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Book Review: Cook Food by Lisa Jervis

Cook Food is for you if: you love feminist pop culture, you love food, you want to learn more about sustainable eating, you’re on a budget, you’re vegan-curious, or you just need some cheap, easy, and healthy recipes.
I was so excited to see Cook Food posted on some great vegan food blogs lately. The back [...]

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Terrific Holiday Gift Idea: Girls Are Not Chicks Coloring Book

Terrific Holiday Gift Idea: Girls Are Not Chicks Coloring Book

This is a special book review post to recommend the Girls Are Not Chicks Coloring Book as a gift  for any special lady, young or old.
As the Coloring Book shares, authors Jacinta Bunnell and Julie Novak grew tired of stereotypical and traditional coloring books that left girls with few choices beyond the most basic gender [...]

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Book Review:Seeking Sara Summers by Susan Gabriel

Seeking Sara Summers is a delightful work of fiction that mirrors the very real struggles that women face in our day-to-day lives. The main character is a devoted wife and mother, who in the midst of a battle with breast cancer, begins to really seek the woman she wants to be. Her journey takes her to [...]

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Women’s History & The Depression Era Resource

This is a new webpage, free, updated daily, and easily accessible, which will eventually be linked as the first guest artist page of the official Horton Foote website.
Mr. Foote was the Pulitzer Prize winning screenplay writer of such films as To Kill a Mockingbird and Tender Mercies.
 
The new webpage is an unfolding epic story of [...]

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Book Review: The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World

The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
Author: Shelley Emling
In this age of technology and virtually unlimited access to information, it  is continually surprising to see how many unsung female heroes still wait  in the shadows of history to be recognized. A well-written book is one of the most effective, and enjoyable,  ways [...]

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Less Than 1 Week Left – Washington Women’s Suffrage Centennial Exhibit at the Washington State History Museum

by Lisa Frederiksen
Washington was the 5th state to grant women full suffrage – 10 years before the 19th Amendment was ratified! Often, people are not aware that some states had granted women suffrage long before the 19th Amendment. When you look at this map of suffrage in the United States, women suffrage in America was [...]

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To look out for

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, highly acclaimed and Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Midwive’s Tale, just released a book titled after her infamous quote Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History.
Ulrich’s thoughts on women’s history:
It is Ulrich’s opinion that women’s history has become “very sophisticated — mainstream. We tend to see men and women as players now. The [...]

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