Women's History Month
Nonfiction Titles
Blood sisters : the women behind the Wars of the Roses
by Sarah Gristwood

A historian describes the drama and family feuding within the Plantagenets, England's fifteenth-century ruling family, from the perspective of the mothers, wives and daughters who wove a web of loyalty and betrayal that ultimately gave way to the Tudors. 25,000 first printing.
The feminist revolution : the struggle for women's liberation
by Bonnie J. Morris

Describes the political campaigns, protests, formation of women’s publishing houses, groundbreaking magazines and other contributions that helped women around the world mobilize into the feminist revolution that began in 1966.
Glitter every day : 365 quotes from women I love
by Andy Cohen

The well-known television personality and executive producer of The Real Housewives franchise presents 365 sayings and quotes from female icons, thought leaders, Real Housewives and legendary celebrities. 150,000 first printing.
Gods of the upper air : how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century
by Charles King

Chronicles the story and legacy of cultural anthropology founder Franz Boas and his circle of women scientists, outlining how their team upended American views about race, gender and sexuality in the 1920s and 1930s. By the author of Odessa. Illustrations.
Let's get physical : how women discovered exercise and reshaped the world
by Danielle Friedman

An award-winning journalist, partnering reportage with personal narrative, reveals the hidden history of women’s contemporary fitness culture, chronicling how exercise evolved from a beauty tool to a path to mental, emotional and physical well-being.
The light of days : the untold story of women resistance fighters in Hitler's ghettos
by Judith Batalion

Documents the essential World War II contributions of Jewish-Polish female resistance fighters, sharing the stories of courageous women who risked their lives to work against the Nazis as fighters, intelligence agents and saboteurs. 200,000 first printing.
Maiden voyages : magnificent ocean liners and the women who traveled and worked aboard them
by Siân Evans

This entertaining social history captures the golden age of ocean liners through the stories of the women whose transatlantic journeys changed the shape of society on both sides of the globe. 60,000 first printing. Illustrations.
Marie Curie and her daughters : the private lives of science's first family
by Shelley Emling

An account of the life of the Nobel Prize-winning pioneer of radiation therapy shares additional focus on her roles as a young widow and mother of two daughters including Nobel Prize-winning chemist Irene and humanitarian journalist Eve, in an account that draws on descendant interviews and new archives. By the author of The Fossil Hunter. 30,000 first printing.
Modern HERstory : stories of women and nonbinary people rewriting history
by Blair Imani

From the Civil Rights Movement and Stonewall riots through Black Lives Matter and beyond, this inspiring and radical celebration profiles 70 women who, coming from backgrounds and communities that are traditionally overlooked and under-celebrated, have changed—and are still changing—the world.
The moment of lift : how empowering women changes the world
by Melinda Gates

A timely call to action for women's empowerment identifies the link between women's equality and societal health, sharing insights by international advocates in the fight against gender bias
New women in the old west : from settlers to suffragists, an untold American story
by Winifred Gallagher

Drawing on an extraordinary collection of research, this book paints a vibrant picture of the little known and under-reported women who played monumental roles in the history of the Old West – and in the women’s rights movement, forever redefining the “American woman.” Illustrations.
Ninth Street women : Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler : five painters and the movement that changed modern art
by Mary Gabriel

A National Book Award finalist describes the lives and careers of five pioneering women artists who entered the male-dominated world of 20th-century abstract painting and changed their field and American society in the process.
The radium girls : the dark story of America's shining women
by Kate Moore

Recounts the struggles of hundreds of women who were exposed to radium while working factory jobs during World War I, describing how they were mislead by their employers and became embroiled in a battle for workers' rights
Too much : how Victorian constraints still bind women today
by Rachel Vorona Cote

An essayist and contributing writer at Jezebel explores the Parallels between the Victorian era’s fixation on “hysterical” women and our modern attitudes towards the same, revealing how culture acts as a corset that restricts modern women. 
Wake : the hidden history of women-led slave revolts
by Rebecca Hall

Part graphic novel, part memoir, this book, using in-depth archival research and a measured use of historical imagination, tells the story of women-led slave revolts, uncovering the truth about these women warriors, who, until now, have been left out of the historical record. 60,000 first printing. Illustrations.
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