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

It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity by Theresa Thorn.

Wells: Let the Truth Be Told by Walter Dean Myers

I am Jazz by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings.

Herstory: 50 Women and Girls Who Shook Up the World by Katherine Halligan.

Anthony Votes for President by Ann Malaspina

The Gutsy Girl: Escapades for Your Life of Epic Adventure by Caroline Paul.

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo.

Equality’s Call: The Story of Voting Rights in America by Deborah Diesen.

Elizabeth Started All the Trouble by Doreen Rappaport.

Delores Huerta: A Hero to Migrant Workers by Sarah Warren.

50+ African American Women Who Changed the World by Cheryl Willis Hudson

Bold & Brave: Ten Heroes Who Won Women the Right to Vote by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand,.

NYPL’s Essential Reads on Feminism: For Kids The lists for kids and teens are of a more manageable length, and “if you’re looking to stock the bookshelves before history class starts this fall,” you can hardly do better than to start with these titles (or just bookmark the lists for now), as Danielle Valente-who helpfully transcribes both lists, below-notes at Time Out New York.

The adult list contains 126 books and includes links to the library catalog or e-Book editions. “The titles bridge the past and present of feminist movements, from Simone de Beauvoir’s The Independent Woman(1949) to Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist: Essays (2014), and from the earliest manifestos for equality to contemporary writings on intersectionality,” Valentina Di Liscia writes at Hyperallergic. These books can help create community and solidarity and inspire deep reflection as kids are pushed back into schools and parents and teachers try to help them cope.

To illustrate the continued critical importance of feminist history, theory, and literature, the New York Public Library published reading lists for adults, kids, and teens on the 19th Amendment’s 100th anniversary. More than ever, feminist reading lists reflect the vast differences in collective and personal experience that fall under the label “Feminist.” Each generation of women, but most especially Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and LGBTQ women, must claim or reclaim basic rights, liberties, and protections. This is a history in which-whether rights were guaranteed by the constitution or not- people historically denied suffrage have always had to struggle.

With courage and cloth by ann bausum