Women's History Month 2020: Recent Acquisitions

For Women's History Month, we offer this list of books that have arrived since our post from 2019. The books certainly cover a lot of ground, and there is something here for almost every reader.

To continue exploring our holdings on women's history, be sure to click the subject heading links within the catalog records. They can open up a whole new world of reading possibilities. And we must include our customary reminder to check what is on the shelf next to the book you are retrieving. You may find the perfect book, and one you did not know you were looking for. 

PROTEST & ACTIVISM / GENERAL HISTORY

• Crystal Eastman: A Revolutionary Life | Amy Aronson | Lobby NF (co-founder of ACLU, once called "the most dangerous woman in America") 
  
• Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement | Janet  Dewart Bell |  323.4 B
• A Black Women's History of the United States | Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross | 305.4 B           
• Unbecoming: A Memoir of Disobedience | Anuradha Bhagwati | 92 B5749 B (author is a Marine who fought for women's active role in combat)
• Mrs Pankhurst's Purple Feather: Fashion, Fury and Feminism - Women's Fight for Change | Tessa Boase | 305.4 B           
• Fem·i·nism: A Brief Introduction to the Ideas, Debates, and Politics of the Movement | Deborah Cameron | 305.4 C
• Charity and Sylvia: A Same-sex Marriage in Early America | Rachel Hope Cleves | 306.76 C
• The Book of Gutsy Women | Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton | Lobby NF
• No Stopping us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History | Gail Collins | Lobby NF (ebook available)
• The Chinese Lady: Afong Moy in Early America | Nancy E. Davis | Lobby NF
• Domina: The Women who Made Imperial Rome | Guy De La Bédoyère | 937.06 D           
• Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote | Dubois, Ellen Carol | 324.3 D
• A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City | Erica Armstrong Dunbar | 325.26 D
• Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin | edited by Johanna Fateman and Amy Scholder | Lobby NF               
• Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women | Silvia Federici | 305.4 F                  
• The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World | Melinda Gates | Lobby NF
• Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America | Jacquelyn Dowd Hall | Lobby NF
• Women in Antiquity: New Assessments (Richard Hawley and Barbara Levick, eds.) | 305.4 W
• She-Merchants, Buccaneers & Gentlewomen: British Women in India | Katie Hickman | 954 H
• Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995 | Cheryl Higashida | 820.9 H
• Reckoning: The Epic Battle against Sexual Abuse and Harassment | Linda Hirshman | 305.4 H      
• Rebel Cinderella: Rose Pastor Stokes—Sweatshop Immigrant, Aristorcrat's Wife, Socialist Crusader | Adam Hochschild |Lobby - NF
• She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Helped Ignite a Movement | Jodi Kantor And Megan Twohey | Lobby NF
• The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World | Janice Kaplan | 305.4 K           
• Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle Of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century | Charles King | Lobby NF (features Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Ella Cara Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston)
• Mother is a Verb: An Unconventional History | Sarah Knott | Lobby NF
• Difficult Women: An Imperfect History of Feminism | Helen Lewis (on order)
• Audre Lorde: Dream of Europe: Selected Seminars and Interviews: 1984-1992 | edited by Mayra A. Rodriguez- Castro; preface by Dagmar Schultz | 808.1 L       
• Butterfly Politics: Changing the World for Women | Catharine A. Mackinnon | 342.73 M
• Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America | W. Caleb Mcdaniel | 326 M
• America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today | Pamela S. Nadell | Lobby NF 
  
