Books for the Remarkable Women in Your Life

It’s been said that “Women hold up half the sky”, and our collection of books about remarkable women proves the point. These books feature some of the most accomplished, famous, powerful, surprising and successful women from cities and states nationwide. From trailblazers to activists, to artists and wild women, these women stood up and were counted. Celebrate the remarkable women in your life by sharing tales of the powerful tradition of women who led the way.
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Notable Women of Portland
Notable Women of Portland
$29.99
Remarkable Oregon Women
Remarkable Oregon Women
$21.99
Influential Women of Spokane
Influential Women of Spokane
$21.99
Extraordinary Women Conservationists of Washington
Extraordinary Women Conservationists of Washington
$21.99
Abigail Scott Duniway and Susan B. Anthony in Oregon
Abigail Scott Duniway and Susan B. Anthony in Oregon
$21.99

Notable Women of Portland

9781467125055

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The story of Portland, Oregon, like much of history, has usually been told with a focus on male leaders. This book offers a reframing of Portland's history. Many women made their mark and radically changed the Oregon frontier, including Native Americans Polly Johnson and Josette Nouette; pioneers Minerva Carter and Charlotte Terwilliger; doctors Marie Equi, Mary Priscilla Avery Sawtelle, and Bethina Owens-Adair; artists Eliza Barchus and Lily E. White; suffragists Abigail Scott Duniway, Hattie Redmond, and Eva Emery Dye; lawyer Mary Gysin Leonard; Air Force pilot Hazel Ying Lee; politicians Barbara Roberts and Margaret Carter; and authors Frances Fuller Victor, Beverly Cleary, Beatrice Morrow Cannady, Ursula Le Guin, and Jean Auel. These women, along with groups of women such as "Wendy the Welders," made Portland what it is today.
Notable Women of Portland

Remarkable Oregon Women

9781467118996

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Remarkable Oregon Women

Influential Women of Spokane

9781467119863

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While known as the home of Father's Day, Spokane benefited from its share of trailblazing women. In 1886, Mother Joseph, a pioneering architect, constructed the first Sacred Heart Hospital. After fire destroyed thirty-six blocks in 1889, Anna Stratton Browne and her friends raised $10,000 to build a home for needy children that operated for six decades. And in early 1908, May Hutton became president of the Spokane Equal Suffrage League, persevering until 1910, when Washington voters gave women the vote. Historian Nancy Driscol Engle commemorates the unforgettable contributions of Spokane's women.
Influential Women of Spokane

Extraordinary Women Conservationists of Washington

9781626197596

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Courageous women are to thank for many of Washington's environmental conservation successes. Bonnie Phillips, Melanie Rowland and Helen Engle battled harmful timber cutting. Polly Dyer and Emily Haig worked to expand Olympic National Park and organized efforts to establish North Cascades National Park. Women helped create the Washington Environmental Council and Washington Conservation Voters. As a state representative, Jolene Unsoeld led the fight against Boeing and other major corporations to pass the state Model Toxics Control Act. Author and Washington conservationist Dee Arntz recounts these important stories and many others, showing that the legacy of Washington's female conservationists is nothing short of extraordinary.
Extraordinary Women Conservationists of Washington

Abigail Scott Duniway and Susan B. Anthony in Oregon

9781625859785

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It was the spring of 1871. Pioneer entrepreneur Abigail Scott Duniway, on a business trip to purchase stock for her millinery store back in Oregon, waited breathlessly outside the suffrage convention in San Francisco. She hoped to meet Susan B. Anthony, whose career she so admired. And so they met, sparking a relationship that dramatically altered Duniway's life. The duo traveled for months on horseback, carriage, train and boat in their crucial, successful effort to ensure the right to vote for women nationwide. Author Jennifer Chambers revives the inspirational fight for women's rights by examining the dynamic between these two powerful women and how they changed not just the Beaver State but the country as a whole.
Abigail Scott Duniway and Susan B. Anthony in Oregon