Celebrate women from all over the world and throughout
time by learning their stories. Here are some current books that will help you.
In Praise of Difficult Women: Life Lessons
from 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules is written by Karen Karbo.
The author reviews the lives and accomplishments of several women from recent
history, celebrities all. They include Amelia Earhart, Helen Gurley Brown,
Hillary Clinton, Nora Ephron, Frida Kahlo, Billie Jean King, J.K. Rowling and
more. Learn what makes them an inspiration to us all.
Bad Girls from History: Wicked or
Misunderstood? is written by Dee Gordon. From different countries,
different centuries, and different cultures, these ladies aren’t the
law-abiding citizens we usually honor. Whether they were cited because of
sexual misconduct, murder, thievery, or other crimes, you will get the inside
scoop on such women as Cleopatra, Bonnie Parker, Jezebel, Lizzie Gordon, and
more.
The Women Who Made New York is written by Julie Scelfo, a journalist
who has written for the New York Times
and Newsweek. The book features more
than 100 women who contributed to the social, cultural, political and economic
development of the city. Illustrations by Hallie Heald enrich the text.
Bet
you don’t know about all of these female radicals featured in Rad Women Worldwide: Artists and Athletes,
Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History. Written by
Kate Schatz, this book tells the stories of forty women, from Hatshepsut (a
female king of Egypt) to Malala Yousafzi (the youngest person to win the Nobel
Peace Prize) and accompanies each with an illustrated portrait done by artist
Miriam Klein Stahl.
