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The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
by Elaine F. Weiss
An uplifting account of the 1920 ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted voting rights to women traces the culmination of seven decades of legal battles and cites the pivotal contributions of famous suffragists and political leaders.
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The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America, 1963-1973
by Clara Bingham
This first oral history of the decade (1963-1973) that built the modern feminist movement through the individual voices of the people who lived it captures emotions of this personal, cultural and political revolution where women insisted on being treated as first-class citizens, forever changing the fabric of American life.
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Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality: 1920-2020
by Elisabeth Griffith
In this riveting narrative, an activist and academic, integrating the fight by white and Black women to achieve equality, provides a sweeping, century-long perspective and an expansive cast of change agents, showing how the diversity of the women's movement mirrors America.
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Young and Restless: The Girls Who Sparked America's Revolutions
by Mattie Kahn
The untold history of the people who helped spark America's most important social movements from the Revolutionary War to today: teenage girls. From the American Revolution itself to the civil rights movement to nuclear disarmament protests and the women's liberation movement, through Black Lives Matter and school strikes for climate, Mattie Kahn uncovers how teen girls have leveraged their unique strengths, from fandom to intimate friendships, to organize and lay serious political groundwork for movements that often sidelined them.
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A Black Women’s History of the United States
by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
Two award-winning history professors and authors focus on the stories of African-American women slaves, civilians, religious leaders, artists, queer icons, activists and criminals in a celebration of black womanhood that demonstrates its indelible role in shaping America.
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The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World
by Daisy Dunn
Reconceiving our understanding of the ancient world by emphasizing women's roles within it, from Cleopatra to Boudica, Sappho to Fulvia, and countless others, an award-winning classicist documents how women of antiquity are undeniably woven through the fabric of history, and in this monumental work, finally take center stage.
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Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History
by Philippa Gregory
Drawing on an enormous archive of primary and secondary sources to rewrite history, focusing on the agency, persistence and effectiveness of everyday women throughout periods of social and cultural transition, the #1 New York Times best-selling historical novelist redefines "normal" female behavior to include heroism, rebellion, crime, treason, money-making and sainthood.
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Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS
by Lisa Rogak
Working in the European theater, China and Washington, D.C., Betty MacDonald, Zuzka Lauwers, Jane Smith-Hutton and Marlene Dietrich, each fascinating in her own right, together contributed to one of the most covert and successful military campaigns in World War II.
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Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History
by Olivia Campbell
This riveting group biography from journalist Campbell (Women in White Coats) recounts how Hedwig Kohn, Lise Meitner, Hertha Sponer, and Hildegard Stücklen, who were among the first female physicists in Germany, survived WWII. Campbell’s skillful storytelling transforms her subjects’ escapes into pulse-pounding races against the clock while also shining a light on the overlooked heroism of the networks of professors who helped German academics flee to safety.
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The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War II
by Mari K. Eder
From daring spies to audacious pilots, from innovative scientists to indomitable resistance fighters, these extraordinary women stepped out of line and into history, forever altering the world's landscape. This page-turning narrative, crafted with meticulous historical accuracy by retired U.S. Army Major General Mari K. Eder, provides a fresh perspective on the integral roles that women played during WWII.
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Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism
by Brooke Kroeger
Chronicling the lives of journalists and newsroom leaders in every medium, this essential history of American women in journalism, including Margaret Fuller, Ida B. Wells, Joan Didion and Cokie Roberts, discusses the huge and singular impact they have had on a vital profession still dominated by men.
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Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins
by Jennet Conant
Drawing on new and extensive research, including never-before-published correspondence and interviews with Maggie's colleagues, lovers, and soldiers and generals who knew her in the field, journalist and historian Jennet Conant restores Maggie's rightful place in history as a woman who paved the way for the next generation of journalists, and one of the greatest war correspondents of her time.
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The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
by Kate Zernike
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist tells the powerful—and inspiring—story of Nancy Hopkins, a reluctant feminist who, in 1999, became the leader of 16 female scientists who forced MIT to publicly admit it had been discriminating against its female faculty for years.
