Women's History Month 2014

The following books are available from our library collections in digital or print editions.

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About America: Women of Influence

U.S. Department of State, 2010

The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael

Sanford Schwartz, ed.

Library of America, 2011

American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Addams

Allen F. Davis

Ivan Dee, 2000

Ar’n’t I a Woman: Female Slaves in the Plantation South

Deborah Gray White

Norton, 1985

Battleground: Women, Gender, and Sexuality 
Amy Lind and Stephanie Brzuzy, eds.

Greenwood Press, 2008

Becoming Visible: Women’s Presence in Late Nineteenth-Century America

Janet Floyd

Rodopi, 2010

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

Bantam, 1972

Black Water

Joyce Carol Oates

Plume, 1992

The Cambridge History of American Women’s Literature

Dale M. Bauer, ed.

Cambridge University Press, 2012

Champion of Choice: The Life and Legacy of Women’s Advocate Nafis Sadik

Cathleen Miller

University of Nebraska Press, 2013

Cold War Progressives: Women’s Interracial Organizing for Peace and Freedom

Jacqueline L. Castledine

University of Illinois Press, 2012

College Women in the Nuclear Age: Cultural Literacy and Female Identity, 1940-1960

Babette Faehmel

Rutgers University Press, 2012

Confronting Global Gender Justice: Women’s Lives, Human Rights

Debra Bergoffen, ed.

Routledge, 2011

Contagious Representation: Women’s Political Representation in Democracies Around the World

Frank Thames and Margaret S. Williams

NYU Press, 2013

Daily Life of Women During the Civil Rights Era

Danelle Moon

Greenwood, 2011

Dangerous Women

George R. R. Martin, ed.

Tor, 2013

Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience

Susan Pedersen

Yale University Press, 2004

Empowering Women in Higher Education and Student Affairs

Penny A. Pasque and Shelley Errington Nicholson, eds.

Stylus Publishing, 2011

Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America

Rosemary Skinner Keller and Rosemary Radford Ruether, eds.

Indiana University Press, 2006

Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers

Helen Rappaport

ABC-CLIO, 2012

Encyclopedia of Women’s Autobiography

Victoria Boynton and Jo Malin, eds.

Greenwood Press, 2005

The End of Men and the Rise of Women

Hanna Rosin

Riverhead Books, 2012

Essays of the 1960s & 70s

Susan Sontag

The Library of America, 2013

Feminist Writings from Ancient Times to the Modern World: A Global Sourcebook and History

Tiffany K. Wayne

Greenwood, 2011

Fifty Key Concepts in Gender Studies

Jane Pilcher

SAGE/Credo Reference, 2012

Fight Like a Girl: How to Be a Fearless Feminist

Megan Seely

New York University Press, 2007

Finding a Way to the Heart: Feminist Writings on Aboriginal and Women’s History in Canada

Robin Jarvis Brownlie and Valerie J. Korinek, eds.

University of Manitoba Press, 2012

From Marriage to Market: The Transformation of Women’s Lives and Work

Susan Thistle

University of California Press, 2006

Gender, War, and Militarism: Feminist Perspectives

Laura Sjoberg

Praeger Security International, 2010

Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics

Hillary L. Chute

Columbia University Press, 2010

A History of Feminist Literary Criticism

Gill Plain and Susan Sellers, eds.

Cambridge University Press, 2007

A History of Women’s Achievement in America (DVD)

Ronald C. Meyer and Kayann Short, producers

Ambrose Video Publishing, 2006

Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Boardroom

Merle Hoffman

Feminist Press at CUNY, 2012

Jeannette Rankin, America’s Conscience

Norma Smith

Montana Historical Society Press, 2002

Keeping America’s Women Moving Forward: The Key to an Economy Built to Last

Valerie Jarrett and Christina Tchen

The White House Council on Women and Girls, 2012

The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (VHS)

Connie Field, producer

Direct Cinema Ltd., 1999

Lizzie Borden in Love: Poems in Women’s Voices

Juliana Baggott

Southern Illinois University Press, 2006

Margaret Fuller and Her Circles

Brigitte Bailey

University of New Hampshire Press, 2013

Marie Curie: A Biography

Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie

Greenwood Press, 2004

Matriarchal Societies: Studies on Indigenous Cultures Across the Globe

Heide Goettner-Abendroth

Peter Lang, 2012

Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America

Rebecca Jo Plant

University of Chicago Press, 2010

My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them

Michael Montlack, ed.

