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#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women
Whether looking back to a troubled past or welcoming a hopeful future, the powerful voices of Indigenous women across North America resound in this book. In the same style as the best-selling Dreaming in Indian, #NotYourPrincess presents an eclectic collection of poems, essays, interviews, and art that combine to express the experience of being a Native woman. Stories of abuse, humiliation, and stereotyping are countered by the voices of passionate women making themselves heard and demanding change. Sometimes angry, often reflective, but always strong, the women in this book will give teen readers insight into the lives of women who, for so long, have been virtually invisible.- Nonfiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2018
- ISBN: 9781554519583
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African American Women: Photographs from the National Museum of African American History and Culture
Photographs from the nineteenth century to the present depict the diverse experiences of African American women and their ongoing importance in American history.- Nonfiction, Photography
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2016
- ISBN: 9781907804489
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Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights: From the Vote to the Equal Rights Amendment
Here is the story of leader Alice Paul, from the women's suffrage movement—the long struggle for votes for women—to the “second wave,” when women demanded full equality with men. Paul made a significant impact on both. She reignited the sleepy suffrage moment with dramatic demonstrations and provocative banners. After women won the right to vote in 1920, Paul wrote the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which would make all the laws that discriminated against women unconstitutional. Passage of the ERA became the rallying cry of a new movement of young women in the 1960s and '70s. Paul saw another chance to advance women's rights when the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 began moving through Congress. She set in motion the “sex amendment,” which remains a crucial legal tool for helping women fight discrimination in the workplace. Includes archival images, author's note, bibliography, and source notes.- Nonfiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2018
- ISBN: 9781629793238
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Alone atop the Hill: Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press
In her autobiography, Alice Dunnigan explores the intersecting forces of racism and sexism, which she fought throughout her life and her career as a groundbreaking black female journalist.- Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2016
- ISBN: 9780820347981
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Angela James: The First Superstar of Women's Hockey
The story of Canadian hockey great Angela James and her trailblazing successes as an athlete and woman.- Nonfiction, Biography
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2013
- ISBN: 9780986638886
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Asking for It: The Rise of Rape Culture—and What We Can Do About It
With insight, humor, and thorough research, Harding tackles rape culture, including misconceptions and myths, its consequences for men and women of all ages, and how we can change it.- Nonfiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2016
- ISBN: 9780738217024
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Babe
Young women photographers critique the ideal of beauty with thought-provoking photos that, without shame, celebrate the realistic and sometimes unsanitary female body.- Nonfiction, Photography
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2016
- ISBN: 9783791381039
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Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in Palestine
Picking up where Tasting the Sky left off, Balcony on the Moon follows Ibtisam Barakat through her childhood and adolescence in Palestine from 1972-1981 and chronicles her desire to be a writer. Ibtisam finds inspiration through writing letters to pen pals and from an adult who encourages her to keep at it, but the most surprising turn of all for Ibtisam happens when her mother decides that she would like to seek out an education, too. This memoir is a touching, at times funny, and enlightening look at the not often depicted daily life in a politically tumultuous area.- Nonfiction, Memoir
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2017
- ISBN: 9780374302511
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Becoming Unbecoming
It's 1977 and Una is 12. Other kids are into punk or ska, but Una is learning to play "Mull of Kintyre" by Wings on the guitar, and she thinks it's a really good song. There's another song, chanted on the terraces by Leeds United fans. It might not have made it on to Top of the Pops, but the boys all sing it on the walk home from school: "One Yorkshire Ripper . . . There's only one Yorkshire Ripper . . . One Yorkshire Ri-pper . . ." A serial murderer is at large in West Yorkshire and the police—despite spending more than two million man-hours hunting the killer and interviewing the man himself no less than nine times—are struggling to solve the case. As this national news story unfolds around her, Una finds herself on the receiving end of a series of violent acts for which she feels she is to blame. Unbecoming explores gender violence, blame, shame, and social responsibility. Through image and text Una asks what it means to grow up in a culture where male violence goes unpunished and unquestioned. With the benefit of hindsight Una explores her experience, wonders if anything has really changed and challenges a global culture that demands that the victims of violence pay its cost. -
The Born Frees: Writing with the Girls of Gugulethu
In the South African township of Gugulethu, young women from the first generation born post-apartheid explore the challenges that they and their community face, including sexism, classism, sexual abuse, HIV/AIDS, and poverty.- Nonfiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2016
- ISBN: 9780393239164
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Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (In That Order).
