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-- One hundrend and eight stitches[2022]., Texas Tech University Press Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Texas sports heroes.Summary Note: Provides a coming-of-age memoir describing the author's experience growing up in Texas with family members involved in major and minor league baseball. Reflects on her own love of the sport, and how it shaped her life. Includes black-and-white photographs.
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2002., Rizzoli Call No: 779 SAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Examines the role of women in the history of photography, discussing women photographers in such areas as portraiture, documentation, art, and nature, as well as photographing Native American culture.
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-- Alice Paul & the fight for women's rights[2017]., Adolescent, Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights Call No: HI-INT B PAU Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Alice Paul reignited the sleepy suffrage moment with dramatic demonstrations and provocative banners. After women won the vote in 1920, Paul wrote the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which would make all the laws that discriminated against women unconstitutional. Paul saw another chance to advance women's rights when the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 began moving through Congress. Kops introduces readers to this relatively unknown leader of the women's movement, and the changing times in which she lived.
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1997., Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Call No: 917.304 911 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes the difficulties faced by the first woman to make a cross-country journey from New York to San Francisco by automobile in 1909.
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By Bates, Gerri2005., Greenwood Press Call No: 813.54 WALKER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Series Title: Critical companions to popular contemporary writers,Summary Note: Provides a biographical profile of author Alice Walker, looks at her work within a larger literary context, and features critical analyses of eight novels published by Walker between 1970 and 2004.
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2009., Juvenile, Candlewick Press Call No: 920 STO Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
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2009., Pre-adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: 629.45 STO Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: Profiles thirteen women who challenged social norms and government policies to prove they could be exceptional astronauts.
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2009., Juvenile, Candlewick Press Call No: HI-INT 629.45 STO Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents the story of the thirteen women connected with NASA's Mercury 13 space mission, who braved prejudice and jealousy to make their mark and open the door for the female pilots and space commanders that would soon follow.
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1990., Facts on File Call No: 940.53 15042 0973 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: History of women in America
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1990., Facts on File Call No: 940.5315 WEA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: History of women in AmericaSummary Note: An overview of the diverse roles played by women during the war effort.
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2020., Little, Brown and Company Call No: 355.8 2511909252 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
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c1996., Crown Publishers Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The story of Annie Clemenc and the 1913 strike by copper miners employed by the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company in upper Michigan.
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By Macy, Sue[2020], Juvenile, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Call No: 796.082 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Macy offers a rare and fascinating glimpse into the journey of women's rights through the lens of women in sports during the pivotal decade of the 1920s. With elegant prose, poignant wit, and fascinating primary sources, Macy explores the many hurdles presented to female athletes as they stormed the field, stepped up to bat, and won the right to compete in sports. Featuring bold and talented heroines, this book documents how the social issues and morals of the decade--from politics to segregation to the media--helped shape the changing narratives around women and alter the course of history entirely. It is a fascinating window into a rich and seldom explored history, and also a topical reminder of the many discussions surrounding femininity and the role of women that continue today"--Provided by the publisher.
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By Macy, Sue[2020]., Juvenile, National Geographic Call No: HI-INT 796.082 MAC Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Macy offers a rare and fascinating glimpse into the journey of women's rights through the lens of women in sports during the pivotal decade of the 1920s. With elegant prose, poignant wit, and fascinating primary sources, Macy explores the many hurdles presented to female athletes as they stormed the field, stepped up to bat, and won the right to compete in sports. Featuring bold and talented heroines, this book documents how the social issues and morals of the decade--from politics to segregation to the media--helped shape the changing narratives around women and alter the course of history entirely. It is a fascinating window into a rich and seldom explored history, and also a topical reminder of the many discussions surrounding femininity and the role of women that continue today"--Provided by the publisher.
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[2021]., Adolescent, Andrews McMeel Publishing Call No: HISTORICAL F SMI Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "This enchanting novel in verse captures one woman's struggle for equality, independence, and identity as a Greek immigrant in troubled 1930s America"--Provided by the publisher.
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2022., Juvenile, Roaring Brook Press Call No: B Till-Mobley Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: A non-fiction picture book telling the story of Emmet Till, an African American boy brutally lynched and killed in 1955, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, who took her pain and sorrow over the murder of her son and made it into a rallying cry for the Civil Rights Movement at the time. Champions and celebrates Mamie's fearlessness and bravery in not letting her son's death be forgotten.
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c2007., Juvenile, Morgan Reynolds Pub. Call No: 610.92 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Social critics and reformers
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[2018]., Juvenile, Abrams Books for Young Readers Call No: HI-INT B CHA RUB Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Award-winning author Susan Goldman Rubin introduces readers to the most well-known fashion designer in the world, Coco Chanel. Beginning with the difficult years Chanel spent in an orphanage, Goldman Rubin traces Coco's development as a designer and demonstrates how her determination to be independent helped her gain worldwide recognition. Coco Chanel focuses on the obstacles Chanel faced as a financially independent woman in an era when women were expected to marry; as well as her fierce competition with the Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli; and some of her most memorable firsts for the fashion industry, including the little black dress, the quilted purse with gold chain, and the perfume Chanel No. 5. The book includes a bibliography, a list of where to see her work, and an index."--Provided by publisher.
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2018., Pre-adolescent, Abrams Books for Young Readers Call No: 921 CHANEL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Beginning with the difficult years Chanel spent in an orphanage, Goldman Rubin traces Coco's development as a designer and demonstrates how her determination to be independent helped her gain worldwide recognition"--Provided by publisher.
