#farmerette

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Various women character designs from the Van Beuren Cartoons

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Kentucky

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Doris Ulmann - A Farmerette in Northern New England, 1927.

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Season 1 DISC 1 S01E01 Andy and Helen Get Married 1960 S01E02 The Harvest Ball 1960 S01E03 The Race Horse 1960 S01E04 Help on the Farm 1960 S01E05 The Copy Machine 1960 S01E06 The Panel Show 1960 S01E07 Youth Takes Over 1960 DISC 2 S01E08 The Church Play 1960 S01E09 Mike's Losing Streak 1960 S01E10 Sam Gets a Ticket 1960 S01E11 Emmet's 50th Birthday Party 1960 S01E12 Miss Farmerette 1960 S01E13 Sam and the Teenager 1960 S01E14 New Couple in Town 1960 DISC 3 S01E15 Aunt Bee's Cruise 1960 S01E16 aunt bee and the captain 1961 S01E17 Driver Education 1960 S01E18 Howard's Hobby 1960 S01E19 The Camper 1960 S01E20 Sam the Expert Farmer 1960 S01E21 The Pet Shop 1960 DISC 4 S01E22 An Efficient Service Station 1960 S01E23 Emmett's Retirement 1960 S01E24 Millie's Girlfriend 1960 S01E25 The Church Bell 1960 S01E26 Sister Cities 1960 Season 2 DISC 1 S02E01 Andy's Baby 1960 S02E02 Saving Morelli's 1960 S02E03 Howard the Poet 1960 S02E04 Goober and the Telephone Girl 1960 S02E05 Millie the Model 1960 S02E06 Mike's Birthday Party 1960 DISC 2 S02E07 The Farmer Exchange Project 1960 S02E08 The Caper 1960 S02E09 The New Farmhand 1960 S02E10 Palm Springs, Here We Come 1960 S02E11 Palm Springs, Here We Are 1960 S02E12 Millie and the Palm Springs Golf Pro 1960 S02E13 Palm Springs Cowboy 1960 DISC 3 S02E14 Goober's Niece 1970 S02E15 Emmett Takes a Fall 1970 S02E16 The New Well 1970 S02E17 Emmett and the Ring 1970 S02E18 Goober's Brother 1970 S02E19 The Mayberry Road 1970 S02E20 Millie and the Great Outdoors 1970 DISC 4 S02E21 The Sculptor 1970 S02E22 The Health Fund 1970 S02E23 The Mayberry Float 1970 S02E24 Aloha Goober 1970 S02E25 Millie the Secretary 1970 S02E26 The Mynah Bird 1970 Season 3 DISC 1 S03E01 Emmett's Domestic Problem 1970 S03E02 Sensitivity Training 1970 S03E03 Goober's New Gas Station 1970 S03E04 The New Housekeeper 1970 S03E05 All for Charity 1970 S03E06 Hair 1970 DISC 2 S03E07 Millie the Best-Dressed Woman 1970 S03E08 Howard's Nephew 1970 S03E09 Goober the Housekeeper 1970 S03E10 Millie's Dream 1970 S03E11 Community Spirit 1970 S03E12 The Harp 1970 S03E13 The Bicycle Club 1970 DISC 3 S03E14 Mike's Project 1970 S03E15 Howard the Dream Spinner 1970 S03E16 Millie's Egg Farm 1970 S03E17 The Kid from Hong Kong 1970 S03E18 The Moon Rocks 1970 S03E19 The World Traveler 1970 S03E20 Goober the Elder 1970 DISC 4 S03E21 Alice and the Professor 1970 S03E22 Howard the Swinger 1970 S03E23 Mike's Car 1970 S03E24 Goober the Hero 1970 S03E25 The City Planner 1970 S03E26 Emmett's Invention 1970

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The Tale of A Flower

There was a flower born on a wasteland next to a farmhouse.

The flower was once a bud, supposed to grow into a healthy, beautiful, and strong blossom—if she was not taken care of by the young farmer and his wife—who stumbled on her on an ordinary Wednesday in early spring.

The farmer was ecstatic after he found the small, delicate bud, eager to look after her and determined to flourish her into the most beautiful flower on earth. The married couple beavered away to keep their promise, harvesting crops while developing a side hustle by becoming a rancher, all to make piles and piles of dough—they were going to build a greenhouse, one to nurse the bud better.

