Powerful Women History

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    • A Revolutionary History from NPR Music
    • By: National Public Radio Inc
    • Narrated by: Alison Fensterstock, Ann Powers
    • Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-24
    • Language: English
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    • Acclaimed critic and TtT co-founder Ann Powers and contributor Alison Fensterstock draw from every Turning the Tables season and the full 50-years of NPR archives to bring a vibrant, entertaining history of women in folk, rock, rap, hip hop, salsa, bubblegum pop, and much more.

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    • A Manifesto
    • By: Mary Beard
    • Narrated by: Mary Beard
    • Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 204 ratings
    • At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly attack and demean women the world over, including, very often, Mary herself....

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    • The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality
    • By: Josie Cox
    • Narrated by: Josie Cox
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In Women Money Power, business journalist Josie Cox tells the story of women’s fight for freedom and economic equality....

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    • Golda Meir and Her Path to Power
    • By: Pnina Lahav
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • A feminist biography of the only woman to become prime minister of Israel In this authoritative and empathetic biography, Pnina Lahav reexamines the life of Golda Meir (1898-1978) through a feminist lens, focusing on her recurring role as a woman standing alone among men....

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    • Black Women, Rape, and Resistance - A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
    • By: Danielle L. McGuire
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
    • Rosa Parks was often described as a sweet and reticent elderly woman whose tired feet caused her to defy segregation on Montgomery’s city buses, and whose supposedly solitary, spontaneous act sparked the 1955 bus boycott that gave birth to the civil rights movement. Here's the truth....

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    • Classical Myths and Stories, from the Amazons to Cleopatra
    • By: Stephanie McCarter - editor
    • Narrated by: Isuri Wijesundara
    • Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • Classical stories about women who wield power, from the Amazons to Dido to Cleopatra.

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    • How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live
    • By: Danielle Dreilinger
    • Narrated by: Rachel Perry
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • The term "home economics" may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. Danielle Dreilinger traces the field's history....

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    • Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion
    • By: Julie Satow
    • Narrated by: Karen Murray
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • A glittering portrait of the golden age of American department stores and of three visionary women who led them, from the award-winning author of The Plaza.

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    • Power and Politics in the Civil War South
    • By: Stephanie McCurry
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • The story of the Confederate States of America has been told many times in heroic narratives. Now, however, Stephanie McCurry tells a different tale. Confederate Reckoning is the story of this political battle in which women and slaves helped to decide the fate of the Confederacy....

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    • Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States
    • By: Laura F. Edwards
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Richardson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Only the Clothes on Her Back uncovers practices, commonly known then, but now long forgotten, which made textiles - clothing, cloth, bedding, and accessories, such as shoes and hats - a unique form of property that people without rights could own and exchange....

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    • A Dual Time Period Novel of Fantasy, History, and Romance
    • By: Alison Blasdell
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-24
    • Language: English
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    • This time, the sacrifice is too great to ask of anyone—even a daughter of the sky. In this thrilling conclusion to the Touch the Sky series, ...

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    • How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War; a Memoir
    • By: Leymah Gbowee, Carol Mithers
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Scott
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 241 ratings
    • As a young woman growing up in Africa, 17-year-old Leymah Gbowee was crushed by a savage war when violence reached her native Monrovia....

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    • By: E. Stanly Godbold
    • Narrated by: Graham Winton
    • Length: 31 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The dual biography of the powerful First Couple who attempted to use their presidency to bring peace, human rights, and justice to all peoples of the world and dedicated the remainder of their long lives to making a safer, more caring world....

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    • A Traveler's Guide to the Power and Persecution of the Witch
    • By: Kristen J. Sollee
    • Narrated by: Amy McFadden
    • Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Traveling through cities and sites across Italy, France, Germany, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Kristen J. Sollee - a second-generation witch herself - explores the witch as a figure of female power and persecution....

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    • By: Joanne Parsons
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Kitchen Canary is winning acclaim. 2018 First Place in Historical Fiction Novel - Royal Dragonfly Book Awards. 2018 Honorable Mention-Novel- Royal ...

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    • Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
    • By: Kara Cooney
    • Narrated by: Kara Cooney
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-14-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 606 ratings
    • Hatshepsut's failure to produce a male heir was ultimately the twist of fate that paved the way for her improbable rule as a cross-dressing king....

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    • A Black Woman's Story
    • By: Elaine Brown
    • Narrated by: Elaine Brown
    • Length: 17 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • Elaine Brown assumed her role as the first and only female leader of the Black Panther Party with these words: “I have all the guns and all the money. I can withstand challenge from without and from within. Am I right, Comrade?” It was August 1974....

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    • By: Angeline Boulley
    • Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 363 ratings
    • From the New York Times bestselling author of Firekeeper’s Daughter comes a thrilling YA mystery about a Native teen who must find a way to bring an ancestor home to her tribe....

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    • How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years
    • By: Rosalind Miles
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Now is the time for a new women’s history - for the famous, infamous, and unsung women to get their due - from the Enlightenment to the #MeToo movement....

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