March is Women’s History Month. Throughout March we are highlighting the lives, work, thought, and legacy of femme-identified folks throughout history and across disciplines.
Women’s History Month is an annual, nation-wide recognition of the contributions of women dating back to 1987, and Public Law 100-9 passed by Congress. Since 1988, each president has subsequently passed an annual Presidential Proclamation designating March as Women’s History Month. You can read this year’s proclamation here.
Visit the book display on the 3rd floor of PCL to check out any of the available print books from the collection below.
Books on Display
Women’s History and Feminist Thought
- The second sex by Simone de Beauvoir
- Women’s world: A timeline of women in history by Irene Franck & David Brownstone
- 500 years of Chicana women’s history by Elizabeth Sutherland Martinez
- A vindication of the rights of women by Mary Wollstonecraft
- American Jezebel by Eve LePlante
- The road to Seneca Falls by Judith Wellman
- Woman’s Rights Conventions, Seneca Falls & Rochester, 1848 [Online Access]
- Liar, temptress, soldier, spy : four women undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott
- Jeannette Rankin, first lady in Congress: a biography by Hannah Josephson
- Remaking Black power: How Black women transformed an era by Ashley D. Farmer [eBook]
- Goddess of anarchy: The life and times of Lucy Parsons, American radical by Jacqueline Jones
- Goddesses and monsters : women, myth, power, and popular culture by Jane Caputi
- Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe by Matthew Pratt Guterl
- The world split open by Ruth Rosen
- Ann W. Richards Papers
- Women Pirates and the Politics of the Jolly Roger by Ulrike Klausmann, Marion Meinzerin & Gaberiel Kuhn
- Bold in her breeches : women pirates across the ages by Jo Stanley
- Women and English Piracy 1540-1720: Partners and Victims of Crime by John A. Appleby
- Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Dragon ladies : Asian American feminists breathe fire edited by Sonia Shah
- Feminist theory : from margin to center by bell hooks [eBook]
- The feminine mystique by Betty Friedan
- The vagina monologues by Eve Ensler
- In search of our mothers’ gardens : womanist prose by Alice Walker
- Difficult women by Roxane Gay
Memoirs
- Laughing in the Dark: From colored girl to woman of color: A journey from prison to power by Patrice Gaines
- Dirty river: A queer femme of color dreaming her way home by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Nîtisânak by Lindsay Nixon
- I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
- Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth [eBook]
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A life by Jane Sherron de Hart
- Fun home: a family tragicomic by Bechdel, Alison [Reserves]
- The complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
- Everybody’s got something by Robin Roberts
- Thinking in pictures : and other reports from my life with autism by Temple Grandin
Poetry
- Begin again: Collected poems by Grace Paley
- Selected poems of Anne Sexton by Anne Sexton
- The black unicorn: poems by Audre Lorde
Fine Arts
- The dinner party: From creation to preservation by Judy Chicago
- Infinity net: The autobiography of Yayoi Kusama by Yayoi Kusama [eBook]
- The art of Tracey Emin by Mandy Merck and Chris Townsend
Latina Studies
- Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa
- Gloria Anzaldua papers
- This bridge called my back : writings by radical women of color edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa
- [Un]framing the ‘bad woman’ by Alicia Gaspar de Alba
- Entre Guadalupe y Malinche: Tejanas in literature and art by Inés Hernández-Ávila and Norma Elia Cantú
- Las Tejanas: 300 years of history by Teresa Palomo Acosta and Ruthe Winegarten [eBook]
- Dissonant Divas in Chicana Music by Deborah Vargas [eBook]
Asian Studies
- Revolutionary desires : women, communism, and feminism in India by Ania Loomba [eBook]
- Woman’s eye, woman’s hand: Making art and architecture in modern India: A collection of essays by D. Fairchild Ruggles
- Bodymaps: Stories by South Asian women by Radha Chakravarty
- She walks, she leads: Women who inspire India by Gunjan Jain
Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
- Being Muslim: A cultural history of women of color in American Islam by Sylvia Chan-Malik
- Al-Tanturiyah (Arabic) by Raḍwá ʻĀshūr
- The women from Tantoura (English) by Raḍwá ʻĀshūr
- Arab women writers: A critical reference guide, 1873-1999 by Raḍwá ʻĀshūr, Firyāl Jabbūrī Ghazūl, Hasna Reda-Mekdashi [eBook]
Social Work
- Critical Race, Feminism, and Education: a social justice model by Menah A.E. Pratt-Clarke
- Feminist Perspectives on Social Work Practice by Laurie Grant [eBook]
- Intersectionality in Social Work: Activism and Practice in Context by Rachel Robbins; Suryia Nayak [eBook]
- Leading the way: Young women’s activism for social change by Mary K. Trigg
Psychology & Sociology
