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Our very own librarians have chosen some books to help you learn more about Gender Equality.
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Adults
The Authority Gap by Mary Ann Sieghart
An incisive, intersectional look at the mother of all gender biases: a resistance to women’s authority and power. Every woman has a story of being underestimated, ignored, challenged, or patronized in the workplace. Maybe she tried to speak up in a meeting, only to be talked over by male colleagues. Or a client addressed her male subordinate instead of her.
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Because of Sex by Gillian Thomas
The 1964 Civil Rights Act is best known as a monumental achievement of the civil rights movement, but it also revolutionized the lives of American women. Title VII of the law made it illegal to discriminate “because of sex.” But Congress did not specify how that would affect a “Mad Men” world where women played mainly supporting roles.
Becoming by Michelle Obama
In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America, she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private. A deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations.
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Brotopia by Emily Chang
Silicon Valley is a modern utopia where anyone can change the world. Unless you’re a woman. For women in tech, Silicon Valley is not a fantasyland of unicorns, virtual reality rainbows, and 3D-printed lollipops, where millions of dollars grow on trees. It’s a “Brotopia,” where men hold all the cards and make all the rules.
This Bridge Called My Back edited by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldŭa
Through personal essays, criticism, interviews, testimonials, poetry, and visual art, the collection explores, as coeditor Cherríe Moraga writes, “the complex confluence of identities–race, class, gender, and sexuality–systemic to women of color oppression and liberation.
Women, Race, & Class by Angela Davis
A powerful study of the women’s liberation movement in the U.S., from abolitionist days to the present, that demonstrates how it has always been hampered by the racist and classist biases of its leaders. From the widely revered and legendary political activist and scholar Angela Davis.
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir’s masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of “woman,” and a groundbreaking exploration of inequality and otherness.
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Revolution at Point Zero by Silvia Federici
Written between 1974 and 2012, Revolution at Point Zero collects forty years of research and theorising on the nature of housework, social reproduction, and women’s struggles on this terrain – to escape it, to better its conditions, to reconstruct it in ways that provide an alternative to capitalist relations.
Romantic Outlaws by Charlotte Gordon
In 1797, less than two weeks after giving birth to her second daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft died, and a remarkable life spent pushing against the boundaries of society’s expectations for women came to an end. But another was just beginning. Wollstonecraft’s daughter Mary was to follow a similarly audacious path. Both women had passionate relationships with several men, bore children out of wedlock, and chose to live in exile outside their native country. Each in her own time fought against the injustices women faced and wrote books that changed literary history.
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
First published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was an instant success, turning its thirty-three-year-old author into a minor celebrity. A pioneering work of early feminism that extends to women the Enlightenment principle of “the rights of man,” its argument remains as relevant today as it was for Wollstonecraft’s contemporaries.
Teens
Assata by Assata Shkur
Audacity by Melanie Crowder
Brazen by Pénélope Bagieu
A Bride’s Story by Kaoru Mori
As she and her husband adjust to their arranged marriage, Amir strives to find her role as she settles into a new life and a new home in a society quick to define that role for her.
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Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
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The Cure for Dreaming by Cat Winters
In Portland, Oregon, in 1900, seventeen-year-old Olivia Mead, a suffragist, is hypnotized by the intriguing young Henri Reverie, who’s paid by her father to make her more docile and womanly but who, instead, gives her the ability to see people’s true natures, while she secretly continues fighting for women’s rights.
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Lumberjanes by ND Stevenson
Friendship to the max! At Miss Quinzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet’s camp for hardcore lady-types, things are not what they seem. Three-eyed foxes. Secret caves. Anagrams. Luckily, Jo, April, Mal, Molly and Ripley are five rad, butt-kicking best pals determined to have an awesome summer together– and they’re not gonna let a magical quest or an array of supernatural critters get in their way.
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A Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis
Near the turn of the nineteenth century, Dr. Thornhollow helps teenaged Grace Mae escape from the Boston asylum where she was sent after becoming pregnant by rape, and takes her to Ohio where they put her intelligence and remarkable memory to use in trying to catch murderers.
The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed
Outrun the Moon by Stacey Lee
Kids
Harlem’s Little Blackbird by Renée Watson; Illustrations by Christian Robinson
Shark Lady by Jess Keating
Mae Among the Stars by Roda Ahmed; Illustrations by Stasia Burrington
Planting Stories by Pura Belpré; Illustrations by Paola Escobar
Think Big, Little One by Vashti Harrison
Malala’s Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai; Illustrations by Kerascoët
Who Says Women Can’t Be Doctors by Tanya Lee Stone; Illustrations by Marjorie Priceman
Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice by Nikki Grimes; Illustrations by Laura Freeman
Just Like Beverly by Vicki Conrad; Illustrations by David Hohn
She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton; Illustrations by Alexandra Boiger
