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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 Feminist in the White House: Midge Costanza, the Carter Years, and America's Culture Wars

Author: Doreen Mattingly
Publication date: 2016

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

Author: Connie Cronley
Publication date: 2021

6. A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder

Author: Ma-Nee Chacaby and Mary Louisa Plummer
Publication date: 2016

7. Adela Sloss-Vento: Writer, Political Activist, and Civil Rights Pioneer

Author: Arnoldo Carlos Vento
Publication date: 2017

8. Alice Paul, the National Woman's Party, and the Vote: The First Civil Rights Struggle of the 20th Century

Author: Bernadette Cahill
Publication date: 2015

9. Alice Paul: Claiming Power

Author: J. D. Zahniser and Amelia R. Fry
Publication date: 2014

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

Author: Valerie Sherer Mathes
Publication date: 2022

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

Author: Pamela S. Nadell
Publication date: 2019

12. Barbara Gittings: Gay Pioneer

Author: Tracy Baim
Publication date: 2015

13. Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

Author: Judith E. Heumann and Kristen Joiner
Publication date: 2020

14. Belle La Follette: Progressive Era Reformer

Author: Nancy C. Unger
Publication date: 2016

15. Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era

Editor: Dionne Espinoza, María Eugenia Cotera, and Maylei Blackwell
Publication date: 2018

16. Christabel Pankhurst: A Biography

Author: June Purvis
Publication date: 2018

17. Eleanor Marx: A Life

Author: Rachel Holmes
Publication date: 2015

18. Eunice Hunton Carter: A Lifelong Fight for Social Justice

Author: Marilyn S. Greenwald and Li Yun
Publication date: 2021

19. Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé

Author: Elizabeth Cobbs
Publication date: 2023

20. Firebrand Feminism: The Radical Lives of Ti-Grace Atkinson, Kathie Sarachild, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, and Dana Densmore

Author: Breanne Fahs
Publication date: 2018