Women of action
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1) Double victory: how African American women broke race and gender barriers to help win World War II
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[2013]
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English
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An account of the lesser-known contributions of African-American women during World War II reveals how they helped lay the foundations for the Civil Rights Movement by challenging racial and gender barriers at home and abroad.
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Code name Pauline: memoirs of a World War II special agent
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Women of the frontier: 16 tales of trailblazing homesteaders, entrepreneurs, and rabble-rousers
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Reporting under fire: 16 daring women war correspondents and photojournalists
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Women heroes of World War I: 16 remarkable resisters, soldiers, spies, and medics
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7) Women in space: 23 stories of first flights, scientific missions, and gravity-breaking adventures
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[2014]
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English
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Women of steel and stone: 22 inspirational architects, engineers, and landscape designers
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A world of her own: 24 amazing women explorers and adventurers
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The many faces of Josephine Baker: dancer, singer, activist, spy
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She takes a stand: 16 fearless activists who have changed the world
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12) Women heroes of the American Revolution: 20 stories of espionage, sabotage, defiance, and rescue
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[2015]
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English
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"Susan Casey gives 20 remarkable girls and women the spotlight they deserve in this lively collection of biographical profiles. These women took action in many ways: as spies, soldiers, nurses, water carriers, fundraisers, writers, couriers, and more. Women Heroes of the American Revolution brings a fresh new perspective to their stories resulting from interviews with historians and with descendants of participants of the Revolution and features ample...
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Women in blue: 16 brave officers, forensics experts, police chiefs, and more
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2016.
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English
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"Using a host of primary sources, author Brandon Marie Miller recounts the roles, hardships, and daily lives of Native American, European, and African women in 17th- and 18th-century colonial America. Hard work proved a constant for most women--they ensured their family's survival through their skills while others sold their labor or lived in bondage as indentured servants and slaves. Even in this world defined entirely by men, a world where no one...
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Seized by the sun: the life and disappearance of World War II pilot Gertrude Tompkins
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Courageous women of the Vietnam War: medics, journalists, survivors, and more
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