The farmer was a respectful man, earning himself a reputation in town. Based on his fellow farmers in agricultural cooperatives in the workplace, the farmer was often described and heard as a dignified man. He was also a sedulous peasant, very bright and wise as if he could foresee the calamity, one to prevent or reduce it to the minimum beforehand, an aptitude that not many farmers owned. The peasant was already a successful man to many, but he still had flaws. It was known to the kinfolks and buddies that the farmer could sometimes tend to be stubborn and believed in things that he had faith in, even though he was not an expert in specific fields, like medical problems. There had led to many times when he was under the weather and refused to take the pills as the doctor told him. "I'll recover by the next morning after a night of good sleep," the farmer said to his wife firmly, no matter how hard his wife tried to convince him. Or when the little bud did not grow one inch even if she had plenty of water and was under exposure to enough sunlight, the farmer was unwilling to accept the advice of a florist—now who's the expert?

In addition, the farmer possessed the nastiest temper, quick to judge, irascibility was usual business as he never gave in to apologize when many occurrences were his fault, and he knew it. Fighting for his life at a young age, he struggled with hardships; several times farmer had to sleep in a trailer owned by his friend in college life. He once had several jobs, waking up at four to deliver newspapers only to make extra money for school fees.

All for a better life, the farmer had no choice but to be tough and later carried the habit of showing solemnity to others which he had no idea of doing it. Hence, it was patent that the farmer rarely took suggestions from his closest ones, let alone his wife. Being his spouse, the farmerette suffered many cold stares and emotional abuses whenever the farmer had a rough day. Sure, he could be one of the most generous people his wife has met so far, as he would try to show the softer side of him, especially being attentive to major events happening all around, in or out of the country. Her husband would lend a hand to his fellow farmers or donate the money to charities for those in need, children, or poverty, whoever struggled the life like he used to. The farmerette did not dare to mess with the bear at the end of the day, so extending the best mood of her husband was a must.

Back to the flower, the couple succeeded in building the greenhouse for her. The married couple nurtured the little bud with care and tenderness, hoping she grew up without harm, providing the best material they could think of fertilizer, lights for night-time, and soils with high mineral, to name a few.

One day, another bud raised from the moist soil happened next to the original bud. The farmer and his wife thought it was a miracle to have two buds magically grow out of nowhere but decided to take extra care of the younger one, making the later bud their priority. The farmer still went to see the flowers, watered them, providing them with the best fertilizer, but something was missing.

Little did the farmers understand. Since the couple had decided to grow the flowers, they were doing it all wrong. As it turned out, the two flowers should apply to different treatments. But one was needy in water, which needed extra care with temperature control and was less dependent on specific soil to grow; on the other hand, the younger bud was doing it all right even if she did not need extra care with the usual watering volume, well-draining type of soil and moderate temperature, not so high and not so low.

Eventually, the former bud was not in as good shape as the younger one, and the second bud bloomed to become a pretty daffodil, but the poor flower next to the yellow blossom could not bloom fruitfully, as she lacked high maintenance. The farmer was furious. He disbelieved that no matter how hard he cared for the two, the former bud grew poorly compared to the daffodil. "Why can't she bloom already!" the farmer screeched angrily, stomping inside his house without watering the poor flower. Perhaps, if he had not been so full of himself and taken the advice from the expert, he would have made things right by now. As the days went by, the farmer did not bother to sweet-cooed the flower; he only talked to the daffodil, even if the yellow blossom did not care less about what the man complimented.

Disappointed, the flower grew weaker without tentative care and could not manage to bloom like the daffodil after a few days. The flower no longer received the exciting mood of the farmers when they visited the greenhouse. The flower had become somehow a plain plant next to the daffodil, nothing special prudence got from the male farmer. She was like an ordinary plant next to the charming blossom, receiving the water merely because the farmer drenched both plants in concert, neither for her beautiful petals nor for the blooming condition; in other words, she got watered and considered living in the greenhouse, for she lived on his property.

The flower sometimes wept at night, thinking to herself if she did not live here in the greenhouse, getting tap water but rain droplets, or preferred growing in the wasteland full of moss than in the nutritious soil: What would her life become? Would she grow healthier instead of the state in current? And most importantly: What was she?

Days passed, and the flower tried not to get infected by the virus and was sure to show her colorful tentacles to attract insects. Then, she unfolded the petals on top of the bud by degree. It questioned if she was a different plant next to the neighbour daffodil. She believed she was a late bloomer and was ecstatic to show off her faded, pink pentagon petals to the farmer. However, the stoic face of the farmer did not match the delightful one. The farmer was content with the petals that had unfolded, but the plant..., seemed much more unattractive to the yellowish blossom when he noticed the moss underneath the flower; he was confused. There had two flowers, in disparate views, granting different spirits of loud and quiet, lively and reserved, in front and behind curtains: two individuals.

