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Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A bold and gripping graphic history of the fight for women's rights The ongoing struggle for women's rights has spanned human history, touched nearly every culture on Earth, and encompassed a wide range of issues, such as the right to vote, work, get aneducation, own property, exercise bodily autonomy, and beyond. Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists is a fun and fascinating graphic novel-style primer that covers the key figures and events that...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the final years of the struggle for women's voting rights, focusing on the activities of Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party and their part in the successful passage of the 19th Amendment.
Author
Publisher
Lumen ; Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"La historia del feminismo, desde la prehistoria hasta #MeToo. Aunque quede mucho por hacer para que una mujer pueda moverse por el mundo con los mismos derechos que un hombre, se ha recorrido ya un largo camino: a diferencia de los hombres, sus derechos no son inherentes a su condición de mujer, sino que han sido adquiridos gracias a una constante lucha. Cada pellizco de dignidad femenina ha sido conquistado por figuras determinantes, cuyos rostros...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
"In April 1916, Nell Richardson and Alice Burke set out from New York City in a little yellow car, embarking on a bumpy, muddy, unmapped journey ten thousand miles long. They took with them a teeny typewriter, a tiny sewing machine, a wee black kitten, and a message for Americans all across the country: Votes for Women! The women's suffrage movement was in full swing, and Nell and Alice would not let anything keep them from spreading the word about...
Publisher
Dey Street Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
On January 21, 2017, the day after Donald J. Trump's inauguration, more than three million marchers of all ages and walks of life took to the streets as part of the largest protest in American history. In red states and blue states, in small towns and major urban centers, from Boise to Boston, Bangkok to Buenos Aires, people from eighty-two countries -- on all seven continents -- rose up in solidarity to voice a common message: Hear our voice. It...
Author
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
IG 830L
Language
English
Description
Get ready...it's the 1920s, and more and more women around the world are being given the right to vote. But women have not always had it so good. Let your great aunt Edith and her cousin Mabel tell you what it was like to be a suffragist.
Author
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In this contextualizing essay, the author compares and contrasts women's rights of today with that of four hundred years ago. Her hypothesis credits the milestones in women's rights while stressing the extremely tenuous nature of those rights. Women are viewed through two lenses, the patriarchal and the matriarchal, demonstrating two very different approaches to gender. This essay brings to light urgent issues that affected women in the seventeenth...