Celebrate Women's History Month
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For Women's History Month pick up a book or movie about such an important part of our history. Learn about the great women who've paved the way
to today's world. Be inspired.
During the month of March we have a special Women's History Month exhibit at the library- Come visit us. Watch a Women's Studies film from our video collection. Read our Women's Studies Subject Guide. |
Recommended Reading
Look for these books in our Women’s history month display (Compiled by Jennifer Tang)
Alonso, Harriet Hyman. Peace as a women's issue: a history of the U.S. movement for world peace and women's rights / Harriet Hyman Alonso. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1993. Hostos CC Stacks JX1965 .A45 1993
Bearing life : women's writings on childlessness / edited by Rochelle Ratner. New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2000. Hostos CC Stacks PS509 .C5157 B43 2000
Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986 The second sex: translated and edited by H. M. Parshley. New York, Knopf, 1953 [c1952] Hostos CC Stacks HQ1208 .B352
Becker, Susan D. The origins of the Equal Rights Amendment : American feminism between the wars / Susan D. Becker. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, c1981. Hostos CC Stacks HQ1426 .B398 Regular Loan
Benderly, Beryl Lieff. In her own right : the Institute of Medicine's guide to women's health issues / by Beryl Lieff Benderly for the Institute of Medicine. Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1997. Hostos CC Stacks RA564.85 .B46 1997 Regular Loan
Berkeley, Kathleen C. The women's liberation movement in America / Kathleen C. Berkeley. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999. Hostos CC Stacks HQ1421 .B47 1999 Regular Loan
Brownmiller, Susan. In our time : memoir of a revolution / Susan Brownmiller. New York : Dial Press,1999. Hostos CC Stacks HQ1421 .B76 1999 Regular Loan
Brunsdon, Charlotte. The feminist, the housewife, and the soap opera / Charlotte Brunsdon. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000. Hostos CC Stacks PN1992.8 .S4 B78 2000 Regular Loan br />
Buechler, Steven M., 1951- Women's movements in the United States : woman suffrage, equal rights, and beyond / Steven M. Buechler. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, c1990. Hostos CC Stacks HQ1426 .B8 1990 Regular Loan
Chafe, William Henry. The paradox of change : American women in the 20th century / William H. Chafe. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Hostos CC Stacks HQ1426 .C45 1991
Chopin, Kate, 1851-1904. The complete works of Kate Chopin / edited and with an introduction by Per Seyersted ; foreword by Edmund Wilson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Hostos CC Stacks PS1294 .C63 2006 Regular Loan
Clinton, Hillary Rodham. Living history / Hillary Rodham Clinton. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2003. Hostos CC Stacks E887 .C55 C55 2003 Regular Loan
Cole, Johnnetta B. Gender talk : the struggle for women's equality in African American communities/ Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Beverly Guy-Sheftall. New York : One World/Ballantine Books, 2003. Hostos CC Stacks E185.86 .C58154 2003 Regular Loan
Cott, Nancy F. The grounding of modern feminism / Nancy F. Cott. New Haven : Yale University Press, c1987. Hostos CC Stacks HQ1420 .C67 1987 Regular Loan
DuBois, Ellen Carol, 1947- Feminism and suffrage : the emergence of an independent women's movement in America, 1848-1869 / Ellen Carol DuBois. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1978. Hostos CC Stacks HQ1423 .D8 Regular Loan
Etaugh, Claire. The psychology of women : a lifespan perspective / Claire A. Etaugh, Judith S. Bridges. Boston : Pearson A and B, c2004. Hostos CC Stacks HQ1206 .E88 2004 Regular Loan
Felder, Deborah G. The 100 most influential women of all time : a ranking past and present / Secaucus, N.J. : Carol Pub. Group, 1996. Reference CT3202 .F395 1996 Non Circulating
Feminism: the essential historical writings / edited with an introduction and commentaries by Miriam Schneir. New York : Vintage Books, 1994. Hostos CC Stacks HQ1154 .F4443 1994 Regular Loan
Feminist foremothers in women's studies, psychology, and mental health / Phyllis Chesler, Esther D. Rothblum, Ellen Cole, editors. New York : Harrington Park Press, c1995. Hostos CC Stacks HQ1410 .F47 1995
