Office of the Gender and Woman's Studies Librarian

Start Over Subject Autobiography and Biography Topic Activism Era 19th Century

1. "Nobler Imaginings and Mightier Struggles": Octavia Hill, Social Activism, and the Remaking of British Society

Editor: Elizabeth Baigent and Ben Cowell
Publication date: 2016

2. A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time: Julia Wilbur's Struggle for Purpose

Author: Paula Tarnapol Whitacre
Publication date: 2017

3. A Faded Legacy: Amy Brown Lyman and Mormon Women's Activism, 1872–1959

Author: Dave Hall
Publication date: 2015

4. A Life on Fire: Oklahoma's Kate Barnard

Author: Connie Cronley
Publication date: 2021

5. Amelia Stone Quinton and the Women's National Indian Association: A Legacy of Indian Reform

Author: Valerie Sherer Mathes
Publication date: 2022

6. America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today

Author: Pamela S. Nadell
Publication date: 2019

7. Belle La Follette: Progressive Era Reformer

Author: Nancy C. Unger
Publication date: 2016

8. Gertrude Weil: Jewish Progressive in the New South

Author: Leonard Rogoff
Publication date: 2017

9. Going to Boston: Harriet Robinson's Journey to New Womanhood

Editor: Harriet Robinson
Publication date: 2017

10. Maria Baldwin's Worlds: A Story of Black New England and the Fight for Racial Justice

Author: Kathleen Weiler
Publication date: 2019

11. Rosalie Gardiner Jones and the Long March for Women's Rights

Author: Zachary Michael Jack
Publication date: 2020

12. Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women's Activism in Modern America

Author: Anya Jabour
Publication date: 2019

13. The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family

Author: Kerri K. Greenidge
Publication date: 2023

14. The Living Flame: The Revolutionary Passion of Rosa Luxemburg

Author: Paul Le Blanc
Publication date: 2019

15. The Rabbi's Atheist Daughter: Ernestine Rose, International Feminist Pioneer

Author: Bonnie S. Anderson
Publication date: 2017

16. This Land Is Herland: Gendered Activism in Oklahoma from the 1870s to the 2010s

Editor: Sarah Eppler Janda and Patricia Loughlin
Publication date: 2021