Welcome to our annual list of recent acquisitions focusing on women's vast contibrutions to history. As usual, the books below cover a lot of ground: activism, arts and literature, spionage and intelligence, and much more. The scholarship on display is impressive, to say the least. A section for 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

ARTS & LITERATURE

• Beer, Anna R. - Eve bites back: an alternative history of English literature
• Black women writers at work (edited by Claudia Tate; foreword by Tillie Olsen)
• Borzello, Frances - Seeing ourselves: women's self-portraits
• Chilton, Karen - Hazel Scott: the pioneering journey of a jazz pianist from Café Society to Hollywood to HUAC
• Chopra, Joyce - Lady director: adventures in Hollywood, television and beyond
• Clements, Paul - Jan Morris: life from both sides: a biography
• De Courcy, Anne- Five love affairs and a friendship: the Paris life of Nancy Cunard, icon of the Jazz Age
• De Veaux, Alexis - Warrior poet: a biography of Audre Lorde
• Doidge, Kristin Marguerite - Nora Ephron: a biography
• Ferrante, Elena - In the margins: on the pleasures of reading and writing
• Foster, Alicia - Gwen John: British artist
• Foster, Jeannette H. - Sex variant women in literature
• Garafola, Lynn - La Nijinska: choreographer of the modern
• Gentileschi, Artemisia - Lives of Artemisia Gentileschi
• Gordon, Lyndall - The hyacinth girl: T.S. Eliot's hidden muse
• Griswold, Mac K. - I'll build a stairway to paradise: a life of Bunny Mellon
• Hallett, Hilary A. - Inventing the it girl: how Elinor Glyn created the modern romance and conquered early Hollywood
• Harjo, Joy - Catching the light ("Why I Write" series)
• Harman, Claire - All sorts of lives: Katherine Mansfield and the art of risking everything
• Hessel, Katy - The story of art without men
• Hunter-Gault, Charlayne - My people: five decades of writing about Black lives
• Kastner, Victoria - Julia Morgan: an intimate biography of the trailblazing architect
• Looser, Devoney - Sister novelists: the trailblazing Porter sisters, who paved the way for Austen and the Brontës
• Luijten, Hans - Jo van Gogh-Bonger: the woman who made Vincent famous
• Mac Cumhaill, Clare - Metaphysical animals: how four women brought philosophy back to life
• Malcolm, Janet - Janet Malcolm: the last interview and other conversations
• McBride, Jason - Eat your mind: the radical life and work of Kathy Acker
• Mitchell, Joan - Joan Mitchell (Sarah Roberts and Katy Siegel, eds.)
• Moorhead, Joanna - The surreal life of Leonora Carrington
• Morgan, Joyce - The Countess from Kirribilli: the mysterious and free-spirited literary sensation who beguiled the world (Elizabeth von Arnim)
• Neiderman, Andrew - The woman beyond the attic: the V. C. Andrews story
• Olubas, Brigitta - Shirley Hazzard: a writing life
• Phillips, Julie - The baby on the fire escape: creativity, motherhood, and the mind-baby problem
• Ringgold, Faith - Faith Ringgold: politics power
• Ronstadt, Linda - Feels like home: a song for the Sonoran borderlands
• Scheeres, Julia - Listen, world!: how the intrepid Elsie Robinson became America's most-read woman
• Seymour, Miranda - I used to live here once: the haunted life of Jean Rhys
• She who wrote: Enheduanna and women of Mesopotamia, ca. 3400-2000 BC (Sidney Babcock and Erhan Tamur, eds.)
• Spector, Ronnie - Be my baby: a memoir
• The women who changed architecture (Jan Cigliano Hartman, editor)
• This woman's work: essays on music (Sinéad Gleeson and Kim Gordon, eds.)
• Thomas, Alma - Alma W. Thomas: everything is beautiful
• TolstaYA, S. A. - Sofia Tolstaya, the author: her literary works in English translation
• Turner, Marion - The Wife of Bath: a biography
• Verdelle, A. J. - Miss Chloe: a memoir of a literary friendship with Toni Morrison
• Voss, Julia - Hilma af Klint: a biography
• Waldstreicher, David - The odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: a poet's journeys through American slavery and independence
• Walker, Alice - Gathering blossoms under fire: the journals of Alice Walker 1965-2000
• Weill, Berthe - Pow! Right in the eye!: thirty years behind the scenes of modern French painting
• White, Gayle Jessup - Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a descendant's search for her family's lasting legacy
• Wilson, Elizabeth - Playing with fire: the story of Maria Yudina, pianist in Stalin's Russia
• Women painting women (Andrea Karnes, editor)
• Worsley, Lucy - Agatha Christie: an elusive woman

