Women’s History Month

Women’s History Month, a month to celebrate the contributions women have made to our world. March 8th is also International Women’s Day a day to celebrate and recognize the women’s civil rights movements for equity, reproductive rights as well as sexism and violence women have faced throughout history and everyday life.

Famous Women in History biographies

Ida B. Wells- Journalist and Activist of the 19th and 20th century.

‘Ida B. Wells’

‘The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells’

Alice Paul- Suffragist and women’s rights activist

‘Alice Paul: Equality fir Women’

Eleanor Roosevelt- Political figure and activist.

‘Eleanor Roosevelt’

Ada Lovelace- Famous Mathematician

‘Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers: A Selection from the Letters of Lord Byron’s Daughter and Her Description of the First Computer’

Victoria Woodhull- The First women to run for president.

‘The Women Who Ran for President: The Many Lives of Victoria Woodhull’

 Marie Curie- First Woman to win a Nobel Prize.

‘Curie’

Ann Trow Summers Lohman- Abortion provider and Midwife in the 19th Century.

‘Madame Restell: The Life, Death and Resurrection of Old New York’s Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist’

The Experiences, Voices and Lives of Women.

‘She Caused a Riot: 100 Unknown Women Who Built Cities, Sparked Revolutions, & Massively Crushed It. ‘

‘Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions By Women’

‘Nobles Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles. and Momentous Discoveries’

‘Blue Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday’

‘The Bridge Called My Back; Writings by Radical Women of Color’

‘Our Voices, Our Histories: Asian American and Pacific Islander Women’

‘The Voices of Women Artists’

‘Who’s Afraid of Marie Curie?: The Challenges Facing Women in Science and Technology’

‘Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women who Propelled us, From Missiles to the Moon to Mars’

‘The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women who Helped win World War II’

‘Notable Black American Women’

‘Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists’

Women’s Movements

‘Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest heard Around the World’

‘African Women’s Movements: Transforming Political Landscapes’

‘Pink Sari Revolution: A Tale of Women and Power in India’

‘The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service’

‘This is How We Come Back Stronger: Feminist Writers on Turning Crisis Into Change’

‘Women’s Studies: The Basics’

Fiction Novels Written By Women

‘Sabrina and Corina: Stories’ by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

‘The Golden State’ by Lydia Kiesling

‘Reckonings: Contemporary Short Fiction by Native American Women’

‘Women’s Fiction from Latin American: Selections from Twelve Contemporary Authors’

‘The House on Mango Street’ by Sandra Cisneros