Historically, major women artists have been excluded from the mainstream art canon. Aligned with the resurgence of feminism in pop culture, Broad Strokes offers an entertaining corrective to that omission. Art historian Bridget Quinn delves into the lives and careers of 15 brilliant female artists in text that's smart, feisty, educational, and an enjoyable read. Replete with beautiful reproductions of the artists' works and contemporary portraits of each artist by renowned illustrator Lisa Congdon, this is art history from 1600 to the present day for the modern art lover, reader, and feminist.- Nonfiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2018
- ISBN: 9781452152363
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The Brontë Sisters: The Brief Lives of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne
The Brontë sisters rocked Victorian society with their progressive and unconventional writing.- Nonfiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2014
- ISBN: 9780547579665
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CBLDF Presents: She Changed Comics: The Untold Story of the Women Who Changed Free Expression in Comics
SHE CHANGED COMICS celebrates the women who changed free expression in comics, with profiles of more than sixty groundbreaking female professionals and interviews with the women who are changing today's medium, including RAINA TELGEMEIER, NOELLE STEVENSON, G. WILLOW WILSON, and more! SHE CHANGED COMICS also examines the plights of women imprisoned and threatened for making comics and explores the work of women whose work is being banned here in the United States. A must for readers of all ages, students, and educators.- Nonfiction, Graphic Novel
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2017
- ISBN: 9781632159298
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Clarina Nichols: Frontier Crusader for Women's Rights
Everyone knows about the ''Votes for Women'' campaign that led to the 19th Amendment in 1920. Few know just how long the struggle really was. Decades earlier, brave women began breaking the taboo of remaining silent at gatherings that included men. They began signing their names to petitions, flexing political muscle long before they had the vote. They wrote millions of words and published some of the most influential books and journals of their day. No one represents this early struggle -- the small triumphs and discouraging setbacks -- better than Clarina Howard Nichols (1810-1885), the Vermont newspaper publisher whose speeches made a powerful case for equality. Nichols, herself the victim of a failed marriage, was a magnet to abused and mistreated women and was their advocate at a time when her sex was just beginning to speak up. And when she felt progress wasn't coming soon enough, she moved west, to Bleeding Kansas, where she would make history and show the world that feminism could thrive on the frontier.- Nonfiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2017
- ISBN: 9780966925883
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Coal to Diamonds
Beth Ditto, feminist punk lead singer of Gossip, shares her journey from humble and troubled beginnings in Arkansas to a member of a world-renowned band.- Nonfiction, Memoir
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2013
- ISBN: 9780385525916
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The Crunk Feminist Collection
For the Crunk Feminist Collective, their academic day jobs were lacking in conversations they actually wanted—relevant, real conversations about how race and gender politics intersect with pop culture and current events. To address this void, they started a blog. Now with an annual readership of nearly one million, their posts foster dialogue about activist methods, intersectionality, and sisterhood. And the writers' personal identities—as black women; as sisters, daughters, and lovers; and as television watchers, sports fans, and music lovers—are never far from the discussion at hand. These essays explore "Sex and Power in the Black Church," discuss how "Clair Huxtable is Dead," list "Five Ways Talib Kweli Can Become a Better Ally to Women in Hip Hop," and dwell on "Dating with a Doctorate (She Got a Big Ego?)." Self-described as "critical homegirls," the authors tackle life stuck between loving hip hop and ratchet culture while hating patriarchy, misogyny, and sexism.- Nonfiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2018
- ISBN: 9781558619432
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Cyndi Lauper: A Memoir
In this inspiring memoir, Cyndi Lauper shares her trials and successes, including her escape from a traumatic home life, her rise in the music industry, and her critical work as a gay rights activist.- Nonfiction, Memoir
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2013
- ISBN: 9781439147856
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Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey
Growing up on the Aegean Coast, Ozge loved the sea and imagined a life of adventure while her parents and society demanded predictability. Her dad expected Ozge, like her sister, to become an engineer. She tried to hear her own voice over his and the religious and militaristic tensions of Turkey and the conflicts between secularism and fundamentalism. Could she be a scuba diver like Jacques Cousteau? A stage actress? Would it be possible to please everyone including herself? In her unpredictable and funny graphic memoir, Ozge recounts her story using inventive collages, weaving together images of the sea, politics, science, and friendship. -
