Foxy: My Life in Three Acts
7 best books like Foxy: My Life in Three Acts (Pam Grier): Belle: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast, The Night Dance: A Retelling of The Twelve Dancing Princesses, Winter's Child: A Retelling of The Snow Queen, Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward, Nigger, The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade, Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship
Belle: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast
| Author | Cameron Dokey |
| ISBN | 1416961313 |
Belle is convinced she has the wrong name, as she lacks her sisters' awe-inspiring beauty. So she withdraws from society, devoting her time to wood carving. Secretly, Belle longs to find the fabled Heartwood Tree. If carved by the right hands, the Heartwood will reveal the face of one's true love.
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| Author | Suzanne Weyn |
| ISBN | 1416905790 |
Under the stars, in a secret world...
Rowena, the youngest of twelve sisters, loves to slip out of the castle at night and dance in a magical forest. Soon she convinces her sisters to join her. When Sir Ethan notices that his daughters' slippers look tattered every morning, he is certain they've been...
Winter's Child: A Retelling of The Snow Queen
| Author | Cameron Dokey |
| ISBN | 1416975608 |
"Once Upon a Time" is Timeless
Free-spirited Grace and serious Kai are the best of friends. They grew up together listening to magical tales spun by Kai's grandmother and sharing in each other's secrets. But when they turn sixteen and Kai declares his love for Grace, everything changes. Grace...
Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward
| Author | Gemma Hartley |
| ISBN | 0062855980 |
From Gemma Hartley, the journalist who ignited a national conversation on emotional labor, comes Fed Up, a bold dive into the unpaid, invisible work women have shouldered for too long—and an impassioned vision for creating a better future for us all.
Day in, day out, women anticipate and...
| Author | Dick Gregory |
| ISBN | 0671735608 |
I read this book years ago. It was given to me by a young black man who was working to change the attitudes of white people. However, I was a young white woman and he knocked on my apartment door and asked to come in and talk about Civil Rights. It was 1964. I was a senior in high school. I asked him to come in. He...
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade
| Author | Ann Fessler |
| ISBN | 1594200947 |
A powerful and groundbreaking revelation of the secret history of the 1.5 million women who surrendered children for adoption in the several decades before Roe v. Wade
In this deeply moving work, Ann Fessler brings to light the lives of hundreds of thousands of young single American women...
Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship
‘Everyone’s afraid that their daughters might be hurt. No one seems to be scared that their sons might be the ones to do it … This book … is the culmination of many years of writing about power, abuse, privilege, male entitlement and rape culture. After all that, here’s what I’ve learned:...
