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"Francis Poletti writes books for children, but her stories are for everyone. They’re stories about women in history who were the first to achieve something, and what they had to battle against at that time, and how they preserved and pushed through and ended up achieving their dreams. “The Girl Who Ran,” is about a young heroine who is told that women can’t run, that running is against the rules, but she does it anyway."

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The Good Women of China

Xinran

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When Deng Xiaoping's efforts to 'open up' China took root in the late 1980s, Xinran recognised an...

China Asia Non-Fiction History Women's Memoir

Classes of Ladies of Cloistered Spaces: Writing Feminist History Through Biography in Finde-Siecle Egypt

Marilyn Booth

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This book explores the writing and influence of the first Arabic language global biographical...

Women and Violent Crime in Enlightenment Scotland

Anne-Marie Kilday

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This book offers important new insights into the relationship between crime and gender in Scotland...

Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

Michelle Dean

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Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion,...

Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present

Miriam Abramovitz

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Widely praised as an outstanding contribution to social welfare and feminist scholarship, Regulating...

Chris Hooker (419 KP) rated Conversations with Amelia in Books

Jan 12, 2018

[Conversations with Amelia] by [Kathleen Schmitt] cover both the history of one of the greatest women, Amelia Earhart, but also the growing pains of a family after WWII. All seen through the eyes of Hannah, who is very naive in the beginning. Her confidant is an imaginary Amelia who gives her good advice and keeps her "flying right".

I have been looking forward to reading this book because Amelia Earhart is one of my favorite figures in history. I was not disappointed. It is well written and interweaves the history with the events happening in the story so that it has a really nice flow. I highly recommend reading this book.