• Women in Long Island's Past: A History of Eminent Ladies and Everyday Lives | Natalie Naylor | 974.72 N      
• How was it for You?: Women, Sex, Love and Power Iin the 1960s | Virginia Nicholson | Lobby NF
• Yale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant | Anne Gardiner Perkins |  378 P            
• The Jamestown Brides: The Story of England's "Maids For Virginia" | Jennifer Potter | 975.5 P    
• Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s | Nancy Princenthal | 704 P   
• The Season: A Social History of the Debutante | Kristen Richardson | Lobby NF
• Reproductive Justice: An Introduction | Loretta J. Ross and Rickie Solinger | 363.4 R
• Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties | Sheila Rowbotham | 305.4 R
• Suffrage and the City: New York Women Battle for the Ballot | Lauren C. Santangelo | 324.3 S
• Women Who Dared: To Break All The Rules | Jeremy Scott | Lobby NF
• The White Devil's Daughters: The Women who Fought Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown | Julia Flynn Siler | 979.46 S          
• The Abortionist: A Woman against the Law | Rickie Solinger | 363.4 S (Portland, Oregon, 1918 -1968)
• Pregnancy and Power: A History of Reproductive Politics In the United States | Rickie Solinger | 363.96 S              
• Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980 | Kimberly Springer | 305.4 S
• Forging the Franchise: The Political Origins of the Women's Vote | Dawn Langan Teele | 324.3 T
• Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt: From Early Dynastic Times to the Death of Cleopatra | Joyce Tyldesley | 932 T
• Why they Marched: Untold Stories of the Women who Fought for the Right to Vote  | Susan Ware | 324.3 W                  
• Drawing Power: Women's Stories Of Sexual Violence, Harassment, And Survival: A Comics Anthology | Edited By Diane Noomin; introduction By Roxane Gay | Lobby NF
• Five Hundred Years Of Women's Work: The Lisa Unger Baskin Collection | edited By Naomi L. Nelson, Lauren Reno and Lisa Unger Baskin; essays by Elizabeth Campbell Denlinger, Laura Micham, Lisa Unger Baskin | 305.4 F (beautifully-produced catalog from acclaimed Grolier Club exhibition)
• Vanity Fair's Women on Women | edited by Radhika Jones with David Friend | 920 W872 V

BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS

• My Mother Laughs | Chantal Akerman; translated by Corina Copp (memoir by acclaimed Belgian filmmaker) | 92 A3139 A               
• She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman | Erica Armstrong Dunbar | 92 T885 D   
• A Bookshop in Berlin | Francoise Frenkel; with preface by Patrick Modiano | 92 F8792 F (ebook available)
• Shadows on the Tundra | Dalia Grinkevičiūtė; translated from the Lithuanian | 940.548 G (memoir of Lithuanian girl sent to Gulag in 1941)  
• Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior | Catherine Hanley | 940.1 H
• Marie-Antoinette: the Making of a French Queen | John Hardman | Lobby NF
• Passionate Spirit: The Life of Alma Mahler | Cate Haste | 92 M2143 H
• Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward | Valerie Jarrett | 92 J378 J
• Becoming Beauvoir: A Life | Kate Kirkpatrick | Lobby NF               
• The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (1791-1840)  | edited by Helena Whitbread | 306.7 L
• Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume 3: Herself Alone | Charles Moore | 92 T3679 M 
• Our Revolution: A Mother and Daughter at Midcentury | Honor Moore 
• Sontag: Her Life and Work | Benjamin Moser | Lobby NF (ebook available) 
• Elizabeth Seton: American Saint | Catherine O'Donnell  | 92 S4951 O
• Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For | Susan Rice | Lobby NF (memoir from national security advisor to President Obama and US Ambassador to the United Nations)
• Conversations wth RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law | Jeffrey Rosen | Lobby NF
• Stories of the Sahara | Sanmao | Lobby NF
  
• The Widow Washington: the life of Mary Washington | Martha Saxton |  Lobby NF
• Year of the Monkey | Patti Smith | Lobby NF (ebook available) 
• In the Country of Women: A Memoir | Susan Straight | Lobby NF
• First: Sandra Day O'Connor | Evan Thomas | Lobby NF
• The Last Landlady: An English Memoir | Laura Thompson | 394.1 T                           
• Noble Savages: The Olivier Sisters, Four Lives in Seven Fragments | Sarah Watling | 920 O480 W (fascinating British family in the early 20th century)

TRUE CRIME 

• 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention Of Modern Forensics | Bruce Goldfarb | Lobby - NF
• Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession | Rachel Monroe | Lobby NF
• The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women who Took on the World's Most Powerful Mafia | Alex Perry | Lobby Book Committee
• The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper | Hallie Rubenhold | Lobby NF
• The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective: Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime | Susannah Stapleton | Lobby NF

