whiteness: a Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race, and Ignorance

Women in ART

Title repeats downward in alternating colors.

Fangirls: Scenes from Modern Music Culture

Stencil art of a screaming mouth.

Revenge of the She-Punks: a Feminist Music History from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot

Gold record surrounded by flowers.

Shine Bright: a Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop

Names of famous musicians written on a chalkboard in cursive.

Woman Walk the Line: How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives

Fists of different skin tones and matching nail polish raised in solidarity.

The Art of Feminism: Images that Shaped the Fight for Equality

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Beyond the Pink Tide: Art and Political Undercurrents in the Americas

Depression-era woman brandishing a flag.

The Ghost Reader: Recovering Women's Contributions to Media Studies

Low-quality guerilla mask with swirling eyes.

Guerrilla Girls: the Art of Behaving Badly

Women in HISTORY

Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell from the film "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"

American Gold Digger: Marriage, Money, and the Law from the Ziegfeld Follies to Anna Nicole Smith

Photograph of women lounging against an automobile.

Flapper: a Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern

Back of a laced corset.

Regulating Desire: from the Virtuous Maiden to the Purity Princess

Torn paper reveals the photograph of a woman.

The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex. Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison "Promiscuous" Women

Painting ripped out of its wall-mounted frame.

Females in the Frame: Women, Art, and Crime

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The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World

Troop of uniformed women marching with a flag.

Glory in Their Spirit: How Four Black Women Took on the Army During WW II

Retro advertisement of a woman leaning out a car window.

Women at the Wheel: a Century of Buying, Driving, and Fixing Cars

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