Product Description: Women of Steel and Stone features 22 thoroughly researched and engaging profiles of architects, engineers, and landscape designers, describing these groundbreakers' strengths, interests, and challenges as they were growing up and starting their careers, and what they achieved...read more

Product Description: “A thorough and engaging study of two female scientists worth their weight in radium.” —Booklist, starred review   In 1934, Irène Curie and her husband won the Nobel Prize for their breakthrough discovery of artificial radioactivity...read more

Product Description: March of the Suffragettes tells the forgotten, real-life story of “General” Rosalie Gardiner Jones, who in the waning days of 1912 mustered and marched an all-women army nearly 175 miles to help win support for votes for women...read more

Product Description: Women have made a difference in every field imaginable, and they continue to do so today. Women’s Lives in History introduces readers to dozens of these remarkable people. Women in Business features groundbreaking figures in beauty, food, banking, technology, and many other areas...read more

Product Description: Women have made a difference in every field imaginable, and they continue to do so today. Women’s Lives in History introduces readers to dozens of these remarkable people. Women in Politics and Government features groundbreaking activists, senators, judges, prime ministers, and many other political figures...read more

Product Description: Shares the history of women in fashion, including important designers, fashionistas, models, and fashion icons.

Product Description: Women have made a difference in every field of human endeavor. They have written time-honored stories, designed trendsetting fashions, made astonishing scientific discoveries, and added strong voices to the world of politics and government...read more

Product Description: Discusses the history of women in sports, as well as important female athletes and managers.

Product Description: "Women in War features groundbreaking figures in medicine, on the front lines, on the homefront, and in many other roles. Compelling text and vivid photographs bring these women to life.

Product Description: "Women in Arts and Entertainment features groundbreaking figures in dance, visual art, filmmaking, television, and many other disciplines."--

Product Description: Women have made a difference in every field imaginable, and they continue to do so today. Women’s Lives in History introduces readers to dozens of these remarkable people. Women in Science features groundbreaking figures in chemistry, biology, mathematics, medicine, and many other scientific fields...read more

Product Description: Women have made a difference in every field imaginable, and they continue to do so today. Women’s Lives in History introduces readers to dozens of these remarkable people. Women in Literature features groundbreaking figures in literary fiction, genre fiction, science fiction, nonfiction and memoir, feminist writing, poetry, and young adult literature...read more

Product Description: In 1921, four men ventured into the Arctic for a top-secret expedition: an attempt to claim uninhabited Wrangel Island in northern Siberia for Great Britain. With the men was a young Inuit woman named Ada Blackjack, who had signed on as cook and seamstress to earn money to care for her sick son...read more

In the Spring of 1851 two women met on a street corner in Seneca Falls, New York―Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a thirty-five year old mother of four boys, and Susan B. Anthony, a thirty-one year old, unmarried, former school teacher. Immediately drawn to each other, they formed an everlasting and legendary friendship. Together they challenged entrenched beliefs, customs, and laws that oppressed women and spearheaded the fight to gain legal rights, including the right to vote despite fierce opposition, daunting conditions, scandalous entanglements and betrayal by their friends and allies. Weaving events, quotations, personalities, and commentary into a page-turning narrative, Penny Colman tells this compelling story and vividly portrays the friendship between Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, a friendship that changed history.

Product Description: The fascinating, little-known story of how two brilliant female physicists’ groundbreaking discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb. In 1934, Irène Curie, working with her husband and fellow scientist, Frederic Joliot, made a discovery that would change the world: artificial radioactivity...read more

Product Description: While most people say they believe in equal rights, the word feminism—America's new F-word—makes people uncomfortable. Explore the history of US feminism through pioneers such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, and Gloria Steinem...read more

Product Description: Polish migr Marie Curie was one of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century. She coined the term radioactivity and, working with her husband, the French scientist Pierre Curie, she discovered the elements radium and polonium...read more

Product Description: The Brontë sisters are among the most beloved writers of all time, best known for their classic nineteenth-century novels Jane Eyre (Charlotte), Wuthering Heights (Emily), and Agnes Grey (Anne). In this sometimes heartbreaking young adult biography, Catherine Reef explores the turbulent lives of these literary siblings and the oppressive times in which they lived...read more

Product Description: Today, feminism is as important as ever. Betty Friedan’s musings, “to take the actions needed to bring women into the mainstream of American society, now; full equality for women, in fully equal partnership with men,” still hold fervently true in current society...read more

Product Description: An NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People   There was a full moon on the evening of September 22, 1943, when Pearl Witherington, age 29, parachuted into France to aid the French Resistance as a special agent for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE)...read more

Product Description: The women's suffrage movement was the fight for the right of women to vote. Highlighting the lives and careers of notable suffragists like Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Alice Paul, author Carol Rust Nash traces the movement’s roots from the temperance and abolition movements through its success with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment...read more

Product Description: When Valentina Tereshkova blasted off aboard Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963, she became the first woman to rocket into space. It would be 19 years before another woman got a chance—cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982—followed by American astronaut Sally Ride a year later...read more

Product Description: Support and inspiration are provided to teens interested in taking action on womens issues. The author reports on activists who have helped womens causes in amazing ways, and provides a wide variety of ideas and resources for teens wanting to make a difference...read more

Product Description: The Eye on Art series is intended to assist readers in understanding the various roles of art in society; each volume offers an in-depth exploration of a major artistic movement, medium, figure, or profession.; In this new Eye on Art title, author Don Nardo explores the life and work of one of the finest and most famous female artists of all time, Frida Kahlo...read more