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"With sources as diverse as A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Scream 2, Inventing Herself is an expansive and timely exploration of women who possess a boundless determination to alter the world by boldly experiencing love, achievement, and fame on a grand scale. These women tried to work, travel, think, love, and even die in ways that were ahead of their time. In doing so, they forged an epic history that each generation of adventurous women...

Challenging the idea that feminism in the United States is dead or in decline, this work examines the contours of contemporary feminism. Through an investigation of three feminist communities, the author shows how contemporary feminists react to the local environment currently shaping their identities, tactics, discourse, and relations with other feminist generations. By moving the analysis to the community level, she illustrates how feminism is simultaneously...

In the 1960s, labor leader and civil rights activist, Dolores Huerta organized in the fields, spearheading a national boycott of grapes and lettuce and making decent pay and working conditions a reality for thousands of farm workers. After receiving a Medal of Freedom at the White House in May 2012, Huerta spoke with NewsHour's Ray Suarez.

New girl on the block falls in with a gang of feisty feminists and then falls in love with the leader of the pack. Unfortunately, she has a girlfriend and, as they say, drama ensues.

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Portrays eight women's rights advocates of the 19th and early 20th centuries: Caroline Norton, Elizabeth Blackwell, Florence Nightingale, Emily Davies, Josephine Butler, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, and Emma Goldman. Determined, foresightful leaders, the pioneers of contemporary feminism, these women fought unprecedented battles for women's rights in eight separate spheres of activity--law, the professions, employment, education, sexual...

Do women - whether they're twenty or forty or sixty - feel more in control of their lives? Has feminism made us more - or less - fulfilled in our relationships with men and with each other? With her keen eye for contradictions, Meredith Maran finds our new realities in surprising places: on a racquetball court facing an unyielding female opponent; before a classroom of high school students, openly discussing her bisexuality; in a courtroom during...

In this timely, important, and compelling exploration of mother-daughter relationships, Christina Looper Baker and her daughter Christina Baker Kline bring us the provocative dialogue between two generations of feminists based on revealing interviews with prominent mothers and daughters. Baker and Kline draw on talks with a diverse range of women of both generations in an attempt to bridge the gap between them. Mothers and daughters tell their stories...