ACTIVISM, PROTEST, FEMINISM

• Aronowitz, Nona Willis - Bad sex: truth, pleasure, and an unfinished revolution
• Briggs, Laura - How all politics became reproductive politics: from welfare reform to foreclosure to Trump
• Davis, Dána-Ain - Reproductive injustice: racism, pregnancy, and premature birth
• Ellis, Nicole. - We go high
• Goodwin, Michele - Policing the womb: invisible women and the criminalization of motherhood
• Green, Tara T. - Love, activism, and the respectable life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson
• Griffith, Elisabeth - Formidable: American women and the fight for equality, 1920-2020
• hooks, bell - Ain't I a woman: Black women and feminism
• Kolbert, Kathryn - Controlling women: what we must do now to save reproductive freedom
• Kornbluh, Felicia - A woman's life is a human life: my mother, our neighbor, and the journey from reproductive rights to reproductive justice
• Lithwick, Dahlia - Lady justice: women, the law, and the battle to save America
• McGregor, Hannah - A sentimental education
• Roberts, Dorothy E. - Killing the black body: race, reproduction, and the meaning of liberty
• Rouse, Wendy L. - Public faces, secret lives: a queer history of the women's suffrage movement
• Schoen, Johanna - Abortion after Roe
• Scutts, Joanna - Hotbed: bohemian Greenwich Village and the secret club that sparked modern feminism
• Shames, Stephen - Comrade sisters: women of the Black Panther party
• Solinger, Rickie - Reproductive politics: what everyone needs to know
• Tax, Meredith - The rising of the women: feminist solidarity and class conflict, 1880-1917
• Theobald, Brianna - Reproduction on the reservation: pregnancy, childbirth, and colonialism in the long twentieth century
• Thottam, Jyoti - Sisters of Mokama: the pioneering women who brought hope and healing to India

BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS

• Beasley, Gertrude - My first thirty years: a memoir (Originally published in 1925)
• Beauvoir, Simone de - Diary of a philosophy student (volume 2)
• Chase-Riboud, Barbara - I always knew: a memoir
• Chen, Yuan-tsung - The secret listener: an ingenue in Mao's court
• Cofer, Judith Ortiz - The Latin Deli: telling the lives of barrio women
• Dangarembga, Tsitsi - Black and female: essays
• De Stefano, Cristina - The child is the teacher: a life of Maria Montessori
• Fraser, Flora - Flora Macdonald: "pretty young rebel": her life and story
• Geanacopoulos, Daphne Palmer - The pirate's wife: the remarkable true story of Sarah Kidd
• Gilroy, Beryl - Black teacher (memoir of a teacher in the UK, originally published in 1976)
• Hilsenrath, Jon - Yellen: the trailblazing economist who navigated an era of upheaval
• Hood, Ann - Fly girl: a memoir
• Jefferson, Margo - Constructing a nervous system: a memoir
• Malcolm, Janet - Still pictures: on photography and memory
• Nobles, Gregory H. - The education of Betsey Stockton: an odyssey of slavery and freedom
• Prioleau, Betsy - Diamonds and deadlines: a tale of greed, deceit, and a female tycoon in the gilded age (biography of Leslie Frank)
• Rappaport, Helen - In search of Mary Seacole: the making of a Black cultural icon and humanitarian
• Sullivan, Margaret - Newsroom confidential: lessons (and worries) from an ink-stained life

HISTORY

• Cooke, Lucy - Bitch: on the female of the species
• Cooper Owens, Deirdre Benia - Medical bondage: race, gender, and the origins of American gynecology
• Crerar, Belinda - Feminine power: the divine to the demonic (2022 British Museum exhibition)
• Faderman, Lillian - Woman: the American history of an idea
• Grose, Jessica - Screaming on the inside: the unsustainability of American motherhood
• Hickman, Katie - Brave hearted: the women of the American West 1836-1880
• Janega, Eleanor - The once and future sex: going medieval on women's roles in society
• Livingstone, Natalie - The women of Rothschild: the untold story of the world's most famous dynasty
• Lodge, Emily - The Lodge women, their men and their times
• Maunder, Chris - Mary: founder of Christianity
• Nadeau, Barbie Latza - The Godmother: murder, vengeance, and the bloody struggle of Mafia women
• Ramirez, Janina - Femina: a new history of the Middle Ages, through the women written out of it
• Ryan, Hugh - The women's house of detention: a queer history of a forgotten prison
• Stuart, Nancy Rubin - Poor Richard's women: Deborah Read Franklin and the other women behind the Founding Father
• Women in George Washington's world (Charlene M. Boyer Lewis and George W. Boudreau, eds.)
• Zernike, Kate - The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science

WAR & ESPIONAGE

• Adlington, Lucy - The dressmakers of Auschwitz: the true story of the women who sewed to survive
• Cerrotti, Rachael - We share the same sky: a memoir of memory & migration
• Holt, Nathalia - Wise gals: the spies who built the CIA and changed the future of espionage
• Lewis, Damien - Agent Josephine: American beauty, French hero, British spy
• Mazzeo, Tilar J. - Sisters in resistance: how a German spy, a banker's wife, and Mussolini's daughter outwitted the Nazis
• Popkin, Jim - Code name Blue Wren: the true story of America's most dangerous female spy--and the sister she betrayed
• Winthrop, Elizabeth - Daughter of spies: wartime secrets, family lies
• Wyllie, James - Nazi wives: the women at the top of Hitler's Germany

CHILDREN’S

• Bennett, Brit - Meet Claudie
• Hurston, Zora Neale - Magnolia Flower
• Joy, Angela - Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement
• Roundtree, Dovey Johnson - We wait for the sun
• Van der Linde, Laurel - Black Swans
• Watson, Renée - Maya’s Song

YOUNG ADULT

• Cohen, Jennieke - My Fine Fellow
• Ireland, Justina - Rust in the Root
• Levine, Gail Carson - Sparrows in the Wind
• Nissley, Jennifer - The Mythic Koda Rose
• Peterson, J. C. - Being Mary Bennet