Recent Books for Women's History Month
To celebrate Women's History Month, we present a list of recent arrivals exploring this wide-ranging subject. From antiquity to the 20th century, from whaling ships to city newsrooms, there is something here for every interest. To find additonal books, search these subject headings: Women – Suffrage; Suffragists; Literature – Women Authors; Feminism; Women - History; Children & Young Adult. And be sure to click the subject heading links in the catalog records for the books below to explore related titles. When in the stacks check what is on the shelf next to the book you are looking for—you never know what you might find lurking nearby.
Don’t miss the Library’s current exhibition Women Get the Vote: A Historic Look at the 19th Amendment, up from January 30 - August 30, 2019 in the Peluso Family Exhibition Gallery.
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SUFFRAGE, PROTEST & ACTIVISM, POLITICS, GENERAL
Abrams, Jeanne E. - First ladies of the republic: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the creation of an iconic American role
Perry, Elizabeth Israels - After the vote: feminist politics in La Guardia's New York (to be published in early April)
Atkinson, Diane - Rise up, women!: the remarkable lives of the suffragettes
Barnet, Andrea - Visionary women: how Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters changed our world
Beard, Mary - Women & power: a manifesto (ebook available)
Blackwell, Alice Stone - Lucy Stone: pioneer of woman's rights (1930)
Brewster, Mary - She was a sister sailor: the whaling journals of Mary Brewster, 1845-1851
Brolis, Maria Teresa - Stories of Women in the Middle Ages (forewords by Franco Cardini and Giles Constable; translated by Joyce Myerson)
Carter, Stephen L. - Invisible: the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster (winner of a 2018 New York City Book Award)
Cooney, Kara - When women ruled the world: six queens of Egypt
Devlin, Rachel - A girl stands at the door: the generation of young women who desegregated America's schools
Eastmond, Antony - Tamta's world: the life and encounters of a medieval noblewoman from the Middle East to Mongolia
Fonte, Moderata - The merits of women: wherein is revealed their nobility and their superiority to men (literary dialogue written in the 1590s)
Fought, Leigh - Women in the world of Frederick Douglass
Goldstone, Nancy Bazelon - Daughters of the Winter Queen: four remarkable sisters, the crown of Bohemia, and the enduring legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
Goodier, Susan - No votes for women: the New York State anti-suffrage movement
Greenberg, Amy S. - Lady first: the world of first lady Sarah Polk
Hartman, Saidiya - Wayward lives, beautiful experiments: intimate histories of social upheaval
Hubbard, Kate - Devices and desires: Bess of Hardwick and the building of Elizabethan England
Jack, Zachary Michael - March of the suffragettes: Rosalie Gardiner Jones and the march for voting rights
Johnson, Joan Marie - Funding feminism: monied women, philanthropy, and the women's movement, 1870-1967
Jones, Jacqueline - Goddess of anarchy: the life and times of Lucy Parsons, American radical
Jones-Rogers, Jacqueline - They were her property: white women as slave owners in the American South
Kerrison, Catherine - Jefferson's daughters: three sisters, white and black, in a young America
Klagsbrun, Francine - Lioness: Golda Meir and the nation of Israel
Knight, Lynn - The button box: lifting the lid on women's lives
Kroeger, Brooke - The suffragents: how women used men to get the vote
Leader, Shelah Gilbert - American women on the move: the inside story of the National Women's Conference, 1977
Lian, Xi - Blood letters: the untold story of Lin Zhao, a martyr in Mao's China
Marshall, Susan E. - Splintered sisterhood: gender and class in the campaign against woman suffrage
Maxtone Graham, Ysenda - Terms & conditions: life in girls' boarding schools, 1939-1979
Mazzeo, Tilar J. - Eliza Hamilton: the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
McCubbin, Lisa - Betty Ford: First Lady, women's advocate, survivor, trailblazer
Mickenberg, Julia L. - American girls in red Russia: chasing the Soviet dream
Miller, Nancy K. - My brilliant friends: our lives in feminism
Morton, Andrew - Wallis in love: the untold life of the Duchess of Windsor, the woman who changed the monarchy
Naylor, Natalie A. - Women in Long Island's Past: A History of Eminent Ladies and Everyday Lives
Nickliss, Alexandra M. - Phoebe Apperson Hearst: a life of power and politics
O'Brien, Keith - Fly girls: how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
Robinson, Jane - Hearts and minds: the untold story of the great pilgrimage and how women won the vote
Ronald, Susan - A dangerous woman: American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator: the life of Florence Gould
Runcie, Charlotte - Salt on your tongue: women and the sea
Sanger, Carol - About abortion: terminating pregnancy in twenty-first-century America
Stadiem, William - Madame Claude: her secret world of pleasure, privilege, and power
Stern, Scott W. - The trials of Nina McCall: sex, surveillance, and the decades-long government plan to imprison "promiscuous" women
Tetrault, Lisa - The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898
Thomas, Gillian - Because of sex: one law, ten cases, and fifty years that changed American women's lives at work
Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Kate Clarke Lemay, editor)
Weiss, Elaine F. - The woman's hour: the great fight to win the vote
Wells-Barnett, Ida B. - The light of truth: writings of an anti-lynching crusader
The Women's Suffrage Movement (Sally Roesch Wagner, ed.; historical anthology)
Worsley, Lucy - Queen Victoria: twenty-four days that changed her life
LITERATURE, POETRY, JOURNALISM
Anolik, Lili - Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the secret history of L.A.