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie's letter of response. Here are fifteen invaluable suggestions--compelling, direct, wryly funny, and perceptive--for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. From encouraging her to choose a helicopter, and not only a doll, as a toy if she so desires; having open conversations with her about clothes, makeup, and sexuality; debunking the myth that women are somehow biologically arranged to be in the kitchen making dinner, and that men can "allow" women to have full careers, Dear Ijeawele goes right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century. It will start a new and urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today.- Nonfiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2018
- ISBN: 9781524733131
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Double Victory: How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II
Many African American women overcame legal and social barriers to serve their country during World War II and helped lay the foundation for the civil rights movement.- Nonfiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2014
- ISBN: 9781569768082
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Fastpitch: The Untold History of Softball and the Women Who Made the Game
Softball is played by tens of millions in various age groups all around the world, but the origins of this beloved sport (and the charismatic athletes who helped it achieve prominence in the mid-twentieth century) have been shrouded in mystery…until now. Fastpitch brings to vivid life the eclectic mix of characters that make up softball's vibrant 129-year history. From its humble beginnings in 1887, when it was invented in a Chicago boat club and played with a broomstick, to the rise in the 1940s and 1950s of professional-caliber, company-sponsored teams that toured the country in style, softball's history is as varied as it is fascinating. Though it's thought of today as a female sport, fastpitch softball's early history is full of male stars, such as the vaudeville-esque Eddie Feigner, whose signature move was striking out batters while blindfolded. But because softball was one of the only team sports that also allowed women to play competitively, it took on added importance for female athletes. Women like Bertha Ragan Tickey, who set strikeout records and taught Lana Turner to pitch, and her teammate Joan Joyce, who struck out baseball star Ted Williams, made a name—and a life—for themselves in an era when female athletes had almost no prospects. Softball allowed them to flourish, and they in turn inspired a whole new generation of athletes.- Nonfiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2017
- ISBN: 9781501118593
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Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women's Movements
While many think of American feminism as only the suffrage movement, the women's liberation movement, and recent activism, women's movements have been transforming the nation throughout the last century.- Nonfiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2015
- ISBN: 9781631490545.00
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Game Changers: The Unsung Heroines of Sports History
Based on the Instagram account @TheUnsungHeroines, a celebration of the pioneering, forgotten female athletes of the twentieth century that features rarely seen photos and new interviews with past and present game changers including Abby Wambach and Cari Champion. Two years ago, filmmaker Molly Schiot began the Instagram account @TheUnsungHeroines, posting a photo each day of a female athlete who had changed the face of sports around the globe in the pre-Title IX age. These women paved the way for Serena Williams, Carli Lloyd, and Lindsey Vonn, yet few today know who they are. Slowly but surely, the account gained a following, and the result is Game Changers, a beautifully illustrated collection of these trailblazers' rarely-before-seen photos and stories. Featuring icons Althea Gibson and Wyomia Tyus, complete unknowns Trudy Beck and Conchita Cintron, policymaker Margaret Dunkle, sportswriter Lisa Olson, and many more, Game Changers gives these “founding mothers” the attention and recognition they deserve, and features critical conversations between past and present gamechangers—including former US Women's National Soccer Team captain Abby Wambach and SportsCenter anchor Cari Champion—about what it means to be a woman on and off the field. Inspiring, empowering, and unforgettable, Game Changers is the perfect gift for anyone who has a love of the game.- Nonfiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2017
- ISBN: 9781501137099
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Generation Roe: Inside the Future of the Pro-Choice Movement
A well-researched and readable treatment of the personal, political, cultural, and medical aspects of abortion and the pro-choice movement.- Nonfiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2014
- ISBN: 9781609804589
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Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time
