false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173546827m/301897.jpg 301897 3 Did you know that as recently as 1972, male employees could legally be paid twice as much as females for doing the same job? Or that in the 1992 edition of <I>Bartlett's Familiar Quotations</I>, only 5.5 percent of the quoted lines were written by women? It's easy now to be complacent about such rights as voting, equal pay for men and women, education, even speaking. But it wasn't so long ago that women were fighting--sometimes with their lives--for these rights. And, as this rabble-rousing collection of essays, poems, drama, photos, illustrations, and stories reveals, the many "firsts" in history (or "herstory") are entirely relevant to the lives of girls and women today. Gathered by Tonya Bolden, editor of <I>33 Things Every Girl Should Know</I> and <I>Hands On! 33 More Things Every Girl Should Know</I>, the exuberant voices in this volume encourage young women to empower themselves with knowledge ("it's the ultimate girl power"). Girls will learn about "Beauty" "Why Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) Still Rules," and how "Title IX Helped Level the Playing Field," by a diverse group of well-known and less familiar authors, including Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Patricia C. McKissack, Abigail Adams, and Ophira Edut. (Ages 12 and older) <I>--Emilie Coulter</I> 292961 12 2 2002 33 Things Every Girl Should Know About Women's History: From Suffragettes to Skirt Lengths to the E.R.A. total:16|5:3|4:8|3:2|2:2|1:1| 16 58 54 3 0 0 false false Sat Jan 03 20:38:27 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 20:40:22 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Fri Apr 18 09:09:45 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 05 10:29:50 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Feb 19 08:10:21 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 19 08:10:41 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Fri Nov 13 15:33:48 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 15:33:48 -0800 2009 1 0 false false Sat Nov 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 18:19:31 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 18:19:37 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Oct 31 15:05:17 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 15:05:17 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Oct 15 09:29:51 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 09:29:51 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Oct 11 15:09:43 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 15:09:43 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Oct 07 10:05:38 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 10:05:38 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Oct 05 11:46:57 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 11:46:57 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Sep 14 08:13:09 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 08:13:09 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Aug 23 18:38:18 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 18:38:18 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Thu Aug 20 10:54:16 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 10:54:28 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Aug 20 14:01:40 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 15:01:58 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 14:01:40 -0700 2009 4 0 true false Fri Aug 07 16:34:27 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 16:34:32 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jul 12 16:55:20 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 16:55:27 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jun 09 22:33:08 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 22:33:08 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu May 28 12:22:50 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 12:22:50 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Wed May 27 20:21:58 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 12:30:35 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 20:21:58 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Apr 26 12:45:27 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 12:45:27 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=301897