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1) Chicks rule
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text follow chicks of all ilks as they work together to puzzle out how to respond to a sign forbidding chicks from attending the Rocket Club meeting.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A girl sees a woman labeled as having too much ambition, but when the girl considers its definition she finds herself inspired and realizes ambition is required to make changes to the world and have her voice be heard.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The moment someone declares, “Its a boy!” or “Its a girl!” the biological make up of that child isnt the only thing established - a process of gendering begins and continues throughout that persons life. One aspect of that process is how we learn to communicate. Based on the premise that males and females learn different ways to relate, this program investigates how communication styles fall onto a continuum of what society deems as masculine...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"1992: After a confrontation at a riot grrl concert, seventeen-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend's abusive boyfriend dead in the backseat, agreeing to help her friends hide the body. This murder sets Beth and her friends on a path of escalating violence and vengeance as they realize many other young women in the world need protecting too. 2022: Determined to use time travel to create a safer future, Tess has dedicated her life to...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In her latest captivating novel, nationally bestselling author Fiona Davis takes readers into the glamorous lost art school within Grand Central Terminal, where two very different women, fifty years apart, strive to make their mark on a world set against them. For the nearly nine million people who live in New York City, Grand Central Terminal is a crown jewel, a masterpiece of design. But for Clara Darden and Virginia Clay, it represents something...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
American culture bombards young men with sexist and misogynistic messages. In The Empathy Gap, he looks more closely at the ways these messages short-circuit men’s ability to empathize with women, respect them as equals, and take feminism seriously. Keith begins by exploring the main lessons about manhood that boys absorb from the culture – that they should be aggressive, acquire material wealth, suppress all emotion except anger, and sexually...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul, Kim Jiyoung--a millennial 'everywoman'--spends her days caring for her infant daughter. Her husband, however, worries over a strange symptom that has recently appeared: Jiyoung has begun to impersonate the voices of other women--dead and alive, both known and unknown to her. Truly, flawlessly, completely, she became that very person. As she plunges deeper into this psychosis,...
11) Furia
Author
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Camila Hassan, a rising soccer star in Rosario, Argentina, dreams of playing professionally, in defiance of her fathers' wishes and at the risk of her budding romance with Diego.
12) Rubyfruit jungle
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Molly Bolt is the adoptive daughter of a dirt-poor Southern couple. Molly finds that women are drawn to her wherever she goes, and she refuses to apologize for loving them back.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Beatrice Clayborn is a sorceress who practices magic in secret, terrified of the day she will be locked into a marital collar that will cut off her powers to protect her unborn children. She dreams of becoming a full-fledged Magus and pursuing magic as her calling as men do, but her family has staked everything to equip her for Bargaining Season, when young men and women of means descend upon the city to negotiate the best marriages. The Clayborns...
15) The authority gap: why women are still taken less seriously than men, and what we can do about it
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"An incisive, intersectional look at the mother of all gender biases: a resistance to women's authority and power. Every woman has a story of being underestimated, ignored, challenged, or patronized in the workplace. Maybe she tried to speak up in a meeting, only to be talked over by male colleagues. Or a client addressed her male subordinate instead of her. Despite the progress we've made toward equality, we still fail, more often than we might realize,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This book is about the presidency and the woman who - whoever she is! - will eventually hold the title Madame President and occupy the Oval Office. It's about the road that female candidates have traveled with the goal of getting there. It's a story about me - a woman who got to see, up close, more of them strive for the Oval Office at one time than ever before and who innately understood the invisible forces that, oftentimes, worked against them....
17) GTFO
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Sparked by a public display of sexual harassment in 2012, GTFO pries open the video game world to explore a 20 billion dollar industry that is riddled with discrimination and misogyny. Although half of all gamers are women, females are disproportionately subject to harassment and abuse from other gamers, and are massively under-represented in the video game design world. Through interviews with video game developers, journalists, and academics, GTFO...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
For most boys in a small Mississippi town, the biggest concern one hot summer is whether their annual July 4th baseball game will be canceled due to their county's anniversary pageant, but after the death of the old man to whom twelve-year-old star pitcher House Jackson has been secretly reading for a year, House uncovers secrets about the man and the history of baseball in Aurora County that could fix everything.
19) The music book
Author
Publisher
Livingston Press, The University of West Alabama
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
An homage to all women who blazed a trail. In 1952 orchestral groups refused women even an audition, but a modern music quartet needs a last-minute substitute cellist to play a difficult piece. They hire Irena. Years later, Irena recalls that festival and her relationship with the group’s enigmatic composer.
Author
Publisher
Black Rose Writing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In 1897, Philadelphia, after witnessing her aunt's suicide, Eliza Edwards vows to find ways to help and heal. Rejecting her mother's wishes for her society debut, Eliza enters medical college at a time when only five percent of doctors are female. With the support of a circle of women and driven by a determination to conquer curriculum demands, battle sexism, and overcome doubts, Eliza charts a new life course.
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