Friedan, Betty. The feminine mystique. New York, Dell Publishing Co. [1963] Hostos CC Stacks HQ 1420 .F7
Friedan, Betty. The fountain of age / Betty Friedan. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1993. Hostos CC Stacks HQ1064.U5 F753 1993 Regular Loan
Friedan, Betty. It changed my life : writings on the women's movement / Betty Friedan. New York : Random House, c1976. Hostos CC Stacks HQ1413.F75 A34 1976
Frost-Knappman, Elizabeth. The ABC-CLIO companion to women's progress in America / Elizabeth Frost-Knappman, with the assistance of Sarah Kurian. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, c1994. Hostos CC Stacks HQ1410.F76 1994
Gallagher, Carol, 1962- Going to the top : a road map for success from America's leading women executives / Carol Gallagher with Susan K. Golant. New York : Viking, 2000. Hostos CC Stacks HD6054.3 .G35 2000
Greene, Meg. Jane Goodall : a biography / Meg Greene. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005. Hostos CC Stacks QL31 .G58 G74 2005 Regular Loan
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935 The yellow wall-paper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman ; afterword by Elaine R. Hedges. New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1996. Hostos CC Stacks PS1744.G57 Y45 1996 Regular Loan
Griffith, Elisabeth. In her own right : the life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton / Elisabeth Griffith. New York : Oxford University Press, 1984. Hostos CC Stacks HQ1413.S67 G74 1984 Regular Loan
Herrera, Hayden. Frida Kahlo : the paintings / Hayden Herrera. New York, NY : HarperCollins, c1991. Hostos CC Stacks ND1329.K33 H4 1991 Regular Loan
Hepburn, Stephanie, 1977- Women's roles and statuses the world over / Stephanie Hepburn and Rita J. Simon. Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2006. Hostos CC Stacks HQ1236 .H46 2006 Regular Loan
Hersh, Blanche Glassman, 1928- The slavery of sex :feminist-abolitionists in America / Blanche Glassman Hersh. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1978. Hostos CC Stacks HQ1423 .H47 Regular Loan
Howard, Jane, 1935 - Margaret Mead, a life / Jane Howard. New York : Simon and Schuster, c1984. Hostos CC Stacks GN21.M36 H69 1984 Regular Loan
Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906. A doll's house; Ghosts; An enemy of the people; Rosmersholm. Newly translated from the Norwegian by Michael Meyer. Garden City, N.Y., Anchor Books [1966] Hostos CC Stacks PT8854 .M39 1966
Kahlo, Frida. Frida Kahlo / edited by Emma Dexter andTanya Barson. London : Tate, 2005. Hostos CC Stacks ND259 .K33 A4 2005 Regular Loan
Keenan, Sheila. Scholastic encyclopedia of women in the United States / Sheila Keenan. New York : Scholastic Reference, c2002. Hostos CC Reference HQ1410 .K44 2002. Non Circulating
Keiler, Allan. Marian Anderson : a singer's journey / Allan Keiler. New York : Scribner, 2000. Hostos CC Stacks ML420 .A6 K45 2000 Regular Loan
King, Coretta Scott, 1927- My life with Martin Luther King, Jr. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1969] Hostos CC Stacks E185.97 .K54 K5 Regular Loan
Kingston, Maxine Hong. The woman warrior : memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts / Maxine Hong Kingston. New York: Knopf : distributed by Random House, 1990, 1976. Hostos CC Stacks CT275.K5764 A33 1990 Regular Loan
Krass, Peter. Sojourner Truth / Peter Krass ; [introductory essay by Coretta Scott King]. New York : Chelsea House, c1988. Hostos CC Stacks E185.97.T8 K73 1988 Regular Loan
Lear, Linda J., 1940- Rachel Carson : witness for nature / Linda Lear. New York : H. Holt, 1997. Hostos CC Stacks QH31.C33 L43 1997 Regular Loan
Leibovitz, Annie, 1949- Women / Annie Leibovitz, Susan Sontag. New York : Random House, c2000. Hostos CC Stacks TR681.W6 L34 2000
Morgan, Robin. Sisterhood is powerful; an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement. New York, Vintage Books [c1970] Hostos CC Stacks HQ1426 .M8 Hostos CC Stacks HQ1426 .M85 Regular Loan
Moynihan, Ruth Barnes. Rebel for rights, Abigail Scott Duniway / Ruth Barnes Moynihan. New Haven: Yale University Press, c1983. Hostos CC Stacks HQ1413.D86 M69 1983 Regular Loan
Moynihan, Ruth Barnes. Rebel for rights, Abigail Scott Duniway / Ruth Barnes Moynihan. New Haven: Yale University Press, c1983. Hostos CC Stacks HQ1413.D86 M69 1983 Regular Loan
