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The heroine with 1,001 faces / by Tatar, Maria,1945-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."World-renowned folklorist Maria Tatar reveals an astonishing but long buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman. How do we explain our newfound cultural investment in empathy and social justice? For decades, Joseph Campbell had defined our cultural aspirations in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, emphasizing the value of seeking glory and earning immortality. His work became the playbook for Hollywood, with its many male-centric quest narratives. Challenging the models in Campbell's canonical work, Maria Tatar explores how heroines, rarely wielding a sword and deprived of a pen, have flown beneath the radar even as they have been bent on social missions. Using the domestic arts and storytelling skills, they have displayed audacity, curiosity, and care as they struggled to survive and change the reigning culture. Animating figures from Ovid's Philomela, her tongue severed yet still weaving a tale about sexual assault, to Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander, a high-tech wizard seeking justice for victims of a serial killer, The Heroine with 1,001 Faces creates a luminous arc that takes us from ancient times to the present"--
Subjects: Sex role in literature.; Women heroes in literature.; Women heroes; Women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The breadwinner / by Ellis, Deborah,1960-;
When Parvana's father is arrested and taken to jail, she must disuise herself as a boy in order to earn money for her family.LSC
Subjects: Girls; Sex role; Disguise;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Fed up. : emotional labor, women, and the way forward / by Hartley, Gemma,1988-author.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Emotions.; Sex differences (Psychology); Sex role; Sexual division of labor;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Let me be frank : a book about women who dressed like men to do shit they weren't supposed to do / by Dawson, Tracy,1973-author.; Berning, Tina,illustrator.;
Includes bibliographical references."A collection of humorous essays with an accurate, followable narrative thread relating the stories of notable women throughout history who dressed as men to get what they wanted or needed, complete with a four-color portrait of each woman"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Cross-dressers; Male impersonators; Sex role; Women; Women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Hour of the Olympics / by Osborne, Mary Pope; Murdocca, Sal;
Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to retrieve a lost story in Ancient Greece, where they witness the original Olympic games and are surprised to find what girls of the time were not supposed to do.Reading level : 2.3
Subjects: Olympics; Time travel; Sex role; Magic; Tree houses;
© c1998., Random House,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Ellie, engineer : the next level / by Pearce, Jackson.; Mourning, Tuesday.;
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Subjects: Engineering; Neighborliness; Building; Sex role; Cooperativeness;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Lessons in chemistry : a novel / by Garmus, Bonnie,author.;
"Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show. Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the 1960s and despite the fact that she is a scientist, her peers are very unscientific when it comes to equality. The only good thing to happen to her on the road to professional fulfillment is a run-in with her super-star colleague Calvin Evans (well, she stole his beakers.) The only man who ever treated her--and her ideas--as equal, Calvin is already a legend and Nobel nominee. He's also awkward, kind and tenacious. Theirs is true chemistry. But as events are never as predictable as chemical reactions, three years later Elizabeth Zott is an unwed, single mother (did we mention it's the early 60s?) and the star of America's most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth's singular approach to cooking ('take one pint of H2O and add a pinch of sodium chloride') and independent example are proving revolutionary. Because Elizabeth isn't just teaching women how to cook, she's teaching them how to change the status quo. Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist"--
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Feminist fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Sex role; Single mothers; Television cooking shows; Women scientists;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Motherland : a feminist history of modern Russia, from revolution to autocracy / by Ioffe, Julia,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Award-winning journalist Julia Ioffe tells the story of modern Russia through the history of its women, from revolution to utopia to autocracy. In 1990, seven-year-old Julia Ioffe and her family fled the Soviet Union. Nearly twenty years later, Ioffe returned to Moscow -- only to discover just how much Russian society had changed while she had been living in America. The Soviet women she had known growing up -- doctors, engineers, scientists -- had seemingly been replaced with women desperate to marry rich and become stay-at-home moms. How had Russia gone from portraying itself as the vanguard of world feminism to the last bastion of conservative Christian values? In Motherland, Ioffe turns modern Russian history on its head, telling it exclusively through the stories of its women. From her own physician great-grandmothers to Lenin's lover, a feminist revolutionary; from the hundreds of thousands of Soviet girls who fought in World War II to the millions of single mothers who rebuilt and repopulated a devastated country; from the members of Pussy Riot to Yulia Navalnaya, wife of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, she chronicles one of the most audacious social experiments in history and how it failed the very women it was meant to liberate -- and documents how that failure paved the way to the revanche of Vladimir Putin. Part memoir, part journalistic exploration, part history, Motherland paints a portrait of modern Russia through the women who shaped it. With deep emotion, Ioffe shows what it means to live through the cataclysms of revolution, war, idealism, and heartbreak -- and reveals how the story of Russia today is inextricably tied to the history of its women"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Feminism; Feminism; Sex role; Sex role; Women; Women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Interstellar Cinderella / by Underwood, Deborah.; Hunt, Meg.;
In this outer space adaptation of the fairy tale in rhyme, Cinderella dreams of becoming a spaceship mechanic.LSC
Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; Cinderella (Legendary character); Mechanics; Sex role;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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In the spotlight / by Pearce, Jackson.; Mourning, Tuesday.;
When a Kit's pageant rival Melody loses her rabbit, Ellie believes she can build a contraption to catch him, but she begins to doubt herself when Melody insists that a pageant is no place for messy engineering experiments.LSC
Subjects: Engineering; Building; Pageants; Sex role; Self-perception;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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