Worldwide, over 62 million girls are not in school. But one girl with courage is a revolution. Girl Rising, a global campaign for girls' education, created a film that chronicled the stories of nine girls in the developing world, allowing viewers the opportunity to witness how education can break the cycle of poverty. Now, award-winning author Tanya Lee Stone uses new research to illuminate the dramatic facts behind the film, focusing both on the girls captured on camera and many others. She examines barriers to education in depth—early child marriage and childbearing, slavery, sexual trafficking, gender discrimination, and poverty—and shows how removing these barriers means not only a better life for girls, but safer, healthier, and more prosperous communities.- Nonfiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2018
- ISBN: 9780553511468
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The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued Their Bosses and Changed the Workplace
The 1970 discrimination lawsuit against Newsweek powerfully impacted workplace policy and the lives of the women involved.- Nonfiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2014
- ISBN: 9781610391733
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Grace and Grit: My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond
Lilly Ledbetter shares her inspiring journey from underpaid, mistreated factory employee to Supreme Court plaintiff, nationally renowned speaker and namesake of the Fair Pay Restoration Act- Nonfiction, Memoir
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2013
- ISBN: 9780307887924
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Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
Egyptian American feminist Mona Eltahawy crafts a passionate argument about the widespread legal & cultural issues facing girls and women in the Middle East and North Africa. She also explores her own journey into claiming a feminist identity.- Nonfiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2016
- ISBN: 9780865478039
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Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science–and the World
Swaby highlights the accomplishments of women in science throughout history to help provide role models for girls and women pursuing science today.- Nonfiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2016
- ISBN: 9780553446791
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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA's African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America's space program. Before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as ‘Human Computers', calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts, these ‘coloured computers' used pencil and paper to write the equations that would launch rockets and astronauts, into space. Moving from World War II through NASA's golden age, touching on the civil rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War and the women's rights movement, ‘Hidden Figures' interweaves a rich history of mankind's greatest adventure with the intimate stories of five courageous women whose work forever changed the world.- Nonfiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2017
- ISBN: 9780062363596
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A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
Emotionally riveting and eye-opening, A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea is the incredible story of a young woman, an international crisis, and the triumph of the human spirit. Melissa Fleming shares the harrowing journey of Doaa Al Zamel, a young Syrian refugee in search of a better life. Doaa and her family leave war-torn Syria for Egypt where the climate is becoming politically unstable and increasingly dangerous. She meets and falls in love with Bassem, a former Free Syrian Army fighter and together they decide to leave behind the hardship and harassment they face in Egypt to flee for Europe, joining the ranks of the thousands of refugees who make the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean on overcrowded and run-down ships to seek asylum overseas and begin a new life. After four days at sea, their boat is sunk by another boat filled with angry men shouting threats and insults. With no land in sight and surrounded by bloated, floating corpses, Doaa is adrift with a child's inflatable water ring around her waist, while two little girls cling to her neck. Doaa must stay alive for them. She must not lose strength. She must not lose hope.- Nonfiction, Memoir
- Alex Awards 2018, Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2018
- ISBN: 9781250105998
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How to Be a Heroine: Or, What I've Learned from Reading Too Much
Ellis, a playwright and journalist, reflects on how the heroines of classic novels have shaped her life and her ideas about gender roles, ideas of womanhood, and feminism.- Nonfiction, Memoir
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2016
- ISBN: 9781101872093
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However Long the Night: Molly Melching's Journey to Help Millions of African Women and Girls Triumph
Molly Melching developed a holistic, community-driven education system that respectfully ensures the well-being and health of Senegalese women and girls.- Nonfiction, Biography
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2014
- ISBN: 9780062132765
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I am a Bacha Posh: My Life as a Woman Living as a Man in Afghanistan
Raised as a boy, Ukmina makes the brave choice to live as a man and later becomes an advocate for the rights of women in Afghanistan.- Nonfiction, Memoir
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2015
- ISBN: 9781629146812