WAR, ESPIONAGE & INTELLIGENCE

• A Guest of the Reich: The Story of American Heiress Gertrude Legendre's Dramatic Captivity and Escape from Nazi Germany | Peter Finn | 940.5472 F
• Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA | Amaryllis Fox | Lobby NF   
• Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War | Stephanie Mccurry | 973.7 M
• A House in the Mountains: The Women who Liberated Italy from Fascism | Caroline Moorehead | Lobby NF
• Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman who Led France's Largest Spy Network against Hitler | Lynne Olson | Lobby NF
• A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II | Simon Parkin | Lobby NF
• A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II | Sonia Purnell | Lobby NF (ebook available)
• D-Day Girls: The Spies who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II | Sarah Rose | Lobby NF
• The Girls Next Door: Bringing the Home Front to the Front Lines | Kara Dixon Vuic | 355.1 V
• Women in the American Revolution: Gender, Politics, and the Domestic World | edited By Barbara B. Oberg | 305.4 W

FINE & PERFORMING ARTS

• Home work: a Memoir of my Hollywood Years | Julie Andrews | Lobby NF
• Ruth Asawa: Life's Work | Edited By Tamara H. Schenkenberg; with essays by Aruna D'souza, Helen Molesworth, and Tamara H. Schenkenberg | 730.92 A
• Sun Gardens: Cyanotypes by Anna Atkins | Larry J. Schaaf, ed. | 779 S
• Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field | Mark Burford | 780.921 J                                
• Sofonisba's Lesson: A Renaissance Artist and Her Work | Michael W. Cole | 759.5 A
• Alive Still: Nell Blaine, American Painter | Cathy Curtis | Lobby Book Committee        
• The Proper Decoration of Book Covers: The life and work of Alice C. Morse \ Mindell Dubansky; with essays by Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen and Josephine M. Dunn | 686 D
• Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists | Lisa Farrington | 790.73 F  
• Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory | Gary Garrels; with Contributions from Russell Ferguson, Frances Jacobus-Parker, et al.  | 709.73 C  (catalog for fantastic exhibition at Met-Bruer)
• Louise Blanchard Bethune: America's First Female Professional Architect | Johanna Hays | 720.92 B        
• Billie Holiday: The Last Interview and other Conversations | introduction by Khanya Mtshali | 780.921 H
• Still Here: The Madcap, Nervy, Singular life of Elaine Stritch | Alexandra Jacobs | Lobby NF
• Käthe Kollwitz: Life in Art | Mina C. Klein | 709.2 K
• Frances Benjamin Johnston: The Hampton Album | Sarah Hermanson Meister; with a contribution by LaToya Ruby Frazier | 779 J (MoMA catalog) 
• Representing Women | Linda Nochlin | 704.942 N
• Artist in Exile: The Visual Diary of Baroness Hyde de Neuville | Roberta J. M. Olson | 759.4 H
• Mrs Delany: a Life | Clarissa Campbell Orr | 92 D3379 O 
  
• Self-Portrait | Celia Paul | Lobby NF
• Fanny Palmer: The Life and Works of a Currier & Ives Artist | Charlotte Streifer Rubinstei; edited By Diann Benti | 763 R
• Hildegard von Bingen: a Journey into the Images  | Sara Salvadori | 248 S OVERSIZE
• Edith Halpert, the Downtown Gallery, and the rise of American Art | Rebecca Shaykin | 706.9 S
• Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist  | Celia Stahr (on order)
• Strong-Cuevas Sculpture: Premonitions in Retrospect | foreword by Donald Kuspit; texts by Strong-Cuevas | 730.92 S
• Voyaging Out: British Women Artists from Suffrage to the Sixties | Carolyn Trant | 704 T
• Out of Bounds: the collected writings of Marcia Tucker | 706.9 T   
• Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe | edited by Karen Patterson | 746 L
• Janis: Her Life and Music | Holly George-Warren | Lobby NF

