4.
Series:
Explicit Ambition
Why Women Don't Want Power, and What We Want Instead
Hardcover
Eleanor Beaton
9781989025666
$29.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Sep 21, 2023
The #MeToo movement has brought unprecedented global awareness to persistent gender inequality in the business world. Meanwhile, corporate North America invests tens of millions of dollars each year in initiatives designed to support high-potential women, with precious little to show for it. The number of female CEOs leading the world's largest companies has remained unchanged in the last twenty years. So what's the missing link? In this provocative, entertaining, and irreverent guide, women's leadership expert Eleanor Beaton tackles the critic...
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6.
Series: Do You Know My Name?
She's a Mensch!
Ten Amazing Jewish Women
Paperback
Anne Dublin
9781772603200
$22.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 9 - 12
May 23, 2023
From the poorest neighborhoods in Kenya to the halls of the Canadian Supreme Court, the Jewish women found in these pages have accomplished remarkable feats. Some survived the horrors of the Holocaust while others had more peaceful childhoods, but all of them saw unfairness in their world and decided to do something about it. Despite living in hiding throughout the Second World War, Hungarian gymnast Ágnes Keleti went on to win four Olympic gold medals at age thirty-five. South African Ruth First used her privilege as a white woman to battle he...
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7.
Series: Do You Know My Name?
World Shakers
Inspiring Women Activists
Paperback
Helen Wolfe
9781772603224
$22.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 9 - 12
May 16, 2023
What does it take to change the world? Whether it was the rule that forced Muslim women athletes like Ibtihaj Muhammad to choose between competition and wearing hijab or Indigenous women like Mary Two-Axe Earley to lose their official Indigenous status when they married white men, these women fought against it. Sometimes, they used their voice, like disability rights activist Judy Heumann, and Alicia Garza, the co-founder of Black Lives Matter. Sometimes, they led by example, like the STEM-loving Afghan Dreamers. All of them had the courage to ...
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8.
Series:
But, She Is Also Jane
Paperback
Laura Read
9781625347145
$20.95
POETRY
Apr 28, 2023
Conversational, irreverent, and disarmingly honest, the poems of But, She Is Also Jane follow the everyday contours of women’s lives and the expectations they grapple with. As our speaker approaches middle age, she copes with the loss of loved ones, the realities of an emptying nest, the routine indignities of sexism, and nostalgia for the past. Bringing high and low culture into conversation, Laura Read’s third poetry collection balances discussions of Degas, Vermeer, Sammy Hagar, and Marie Curie with a rowdy outing to a male revue and memorie...
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11.
Series:
Hero Me Not
The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female Superhero
Paperback
Chesya Burke
9781978821057
$34.95
LITERARY CRITICISM
Apr 01, 2023
Storm is the most recognized Black woman comic book character in the world. Born Ororo Munroe, Storm is an Omega level mutant, which makes her one of the most powerful beings on the planet. Hero Me Not: The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female Superhero examines the multifaceted dimensions of the comic book character seeking to discover if Storm's nearly unlimited power equally offers her freedom within the "white supremacist capitalist patriarchy." Adopting Patricia Hill Collins' Controlling Images as essential to the representation ...
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16.
Series:
Rubymusic
A Popular History of Women's Music and Culture
Paperback
Connie Kuhns
9781773861012
$26.00
MUSIC
Mar 10, 2023
In Rubymusic, award-winning journalist and broadcaster Connie Kuhns takes readers on an explosive journey through the Pacific Northwest’s groundbreaking women’s music scene in the 80s and 90s.When journalist Connie Kuhns approached Vancouver Cooperative Radio in 1981 to host a music program dedicated solely to playing music by women, there was some doubt at the station that there was enough music by women to fill half an hour—and besides, who would tune in?Such was the underground nature of women’s music. Despite the doubters, Rubymusic became ...
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33.
Series: Conversations with Filmmakers Series
Sofia Coppola
Interviews
Paperback
Amy N. Monaghan
9781496843272
$30.95
PERFORMING ARTS
Jan 27, 2023
Sofia Coppola (b. 1971) was baptized on film. After appearing in The Godfather as an infant, it took twenty-five years for Coppola to take her place behind the camera, helming her own adaptation of Jeffery Eugenides's celebrated novel The Virgin Suicides. Following her debut, Coppola was the third woman ever to be nominated for Best Director and became an Academy Award winner for Best Original Screenplay for her sophomore feature, Lost in Translation. She has also been awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and Best Director at Can...
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38.
Series:
Women History, Identity & Influence
Hardcover
Julia Morris
9781398820784
$25.95
HISTORY
Jan 31, 2023
Since the dawn of humanity, women have changed the world as leaders, warriors, athletes, innovators, reformers, advocates, activists, and scholars. They have ruled empires, traversed the skies, fronted political and social movements, produced prolific literature, art, and music, and pioneered ground-breaking inventions and discoveries.This wonderfully illustrated full-color hardback explores many different cultural systems and historical eras - from First Nation women resisting gender-based violence to reproductive rights and queer feminism - s...
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42.
Series:
Shirley Chisholm
Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics
Hardcover
Anastasia C. Curwood
9781469671178
$48.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jan 10, 2023
Shaking up New York and national politics by becoming the first African American congresswoman and, later, the first Black major-party presidential candidate, Shirley Chisholm left an indelible mark as an "unbought and unbossed" firebrand and a leader in politics for meaningful change. Chisholm spent her formative years moving between Barbados and Brooklyn, and the development of her political orientation did not follow the standard narratives of the civil rights or feminist establishments. Rather, Chisholm arrived at her Black feminism on her ...
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53.
Series:
Searching Beyond the Stars
Seven Women in Science Take On Space's Biggest Questions
Hardcover
Nicole Mortillaro
9781773216256
$23.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 10
Nov 01, 2022
Are we alone in the cosmos? Could we one day live on a different planet? How is life formed? What other secrets does the universe hold? Through profiles of seven remarkable women scientists and their achievements in their respective fields, Searching Beyond the Stars takes us deep into space, looking at once to the distant past and the distant future to capture the awe and intrigue of some of the biggest questions we can possibly ask.Making connections across astronomy, chemistry, physics, history, and more, Nicole Mortillaro draws on her own e...
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54.
Series:
Searching Beyond the Stars
Seven Women in Science Take On Space's Biggest Questions
Paperback
Nicole Mortillaro
9781773216249
$14.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 10
Nov 01, 2022
Are we alone in the cosmos? Could we one day live on a different planet? How is life formed? What other secrets does the universe hold? Through profiles of seven remarkable women scientists and their achievements in their respective fields, Searching Beyond the Stars takes us deep into space, looking at once to the distant past and the distant future to capture the awe and intrigue of some of the biggest questions we can possibly ask.Making connections across astronomy, chemistry, physics, history, and more, Nicole Mortillaro draws on her own e...
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58.
Series:
Women Who Invented the Sixties
Ella Baker, Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, and Betty Friedan
Hardcover
Steve Golin
9781496841469
$37.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 17, 2022
While there were many protests in the 1950s—against racial segregation, against economic inequality, against urban renewal, against McCarthyism, against the nuclear buildup—the movements that took off in the early 1960s were qualitatively different. They were sustained, not momentary; they were national, not just local; they changed public opinion, rather than being ignored. Women Who Invented the Sixties tells the story of how four women helped define the 1960s and made a lasting impression for decades to follow. In 1960, Ella Baker played the...
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