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Author
Publisher
Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A trusted historian shows that "biblical womanhood" isn't biblical, but was born in a clearly definable historical moment, and presents a better way forward for the contemporary church"--
Biblical womanhood--the belief that God designed women to be submissive wives, virtuous mothers, and joyful homemakers--pervades North American Christianity. From choices about careers to roles in local churches to relationship dynamics, this belief shapes the...
Author
Publisher
Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In her new book, bestselling author Elizabeth Lesser looks to the stories told about women over the ages and how they contribute to persistent misogyny and gender inequality, and offers a path towards framing new stories that honor all people"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Pursuing her desire to be a knight, Alanna learns many things in her role as squire to Prince Jonathan, but fears Duke Roger, an ambitious sorcerer with whom she knows she will one day have to deal. "I don't want to fall in love. I just want to be a warrior maiden." Still disguised as a boy, Alanna becomes a squire to none other than the prince of the realm. Prince Jonathan is not only Alanna's liege lord, he is also her best friend -- and one of...
86) Ma vie en rose
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
Français
Description
Ludovic is waiting for a miracle. With six-year-old certainty, he believes he was meant to be a little girl and that the mistake will soon be corrected. But where he expects the miraculous, Ludo finds only rejection, isolation and guilt--as the intense reactions of family, friends, and neighbors strip away every innocent lace and bauble
Author
Publisher
Laurel-Leaf Books
Pub. Date
2003, c1989
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year old Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert of present-day Pakistan, is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family, she must either accept the decision, as is the custom, or risk the consequences of defying her father's wishes
Author
Series
Radiant emperor volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in Shelley Parker-Chan's She Who Became the Sun, a bold, queer, and lyrical reimagining of the rise of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty from an amazing new voice in literary fantasy. To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything "I refuse to be nothing..." In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness......
Author
Series
Perennial Library volume PL4283
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
1988, ©1987
Language
English
Description
"In prehistorical times, Eisler argues, women and men lived together in egalitarian communities devoted to nurturance; with the imposition of male domination, female values gave way to creeds of hierarchy, aggression, power, obedience. Eisler, a futurist, posits a new society based on the recovery of more humane values."--From Library journal (6/1/85).
Author
Series
Marvin Redpost volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©1993
Language
English
Description
After Casey Happleton tells him that if he kisses his elbow he will turn into a girl, nine-year-old Marvin experiments and finds himself very confused about his identity.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Have you ever noticed that there are unwritten rules that tell boys how to act, think, and feel? Nobody knows where they came from, but one day--BAM!--you suddenly feel these invisible forces pushing you to follow the rules of masculinity, even if they don't make you happy. This get-real guidebook isn't about learning the rules of the Boys' Club--it's about UNLEARNING them and figuring out how to be brave...smart...cool...confident...strong."--
Author
Series
Eon volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Facing the ultimate battle for control of the land she calls home, Eona finds herself waging an internal battle every bit as devastating as the war threatening to break out across the kingdom.
98) Sovay
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1794 England, the rich and beautiful Sovay, disguised as a highwayman, acquires papers that could lead to her father's arrest for treason, and soon her newly-awakened political consciousness leads her and a compatriot to France during the Revolution.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 16
Language
English
Description
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 allowed to do.
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