Biggers, Jeff - The trials of a scold: the incredible true story of writer Anne Royall
Dubrow, Julie - After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America's Greatest Poet
Dunn, Nell - Talking to Women (reissue of 1965 collection of interviews by the author of Up the Junction and Poor Cow with artists and writers like Edna O’Brien, Ann Quin, other friends of Dunn)
Feigel, Lara - Free Woman: Life, Liberation and Doris Lessing
Fraser, Caroline - Prairie fires: the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder (ebook available)
Future is Female (Library of America, historical collection of science fiction) (Lisa Yaszek, ed.)
Garff, Joakim - Kierkegaard's muse: the mystery of Regine Olsen
Gilliam, Dorothy Butler - Trailblazer: a pioneering journalist's fight to make the media look more like America (author event at the Library March 14th)
Gordon, Lyndall - Outsiders: five women writers who changed the world
Gristwood, Sarah - Vita & Virginia: the life and love of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
The history of British women's writing (Jennie Batchelor and Cora Kaplan, eds.; 1700-21st century in several volumes)
In the shadow of Agatha Christie: classic crime fiction by forgotten female writers: 1850-1917 (Leslie S. Klinger, ed.)
Larman, Alexander - Byron's women
Miller, Lucasta - L. E. L. : the lost life and scandalous death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the celebrated "female Byron"
Perry, Imani - Looking for Lorraine: the radiant and radical life of Lorraine Hansberry
Plant, Deborah G. - Alice Walker: a woman for our times
Plath, Sylvia - The letters of Sylvia Plath vol. 2
The Portable nineteenth-century African American women writers (General Editor, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.)
Rediscovering forgotten radicals: British women writers, 1889-1939 (Angela Ingram & Daphne Patai, eds.)
Reid, Martine - George Sand
Rioux, Anne Boyd - Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: the story of Little Women and why it still matters
Sampson, Fiona - In search of Mary Shelley: the girl who wrote Frankenstein
Seiple, Samantha - Louisa on the front lines: Louisa May Alcott in the Civil War
Seymour, Miranda - In Byron's wake: the turbulent lives of Lord Byron's wife and daughter: Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace
Targoff, Ramie - Renaissance woman: the life of Vittoria Colonna
Thompson, Laura - Agatha Christie: a mysterious life
Veevers, Marian - Jane and Dorothy: a true tale of sense and sensibility: the lives of Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth
Weber, Caroline - Proust's duchess: how three celebrated women captured the imagination of fin-de-siècle Paris (ebook available)
Women at work: interviews from the Paris review (volume 2 also available)
Writers as readers: a celebration of Virago Modern Classics (w/ Drabble, Byatt, Mantel, Bowen, etc.)
WAR & ESPIONAGE
Fagone, Jason - The Woman who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
Loftis, Larry - Code name: Lise: the true story of World War II's most highly decorated spy
Leslie, Anita - Train to nowhere: one woman's war: ambulance driver, reporter, liberator
Man, John - Searching for the Amazons: the real warrior women of the ancient world
Moore, Lucy - Lady Fanshawe's receipt book: the life & times of a Civil War heroine
Pavlychenko, Lyudmila - Lady Death: the memoirs of Stalin's sniper (translated from the Russian)
Toler, Pamela - Women Warriors: An Unexpected History
FINE & PERFORMING ARTS
Hayes, Jeffreen M. - Augusta Savage: Renaissance woman
Bashkoff, Tracey R. - Hilma af Klint: paintings for the future
Gabriel, Mary - Ninth Street women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: five painters and the movement that changed modern art (ebook available)
Gaines, Jane - Pink-slipped: what happened to the women in the silent film industries?
Hilma af Klint: notes and methods (Christine Burgin, editor)
Kahlo, Frida - You are always with me: letters to Mama 1923-1932
Leontis, Artemis - Eva Palmer Sikelianos: a life in ruins (1874-1952; NYC debutante, actor, director, Ancient Greece revivalist)
Currey, Mason - Daily rituals: women at work
Morisot, Berthe - Berthe Morisot: woman impressionist
Pollock, Griselda - Charlotte Salomon and the theatre of memory
Rader, Peter - Playing to the gods: Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse, and the rivalry that changed acting forever
Radical women: Latin American art, 1960-1985 (Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Andrea Giunta, eds.; Brooklyn Museum)
Ryersson, Scot D. - Infinite variety: the life and legend of the Marchesa Casati (Italian arts patron and muse, 1881-1957)
Smyth, J. E. - Nobody's girl Friday: the women who ran Hollywood
Van Haaften, Julia - Berenice Abbott: a life in photography
CHILDREN & YOUNG ADULT
Bagieu, Pénélope - Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World
Cline-Ransome, Lesa - Before She Was Harriet
Courgeon, Rémi - Feather
Glenn, Sharlee Mullins - Library On Wheels : Mary Lemist Titcomb and America's first bookmobile
Lawlor, Laurie - Super Women: Six Scientists Who Changed the World
Levy, Debbie - I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark
McCully, Emily Arnold - Caroline's Comets: A True StoryPérez, Celia C. - The First Rule of Punk
Macdonald, Maryann - Rosa's Animals : the story of Rosa Bonheur and her painting menagerie
Robbins, Dean - Margaret and the Moon: How Margaret Hamilton Saved the First Lunar Landing
Rockliff, Mara - Around America to Win the Vote
Underwood, Deborah - Interstellar Cinderella
Wallmark, Laurie - Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code
Watson, Renée - Piecing Me Together
Watson, Renée & Ellen Hagan - Watch Us Rise
Yousafzai, Malala - Malala's Magic Pencil
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