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45) Malala Yousafzai
Author
Series
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Description
Meet the young activist who stood up for her rights--and changed millions of lives. Before Malala Yousafzai (b. 1997) became the youngest Nobel Prize laureate, she was a girl fighting for her education in Pakistan. Growing up, Malala's father encouraged her to be politically active and speak out about her educational rights. When she did, she was shot by a member of the Taliban and the story received worldwide media coverage. Protests and petitions...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Margaret Sanger went to jail in 1917 for distributing contraceptives to immigrant women in a makeshift clinic in Brooklyn. She died a half-century later, just after the Supreme Court guaranteed constitutional protection for the use of contraceptives. Now, Ellen Chesler provides the first authoritative biography of this great emancipator, whose lifelong struggle helped women gain control over their own bodies. An idealist who mastered practical politics,...
47) Out of bondage
Author
Publisher
L. Stuart
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
A SCREEN LEGEND'S RAW ACCOUNT OF NEW BEGINNINGS AFTER LEAVING THE PORN INDUSTRY, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE FEMINIST ICON GLORIA STEINEM.
Portrayed by today's biggest movie stars, Linda Lovelace was just twenty-three when she became the queen of porn in the blockbuster movie Deep Throat. Her bestselling memoir Ordeal laid bare the nightmare of terror, rape and perversity she suffered during the making of the film. Now she tells the harrowing and...
50) Malala Yousafzai
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Zoom
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Malala Yousafzai began speaking up for the rights of girls when she was very young. Her bravery has inspired people are the world and helped change laws."--Publisher's website.
55) Desert flower
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the life of Waris Dirie, including how she escaped from an arranged marriage at the age of thirteen and embarked upon a two-hundred-mile journey across the desert of Somalia in an adventure that eventually led her into a modeling career.
Author
Series
Publisher
Cavendish Square Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
One day on her ride home from school, Malala Yousafzai's bus was pulled over by two men. They were looking for the girl who had been protesting the Taliban's harsh laws against education for young Pakistani women. When they'd found their target, they drew their weapons and fired. Miraculously, Malala lived. Despite this attempt on her life, Malala continues to stand up for justice for her divided country, becoming a symbol for children's advocacy...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The definitive biography of Sylvia Pankhurst, a woman ahead of her times - political rebel, human rights champion and radical feminist. Born into one Britain's most famous activist families, Sylvia Pankhurst was a natural rebel; a talented artist, prolific writer and newspaper editor. A free spirit and radical visionary, history placed her in the shadow of her famous mother, Emmeline, and elder sister, Christabel. Yet Sylvia Pankhurst was the most...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"According to conventional wisdom, American women's campaign for the vote began with the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. The movement was led by storied figures such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. But this women's movement was an overwhelmingly white one, and it secured the constitutional right to vote for white women, not for all women. In Vanguard, acclaimed historian...
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In this lively new biography, an historian argues convincingly that Margaret Sanger deserves the vaunted place in feminist history she once held. Baker's nuanced account of Sanger's life emphasizes the passion of her convictions.
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