An outstanding and inspirational guide to women’s history for today’s political activists.
Explains how women in the U.S. won the right to vote, with applicable lessons for youth today.
The authors, friends from two powerful U.S. political families that have been intertwined for three generations, set out to write a quick guide showing how suffragists changed the country by securing women’s voting rights. The tale spans the long journey from the 1848 Seneca Falls Woman’s Rights Convention to the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. This complicated story includes an overview of many key leaders, in-group fighting, and various setbacks. The book distills the complexities into vivid biographies and compelling vignettes that breathe new life into old history. Readers meet many familiar names, including Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Ida B. Wells, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Frederick Douglass, as well as less well-known individuals. The White authors do not shy away from addressing racism within the movement, highlighting Black suffragists and noting everyone’s race so that Whiteness is not the default. Each chapter title is a synopsis of a strategy (for example, “Tell Your Story,” “Engage a Wider Audience,” and “Recruit the Allies You Need”), and each chapter begins and ends with sage advice to readers about how to apply the successful tactics of the suffragists to today’s political struggles. The bright, clean layout and color scheme are visually enticing, making this an appealing manual for action.
An outstanding and inspirational guide to women’s history for today’s political activists. (source notes) (Nonfiction. 12-18)Pub Date: Oct. 27, 2020
ISBN: 978-1-5362-1033-0
Page Count: 160
Publisher: Candlewick
Review Posted Online: Sept. 14, 2020
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 2020
Challenging but replete with stimulating insights.
Interweaving prose and graphic art, Hendrix explores the lives, faith, intellectual world, and long, complex friendship of two titans of modern fantasy.
As in The Faithful Spy (2018), Hendrix’s hybrid-format biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, this volume charges hard into deep and difficult territory—tracking, for instance, C.S. “Jack” Lewis’ progression from naïve believer to staunch atheist to profoundly religious thinker and probing reasons for the friction that grew between him and his close friend J.R.R. “Tollers” Tolkien in the 1950s. Tracing the shaping of their novels while contrasting the styles and personalities of the pair as they egged one another on, Hendrix also fills in the intellectual background with discursions into the differences between fairy tales and myths, largely delivered in extended graphic segments by an affectionately caricatured wizard and lion as they squire readers through a metaphorical series of significantly labeled doors. Though the author sets off direct quotes with asterisks and carefully sources them, he invents some dialogue; for a happily-ever-after ending, he’s also invented a loving reconciliation scene. Hendrix’s claim (although rooted in Eurocentric bias) that “these two tweedy middle-aged academics just so happened to re-enchant the world” carries plenty of heft. The monochrome art is charming and cues a younger audience than the text, which is complex conceptually as well as in its vocabulary and cultural and historical references.
Challenging but replete with stimulating insights. (author’s note, context on myths and fairy tales, notes on research and authenticity, glossary, endnotes, bibliography, index) (Graphic biography. 14-18)Pub Date: Sept. 24, 2024
ISBN: 9781419746345
Page Count: 224
Publisher: Abrams Fanfare
Review Posted Online: June 15, 2024
Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 15, 2024
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A straightforward and effective exploration of a remarkable scholar and her influence.
A charmingly illustrated biography that highlights psychologist Carol Gilligan’s life and achievements.
Gilligan is famed for her contributions to understanding people’s voices: “how they were used, not used, and even silenced.” As a young woman involved in the Civil Rights Movement, she pondered why the voices of certain groups, especially women and people of color, were routinely ignored or dismissed by members of various professional fields ranging from law to psychology, education, and medicine. In part through the 1982 publication of her book In a Different Voice, Gilligan established a model of moral decision-making and reasoning that she called an Ethic of Care (in contrast to the widely used Ethic of Justice model that privileged traditionally male processes). She also developed a revolutionary interview style she dubbed the Listening Guide Method. Beyond discussing Gilligan’s life and studies, Cole highlights key figures and psychological concepts in the world of psychology, explaining them in digestible segments. Green’s soft and expressive artwork brings additional life to this easy-to-follow biography. Tools that encourage readers to think more deeply about the content are interspersed throughout the book, providing further learning opportunities. Individual readers and educators alike will find the balance of information, suggested activities, and additional fun facts to be an effective way to learn about this pioneer of inclusivity in psychology.
A straightforward and effective exploration of a remarkable scholar and her influence. (timeline, glossary, further reading, bibliography, photo credits) (Biography. 12-18)Pub Date: Sept. 10, 2024
ISBN: 9781433843532
Page Count: 144
Publisher: Magination/American Psychological Association
Review Posted Online: June 15, 2024
Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 15, 2024
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