For Women's History Month, we present our annual list of recent acquisitions (new books and older titles newly added) focusing on women's vast contributions to history and culture. It should come as no surprise that the books cover a lot of territory, and there is likely something here for almost every interest.  A section with Children's and Young Adult books is included as well. 

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.

Previous Women's History Month lists: 2021 | 2020 | 2019

ACTIVISM & PROTEST, SUFFRAGE, FEMINISM

• Allende, Isabel - The soul of a woman: on impatient love, long life, and good witches
• Bell, Karen Cook - Running from bondage: enslaved women and their remarkable fight for freedom in Revolutionary America
• Blain, Keisha N. - Until I am free: Fannie Lou Hamer's enduring message to America
• Brown-Nagin, Tomiko - Civil rights queen: Constance Baker Motley and the struggle for equality
• Burke, Tarana - Unbound: my story of liberation and the birth of the Me Too movement
• Camp, Stephanie M. H. - Closer to freedom: enslaved women and everyday resistance in the plantation South
• The concise history of woman suffrage: selections from History of woman suffrage (edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and the National American Woman Suffrage Association)
• Capetillo, Luisa - A nation of women: an early feminist speaks out
• Despentes, Virginie - King Kong theory ("manifesto" by French author of Vernon Subutex)
• Fraser, Antonia - The case of the married woman: Caroline Norton: a 19th century heroine who wanted justice for women
• Gaines, James R. - The fifties: an underground history (includes on chapter on feminism in the 1950s)
• Gornick, Vivian - Taking a long look: essays on culture, literature, and feminism in our time
• Grinspan, Jon - The age of acrimony: how Americans fought to fix their democracy, 1865-1915
• Hands on the freedom plow: personal accounts by women in SNCC (Faith S. Holsaert, et al., eds.)
• Hill, Anita - Believing: our thirty-year journey to end gender violence
• Larson, Kate Clifford - Walk with me: a biography of Fannie Lou Hamer
• McCormack, Catherine - Women in the picture: what culture does with female bodies
• Nolan, Savala - Don't let it get you down: essays on race, gender, and the body
• Orange, Michelle - Pure flame: a legacy
• The Penguin book of feminist writing (Hannah Dawson, ed.)
• Rose, Jacqueline - On violence and on violence against women
• Schuller, Kyla - The trouble with white women: a counterhistory of feminism
• Selvaratnam, Tanya - Assume nothing: a story of intimate violence
• Srinivasan, Amia - The right to sex: feminism in the twenty-first century
• Talbot, David - By the light of burning dreams: the triumphs and tragedies of the second American revolution
• Warren, Elizabeth - Persist
• Wickenden, Dorothy - The agitators: three friends who fought for abolition and women's rights
• Zakaria, Rafia - Against white feminism: notes on disruption

LITERATURE, POETRY, ESSAYS, PHILOSOPHY, FOLKLORE

• Bennett, Betty T. - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: an introduction
• Bradford, Richard - Devils, lusts and strange desires: the life of Patricia Highsmith
• Byrne, Paula - The adventures of Miss Barbara Pym: a biography
• Caribbean women writers (Harold Bloom, ed.)
• Child, Lydia Maria - A Lydia Maria Child reader
• Collins, Sophie - Who is Mary Sue?
• Copus, Julia - This rare spirit: a life of Charlotte Mew
• Crowther, Gail - Three-martini afternoons at the Ritz: the rebellion of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton
• Ellmann, Lucy - Things are against us
• Febos, Melissa - Girlhood: essays
• Fernald, Anne E. - Virginia Woolf: feminism and the reader
• Garner, Helen - One day I'll remember this: diaries
• Garner, Helen - Yellow notebook: diaries.
• George, Lynell - A handful of earth, a handful of sky: the world of Octavia E. Butler
• Gilbert, Sandra M. - Still mad: American women writers and the feminist imagination, 1950-2020
• Greenlaw, Lavinia - Some answers without questions
• Hall, Anne - Angela Thirkell: a writer's life
• Hansberry, Lorraine - Conversations with Lorraine Hansberry
• Harjo, Joy - Poet warrior: a memoir
• Homestead, Melissa J. - The only wonderful things: the creative partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis
• Hurston, Zora Neale - You don't know us negroes : and other essays
• Lipscomb, Benjamin J. Bruxvoort - The women are up to something: how Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch revolutionized ethics
• Marshall, Paule - Conversations with Paule Marshall
• McCutchan, Ann - The life she wished to live: a biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The yearling
• McKnight, Utz Lars - Frances E. W. Harper: a call to conscience
• Patchett, Ann - These precious days: essays
• Tatar, Maria - The heroine with 1,001 faces
• Wheatley, Phillis - The writings of Phillis Wheatley
• Zaretsky, Robert - The subversive Simone Weil: a life in five ideas
• The mirror of my heart: a thousand years of Persian poetry by women (translated with an introduction and notes by Dick Davis)

