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Women in North America -

Related category: Feminism & Women
Related booklists: Black American Women,

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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 5 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
    Negroland: A Memoir - by Margo Jefferson

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781783783021 | ISBN 10: 1783783028

    The daughter of a successful paediatrician and a fashionable socialite, Margo Jefferson spent her childhood among Chicago's black elite. She calls this society 'Negroland': 'a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Women
    The Women's movement against sexual harrassment - by Carrie N. Baker

    £21.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780521704946 | ISBN 10: 0521704944

    Recounts the story of how a diverse social movement placed sexual harassment on the public agenda in the 1970s and 1980s. The collaboration of women from varying racial, economic, and geographic backgrounds strengthened the movement by representing t ... more

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  • Cover image of book With Billie by Julia Blackburn
    With Billie - by Julia Blackburn

    £10.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099483656 | ISBN 10: 0099483653

    Julia Blackburn's brilliant and haunting new book is a life of Billie Holiday told in the voices of those who knew her. During the 1970s a young woman called Linda Kuehl, planning to write a biography of Billie, recorded interviews with more than 150 ... more

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  • Cover image of book Powder Puff Derby: Petticoat Pilots and Flying Flappers by Mike Walker
    Powder Puff Derby: Petticoat Pilots and Flying Flappers - by Mike Walker

    £7.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780470851418 | ISBN 10: 0470851414

    Cowboy journalist Will Rogers called it the "Powder Puff Derby" - after all, who had ever heard of such an outrageous idea as dames in planes? Worse, dames racing planes 2,700 miles from California to Cleveland. One reporter reckoned that far from f ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sexual Harassment: High School Girls Speak Out by June Larkin
    Sexual Harassment: High School Girls Speak Out - by June Larkin

    £7.99   paperback   (1997) - ISBN 13: 9780929005652 | ISBN 10: 0929005651

    In this riveting expose, former teacher June Larkin details how girls are harassed by males in schools. Based on first-hand interviews with teenaged girls, she paints a frightening picture of how sexual harassment is part of daily high school life. ... more

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