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March is Women's History Month!

Pierce Library invites you to join us in celebrating Women's History Month!

Women's History Month originated as a week-long national observance every year in 1981, following President Jimmy Carter's proclamation of Women's History Week in 1980. In 1987, the National Women’s History Project successfully petitioned to expand Women's History Week to a month-long celebration observed in the U.S. every March. 

Women's History Month is a time to uplift and celebrate the often-overlooked contributions of women to U.S. society and culture. Women's history is full of bold trailblazers who worked hard and sacrificed to build a more just and equitable society. This month and every month, it is important to pay tribute to the achievements that have gotten us where are, recognize the women who have not always been welcomed into such movements, and consider how we might continue moving forward in a way that uplifts and empowers everyone. 

We hope the resources below help to inspire and empower you! Happy Women's History Month, Brahmas!

Nonfiction

Woman: The American History of an Idea
A Black Women's History of the United States
Young and Restless: The Girls who Sparked America's Revolutions
Fighting Mad: Resisting the End of Roe v. Wade
Feminisms: A Global  History
Vanguard: how Black women broke barriers, won the vote, and insisted on equality for all
In Her Own Name: The Politics of Women's Rights Before Suffrage
Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II
The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights
A Short History of Trans Misogyny
Sisters in the Mirror: A History of Muslim Women and the Global Politics of Feminism
She-Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street
Women of Genius in Science: Whose Frequently Overlooked Contributions Changed the World
Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why it Matters Today
Women Talk Money: Breaking the Taboo
Lady Justice: women, the law, and the battle to save America
Liberating Abortion: Claiming our History, Sharing our Stories, and Building the Reproductive Future We Deserve
50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine that Ignited a Revolution
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Can't Stop the Grrrls: Confronting Sexist Labels in Pop Music from Ariana Grande to Yoko Ono
Bitch: On the Female of the Species
Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America
Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women
How to Be a Woman Online: Surviving Abuse and Harassment, and How to Fight Back
The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA
Hood Feminism: Notes From the Women That a Movement Forgot
The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women
Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement

eBook Available

Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women
Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics

eBook Available

Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1950-2020
Reshaping Women's History: Voices of Nontraditional Women Historians

eBook Available

A Short History of Queer Women
Bodies on the Line: At the Front Lines of the Fight to Protect Abortion in America
Choice Words: Writers on Abortion

eBook Available

The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier
The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts
Comic Book Women: Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age

eBook Available

Memoirs & Biographies

Lovely One
Wilma Mankiller: How One Woman United the Cherokee Nation and Helped Change the Face of America
Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics
The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
My Beloved World
On Account of Sex: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Making of Gender Equality Law
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship
In the Dream House: A Memoir
Manifesto: On Never Giving Up
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

Fiction

Lessons in Chemistry
You Exist Too Much: A Novel
After Sappho: A Novel
Lady Tan's Circle of Women
The Love Songs of W.E.B. du Bois
Yours for the Taking
Circe
Wayward
The School for Good Mothers
Sabrina and Corina: Stories
Nobody's Magic
I Know What's Best for You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom
And Then She Fell
How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
Nightbloom
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
Girl, Woman, Other

Poetry

An American Sunrise
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic

eBook Available

The Carrying: Poems
Call Us What We Carry: Poems
Balladz
Whereas
A Good Cry
If They Come for Us: Poems
Milk and Honey

eBook Available


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