feminists

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feminists

Lucretia Mott

friend of justice : with a message from Rosalynn Carter
1991
Highlights the life and career of the leader for peace, the abolition of slavery, and women's rights workers.

Betty Friedan

1990
A biography of the author of "The Feminine Mystique" who helped found the National Organization for Women in 1966.

Margaret Sanger

1993
A biography of the woman who sacrified her personal life and health to pioneer safe and legal birth control in the United States and abroad.

Breaking barriers

the Feminist revolution, from Susan B. Anthony to Margaret Sanger to Betty Friedan
1996
An exploration of the women's movement, with biographies of Susan B. Anthony, Margaret Sanger, and Betty Friedan.

Susan B. Anthony

1975
A biography of one of America's most outspoken crusaders for human rights, particularly those of women.

Freedom heroines

Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Jane Adams, Ida B. Wells, Alice Paul, Rosa Parks
2012
A biography of six women activists in American history.

You come to Yokum

2005
Twelve-year-old Frank witnesses his mother's struggles to muster support for women's right to vote even as the family's life is transformed by a year running a lodge in western Massachusetts in the early 1920s.

Ruby

an ordinary woman
1995
The diary of Ruby Alice Side Thompson, a feminist and converted Catholic, highly critical of what she saw as the male-dominated church and in favor of birth control and abortion.

Betty Friedan and the making of The feminine mystique

the American left, the Cold War, and modern feminism
2000
A biography of Betty Friedan, tracing the development of her feminist outlook from her childhood in Peoria, Illinois through her ten-year career as a writer for two radical labor journals.

Lucretia Mott, foe of slavery

1971
A brief biography of the nineteenth-century Quaker woman who was an important participant in the cause of abolition and later in women's rights.

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