Women's History Month
Code girls : the untold story of the American women code breakers of World War II
Mundy, Liza, 1960- author
2017
The doctors Blackwell : how two pioneering sisters brought medicine to women--and women to medicine
Nimura, Janice P., author.
2021
In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in America to receive an M.D. She was soon joined in her iconic achievement by her younger sister, Emily. Together, the Blackwells founded the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, the first hospital staffed entirely by women. From Bristol, Paris, and Edinburgh to the rising cities of antebellum America, this richly researched new biography celebrates two complicated pioneers who exploded the limits of possibility for women in medicine.
The five : the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper
Rubenhold, Hallie, author
2019
Miscast in the media for nearly 130 years, the victims of Jack the Ripper finally get their full stories told in this eye-opening and chilling reminder that life for middle-class women in Victorian London could be full of social pitfalls and peril. Hallie Rubenhold delves into the Victorian experience of poverty, homelessness, and alcoholism, but also motherhood, childbirth, sexuality, child-rearing, work, and marriage, all against the fascinating, dark, and quickly changing backdrop of nineteenth-century London.
The glass universe : how the ladies of the Harvard Observatory took the measure of the stars
Sobel, Dava.
2016
The little-known true story of the unexpected and remarkable contributions to astronomy made by a group of women working in the Harvard College Observatory from the late 1800s through the mid-1900s. -- Provided by publisher.
Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
Shetterly, Margot Lee author
2016
Mother tongue : the surprising history of women's words
Nuttall, Jennifer Anne, 1975- author
2023
So many of the words we use to articulate the experiences women share feel awkward or alien. Dr. Jenni Nuttall guides readers through the evolution of words we have used to describe female bodies, menstruation, women's sexuality, the consequences of male violence, childbirth, women's paid and unpaid work, and gender. Inspired by today's heated debates about words like womxn and menstruators, Nuttall describes the profound transformation of the English language and unearths some surprisingly progressive thinking that challenges our assumptions about the past.
The nine : the true story of a band of women who survived the worst of Nazi Germany
Strauss, Gwen, author
2021
Follow the true story of the author's great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labour camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of WWII from Germany back to Paris. The nine women were all under thirty when they joined the resistance.
Normal women : 900 years of making history
Gregory, Philippa, author
2024
"A history of England from the Norman Conquest through the twentieth century, told through the stories of ordinary women."-- Provided by publisher.
Not your China doll : the wild and shimmering life of Anna May Wong
Salisbury, Katie Gee, author
2024
"Set against the glittering backdrop of Los Angeles during the gin-soaked Jazz Age and the rise of Hollywood, this debut book celebrates Anna May Wong, the first Asian American movie star, to bring an unsung heroine to light and reclaim her place in cinema history"-- Provided by publisher.
Off with her head : three thousand years of demonizing women in power
Herman, Eleanor, 1960- author.
2022
There is a particular kind of rage--let's call it unadulterated bloodlust--usually reserved for women, especially women in power or vying for it. From the ancient world, through the European Renaissance, up to the most recent U.S. elections, the misogynist's handbook, as Eleanor Herman calls it, has been wielded to put uppity women in their place. In a story that is shocking, eye-opening, and a powerful force for change, Eleanor Herman's signature wit and humor explores the patterns that have been operating for more than three thousand years--and are still operating today--against powerful women across the globe, including Cleopatra, Anne Boleyn, Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, and more.
One hundred years of struggle : the history of women and the vote in Canada
Sangster, Joan, 1952-
2019
The achievement of the vote in 1918 is often celebrated as a triumphant moment in the onward, upward advancement of Canadian women. Acclaimed historian Joan Sangster looks beyond the shiny rhetoric of anniversary celebrations and Heritage Minutes to show that the struggle for equality included gains and losses, inclusions and exclusions, depending on a woman's race, class, and location in the nation. Beginning with Mary Shadd Cary's demands for rights for women and blacks in the 1850s and ending with Indigenous women's achievement of the vote in the 1960s, Sangster travels back in time to tell a new, more inclusive story for a new generation.