LITERATURE & ESSAYS

• George Eliot and the Woman Question | Gillian Beer | 823 E
• March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women | Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, Jane Smiley | 823 A
• Rebel Writers: The Accidental Feminists: Shelagh Delaney, Edna O'Brien, Lynne Reid-Banks, Charlotte Bingham, Nell Dunn, Virginia Ironside, Margaret Forster | Celia Brayfield | Lobby NF
• Why Iris Murdoch Matters: Making Sense of Experience in Modern Times | Gary K. Browning | 171 B
• Notes from a Black Woman's Diary: Selected works of Kathleen Collins | Lobby NF
• Thick: and other Essays | Tressie Mcmillan Cottom | Lobby NF
• Coventry: Essays | Rachel Cusk | Lobby NF (ebook available)
• Me & Other Writing | Marguerite Duras; translated By Olivia Baes & Emma Ramadan; with an Introduction by Dan Gunn | 824 D
• The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit: Victorian Iconoclast, Children's Author, and Creator of The Railway Children | Eleanor Fitzsimons | 92 N458 F
• Diary of an Ordinary Schoolgirl | Margaret Forster (with an introduction by Hunter Davies) | 92 F7347 F
• Virginia Woolf: and the Women who Shaped her World | Gillian Gill | Lobby NF 
  
• Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader | Vivian Gornick | Lobby NF (ebook available)      
• Teffi: A Life of Letters and of Laughter | Edythe Haber | 92 T259 H
• Blitz Writing : Night Shift & It was Different at the Time | Inez Holden | 820.81 H
• We Met In Paris: Grace Frick and her Life with Marguerite Yourcenar | Joan E. Howard | 920 H8491 W
• Scheherazade's Sisters: Trickster Heroines and their Stories in World Literature | Marilyn Jurich | 809.9 J
• Monster, She Wrote: The Women who Pioneered Horror & Speculative Fiction | Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson | 809.9 K
• Virginia Woolf's Modernist Path: Her Middle Diaries & the Diaries she Read  | Barbara Lounsberry | 828.09 L
• Gertrude Stein has Arrived: The Homecoming of a Literary Legend | Roy Morris Jr. |Lobby NF
• The Besieged City | Clarice Lispector; translated from the Portuguese by Johnny Lorenz; edited By Benjamin Moser | Lobby Fic
• The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations | Toni Morrison | Lobby NF (ebook available)
• The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women | Mo Moulton | Lobby NF
• Good things out of Nazareth: The Uncollected letters of Flannery O'Connor and Friends | Flannery O'Connor |  92 O1855 O
• Provocations: Collected Essays | Camille Paglia | 824 P
• Becoming Willa Cather: Creation and Career | Daryl Palmer | 823 C
• The Journal I did not Keep: New and Selected Writing | Lore Groszmann Segal | Lobby NF
• My Autobiography of Carson McCullers | Jenn Shapland | Lobby NF
• Alice Adams: Portrait of a Writer | Carol Sklenicka | Lobby NF
• Lost Girls: Love, War and Literature: 1939-51 | D.J. Taylor | Lobby NF
• Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of our Lives | Helen Taylor | 028 T
  
• Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop | Thomas Travisano | Lobby NF
• Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London between the Wars | Francesca Wade | Lobby NF
• Elizabeth Bishop: The Geography of Gender | edited by Marilyn May Lombardi | 821.09 B
• The History of British Women's Writing, Vol. 6: 1830-1880 | General Editors, Jennie Batchelor and Cora Kaplan | 820.9 H
• New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent | edited by Margaret Busby | 808.89 N
• The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism | Sarah Chihaya, Merve Emre, Katherine Hill, Jill Richards | 853 F
• The Penguin Book of Mermaids | edited by Cristina Bacchilega and Marie Alohalani Brown | 398.2 P
• Women's Weird: Strange Stories by Women, 1890-1940 | edited by Melissa Edmundson | F W
• Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on how to Read | foreword by Ali Smith | 820.4 W

HISTORICAL FICTION

• I Lost my Girlish Laughter | Jane Allen (Silvia Schulman & Jane Shore) | F A (1938 novel about women in the film industry, recently republished)
• A Kitchen in the Corner of the House | Ambai; translated from the Tamil | Lobby Fiction (acclaimed collection of stories)
• A Bend in the Stars | Rachel Barenbaum | Lobby Fiction (WWI setting)
• The Third Daughter| Talia Carner | Lobby Fiction (historical novel about trafficking of young women from Russia to South America in the late 19th Century)
• A Single Thread | Tracy Chevalier | Lobby Fiction (historical novel about WWI widow In England)
• Feast Your Eyes | Myla Goldberg | Fiction (historical novel about an art photographer in NYC)
• The Red Word | Sarah Henstra | F H (campus novel set in 1990s)
  