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The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA
by Liza Mundy
In this thrilling new perspective on history, the New York Times bestselling author of Code Girls turns her attention the women of the CIA who fought to become operatives, transformed spy craft and provided the data analysis that helped track down Bin Laden in his Pakistani compound.
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Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons With Racism in Medicine
by Uché Blackstock, MD
Part searing indictment of our healthcare system, part generational family memoir, part call to action, a physician and thought leader on bias and racism in healthcare recounts her journey to finally seizing her own power as a health equity advocate against the backdrop of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.
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The Doctor Was a Woman: Stories of the First Female Physicians on the Frontier
by Chris Enss
A glimpse into the fascinating lives of 10 female physicians of the Old West, including the first female surgeon of Texas, the first female doctor to be convicted of manslaughter in an abortion-related maternal death, and the first woman physician to serve on a State Board of Health. The author's other works include Along Came a Cowgirl: Daring and Iconic Cowgirls of Rodeos and Wild West Shows and An Open Secret: The Story of Deadwood’s Most Notorious Bordellos.
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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon: Women Soldiers and Patriots of the Western Frontier
by JoAnn Chartier
From the earliest days of the western frontier, women heeded the call to go west along with their husbands, sweethearts, and parents. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon tells the story of these women--Buffalo Soldiers, scouts, interpreters, nurses, and others who served their country in the early frontier.
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Eyeliner: A Cultural History
by Zahra Hankir
The aesthetic trademark of figures ranging from Nefertiti to Amy Winehouse, eyeliner is one of our most enduring cosmetic tools; ancient royals and Gen Z beauty influencers alike would attest to its uniquely transformative power. It is undeniably fun-yet it is also far from frivolous. Eyeliner is a fascinating tour through streets, stages, and bedrooms around the world, and a thought-provoking reclamation of a key piece of our collective history.
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Wisdom of Wildly Creative Women: Real Stories from Inspirational, Artistic, and Empowered Women
by Angela Lomenzo
Collected biographical sketches of 25 women whose careers span the well-known creative fields of art, writing, design, music, acting, photography, hairdressing and makeup artistry, to fields not traditionally thought of as artistic or creative, such as technology, podcasting and yoga. In short, impactful chapters, these women discuss how their various experiences of accidents, illness, addiction, abuse and neglect fueled their ambition and success.
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Available to stream on Kanopy!
Everyone has their own Chimera, something they try to achieve but never manage to find. For Arthur, the Chimera looks like the woman he lost, Benjamina. In an adventurous journey between the living and the dead, between forests and cities, between celebrations and solitudes, the intertwined destinies of these characters unfold, all in search of the Chimera.
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All About Eve (1950) From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo’s Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo’s director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.
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Love & Basketball (2000) Childhood friends Monica and Quincy grow into adulthood together, falling in love. However, they also share another all-consuming passion: basketball. As the couple struggle to make their relationship work, they follow separate career paths though high school and college basketball and, they hope, into stardom in big-league professional ball.
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Babes (2024)Available to stream on Kanopy! Follows childhood best friends Eden and Dawn, now in different phases of adulthood. When single Eden decides to have a baby on her own after a one-night stand, their friendship faces its greatest challenge.
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The film captures the daily duality of three young Palestinian women in Tel Aviv, caught between hometown tradition and big city abandon, and the price they must pay for a lifestyle that seems obvious to many. |
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At the end of a 60-year career, legendary musician and activist Joan Baez reflects on her life both on and off stage -- from her lifelong emotional struggles to her civil rights work with MLK and a heartbreaking romance with a young Bob Dylan. This film is a compelling and personal exploration of an icon who has never told the full truth of her life, until now. |
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She's Beautiful When She's Angry (2014)Available to stream on Kanopy! A provocative, rousing and often humorous account of the birth of the modern women’s liberation movement in the late 1960s through to its contemporary manifestations in the new millennium, direct from the women who lived it.
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Available to stream on Kanopy!
Told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, and ground-breaking photography, this epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin's personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.
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