Undoubtedly, the farmer would prefer the daffodil for her bright characteristic. Soon, the little flower was not sure what she wanted anymore. At the very least, the farmer did not pluck her out; what a relief!

Alas, she could not figure out what was better, for she was also grateful for the effort the farmers wanted her to be, and maybe not in the best condition. She was a flower, after all.

There was a flower, once born on a wasteland next to a farmhouse, applying irregular rules of blooming. The flower waited, wanting the approval of the farmer like he used to hope for the little bud.

I was the flower—still sort of desperate to be approved, but this time, in my ways of beauty.

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Come on summer time!

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Monday, July 26, 2021

I spent some time today working on the 1910s exhibit. This is a photo of the Elmira College Farmerettes in 1918.

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Fall Decor

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A Women's Land Army Farmerette, 1918

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Something brings me so much peace by watching horses in an open field.

Magic morning today

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Land Girls and Farmerettes By Rachel Dworkin, Archivist

When Mrs. Louise T. Roberts of the New York State Food Commission proposed it in the spring of 1918, people were skeptical. College girls working on local farms? That’s crazy talk. There was no way they could work as well as men. Luckily for area farms, the skeptics were wrong.

Following America’s entry into World War I in April 1917, there were massive labor shortages in all fields. The civilian group, the Woman’s Land Army of America (WLAA) proposed to replace the missing men with college girls, school teachers, and other women with seasonal jobs or ones which allowed for summer vacations. The idea was modeled after the British Woman’s Land Army. The state branches of the WLAA worked closely with local colleges to recruit and train young women who would be assigned to work certain farms. The women were known as farmerettes. (READ MORE)

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It’s National Farmers Day, and we’re remembering the Mount Holyoke ‘farmerettes.’ The farmerettes were students who assisted local farmers and tended the college’s farm during World War I and World War II. Students would often stay in ‘terms’ during summers to do this work.

In 1918, a student typed up a summary of a World War I era farmerette’s day of work, which included:

waking up at 5 a.m.

two hours of work before breakfast (directed by a graduate of UMass Amherst, then known as Massachusetts Agricultural College!)

‘a real farmers breakfast’

six hours of work on the college farm

activities such as hoeing, weeding, transplanting, pest control

local farm work in the afternoon: at their midday meal the town’s needs would be announced, such as ‘someone to mow the Croysdale Inn; two people to hay at Mr. Taylor’s, five people for spraying on our own grounds [...]’

taking down their hours at supper-they were paid 20 cents per hour. Even in the 1910′s that wasn’t a large amount of money, but it was enough to pay their board and to save some too.

occasional appearances at local town meetings to show their farmers’ outfits, sing college songs, and perform skits

Of their visits to town meetings, a student describes, “We like nothing better, whether it is a Fourth of July parade or a Sunday-school picnic, we go in a bunch to convert the country-side to the shocking idea of girls, in men’s clothes, farming.” This quote and the above information comes from the document A Farmerette's Day, written by Charlotte E. Wilder (Class of 1919).

Farmerettes leaving a barn :: Mount Holyoke Archives and Special Collections Compass Digital Collections :: circa 1942

Farmerettes delivering milk  :: Mount Holyoke Archives and Special Collections Compass Digital Collections :: circa 1917-1918 

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Farmerettes. Costume design for the ballet A Thousand Times Neigh, Alvin Colt, 1940, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Gift of Lincoln Kirstein Size: 26 5/8 × 20 1/8" (67.6 × 51.1 cm) Medium: Gouache, pencil, stapled-and-pinned fabric, and stamped ink on colored card with folded-and-stapled transparentized paper with pencil

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/290737

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“Farmerettes Are Victimized By Maid,” Toronto Globe. September 5, 1919. Page 05. --- She ‘Borrowed’ Gold Watch, Money and Suitcase to go to ‘Ex.’ --- (Special Despatch to The Globe.) St. Catharines, Sept. 4. - The police have a warrant out for a young woman who acted as housemaid for a party of farmerettes at Jordan. The girls had been missing small sums of money from time to time. The housemaid said she wanted to visit the Toronto Exhibition, and in order to properly enjoy herself, she borrowed a gold wrist watch from one farmerette, and $10 from another, and a suit case from a third. She was to come back next day, but she did not and hasn’t come since, and when the fair farmerettes took an inventory of their effects, a lot of other things were missing, including twenty-three dollars belonging to one girl and three dollars of another. Matron Ethel Tompkins got out a warrant for the housemaid, whose name the police have.

