Global Week 2020 Reading List

Posted on 21 November 2019.

Interested in learning more about this year’s Global Week theme, Seats at the Table: Women, Peace, and Security? ACE Center TA Riley ’20 helped us compile these book recommendations to help anyone from sixth graders to faculty explore the topic. All of the books listed below are available in the library!

Leading the Way: Women in Power by Senator Janet Howell and Theresa Howell

Imagining Ourselves: Global Voices from a New Generation of Women edited by Paula Goldman

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai

Girls Resist!: A Guide to Activism, Leadership, and Starting a Revolution by Kaelyn Rich

Revolutionary Women: A Book of Stencils by Queen of the Neighborhood Collective

Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger by Rebecca Traister

Women Who Don’t Wait in Line: Break the Mold, Lead the Way by Reshma Saujani

1000 PeaceWomen Across the Globe by 1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize

Women & Leadership: The State of Play and Strategies for Change edited by Barbara Kellerman and Deborah L. Rhode

Why Women Should Rule the World by Dee Dee Meyers

 

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