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I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Recovered from her attack, Malala Yousafzai has come back stronger than ever, engaging in consciousness-raising and serving as an inspiration to girls and women all over the world.- Nonfiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2014
- ISBN: 9780316322409
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In My Father's Country: An Afghan Woman Defies Her Fate
Escaping gender oppression and political strife, Saima immigrates to the US as a teen. Saima later ventures back to Afghanistan as an interpreter and offers a fascinating perspective on Afghan customs including a provocative analysis of gender issues.- Nonfiction, Memoir
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2013
- ISBN: 9780307884947
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Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman: 90,000 Lives Changed
Dr. Hawa Abdi, the first female gynecologist in Somalia has saved, housed, and provided free education to thousands of Somali women.- Nonfiction, Memoir
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2014
- ISBN: 9781455503766
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King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village
A phone call awakens Peggielene Bartels in the middle of the night with news that she's been chosen the next king of her home village Otuam, Ghana. She overcomes corruption and sexism to bring progress to the village.- Nonfiction, Biography
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2013
- ISBN: 9780385534321
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A Little F'd Up: Why Feminism Is Not a Dirty Word
Zeilinger makes feminist history and theory accessible and relevant to teen readers from “Part One, The Badasses Who Came Before Us” to “Part Six, Feminism: Your Secret Weapon for Growing Up”.- Nonfiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2013
- ISBN: 9781580053716
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Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age
At nine years old, Amani Al-Khatahtbeh watched from her home in New Jersey as two planes crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. That same year, she heard her first racial slur. At age eleven, when the United States had begun to invade Iraq and the television was flooded with anti-Muslim commentary, Amani felt overwhelmed with feelings of intense alienation from American society. At thirteen, her family took a trip to her father's native homeland of Jordan, and Amani experienced firsthand a culture built on pure religion, not Islamic stereotypes. Inspired by her trip and after years of feeling like her voice as a Muslim woman was marginalized and neglected during a time when all the media could talk about was, ironically, Muslim women, Amani created a website called MuslimGirl. As the editor-in-chief, she put together a team of Muslim women and started a life dedicated to activism. This is the extraordinary account of Amani's journey through adolescence as a Muslim girl, from the Islamophobia she's faced on a daily basis, to the website she launched that became a cultural phenomenon, to the nation's political climate in the 2016 election cycle with Donald Trump as the Republican nominee. While dispelling the myth that a headscarf makes you a walking target for terrorism, she shares both her own personal accounts and anecdotes from the “sisterhood” of writers that serve as her editorial team at MuslimGirl. Amani's honest, urgent message is fresh, timely, and a deeply necessary counterpoint to the current rhetoric about the Middle East.- Nonfiction, Memoir
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2018
- ISBN: 9781501159503
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Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Why has Ruth Bader Ginsburg become the subject of memes, art, and feminist baby Halloween costumes? Carmon and Knizhnik explore the justice's history of legally justifying the equality of women and all marginalized people.- Nonfiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2016
- ISBN: 9780062415837
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Pink Sari Revolution: A Tale of Women and Power in India
Women's rights crusader, Sampat Pal, uses grassroots activism to bring justice to women in India.- Nonfiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2014
- ISBN: 9780393062977
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Radioactive!: How Irène Curie and Lise Meitner Revolutionized Science and Changed the World
In 1934, Irène Curie, working with her husband and fellow scientist, Frederic Joliot, made a discovery that would change the world: artificial radioactivity. This breakthrough allowed scientists to modify elements and create new ones by altering the structure of atoms. Curie shared a Nobel Prize with her husband for their work. But when she was nominated to the French Academy of Sciences, the academy denied her admission and voted to disqualify all women from membership. Four years later, Curie's breakthrough led physicist Lise Meitner to a brilliant leap of understanding that unlocked the secret of nuclear fission. Meitner's unique insight was critical to the revolution in science that led to nuclear energy and the race to build the atom bomb, yet her achievement was left unrecognized by the Nobel committee in favor of that of her male colleague.- Nonfiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2017
- ISBN: 9781616204150
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Reproductive Rights: Who Decides?
