Katie Murrell Archived Library Displays: Women's History Month

I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai; Christina Lamb (As told to)

Call Number: LC 2330 .Y69 2013 

The Girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban

Joan of Arc by Marina Warner

Call Number: DC 103 .W27 1999 

Soldier, Leader, Martyr, An Image of Female Heroism

Sojourner Truth by Nell Irvin Painter

Call Number: E185.97.T8 P35 1996 1

Ex-slave and a fiery abolitionist of the mid-nineteenth century.

Amelia Earhart - Flying Solo by John Burke

Call Number: LT TL 540 .E3 B872 2007 

One of the first female aviators

Sally Ride by Tam O'Shaughnessy

Call Number: LT TL 789.85 R53 O84 2015 

One of the first female astronauts

Indira by Katherine Frank

Call Number: DS 481 .G23 F73 2002 1

India's first (and only*) female prime minister

*as of 2021

Talking Back by bell hooks

Call Number: E 185.86 .H74 1989 

Thinking feminist, thinking black.

Salvation by bell hooks

Call Number: E 185.86 .H739 2001 

Intimate and revolutionary, Salvation is a gift as provocative as it is healing.

Women, Science, and Technology by Mary Wyer (Editor); Mary Barbercheck (Editor); Donna Giesman Cookmeyer (Editor); Hatice Ozturk (Editor); Marta Wayne (Editor)

Call Number: Q 130 .W672 2009 

A reader in Feminist Science Studies

Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Feminism by Nancy Bauer

Call Number: HQ 1190 .B385

"French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist" (Wikipedia)

Voice of Reason by Barbara Victor

Call Number: DS 119.7 .A6894 V5 1994

Hanan Ashrawi and peace in the Middle East

The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer

Call Number: HQ1206 .G77 1971 1

A key text of the feminist movement in the 1970s, broadly discussed and criticized by other feminists and the wider community.

My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor

Call Number: KF 8745 .S67 A3 2013

First Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court

Frida Kahlo by Terri Hardin

Call Number: ND 259.K33 .H37 1997 1

Mexican painter who produced more than two hundred paintings that speak directly to contemporary and feminist issues.

Women's History of the World by Rosalind Miles

Call Number: HQ 1121 .M62 1990

Examines women's contribution to the evolution of the human race, and the female achievement on every level-cultural, commercial domestic, emotional, and social.

Alice Paul, the National Woman's Party and the Vote by Bernadette Cahill

Call Number: JK 1899 .P38 C35 2015

American women's rights activist

Sylvia Pankhurst by Katherine Connelly

Call Number: HQ 1595 .P34 C66 2013

English suffragist and activist

Women in American Politics by Doris L. Weatherford

Call Number: HQ 1236.5 .U6 W43 2012 v 1&2

The Taxing Case of the Cows by Iris Van Rynbach; Pegi Deitz Shea; Emily Arnold McCully (Illustrator)

Call Number: LT JK 1911 .C8 V36 2010

A pair of women's suffragist sisters who won a court case regarding gender discrimination on taxes.

Mary Shelley's: Frankenstein (DVD)

Call Number: PR 5397 .F3 A23 1998

Movie based on Mary Shelley's famous novel

American Women by Sheridan Harvey (Editor); Library of Congress Staff (Contribution by); Susan Ware (Introduction by)

Call Number: HQ 1410 .A47 2001

Collection of materials documenting the history and culture of American women

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë; Q. D. Leavis (Contribution by)

Call Number: PR 4167 .J3 1