• Machines in the Head: Selected Short Writing | Anna Kavan | 820.81 K (Kavan (1901-1968) has been compared to Leonora Carrington and Jean Rhys)          
• The Shadow King | Maaza Mengiste | Lobby Fiction (novel set during Mussolini’s 1935 invasion of Ethiopia)
• In Love with George Eliot| Kathy O'Shaughnessy | Lobby Fiction
• A Double Life | Karolina Pavlova; translated from the Russian | Lobby Fiction ("An unsung classic of nineteenth-century Russian literature" with strong female characters)
• Cherokee America | Margaret Verble | Lobby Fiction    
• The Call | Edith Ayrton Zangwill; with a preface by Elizabeth Day | F Z (suffrage novel originally published in 1924 republished by Persephone)
• Wave Me Goodbye: Stories of the Second World War | edited by Anne Boston (w/ Jean Rhys, Dorothy Parker, Olivia Manning, Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Taylor, many more) | F W

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Fiction

• The  Parker Inheritance  | Varian Johnson
• Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess | Shari Green
• Abigail Adams, Pirate of the Caribbean | Steve Sheinkin
• The Night Diary | Veera Hiranandani
• Other Words for Home | Jasmine Warga

Nonfiction and Biographies

• Lighter Than Air: Sophie Blanchard, the First Woman Pilot | Matthew Clark Smith
• Super Women: Six Scientists Who Changed the World | Laurie Lawlor
• Frida Kahlo and her Animalitos | Monica Brown
• Rosa’s Animals: The Story of Rosa Braunheur and Her Painting Menagerie | Maryann Macdonald
• Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women | Catherine Thimmesh
• Brave Ballerina | Michelle Meadows
• The Quilts of Gee’s Bend | Susan Goldman Rubin
• I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark | Debbie Levy
• Malala: Activist for Girl’s Education | Raphaële Frier
• Dorothea’s Eyes: Dorothea Lange Photographs the Truth | Barb Rosenstock
• Malala’s Magic Pencil | Malala Youfsazai
• Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code | Laurie Wallmark
• Before She Was Harriet | Lesa Cline-Ransome
• Caroline’s Comets: A True Story |Emily Arnold McCully
• Victoria: Portrait of a Queen | Catherine Reef
• The World Is Not a Rectangle: A Portrait of Architect Zaha Hadid | Jeanette Winter
• Library on Wheels: Mary Lemtist Titcomb and America’s First Bookmobile | Sharlee Gleen
• Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington’s Courageous Slave Who Dared To Run Away |Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Kathleen van Cleve
• Wilma’s Way Home: The Life of Wilma Mankiller  | Doreen Rappaport
• Mary Who Wrote Frankenstein | Linda Bailey
• Susan B. Anthony  |Teri Kanefield
• Who Was Eleanor Roosevelt? | Gare Thompson

YOUNG ADULT BOOKS

Middle School

• The First Rule of Punk | Celia C. Pérez
  
• Piecing Me Together  | Renée Watson
• My Brigadista Year | Katherine Paterson
• Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc | David Elliott
• Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation | Anne Frank, adapted by Ari Folman
• Girl of the Southern Sea | Michelle Kadarusman
• Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World | Kelly Jensen, ed. (ebook)
• Watch Us Rise | Ellen Hagan & Renee Watson (fiction) (e-book available)

High School

• The Downstairs Girl | Stacey Lee (historical fiction)
• Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All  | Laura Ruby (historical fiction)
• The Belles | Dhonielle Clayton (fantasy)
• Speak | Laurie Halse Anderson (graphic novel)
• Sadie | Courtney Summers (fiction) (also e-audio)
• The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy | Mackenzi Lee (historical fiction)
• A Heart in a Body in the World | Deb Caletti (fiction)
• Once & Future | Amy Rose Capetta & Cori McCarthy (revisionist history/scifi)
• The Passion of Dolssa | Julie Berry (historical fiction)
• Kill the Boy Band | Goldy Moldavsky (fiction)
• The Poet X | Elizabeth Acevedo (novel in verse) (ebook and audio download available)
• Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree | Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani (historical fiction)
• Shout | Laurie Halse Anderson (memoir in verse)
• Becoming Unbecoming | Una (graphic novel)
• Brazen | Penelope Bagieu (graphic novel)
• History Vs. Women | Anita Sarkeesian