Throughout history, men and women have always found ways to control reproduction. In some ancient societies, people turned to herbs or traditional rituals. Others turned to methods that are still used in the twenty-first century, such as abstinence, condoms, and abortions. Legislating access to birth control, sex education, and abortion is also not new. In 1873 the US Congress made it illegal to mail 'obscene, lewd, or lascivious materials'--including any object designed for contraception or to induce abortion. In some states in the 1900s, it was illegal for Americans to possess, sell, advertise, or even speak about methods of controlling pregnancy. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and others began to defy these laws and advocate for the legalization of birth control and for better women's reproductive healthcare. By 1960 doctors had developed the Pill, but it wasn't until 1972 that all US citizens had legal access to birth control. And in the landmark decision Roe v Wade (1973), the US Supreme Court ruled that women had a constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy. Disputes over contraception, sex education, and abortion continue to roil the nation, leading to controversial legal and political rulings and occasionally violence. As society changes--and as new reproductive technologies expand the possibilities for controlling and initiating pregnancy--Americans will continue to debate reproductive rights for all.- Nonfiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2017
- ISBN: 9781467741873
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The Riot Grrrl Collection
This collection brings together flyers, letters, and zines which show the beginning, evolution, and decline of the Riot Grrrl movement.- Nonfiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2014
- ISBN: 9781558618220
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Rookie Yearbook One
A thoughtful and provocative collection of the year's best writing from the feminist online magazine, Rookie. -
Rookie Yearbook Two
Thoughtful and provocative writing from Rookie's second year continues to promote equality and feminism.- Nonfiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2014
- ISBN: 9781770461482
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Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space
Sally Ride spent her life challenging expectations of what women could and should do, most notably by becoming the first American woman in space.- Nonfiction, Biography
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2015
- ISBN: 9781476725765
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Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible--like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you--writer and humorist Lindy West quickly discovered that she was anything but. From a painfully shy childhood in which she tried, unsuccessfully, to hide her big body and even bigger opinions; to her public war with stand-up comedians over rape jokes; to her struggle to convince herself, and then the world, that fat people have value; to her accidental activism and never-ending battle royale with Internet trolls, Lindy narrates her life with a blend of humor and pathos that manages to make a trip to the abortion clinic funny and wring tears out of a story about diarrhea. With inimitable good humor, vulnerability, and boundless charm, Lindy boldly shares how to survive in a world where not all stories are created equal and not all bodies are treated with equal respect, and how to weather hatred, loneliness, harassment, and loss--and walk away laughing. Shrill provocatively dissects what it means to become self-aware the hard way, to go from wanting to be silent and invisible to earning a living defending the silenced in all caps.- Nonfiction, Memoir
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2017
- ISBN: 9780316348409
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Sisters in Law
This dual biography recounts the separate paths the first and second women to serve on the Supreme Court took to their goal of legal equality for women.- Nonfiction
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Nonfiction 2016
- ISBN: 9780062238467