Dive deeper in Sonoma County Library's Together at the Table series by exploring the following materials.
MATERIALS LIST
Explore this topic further through extensive booklists of materials available to check out in the library. Materials are available for kids, families, teens and adults and come in a variety of formats including fiction, nonfiction, picture books, DVDs and graphic novels.
The materials on this list offer people of all ages opportunities to dig deeper into the topic of women's rights, from the history of women's suffrage to current efforts and perspectives on the women's movement.
NONFICTION
Divided We Stand: the battle over women's rights and family values that polarized American politics by Marjorie J. Spruill
The Feminist Utopia Project: 57 visions of a wildly better future by Alexandra Brodsky
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
Unfinished Business: women, men, work, family by Anne-Marie Slaughter
We Should All Be Feminist by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We Were Feminist Once by Andi Zeilser
What Women Want by Deborah Rhode
Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection by Debora Sparr
The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman
All The Lives I Want by Alana Massey
Nasty Women: feminism, resistance, and revolution in Trump's America edited by Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding
Radical Hope: letters of love and dissent in dangerous times edited by Carolina De Robertis
Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud by Anne Helen Peterson
Sex Object: a memoir by Jessica Valenti
The Art of Tough: fearlessly facing politics and life by Barbara Boxer
Generation Roe: Inside the Future of the Pro-Choice Movement by Sarah Erdreich
Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sues their Bosses and Changed the Workplace by Lynn Povich
Jailed for Freedom: American Women Win the Vote by Doris Stevens
In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution by Susan Brownmiller
Seneca Falls and the Origin of the Women's Rights Movement by Sally G. McMillen
The Unfinished Revolution: Voices from the Global Fight for Women's Rights by Minky Worden
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
This Bridge Called My Back: writings by radical women of color by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldua
Shrill: notes from a loud woman by Lindy West
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof
Hiddle Figures: the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathmaticians who helped win the space race by Margot Lee Shetterly
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsberg by Irin Carmon
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power by Jimmy Carter
Girls Like Us: Fights for a World Where Girls are not for sale, an Activists Finds her Calling and Heals Herself by Rachel Lloyd
Girls Just Want To Have Likes: How to Raise Confident Girls in the Face of Social Media Madness by Laurie Wolk
The Girl in the Show: 3 generations of comedy, culture, and feminism by Anna Fields
Why I March: Images from the Women's March around the World edited by Samantha Weiner and Emma Jacobs
Women of the Revolution: Forty Years of Feminism by Kira Cochrane
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance by Danielle L. McGuire
Tied Up in Knots: how getting what we wanted made women miserable by Andrea Tantaros
My Life On the Road by Gloria Steinem
Why I Am Not A Feminist: a feminist manifesto by Jesse Crispin
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Dead Feminist: historic heroines in living color by Claudia O'Leary and Jessica Spring
FICTION
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Dietland by Sarai Walker
The Invention of Wing by Sue Monk Kidd
Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland
The Help: a novel by Kathryn Stockett
When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
My Notorious Life by Kate ManningTEENS
The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed
With Courage and Cloth by Ann Bausum
Strong is the New Pretty: a celebration of girls being themselves by Kate T. Parker
I Am Malala: the story of the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
Asking for It by Louise O'Neill
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Estrella's Quinceanera by Malin Alegria
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
Poisoned Apples: poems for you, my pretty by Christine Heppermann
The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis
You Don't Have to Like Me: essays on growing up, speaking out, and finding feminism by Alida Nugent
Full Frontal Feminism: a young woman's guide to why feminism matters by Jessica Valenti
Here We Are: feminism for the real world by Kelly Jensen
Only Ever Yours by Louise O'Neill
The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge
Unbecoming by Jenny Downham
Does My Head Look Big In This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
The Secret Diary of Lydia Bennet by Natasha Farrant
CHILDREN'S
Rad American Women A-Z by Kate Schatz
She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World by Chelsea Clinton
Two Friends by Dean Robbins
I Could Do That!: Esther Morris Gets Women to Vote by Linda Arms White
The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women by Elena Favilli
You Come to Yokum by Carol Otis Hurst
Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909 by Michelle Markel
Elizabeth Started All the Trouble by Doreen Rappaport
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsberg Makes Her Mark by Debbie Levy
The Little Book of Little Activists by Robert Bland
The Girl Who Thought In Pictures: the story of Dr. Temple Grandin by Julia Finley Mosca 
Ladies of Liberty: the women who shaped our nation by Marjorie J. SpruillDOCUMENTARIES
He Named me Malala by Fox Searchlight Pictures
What Happened, Miss Simone? by Netflix
Equal Means Equal by Kamala Lopez
Miss Representation by Virgil Films 
She's Beautiful When She's Angry by Mary Dore
It's a Girl by Reggie Littlejohn 
No Woman No Cry by Turly Pictures
Half the Sky by Show Force and Fugitive Films 
The Invisible War by Helen Benedict
The Hunting Ground by Kirby DickThe Together at the Table project was supported in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
The opinions expressed herein do not reflect the position of the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Srevices, the California State Library, or the Sonoma County Library, and no official endorsement by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, the California State Library, or the Sonoma County Library should be inferred.
