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      By Armstrong, Sally, 1943-
       c2013., General, Random House Canada Call No: 305.42 A738a    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "From Africa to Asia to the Americas, women are key yo progess on ending poverty, violence and conflict. [...] Sally Armstrong shows us why women and girls are the way forward and introduces us to the leading women who are making change happen, from Nobel Prize inners to little girls suing for justice." -Publisher.
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      By Ellis, Deborah, 1960-
       2001., Pre-adolescent, Douglas & McIntyre ; Distributed in the USA by Publishers Group West Call No: LLC Fic Ell Lev. 5-6    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Lifelong learning collectionSummary Note: Because the Taliban rulers of Kabul, Afghanistan, impose strict limitations on women's freedom and behavior, eleven-year-old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy so that her family can survive after her father's arrest.
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      By Ganeshananthan, V. V.
       2023., Adult, Random House Call No: NEW Fic Gan   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Jaffna, 1981. Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, as a vicious civil war subsumes Sri Lanka, her dream takes a different path as she watches those around her, including her four beloved brothers, swept up in violent political ideologies and their consequences. She must ask herself: is it possible for anyone to move through life without doing harm? Sashi begins working as a medic at a field hospital for the militant Tamil Tigers, who, following years of state discrimination and violence, are fighting for a separate homeland for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority. But after the Tigers murder one of her teachers, and the arrival of Indian peacekeepers brings further atrocities, she turns to one of her professors, a feminist and dissident who invites her to join in a dangerous, secret project of documenting human rights violations as a mode of civil resistance to war. In gorgeous, fearless writing, Ganeshananthan captures furious mothers marching to demand news of their disappeared sons; a young student attending the hunger strike of an equally young militant; and a feminist reading group that tries to side with community and justice over any single political belief. Set during the early years of Sri Lanka's thirty-year civil war, and based on over a decade of research.
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      By Miranda, Susana  Iacovetta, Franca, 1957-
       2023., Between the Lines Call No: NEW 331.4 M672c    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: This fascinating book uncovers the little-known, surprisingly radical history of the Portuguese immigrant women who worked as night-time office cleaners and daytime “cleaning ladies” in postwar Toronto. Drawing on union records, newspapers, and interviews, feminist labour historians Susana P. Miranda and Franca Iacovetta piece together the lives of immigrant women who bucked convention by reshaping domestic labour and by leading union drives, striking for workers’ rights, and taking on corporate capital in the heart of Toronto’s financial district. Despite being sidelined within the labour movement and subjected to harsh working conditions in the commercial cleaning industry, the women forged critical alliances with local activists to shape picket-line culture and make an indelible mark on their communities. Richly detailed and engagingly written, Cleaning Up is an archival treasure about an undersung piece of working-class history in urban North America.
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      By Simon, Anne, 1980-  Allen, Jenna
       2019., Adult, Fantagraphics books Call No: NEW GN Fic Sim    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Cixtisis, the empress of Tchitchinie, kidnaps all of the men from Agalaia's kingdom to castrate them and make them her slaves. Anger grows amongst the female residents of Suffragette City--they want their husbands back. Will Aglaia be able to avert war and bring peace once again to the region? Anne Simon showcases a deft touch in this allegorical fantasy graphic novel brimming with subversive twists and comical turns.
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      By Rudin, Phyllis
       2014., Inanna Publications & Education Call No: QWF Fic Rud    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Evie Troy has a tendency to overcomplicate things. When her dying friend, Jean-Gabriel, a successful and controversial francophone writer, cons her into carrying out his last wish, delivering his fortune to his ex-wife Amélie without her knowing the source of the money, Evie decides that what Amélie really needs is a babysomething she and Jean-Gabriel were unable to have. Evie's pregnancy scheme pops so many holes at the seams that she's forced to enlist the aid of her estranged mother Marilyn. Marilyn can't fathom her daughter's determination to saddle up her womb on spec, but she agrees to come on board and the two of them head-butt their way through every step of Evie's program, from arm-twisting Mr. Right into coughing up his sperm to staging the flimflam that will relay the newborn to the oblivious Amélie. Played out against the backdrop of the fight for women's rights in Canada, EVIE, THE BABY AND THE WIFE is the boisterous tale of a mother and daughter at odds, struggling to reconnect across a reproductive divide.
