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Bound feet & Western dress

Pang-Mei Natasha Chang.

Call #: 305.42 Cha

                           

Tells the story of the author's great-aunt Chang Yu-i, a woman who challenged Chinese tradition by refusing to have her feet bound, marrying and divorcing preeminent poet Hsu Chih-mo, and running the Shanghai Women's Savings Bank during the 1930s.

 

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Victoria Woodhull : free spirit for women's rights Miriam Brody.

Call #: 305.42 Bro

Location:H S of Fashion

 

Tells the life story of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century feminist and spiritualist Victoria Woodhull, describing her historic firsts in the arenas of finance and politics and the scandal involving minister Henry Ward Beecher that cost her most of her supporters.

 

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33 things every girl should know about women's history from suffragettes to skirt lengths to the E.R.A.

Call #: 305.4 Thi

Location: H S OF FASHION

                           

A collection of essays that profile women, events, and legislation that have had a serious impact on women's rights and freedom in the United States.

 

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Bad feminist : essays

Roxane Gay.

Call #: 305.420973 GAY

Location:H S OF FASHION

 

A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism.

 

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The Guerrilla Girls' bedside companion to the history of Western art by the Guerrilla Girls.

Call #: 704 Gue

Location:H S OF FASHION

 

The Guerrilla Girls discuss the real who, what, when, and why of art history and answer questions about art some people are too afraid to ask.

 

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Flappers and the new American woman : perceptions of women from 1918 through the 1920s

Catherine Gourley.

Call #: 305.4097 3 Gou

Location:H S OF FASHION

 

Presents an illustrated history of the images and issues of women from 1918 through the 1920s, with specific emphasis on Flappers and the New American Woman

 

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton : women's suffrage and the first vote Dawn C. Adiletta.

Call #: 305.42 Adi

Location:H S OF FASHION 

 

Presents a short biography of campaigner of women's suffrage, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and chronicles her life and role models, the Woman's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, the history of women's rights, and more.

 

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This bridge called my back : writings by radical women of color

Call #: 810.809 Thi 

Location:H S OF FASHION 

 

Literary collections.Women -- United States -- Literary collections.American literature -- Minority authors.Minority women -- Literary collections.American literature -- Women authors. American literature -- 20th century. Radicalism -- Literary collections.

 

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The Turkish lover      Esmeralda Santiago.

Call #: B Santiago

Location:H S OF FASHION

 

Presents the third and final edition of a series of memoirs by Esmeralda Santiago as she uses the turmoil of her affair with Ulvi, an older Turkish man to explore racism, sexism, feminism, and the value of education in her life.

 

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Old mistresses : women, art, and ideology Rozsika Parker

Call #: 704.042 Par

Location:H S OF FASHION

                           

• Women artists. 

• Feminism and art.