Women’s heroes are everyone’s heroes! In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote, we read books that are by, for, and about powerful women of all ages. A pre-teen who helped discover the world’s first dinosaur bone, a young women in the early 20th century who braved the illness and death of the radium factories and fought a groundbreaking battle for workers’ rights, or teens—one black, one white—who rely on each other to survive a night of violent race riots in their city—these are the stories of remarkable women of history and resourceful everyday girls.
Women’s Suffrage Outside of the USA and the UK
The following books, both fiction and nonfiction, look at the history of women’s suffrage movements outside of the USA and the UK. Hiratsuka is the founder of Seito, Japan’s first literary journal run by women. In 1920, she also founded the New Women’s Association, the first nationwide women’s organization in Japan that campaigned for women’s political rights. In this book, Japanese feminist Raicho Hiratsuka tells her own story, from childhood to rebelling against the strict systems that held women down in Japan. This autobiography is translated to English by Craig Teruko.