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      By Stockett, Kathryn
       c2009., Amy Einhorn Books/G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: BLK Fic Sto    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.
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      By Stockett, Kathryn
       c2009., Penguin USA, Inc. Edition: eBook ed.    Summary Note: In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.
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      By Stockett, Kathryn
       2009., Adult, Thorndike Press Call No: LP Fic Sto    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Limited and persecuted by racial divides in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, three women, including an African-American maid, her sassy and chronically unemployed friend, and a recently graduated white woman, team up for a clandestine project.
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      By Alh'jooj, Amal Elsana
       2022., Halban Call No: Bio A316h    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: The fifth daughter in a patriarchal society, and an indigenous Bedouin in Israel, Amal came into this world fighting for her voice to be heard in a community that did not prize girls. At birth it was only her father who looked at her and said "I see hope in her face. I want to call her Amal [hope] in the hope that Allah will give us boys after her." Five brothers were indeed to follow. Hope is a Woman's Name is a rare look at Bedouin life form the even rarer perspective of a Bedouin girl. Amal challenged authority from birth, slowly learning where her community's boundaries lay and how to navigate them. As a shepherd at the age of 6, Amal led her flock of sheep across the green mountains of Laqiya, her village in the Negev in southern Israel. Given such responsibility, though rarely recognition, Amal came to understand her community and forge her skills as a leader. Aged 13 and frustrated by the constraints put on her education as a girl, Amal set up literacy classes for the adult women in her village. She aimed to teach them not only how to read, but to value education itself: "I wanted them to taste an education so that they would never again deprive their daughters of one." This was the beginning of a lifelong career initiating projects that would help create change for the Bedouin - a minority within Israel's Palestinian minority - and for their women in particular. She established economic empowerment programmes for marginalised women, helped found an Arab-Jewish school, and created organisations to promote a shared society. At every turn she had to face the challenges of tradition - as well as the prejudices of Israeli society - to create new possibilities that would allow women to empower themselves. Amal has learnt to embrace every aspect of her complicated identity - Bedouin, Arab, woman, Palestinian and Israeli citizen - to help create social change, build bridges with other communities and inspire hope.
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      By Yousafzai, Malala, 1997-  Lamb, Christina
       2013., Adult, Little, Brown and company Call No: Bio Y82y   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school. Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she has become a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize. The remarkable tale of terrorism, of the fight for girls' education, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons"--Provided by publisher.
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      By Ensler, Eve, 1953-
       c2013., General, Random House Canada Call No: Bio E61i    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Playwright, author and activist Eve Ensler has devoted her life to thinking about the female body--how to talk about it, how to protect and value it. Yet, as she recounts in this inspiring memoir, she spent much of her life disassociated from her own body--a disconnection first brought on by her father's battering and sexual abuse and her mother's remoteness. But Ensler is shocked out of her distance. On a trip to the Congo, she is shattered to encounter the horrific rape and violence inflicted on the women. Soon after, she is diagnosed with uterine cancer, and through months of harrowing treatment, she is forced to become first and foremost a body.
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      By Allende, Isabel, 1942-  Castor, Nick  Hopkinson, Amanda, 1948-
       2017., Adult, Atria Books Call No: Fic All   Edition: Atria paperback edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident--which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster--a 60-year-old human rights scholar--hits the car of Evelyn Ortega--a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala--in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an unforeseen and far more serious turn when Evelyn turns up at the professor's house seeking help. At a loss, the professor asks his tenant Lucia Maraz--a 62-year-old lecturer from Chile--for her advice. These three very different people are brought together in a mesmerizing story that moves from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil, sparking the beginning of a long overdue love story between Richard and Lucia. Exploring the timely issues of human rights and the plight of immigrants and refugees, the book recalls Allende's landmark novel The House of the Spirits in the way it embraces the cause of "humanity, and it does so with passion, humor, and wisdom that transcend politics" (Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post). In the Midst of Winter will stay with you long after you turn the final page."--From publisher.