March is Women’s History Month!
Our book display this month highlights some of the materials in our collection related to the celebration of the role of women in American history. Below is a list of the items included on this display. These materials can be checked out by members of our community so if you see something you are interested in, contact circulation@mitchellhamline.edu.
Display and bibliography developed by Kelsey Schmidt and Steve Liska.
Women’s History Month Resources
Barred from the Bar: A History of Women in the Legal Profession. Hedda Garza. KF299.W6 G37 1996
Becoming. Michelle Obama. E909.O24 A3 2018
Beloved. Toni Morrison. PS3563.O84 B45 1987
A Black Women’s History of the United States. Daina Ramey Berry & Kali Nicole Gross. E185.86 .B47 2020
The Complete Persepolis. Marjane Satrapi. PN6747 .S245 P4713 2007
The Concise History of Woman Suffrage: Selections from the Classic Work of Stanton, Anthony, Gage, and Harper. Mari Jo & Paul Buhle, editors. JK1896 .C66 1978
The Daughter of L’arsenal. Jaqueline Regis. E184.H27 R44 2009
Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of American Liberalism. Lois Scharf. E807.1 .R48 S34 1987
Elena Kagan: From Nominee to Supreme Court Justice. Samuel B. Earnst, editor. KF8745.K34 E43 2011
Equal: Women Reshape American Law. Fred Strebeigh. KF4758 .S77 2009
Feminist Legal History: Essays on Women and Law. Tracy A. Thomas & Tracey Jean Boisseau, editors. KF478 .F46 2011
First: Sandra Day O’Connor. Evan Thomas. KF8745.O25 T46 2019
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn. HQ1236.5.D48 K74 2010
The Handmaid’s Tale. Margaret Atwood. PR9199.3.A8 H36 1998
The House of the Spirits. Isabel Allende; translated from Spanish by Magda Bogin; introduction by Christopher Hitchens. PQ8098.1.L54 C313 2005
Lakota Woman. Mary Crow Dog & Richard Erdoes. E99.D1 C83 1991
The Left Hand of Darkness. Ursula K. Le Guin. PS3562.E42 L43 2000
Lilith’s Brood. Octavia E. Butler. PS3552.U84 L54 2007
Lucy Stone: An Unapologetic Life. Sally G. McMillen. JK1899.S8 M36 2015
Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography. HQ764.S3 A3 1971
Miss Muriel and Other Stories. Ann Petry. PS3531.E933 M57 1999
On Beauty: A Novel. Zadie Smith. PR6069.M57 O6 2006
Pigs in Heaven: A Novel. Barbara Kingsolver. PS3561.I496 P54 1994
The Privilege for Which We Struggled: Leaders of the Womans Suffrage Movement in Minnesota. Heidi Bauer, editor; introduction by Barbara Stuhler. JK1911.M6 P75 1999
Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice. Zakiya Luna. HQ1155 .L86 2020
The Round House. Louise Erdrich. PS3555.R42 R68 2012
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life. Jane Sherron de Hart. KF8745.G56 D44 2018
A Short History of Women’s Rights from the Days of Augustus to the Present Time: With Special Reference to England and the United States. Eugene A. Hecker. HQ1236 .H4 1971
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America. Melissa V. Harris-Perry. E185.86 .H37 2011
Sojourner Truth: Slave, Prophet, Legend. Carleton Mabee, with Susan Mabee Newhouse. E185.97.T8 M32 1993
Sonia Sotomayor: The True American Dream. Antonia Felix. KF8745.S67 F44 2010
Supreme Court Decisions and Women’s Rights: Milestones to Equality. Claire Cushman, editor; foreword by Ruth Bader Ginsburg. KF4758.A7 S86 2001
Their Eyes Were Watching God. Zora Neale Hurston; foreword by Edwidge Danticat; afterward by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. PS3515.U789 T5 2006
The Trouble Between Us: An Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement. Winifred Breines. HQ1421 .B73 2006
What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About #MeToo: Essays on Sex, Authority & the Mess of Life. JoAnn Wypijewski. HQ18.U5 W97 2020
Women and the ABA: A History of Women’s Involvement in the American Bar Association, 1965-1989. Submitted by ABA Commission on Women in the Profession. KF326 .A44 1989
Women and the Law Stories. Elizabeth M. Schneider & Stephanie M. Wildman, editors. KF478.A5 W65 2011
Women’s Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalizing Age. Niamh Reilly. HQ1236 .R44 2009