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Mammoth List of Feminist/Girl Power Books (200 + Books)

Lists of Real, Amazing Women Throughout History

Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World by Ann Shen

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2 by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo

Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Pénélope Bagieu, Montana Kane (Translator)

Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics by Jason Porath

Tough Mothers: Amazing Stories of History’s Mightiest Matriarchs by Jason Porath

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky

Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World by Mackenzi Lee

Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History by Sam Maggs

The Little Book of Feminist Saints by Julia Pierpont

Rad Women Worldwide: Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History by Kate Schatz

Warrior Women: 3000 Years of Courage and Heroism by Robin Cross & Rosalind Miles

Women Who Dared: 52 Stories of Fearless Daredevils, Adventurers, and Rebels by Linda Skeers & Livi Gosling 

100 Nasty Women of History by Hannah Jewell

The Warrior Queens by Antonia Fraser

Sea Queens: Women Pirates Around the World by Jane Yolen

The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience by Hillary Rodham Clinton & Chelsea Clinton 

Fight Like a Girl: 50 Feminists Who Changed the World by Laura Barcella

Samurai Women 1184–1877 by Stephen Turnbull

A Black Woman Did That by Malaika Adero

Tales from Behind the Window by Edanur Kuntman

Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights by Mikki Kendall

Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100 by Max Dashu

Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency by Bea Koch

Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History by Blair Imani

Individual and Group Portraits of Real, Amazing Women Throughout History

Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights: From the Vote to the Equal Rights Amendment by Deborah Kops

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron De Hart

The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott

I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb

Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA by Amaryllis Fox

Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir by Cherríe L. Moraga

The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants: The Female Gang That Terrorised London by Brian McDonald

Women Against the Raj: The Rani of Jhansi Regiment by Joyce Chapman Lebra

Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus

The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt

The Women of WWII (Non-Fiction)

Women Heroes of World War II: 26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue by Kathryn J. Atwood

Skyward: The Story of Female Pilots in WWII by Sally Deng

The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II by Katherine Sharp Landdeck

The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear (Translation), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translation)

Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation by Anne Sebba

To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African-American Wacs Stationed Overseas During World War II by Brenda L. Moore

Standing Up Against Hate: How Black Women in the Army Helped Change the Course of WWII by Mary Cronk Farrell

Sisters and Spies: The True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne by Susan Ottaway

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell

The White Mouse by Nancy Wake

Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II by Liza Mundy

Tomorrow to be Brave: A Memoir of the Only Woman Ever to Serve in the French Foreign Legion by Susan Travers & Wendy Holden

Pure Grit: How WWII Nurses in the Pacific Survived Combat and Prison Camp by Mary Cronk Farrell

Sisterhood of Spies by Elizabeth P. McIntosh

Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan by Shrabani Basu

Women in the Holocaust by Dalia Ofer

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos by Judy Batalion

Night Witches: The Untold Story of Soviet Women in Combat by Bruce Myles

The Soviet Night Witches: Brave Women Bomber Pilots of World War II by Pamela Jain Dell

A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II by Elizabeth Wein

A Dance with Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II by Anne Noggle

Avenging Angels: The Young Women of the Soviet Union's WWII Sniper Corps by Lyuba Vinogradova

The Women of WWII (Fiction)

Among the Red Stars by Gwen C. Katz

Night Witches by Kathryn Lasky

Night Witches by Mirren Hogan

Night Witch by S.J. McCormack

Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith

Daughters of the Night Sky by Aimie K. Runyan

The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff

Code Name Verity series by Elizabeth Wein

Front Lines trilogy by Michael Grant

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

All-Girl Teams (Fiction)

The Seafire trilogy by Natalie C. Parker

Elysium Girls by Kate Pentecost

The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis

The Effigies trilogy by Sarah Raughley

Guardians of the Dawn series by S. Jae-Jones

Wolf-Light by Yaba Badoe

Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson

Burned and Buried by Nino Cipri

This Is What It Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow

The Wild Ones: A Broken Anthem for a Girl Nation by Nafiza Azad

We Rule the Night by Claire Eliza Bartlett

Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry

The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman

Bad Girls Never Say Die by Jennifer Mathieu

The Secret Life of Prince Charming by Deb Caletti

Kamikaze Girls by Novala Takemoto, Akemi Wegmüller (Translator)

