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: 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: 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

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

Winner of: 2014 Notable Social Studies Trade Books 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). Out of the 400 agents sent to France during the German occupation, 39 were women. Pearl, whom the SOE called “cool and resourceful and extremely determined” and “the best shot, male or female, we have yet had,” became one of the most celebrated female World War II resistance fighters.In Code Name Pauline Pearl describes in a series of plainspoken reminiscences her difficult childhood and harrowing escape from France in 1940; her recruitment and training as a special agent; the logistics and dangers of posing as a cosmetics saleswoman to make her way around the country as an undercover courier; and both failed and successful attempts at sabotaging the Nazis. She tells how, when the leader of her network was caught by the Gestapo, she became “Pauline” and rose to command a 3,500-strong band of French Resistance fighters.  With an annotated list of key figures, an appendix of original unedited interview extracts—including Pearl’s husband Henri’s story—and never-before-published photographs from Pearl’s personal collection, Code Name Pauline will captivate World War II buffs of any age and, just as Pearl wished, inspire young people.

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: 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