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• Finding My Way

  a Memoir

  Yousafzai, Malala, 1997-

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  In Finding My Way, Malala Yousafzai shares her life beyond the headlines, exploring friendship, first love, anxiety, and self-discovery. From high school struggles to college challenges, she reveals the messy, human journey of finding herself,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dreaming of Home

  How We Turn Fear Into Pride, Power, and Real Change

  Jiménez, Cristina

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  Cristina Jiménez shares her journey from undocumented teen to immigrant youth leader, navigating challenges, systemic injustice, and self-discovery. Dreaming of Home celebrates resilience, community activism, and the power of ordinary people to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Reaping What She Sows

  How Women Are Rebuilding Our Broken Food System

  Matsumoto, Nancy

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  James Beard Award winner Nancy Matsumoto highlights women challenging the Big Food system. Through reporting on farmers and innovators, she shows how local, community-driven food networks combat corporate dominance, promote sustainability, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Gendered Islamophobia

  My Journey With a Scar(f)

  Mazigh, Monia

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  This passionate book describes the author's struggles as a hijab-wearing Muslim woman, who was born and raised in a Muslim country (Tunisia) but has spent most of her adult years in Quebec, Canada as an immigrant. Mazigh describes her multiple…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Becoming a Matriarch

  a Memoir

  Knott, Helen, 1987-

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  When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behind, or to craft a new space. Having lost both her mom and grandmother in just over six months, forced to navigate the fine lines between matriarchy,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Trouble With White Women

  a Counterhistory of Feminism

  Schuller, Kyla, 1977-

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  In The Trouble with White Women, Kyla Schuller examines how white feminist movements have historically advanced their own rights while exploiting and excluding women of color, queer, and trans women. Tracing this legacy from the 1840s to today, she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• What She Said

  Conversations About Equality

  Renzetti, Elizabeth

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  In What She Said, journalist Elizabeth Renzetti examines the unfinished fight for women’s rights in Canada, addressing pay gaps, underrepresentation, reproductive justice, harassment, and caregiving inequities. With wit and insight, she blends…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Be Well

  Navigating Our Self-care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time

  Larocca, Amy

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  In How to Be Well, journalist Amy Larocca explores the $5.6 trillion wellness industry and its deep impact on women’s lives. From fitness fads to alternative medicine, she examines how wellness culture shapes women’s ideas of health, beauty, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old

  Thoughts on Aging as a Woman

  Shields, Brooke, 1965-

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  Growing up as a child actor and model, her every feature was scrutinized, her every decision judged. Today Brooke faces a different kind of scrutiny: that of being a "woman of a certain age." And yet, for Brooke, the passage of time has brought…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Girl on Girl

  How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

  Gilbert, Sophie (Sophie G.)

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  In Girl on Girl, Atlantic critic Sophie Gilbert delivers a sharp critique of early-2000s pop culture, exposing how it turned feminism backward through hyper-objectification and internalized misogyny. Tracing this regression to media, internet porn,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All in Her Head

  the Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

  Comen, Elizabeth

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  A surprising, groundbreaking, and fiercely entertaining medical history that is both a collective narrative of women's bodies and a call to action for a new conversation around women's health.

• Hysterical

  a Memoir

  Bassist, Elissa

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  In Hysterical, Elissa Bassist recounts her struggle with mysterious physical ailments and the cultural silencing of women. Through reclaiming her voice, she explores how society represses female expression, linking physical pain and suppressed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stuff Mom Never Told You

  the Feminist Past, Present, and Future

  Reese, Anney

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  The concept of feminism has evolved and changed so much over the last few decades that it can be confusing for people to keep up. Luckily, Anney Reese and Samantha McVey break it all down every week on their popular iHeart podcast, Stuff Mom Never…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Good for a Girl

  a Woman Running in a Man's World

  Fleshman, Lauren

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  Fueled by her years as an elite runner and advocate for women in sports, Lauren Fleshman offers her inspiring personal story and a rallying cry for reform of a sports landscape that is failing young female athletes.

• Be the Calm or Be the Storm

  Leadership Lessons From a Woman at the Helm

  Yawn, Sandy

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  Based on the leadership lessons she's gathered from her resourceful and resilient life, Captain Sandy, a superyacht captain and star of Bravo's Below Deck Mediterranean, shares the leadership skills and critical thinking inherent to being a captain…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Exceptions

  Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science

  Zernike, Kate

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  From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who broke the story, the inspiring account of the sixteen female scientists who forced MIT to publicly admit it had been discriminating against its female faculty for years -- sparking a nationwide reckoning…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Financial Feminist

  Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love

  Dunlap, Tori

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  In Financial Feminist, Tori Dunlap distills the principles of her shame- and judgment-free approach to paying off debt, figuring out your value categories to spend mindfully, saving money without monk-like deprivation, and investing in order to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• No Second Chances

  Women and Political Power in Canada

  Graham, Kate, 1984-

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  No Second Chances shares the stories of the rise and fall of women in Canada's most senior political roles and examines the obstacles that prevent more women from reaching for and achieving these goals. Based on interviews conducted for the Canada…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Demanding Equality

  One Hundred Years of Canadian Feminism

  Sangster, Joan, 1952-

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  For one hundred years women fashioned different dreams of equality, autonomy, and dignity; yet what is Canadian feminism? This comprehensive rear-view look at feminism in all its political guises encourages a wider public conversation about what…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Think Like a Feminist

  the Philosophy Behind the Revolution

  Hay, Carol, 1977-

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  This book delves into topics such as the role of oppression, gender roles, sexual violence, what it means to identify as a woman, and the intersections of sexism, racism, classism, and homophobia. The author shatters common misconceptions about…Read moreRead more of this annotation