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Contains graphic style stories about seven daring young women from around the world who disguised themselves as men in order to achieve their goals, including Hatshepsut, Mu Lan, Alfhild, Esther Brandeau, James Barry, Ellen Craft, and Sarah Rosetta Wakeman.

Not allowed to go hiking with her father and brothers because she is a girl, Bessie learns about women's rights when she attends a suffrage rally led by Susan B.

After her father's death, Parvana, now thirteen-years-old, continues to search for her mother in war-torn Afghanistan, joining with two younger children who are also struggling to survive.

Chronicles the advances made in women's rights around the world over the course of the twentieth century, providing photos and discussing such topics as education, marriage and motherhood, health care, work, and human rights.

Parvana is an eleven-year-old girl growing up under the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001.

An eight-year-old girl deals with the women's suffrage movement that rages during World War I.

Examines women's contribution to the evolution of the human race, and the female achievement on every level-cultural, commerical domestic, emotional, and social.

Describes the duties and working conditions of several occupations held by women in Victorian England, including pieceworker, shopkeeper, servant, governess, midwife, migrant worker, factory worker, philanthropist, reformer, entertainer, and writer.

A fictional biography of the gender-bending Orlando and his adventures throughout four centuries, from Elizabethan England to the 1900s.

Susan, eleven years old in 1914, encounters a mystery through an independent-minded female boarder and becomes involved in the growing suffrage movement in New York City.

Contains the text of "The Yellow Wallpaper" in which a young woman loses her mind after her husband forces her to spend her days in a room with strange wallpaper; includes information that places the novel in its historical and cultural context.

Explores what life was like for women and girls from a wide range of classes, religions, and countries in Europe during the Renaissance.

The author examines the disadvantages of being a stay-at-home mom, maintaining that women who choose to give up a job or career leave themselves open to economic hardship should their spouse leave.

Aisling Juanjuan Shen, the daughter of illiterate peasant parents in a poor rice-farming hamlet in China, recounts how she overcame her poverty stricken beginnings and the gender biases of the Chinese government and business world to find success and happiness in modern China.

"Explores the complexities of the lived experiences of Victorian women in the home, the workplace, and the empire as well as the ideals of womanhood and femininity that developed during the 19th century"--.