The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See

The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry

The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke

Sisters in Sanity by Gayle Forman

The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartl

Hell's Belles series by Sarah MacLean

Jackdaws by Ken Follett

The Farmerettes by Gisela Tobien Sherman

A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions by Sheena Boekweg

Feminist Retellings

Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly

Poisoned by Jennifer Donnelly

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust

The Girl Who Fell Beneath The Sea by Axie Oh

Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue

Doomed by Laura Pohl

The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher

The Boneless Mercies by April Genevieve Tucholke

Seven Endless Forests by April Genevieve Tucholke

The Queens of Innis Lear by Tessa Gratton

A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston

Kate Crackernuts by Katharine M. Briggs

Legendborn series by Tracy Deonn

One for All by Lillie Lainoff

Feminist Dystopian and Horror Fiction

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand

Godshot by Chelsea Bieker

Women and Girls in Comedy 

Crying Laughing by Lance Rubin

Stand Up, Yumi Chung by Jessica Kim

This Will Be Funny Someday by Katie Henry

Unscripted by Nicole Kronzer

Pretty Funny for a Girl by Rebecca Elliot

Bossypants by Tina Fey

We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy by Yael Kohen

The Girl in the Show: Three Generations of Comedy, Culture, and Feminism by Anna Fields

Trans Women

Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock

Nemesis series by April Daniels

American Transgirl by Faith DaBrooke

Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout by Laura Jane Grace

A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett

Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom

Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt

George by Alex Gino

The Witch Boy series by Molly Ostertag

Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman by Laura Kate Dale

She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan

An Anthology of Fiction by Trans Women of Color by Ellyn Peña

Wandering Son by Takako Shimura

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Feminist Poetry

Women Are Some Kind of Magic trilogy by Amanda Lovelace

Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty by Nikita Gill

Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul by Nikita Gill

Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters by Nikita Gill

The Girl and the Goddess by Nikita Gill

A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland by DaMaris B. Hill

Feminist Philosophy and Facts

The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner

The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy by Gerda Lerner

Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice by Jack Holland

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism by Bushra Rehman

Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks

Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World by Kelly Jensen

The Equality Illusion by Kat Banyard

White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind by Koa Beck

Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates

I Have the Right To by Chessy Prout & Jenn Abelson

Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World by Kumari Jayawardena

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ

Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea Ritchie

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins

But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies by Akasha Gloria Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott, Barbara Smith Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe L. Moraga, Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDinn

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

Difficult Women by Roxane Gay

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa

Power Shift: The Longest Revolution by Sally Armstrong

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Had It Coming: What's Fair in the Age of #MeToo? by Robyn Doolittle

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Helped Ignite a Movement by Jody Kantor & Megan Twohey

#Notyourprincess: Voices of Native American Women by Lisa Charleyboy

Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time by Tanya Lee Stone

Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power by Sady Doyle

Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement by Robin Morgan (Editor)

Girls Make Media by Mary Celeste Kearney

Rock She Wrote: Women Write about Rock, Pop, and Rap by Evelyn McDonnell (Editor)

You Play the Girl: And Other Vexing Stories That Tell Women Who They Are by Carina Chocano

Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco

The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Hollis Robbins (Editor)

Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World by Jessica Valenti and Jaclyn Friedman Bread Out of Stone: Recollections, Sex, Recognitions, Race, Dreaming, Politics by Dionne Brand

Other General Girl Power/Feminist Awesomeness

The Edge of Anything by Nora Shalaway Carpenter

Kat and Meg Conquer the World by Anna Priemaza

Talk Before Sleep by Elizabeth Berg

The Female of the Species by Mandy McGinnis

Pulp by Robin Talley

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr

That Summer by Sarah Dessen

Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen

Honey, Baby, Sweetheart by Deb Caletti

The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Daré

Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

American Girls by Alison Umminger

Don't Think Twice by Ruth Pennebaker

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women by Alice Walker

You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories by Alice Walker

Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo

Sula by Toni Morrison

Rose Sees Red by Cecil Castellucci

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu

Rules for Being a Girl by Candace Bushnell & Katie Cotugno

None of the Above by I.W. Gregorio

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Everything Must Go by Jenny Fran Davis

The House on Olive Street by Robyn Carr

Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman

Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde

Lady Luck's Map of Vegas by Barbara Samuel 

Fan the Fame by Anna Priemaza

Puddin' by Julie Murphy

A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti

Gravity Brings Me Down by Natale Ghent

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

The Summer of Impossibilities by Rachael Allen

The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Katie Alender

Don't Tell a Soul by Kirsten Miller

After the Ink Dries by Cassie Gustafson Girl, Unframed by Deb Caletti

We Are the Ashes, We Are the Fire by Joy McCullough 

Maybe He Just Likes You by Barbara Dee

Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Cure for Dreaming by Cat Winters

Dress Coded by Carrie Firestone

The Prettiest by Brigit Young

Don't Judge Me by Lisa Schroeder

The Roommate by Rosie Danan

Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir by Liz Prince

Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present by Lillian Faderman

All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister

Paper Girls comic series by Brian K. Vaughan

Heavy Vinyl comic series by Carly Usdin

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