Terrace Books, 2009

New Women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Moment in the Southern States

Marjorie Julian Spruill

Oxford University Press, 1993

No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism

Nancy A. Hewitt, ed.

Rutgers University Press, 2010

O Pioneers!

Willa Cather

Floating Press, 2009

Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music

Nona Willis Aronowitz, ed.

University of Minnesota Press, 2011

The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women’s Biography

Maggy Hendry, ed.

Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

Pauline Hopkins and the American Dream: An African American Writer’s (Re)Visionary Gospel of Success

Alisha R. Knight

University of Tennessee Press, 2012

A People’s Art History of the United States: 250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Movements

Nicolas Lampert

The New Press, 2013

Poems (Series I-III complete)

Emily Dickinson

Floating Press, 2009

Poems from the Women’s Movement

Honor Moore, ed.

Library of America, 2009

Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone

Nadine Cohodas

University of North Carolina Press, 2002

Radical Gestures: Feminism and Performance Art in North America

Jayne Wark

McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006

The Reader’s Companion to U.S.Women’s History

Wilma Mankiller, et al.

Houghton Mifflin, 2012

Recoding Gender: Women’s Changing Participation in Computing

Janet Abbate

MIT Press, 2012

Redefining Girly: How Parents Can Fight the Stereotyping and Sexualizing of Girlhood, from Birth to Tween

Melissa Atkins Wardy

Chicago Review Press, 2014

The Right to Be Parents: LGBT Families and the Transformation of Parenthood

Carlos A. Ball

New York University Press, 2012

The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman’s Rights Convention

Judith Wellman

University of Illinois Press, 2004

Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature from the Conservationists

Dyan Zaslowsky

University of Georgia Press, 2009

Rosie’s Mom: Forgotten Women Workers of the First World War

Carrie Brown

Northeastern University Press, 2002

Sandra Day O’Connor: Justice in the Balance

Ann Carey McFeatters

University of New Mexico Press, 2005

Seeking the Beloved Community: A Feminist Race Reader

James Joy

State University of New York Press, 2013

The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (multiple volumes)

Ann D. Gordon, ed.

Rutgers University Press, 1997

Shadow Tag: A Novel

Louise Erdrich

Harper, 2010

Strange Fruit

Lillian Eugenia Smith

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992

A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s

Stephanie Coontz

Basic Books, 2011

Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement

Sandra Stanley Holton

Routledge, 1996

Thirty Girls

Susan Minot

Knopf, 2014

Transforming the Faiths of Our Fathers: Women Who Changed American Religion

Ann Braude, ed.

Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction

Joan Didion

Knopf, 2006

Well-Read Lives: How Books Inspired a Generation of American Women

Barbara Sicherman

University of North Carolina Press, 2010

Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story

Peter Bagge

Drawn & Quarterly, 2013

Women and Justice (2nd ed.)

Sheryl J. Grana

Rowman & Littlefield, 2010

Women in Combat: A Reference Handbook

Rosemarie Skaine

ABC-CLIO, 2011

Women in Early America: Struggle, Survival, and Freedom in a New World

Dorothy A. Mays

ABC-CLIO, 2004

Women in Leadership: Contextual Dynamics and Boundaries

Karin Klenke

Emerald Publishing Group, 2011

Women in the American West

Laura Woodworth-Ney

ABC-CLIO, 2008

Women, Music, Culture: An Introduction

Julie C. Dunbar

Routledge, 2011

Women Who Opt Out: The Debate over Working Mothers and Work-Family Balance

Bernie D. Jones

NYU Press, 2012

Women’s History as Scientists: A Guide to the Debates

Leigh Ann Whaley

ABC-CLIO, 2012

Women’s Rights: People and Perspectives

Christa DeLuzio, ed.

ABC-CLIO, 2010

Women’s Work: An Anthology of African-American Women’s Historical Writings from Antebellum American to the Harlem Renaissance

Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp and Kathryn Lofton, eds.

Oxford University Press, 2010

The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Floating Press, 2009 (orig. pub. 1892)

You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby: Women, Politics, and Popular Culture

Lilly J. Goren

University Press of Kentucky, 2009

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