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Katie Murrell Archived Library Displays: Women's History Month

Some previous displays at the Katie Murrell Library

Selection of Materials

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 2024

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.

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.

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

Women's History Month Displays

Women's History Board display in pink and purple
Women's Suffrage Board with the Yellow Rose story and purple background
Women's Suffrage Yellow Rose  Symbolism Story
March into Women's History Month Book display with Pink lettering
Women's (Her) Story Month Board done in primary colors   featuring student workers who completed it
Women's History Month Book display
Women's History Month Book display from our collection featuring Joan of Arc, Rosa Parks & others