Pirate women : the princesses, prostitutes, and privateers who ruled the Seven Seas
Duncombe, Laura Sook, author
2017
The radium girls : the dark story of America's shining women
Moore, Kate (Writer and editor), author
2018
Romantic outlaws : the extraordinary lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley
Gordon, Charlotte, author
2015
A Rome of one's own : the forgotten women of the Roman Empire
Southon, Emma, author
2023
"The history of Rome has long been narrow and one-sided, essentially a history of 'the Doing of Important Things,' and as far as Roman historians have been concerned, women don't make that history. From Romulus through the political stab-fest of the late Republic, and then on to all the emperors, Roman historians may deign to give you a wife or a mother to show how bad things become when women get out of control, but history is more than that. Emma Southon's A Rome of One's Own is the best kind of correction. This is a retelling of the history of Rome with all the things Roman history writers relegate to the background, or designate as domestic, feminine, or worthless. This is a history of women who caused outrage, led armies in rebellion, wrote poetry; who lived independently or under the thumb of emperors. Told with humor and verve as well as a deep scholarly background, A Rome of One's Own highlights women overlooked and misunderstood, and through them offers a fascinating and groundbreaking chronicle of the ancient world."-- Provided by publisher.
The secret history of the Mongol queens : how the daughters of Genghis Khan rescued his empire
Weatherford, J. McIver
2010
Shakespeare's sisters : how women wrote the Renaissance
Targoff, Ramie, author
2024
In an innovative and engaging narrative of everyday life in Shakespeare's England, Ramie Targoff carries us from the sumptuous coronation of Queen Elizabeth in the mid-sixteenth century into the private lives of four women writers. These women had husbands and children to care for and little support for their art, yet against all odds they defined themselves as writers, finding rooms of their own where doors had been shut for centuries. Targoff helps us see the Renaissance in a fresh light, creating a richer understanding of history and offering a much-needed female perspective on life in Shakespeare's day.
She caused a riot : 100 unknown women who built cities, sparked revolutions, and massively crushed it
Jewell, Hannah, author.
2018
Six women of Salem : the untold story of the accused and their accusers in the Salem Witch Trials
Roach, Marilynne K., author.
2013
"What was it like to be there and, if you were lucky, to live through it? In a compelling combination of narrative and groundbreaking historical research, Salem Witch Trial scholar Marilynne K. Roach vividly brings the terrifying times to life while skillfully illuminating the lives of the accused, the accusers, and the afflicted."--Back cover.
The three mothers : how the mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin shaped a nation
Tubbs, Anna Malaika, author
2021
"Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther, and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary women who raised them, who were all born at the beginning of the 20th century and forced to contend with the prejudices of Jim Crow as Black women. Berdis, Alberta, and Louise passed their knowledge to their children with the hope of helping them to survive in a society that would deny their humanity from the very beginning--from Louise teaching her children about their activist roots, to Berdis encouraging James to express himself through writing, to Alberta basing all of her lessons in faith and social justice. These three mothers taught resistance and a fundamental belief in the worth of Black people to their sons, even when these beliefs flew in the face of America's racist practices and led to ramifications for all three families' safety."-- Provided by publisher.
Warrior queens & quiet revolutionaries : how women (also) built the world
Mosse, Kate, 1961- author.
2022
A celebration of unheard and under-heard women's history. Meet nearly 1000 women whose names deserve to be better known: from the Mothers of Invention and the trailblazing women at the Bar; Warrior Queens and Pirate Commanders; the women who dedicated their lives to the natural world or to medicine; those women of courage who resisted and fought for what they believed in to defend their families, their culture and their countries; to the unsung heroes of stage, screen and stadium.
Women who launch : women who shattered glass ceilings
Wagman-Geller, Marlene.
2018
Contains 37 biographical sketches of women who have changed the world.
The Women's History of the Modern World : How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years.
Miles, Rosalind.
2021
Recording the important milestones in the birth of the modern feminist movement and the rise of women into greater social, economic, and political power, Rosalind Miles takes us through a colourful pageant of astonishing women. Women in the arts, women in sports, women in business, women in religion, women in politics - this is a one-stop roundup of the tremendous progress women have made in the modern era. Print run 50,000.