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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg never asked for fame -- she was just trying to make the world a little better and a little freer. But along the way, the feminist pioneer's searing dissents and steely strength have inspired millions. Notorious RBG takes you behind the myth for an intimate, irreverent look at the justice's life and work. As America struggles with the unfinished business of gender equality and civil rights, Ginsburg stays...
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Making of America (Abrams) volume 4
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In the fourth installment in the Making of America series, Susan B. Anthony, Teri Kanefield examines the life of America's famous suffragette. Anthony was born into a world in which men ruled women: A man could beat his wife, take her earnings, have her committed into an asylum based on his word, and take her children away from her. While the young nation was ablaze with the radical notion that people could govern themselves, "people" were understood...
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With her trademark humor and anecdotal style, the Newbery Honor Award-winner and preeminent biographer for young people turns her attention to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the lively, unconventional spokeswoman of the woman suffrage movement. Convinced from an early age that women should have the same rights as men, Lizzie embarked on a career that changed America.
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World Almanac Library
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2004
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Discusses the 1848 convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, to promulgate women's rights in the United States, and provides an overview of those rights both before and after that convention. In 1848, a group of women held a meeting in Seneca Falls, New York, to discuss women's rights. The impact of that meeting was not immediate, but it was far-reaching. This book explores the role of women in early U.S. society and looks at the reformers of the...
