Natalie Keefer is associate professor of social studies education, Graduate Coordinator, and Co-Director of the Louisiana Center for Research and Education on Languages and Literacies (LA CREoLL) at the University of Louisiana Lafayette. Jeremiah Clabough is associate professor of social science education at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

A timely collection on teaching women’s history, this book is grounded in theory and research around inquiry, literacy, and women’s rights. It includes engaging suggestions for teaching about diverse women activists toward the goals of an equitable and just future.

• List of Tables and FiguresForewordIntroductionJeremiah ClaboughChapter 1: Women’s Rights and Classroom Literature: Theory, Scholarship, and Practice Natalie Keefer and Tori K. FlintChapter 2: Thoroughly Modern Nellie Bly: Trailblazing Journalist, Feminist, and ActivistCaroline C. SheffieldChapter 3: “The People Must Know Before They Can Act”: Examining Ida B. Wells’ Legacy of Activism, Courage, and ResistanceAmy J. SamuelsChapter 4: Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee: Chinese American Pioneer of the Women’s Suffrage Movement in the Era of the Chinese Exclusion ActYali ZhaoChapter 5: Mamie on the Mound: Using Interdisciplinary, Critical Literacy to Explore the Life and Impact of Mamie “Peanut” JohnsonAlyssa WhitfordChapter 6: Protecting Our Mother: Rachel Carson and the American Environmental MovementSarah M. DenneyChapter 7: Finding Our Way: Women’s Stories of MigrationMargit E. McGuireChapter 8: The Notorious R. B. G: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Her Fight for EqualityRebecca Macon Bidw

Natalie Keefer is associate professor of social studies education, Graduate Coordinator, and Co-Director of the Louisiana Center for Research and Education on Languages and Literacies (LA CREoLL) at the University of Louisiana Lafayette. Jeremiah Clabough is associate professor of social science education at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

A timely collection on teaching women’s history, this book is grounded in theory and research around inquiry, literacy, and women’s rights. It includes engaging suggestions for teaching about diverse women activists toward the goals of an equitable and just future.

• List of Tables and FiguresForewordIntroductionJeremiah ClaboughChapter 1: Women’s Rights and Classroom Literature: Theory, Scholarship, and Practice Natalie Keefer and Tori K. FlintChapter 2: Thoroughly Modern Nellie Bly: Trailblazing Journalist, Feminist, and ActivistCaroline C. SheffieldChapter 3: “The People Must Know Before They Can Act”: Examining Ida B. Wells’ Legacy of Activism, Courage, and ResistanceAmy J. SamuelsChapter 4: Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee: Chinese American Pioneer of the Women’s Suffrage Movement in the Era of the Chinese Exclusion ActYali ZhaoChapter 5: Mamie on the Mound: Using Interdisciplinary, Critical Literacy to Explore the Life and Impact of Mamie “Peanut” JohnsonAlyssa WhitfordChapter 6: Protecting Our Mother: Rachel Carson and the American Environmental MovementSarah M. DenneyChapter 7: Finding Our Way: Women’s Stories of MigrationMargit E. McGuireChapter 8: The Notorious R. B. G: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Her Fight for EqualityRebecca Macon Bidw

Natalie Keefer is associate professor of social studies education, Graduate Coordinator, and Co-Director of the Louisiana Center for Research and Education on Languages and Literacies (LA CREoLL) at the University of Louisiana Lafayette. Jeremiah Clabough is associate professor of social science education at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

A timely collection on teaching women’s history, this book is grounded in theory and research around inquiry, literacy, and women’s rights. It includes engaging suggestions for teaching about diverse women activists toward the goals of an equitable and just future.

• List of Tables and FiguresForewordIntroductionJeremiah ClaboughChapter 1: Women’s Rights and Classroom Literature: Theory, Scholarship, and Practice Natalie Keefer and Tori K. FlintChapter 2: Thoroughly Modern Nellie Bly: Trailblazing Journalist, Feminist, and ActivistCaroline C. SheffieldChapter 3: “The People Must Know Before They Can Act”: Examining Ida B. Wells’ Legacy of Activism, Courage, and ResistanceAmy J. SamuelsChapter 4: Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee: Chinese American Pioneer of the Women’s Suffrage Movement in the Era of the Chinese Exclusion ActYali ZhaoChapter 5: Mamie on the Mound: Using Interdisciplinary, Critical Literacy to Explore the Life and Impact of Mamie “Peanut” JohnsonAlyssa WhitfordChapter 6: Protecting Our Mother: Rachel Carson and the American Environmental MovementSarah M. DenneyChapter 7: Finding Our Way: Women’s Stories of MigrationMargit E. McGuireChapter 8: The Notorious R. B. G: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Her Fight for EqualityRebecca Macon Bidw