- Womanist and mujerista psychologies: Voices of fire, acts of courage by Thema Bryant-Davis and Lillian Comas-Díaz
- Witchcraft accusations and persecutions as a mechanism for the marginalization of women by Samantha Spence
- A girl’s childhood : psychological development, social change, and the Yale Child Study Center by Linda C. Mayes and Stephen Lassonde
- Black girls at play : folkloric perspectives on child development
Kinesiology & Health Education
- Built to win: The female athlete as cultural icon by Leslie Heywood and Shari L. Dworkin [eBook]
- Nike is a goddess: The history of women in sports by Lissa Smith
- Glory in their spirit: How four black women took on the army during World War II by Sandra M. Bolzenius [eBook]
- Female Gladiators: Gender, law, and contact sport in America by Sarah K. Fields
- Pressure is a privilege by Billie Jean King
- Equal play: Title IX and social change by Nancy Hogshead-Makar and Andrew Zimbalist
Education
- Black girlhood celebration: Toward a hip-hop feminist pedagogy by Ruth Nicole Brown
- Critical race, feminism, and education: A social justice model by Menah A.E. Pratt-Clarke
- Codes and contradictions: Race, gender identity, and schooling by Jeanne Drysdale Weiler
- A Feminist Manifesto for Education by Miriam E. David [eBook]
- Lived experiences of women in academia: Metaphors, manifestos and memoir by Alison L. Black and Susanne Garvis [eBook]
Children’s Books
- Mae among the stars by Roda Ahmed
- Women in science: 50 fearless pioneers who changed the world by Rachel Ignotofsky
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Fire and Steel on the Supreme Court by Eleanor H. Ayer
- Primates: the fearless science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas by Jim Ottaviani & Maris Wicks
- Caroline’s comets: A true story by Emily Arnold McCully
- Walking with the great apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Biruté Galdikas by Sy Montgomery
- Women who dared: 52 stories of fearless daredevils, adventurers & rebels by Linda Skeers
- Dolores Huerta: A hero to migrant workers by Sarah Warren
- The youngest marcher: The story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a young civil rights activist by Cynthia Levinson
- I dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes her mark by Debbie Levy
- Sonia Sotomayor: A judge grows in the Bronx = la juez que creció en el Bronx by Jonah Winter
- Little leaders: Bold women in black history by Vashti Harrison
- Hidden figures: The true story of four black women and the space race by Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling
- Shaking things up: 14 young women who changed the world by Susan Hood
- Malala’s magic pencil by Malala Yousafzai
- Maya Lin: Artist-architect of light and lines by Jeanne Walker Harvey
- Harriet Tubman : conductor on the Underground Railroad by Ann Petry
Science
- Dorothy Hodgkin: a life by Georgina Ferry
- Rachel Carson: witness for nature by Linda Lear
- In the shadow of man by Jane Goodall
- The thrilling adventures of Lovelace and Babbage by Sydney Padua
- Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, a tale of love & fallout by Lauren Rednis
- Lab girl by Hope Jahren
- The fossil hunter: Dinosaurs, evolution, and the woman whose discoveries changed the world by Shelley Emling
- Life in the treetops: Adventures of a woman in field biology by Margaret D. Lowman
- Alex & me : how a scientist and a parrot discovered a hidden world of animal intelligence–and formed a deep bond in the process by Irene M. Pepperberg
Architecture and Engineering
- Where are the women architects? by Despina Stratigakos
- The complete Zaha Hadid: expanded and updated by Zaha Hadid
- The battle for home: The vision of a young architect in Syria by Marwa Al-Sabouni
- 30th Anniversary Gala Benefit Celebrating 30 Years of Advancing Women’s Leadership in the Visual Arts: ArtTable
- Rise of the rocket girls: The women who propelled us, from missiles to the moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt
- Hidden figures: The American dream and the untold story of the black women mathematicians who helped win the space race by Margot Lee Shetterly
- Madame Curie complex: The hidden history of women in science by Julie des Jardins [eBook]
- Making time: Lillian Moller Gilbreth, a life beyond “Cheaper by the dozen” by Jane Lancaster
Legal
- Gender and International Security: Feminist Perspectives by Laura Sjoberg [eBook]
- Women and the Law in the Roman Empire by Judith Evans Grubbs [eBook]
- Women before the bar by Cornelia Hughes Dayton
- Women transforming Congress by Cindy Simon Rosenthal
Videos
- Extraordinary women, Episode 1, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek produced by WMR Productions in association with BBC Worldwide; produced & directed by Johanna Gibbon
- Feminist stories from women’s liberation directed and edited by Jennifer Lee
- Pay it no mind: Marsha P. Johnson by Michael Kasino
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