ART & FASHION

• Bassman, Lillian - Lillian Bassman: women
• Block, Elizabeth L. - Dressing up: the women who influenced French fashion
• Bouhassane, Ami - Lee Miller: fashion in wartime Britain
• Chicago, Judy - The flowering: the autobiography of Judy Chicago
• Dora Maar (Damarice Amao, ed.; Tate Modern, Getty)
• Hewitt, Catherine - Art is a tyrant: the unconventional life of Rosa Bonheur
• Higgie, Jennifer - The mirror and the palette: rebellion, revolution, and resilience: five hundred years of women's self portraits
• Mair, Roswitha - Sophie Taeuber-Arp and the avant-garde: a biography
• Marks, Ann - Vivian Maier developed: the untold story of the photographer nanny
• Ming Smith (Aperture Foundation)
• Neel, Alice - Alice Neel: people come first
• Nemerov, Alexander - Fierce poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York
• Nochlin, Linda - Why have there been no great women artists?
• Shen, Ann - Nevertheless, she wore it: 50 feminist fashion moments
• Warner, Andrea - Buffy Sainte-Marie: the authorized biography
•  Wilcox, Claire - Patch work: a life amongst clothes

HISTORY

• Abbs, Annabel - Windswept: walking the paths of trailblazing women
• Bren, Paulina - The Barbizon: the hotel that set women free
• Cooke, Julia - Come fly the world: the jet-age story of the women of Pan Am
• Cormack, Raph - Midnight in Cairo: the divas of Egypt's roaring '20s
• Dreilinger, Danielle - The secret history of home economics: how trailblazing women harnessed the power of home and changed the way we live
• Dresvina, Juliana, editor - Thanks for typing: remembering forgotten women in history
• Euripides - The Trojan women: a comic by Rosanna Bruno; text by Anne Carson
• Gallagher, Winifred - New women in the old west: from settlers to suffragists, an untold American story
• Heyrman, Christine Leigh - Doomed romance: broken hearts, lost souls, and sexual tumult in nineteenth-century America
• Larson, Frances - Undreamed shores: the hidden heroines of British anthropology
• Midorikawa, Emily - Out of the shadows: six visionary Victorian women in search of a public voice (spiritualism/mediums)
• Quilligan, Maureen - When women ruled the world: making the Renaissance in Europe
• Sen, Mayukh - Taste makers: seven immigrant women who revolutionized food in America
• Sohn, Amy - The man who hated women: sex, censorship, and civil liberties in the gilded age

WAR & ESPIONAGE

• Batalion, Judith - The light of days: the untold story of women resistance fighters in Hitler's ghettos
• Becker, Elizabeth - You don't belong here: how three women rewrote the story of war
• Mackrell, Judith - The correspondents: six women writers on the front lines of World War II
• Perre, Selma van de - My name is Selma : the remarkable memoir of a Jewish resistance fighter and Ravensbrück survivor
• Sebba, Anne - Ethel Rosenberg: an American tragedy
• Strauss, Gwen - The nine: the true story of a band of women who survived the worst of Nazi Germany
• Vigurs, Kate - Mission France: the true history of the women of SOE

BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS

• Abedin, Huma - Both / and: a life in many worlds
• Armstrong, Leslie - Girl intrepid: a New York story of privilege and perseverance
• Bagley, Edythe Scott - Desert rose: the life and legacy of Coretta Scott King
• Bingham, Frances - Valentine Ackland: a transgressive life (Sylvia Townsend Warner)
• Burns, Ursula - Where you are is not who you are: a memoir
• Evaristo, Bernardine - Manifesto: on never giving up
• Florio, Donna - Growing up Bank Street: a Greenwich Village memoir
• Hakohen, Devorah - To repair a broken world: the life of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah
• Jarre, Marina - Distant fathers (translated by Ann Goldstein; 20th-century Latvia & Italy)
• Johnson, Katherine G. - My remarkable journey: a memoir (Black mathematician at NASA)
• Katz, Jonathan - The daring life and dangerous times of Eve Adams (author of legendary Lesbian Love)
• King, Billie Jean - All in: an autobiography
• Klam, Julie - The almost legendary Morris sisters: a true story of family fiction
• Levy, Deborah - Real estate
• Marton, Kati - The chancellor: the remarkable odyssey of Angela Merkel
• Marzorati, Gerald - Seeing Serena
• Miles, Tiya - All that she carried: the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake
• Miyamoto, Nobuko - Not yo' butterfly: my long song of relocation, race, love, and revolution
• Mitton, Jacqueline - Vera Rubin: a life (pioneering, influential astronomer)
• Napoli, Lisa - Susan, Linda, Nina, & Cokie: the extraordinary story of the founding mothers of NPR
• Page, Susan - Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the lessons of power
• Roberts, Steven V. - Cokie: a life well lived
• Russell, Jan Jarboe - Eleanor in the Village: Eleanor Roosevelt's search for freedom and identity in New York's Greenwich Village
• Thompson, Laura - Heiresses: the lives of the million dollar babies
• Turner, Dawn - Three girls from Bronzeville: a uniquely American memoir of race, fate, and sisterhood
• Wright, Jennifer - She kills me: the true stories of history's deadliest women

HEALTH & MEDICINE, PSYCHOLOGY

• Chemaly, Soraya L. - Rage becomes her: the power of women's anger
• Cleghorn, Elinor - Unwell women: misdiagnosis and myth in a man-made world
• Diamant, Anita - Period, end of sentence: a new chapter in the fight for menstrual justice
• Gunter, Jen - The menopause manifesto: own your health with facts and feminism
• Moore, Kate - The woman they could not silence: one woman, her incredible fight for freedom, and the men who tried to make her disappear
• Mukwege, Denis - The power of women: a doctor's journey of hope and healing
• Ramey, Sarah - The lady's handbook for her mysterious illness: a memoir

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

• Ancestor approved : intertribal stories for kids (Cynthia Leitich Smith, editor)
• Billet, Julia - Catherine's War
• D'Aquino, Andrea - A life made by hand: the story of Ruth Asawa
• Griffith, Evan - Secrets of the sea: the story of Jeanne Power, revolutionary marine scientist
• Grimes, Nikki - Legacy: women poets of the Harlem Renaissance
• Hooks, Gwendolyn - Planting peace
• Hudson, Cheryl Willis - Brave, black, first: 50+ African American women who changed the world
• Khor, Shing Yin - The Legend of Auntie Po
• Leung, Julie - The fearless flights of Hazel Ying Lee
• Menéndez, Juliet - Latinitas: celebrating 40 big dreamers
• Noisemakers: 25 women who raised their voices & changed the world: a graphic collection from Kazoo (Erin Bried, Editor in Chief Kazoo Magazine)
• Robbins, Dean - The fastest girl on Earth!: meet Kitty O'Neil, daredevil driver!
• Ruelle, Karen Gray - Surprising spies: unexpected heroes of World War II
• Sorell, Trac. - Classified: the secret career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee aerospace engineer
• Todd, Traci N. - Nina: a story of Nina Simone
• Wallmark, Laurie - Hedy Lamarr's double life

YOUNG ADULT BOOKS

• Bieschke, Marke - Into the streets : a young person's visual history of protest in the United States 
• Corthron, Kara Lee - Daughters of jubilation
• Crowder, Melanie - Mazie
• Dionne, Evette - Lifting as we climb: Black women's battle for the ballot box
• Lo, Malinda - Last Night at the Telegraph Club (audiobook also available)
• A phoenix first must burn : sixteen stories of black girl magic, resistance, and hope (Patrice Caldwell, editor)
• Vaughan, Brian K. - Paper Girls: The Complete Story
• Watson, Sarah - Most likely
• Williams-Garcia, Rita - A Sitting in St. James (audiobook also available)