Naylor, Gloria. The women of Brewster Place / Gloria Naylor. New York : Viking Press, 1982. Hostos CC Stacks PS3564.A895 W6 1982 Regular Loan
Nebenzahl, Donna. Womankind : faces of change around the world / text by Donna Nebenzahl ; photographs by Nance Ackerman. New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, c2003. Hostos CC Stacks HQ1236 .N42 2003 Regular Loan
Pressler, Mirjam. Anne Frank : a hidden life / Mirjam Pressler ; foreword by Rabbi Hugo Gryn ; translated by Anthea Bell ; with a note by Eva Schloss. New York: Puffin Books, 2001. Hostos CC Stacks DS135 .N6 F73513 2001 Regular Loan
Quinn, Susan. Marie Curie : a life / Susan Quinn. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1995. Hostos CC Stacks QD22.C8 Q56 1995 Regular Loan
Reynolds, Moira Davison. Women champions of human rights : eleven U.S. leaders of the twentieth century / by Moira Davison Reynolds. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c1991. Hostos CC Stacks HQ1412 .R497 1991 Regular Loan
Rind, Patricia. Women's best friendships : beyond Betty, Veronica, Thelma, and Louise / Patricia Rind. New York : Haworth Press, c2002. Hostos CC Stacks BF575 .F66 R56 2002 Regular Loan
Rupp, Leila J., 1950- Worlds of women : the making of an international women's movement / Leila J. Rupp. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1997. Hostos CC Stacks HQ1154 .R86 1997 Regular Loan
Smith, Catherine, 1950- Women in pants : manly maidens, cowgirls, and other renegades / Catherine Smith and Cynthia Greig. New York : H.N. Abrams, 2003. Hostos CC Stacks GT610 .S62 2003 Regular Loan
The Smithsonian book of the First Ladies / Edith P. Mayo, general editor ; foreword by Hillary Rodham Clinton. New York : H. Holt, 1996. Hostos CC Stacks E176.2 .S66 1996 Regular Loan
Solomon, Barbara Miller. In the company of educated women : a history of women and higher education in America / Barbara Miller Solomon. New Haven : Yale University Press, c1985. Hostos CC Stacks LC1752 .S65 1985 Regular Loan
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946. The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas / by Gertrude Stein. New York : Vintage Books, 1990, c1933. Hostos CC Stacks PS353 .T323 Z463 1990 Regular Loan
Steinem, Gloria. Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions / Gloria Steinem. New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, c1983. Hostos CC Stacks HQ1413.S675 A36 1983 Regular Loan
Steinem, Gloria. Revolution from within : a book of self-esteem / Gloria Steinem. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., c1993 Hostos CC Stacks BF697.5.S46 S74 1993
Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club / Amy Tan. New York : Ivy Books, [1995], c1989. Hostos CC Stacks PS3570 .A48 J6 1995 Regular Loan
Tucker, Sherrie, 1957- Swing shift : "all-girl" bands of the 1940s / Sherrie Tucker. Durham : Duke University Press, 2000. Hostos CC Stacks ML82 .T83 2000
Wasserman, Elga R. (Elga Ruth) The door in the dream : conversations with eminent women in science / Washington, D.C. : Joseph Henry Press, c2000. Hostos CC Stacks QH26 .W375 2000
Witcover, Paul. Zora Neale Hurston; senior consulting editor Nathan Irvin Huggins ; [introductory essay by Coretta Scott King]. New York N.Y. : Chelsea House, c1991. Hostos CC Stacks PS3515.U789 Z95 1991 Regular Loan
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797. A vindication of the rights of women / Mary Wollstonecraft. Buffalo, NY : Prometheus Books, 1989. Hostos CC Stacks HQ1596 .W64. 1989 Regular Loan
Woods, Harriett. Stepping up to power : the political journey of American women / Harriett Woods. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2000. Hostos CC Stacks HQ1236.5.U6 W69 2000
Women's rights in the United States : a documentary history / edited by Winston E. Langley and Vivian C. Fox. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994. Hostos CC Stacks HQ1236.5.U6 W68 1994 Regular Loan
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. A room of one's own / Virginia Woolf ; foreword by Mary Gordon. San Diego : Harcourt, 1989, c1929. Hostos CC Stacks PR6045 .O72 Z474 1989 Regular Loan
Women's voices, feminist visions : classic and contemporary readings / [edited by] Susan M. Shaw and Janet Lee. Mountain View, Calif. : Mayfield Pub. Co., 2001. Hostos CC Stacks HQ1180 .W689 2001 Regular Loan
