women

A biography of Olympic athlete Dorothy "Dot" Richardson, discussing her prowess as a member of the U.S. women's softball team in 1996 and 2000, as well as the determination that led her to earn a medical degree.

A collection of eyewitness accounts which explore the impact the women's suffrage movement had on American culture, politics, and society.

Biography of Michelle Kwan, silver medalist for the United States in figure skating in the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Latifa, a young woman who was sixteen in 1996 when the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan, tells about her family's experiences under the repressive regime, focusing on the lives of women and girls who were abruptly denied the freedom to work, go to school, or even leave their homes without a male escort.

Nancy Mace chronicles the experiences she had as one of the first woman allowed to attend The Citadel and discusses how the male students reacted to her presence.

Recounts the life of the feminist leader, her impact on the women's movement, and the founding of Ms. magazine and the Ms. Foundation.

Tells the story of the life of Italy's first female physician and the creator of the Montessori method of education.

An illustrated biography of eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century English novelist Jane Austen.

Discusses the people and events connected to the struggle to achieve women's rights, including the right to vote, from its origins in the mid-1800s through the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

Profiles the lives and work of important American women who fought for the female right to vote, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Anna Howard Shaw, Alice Paul, and Carrie Chapman Catt.