LibGuides: Virtual Displays: Women's History Month '23

The National Women's History Alliance, which lobbied Congress to designate March as National Women's History Month in 1981, has selected this year's theme to be "Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories." This means that a special focus will be given to "encourage recognition of women, past and present, who have been active in all forms of media and storytelling including print, radio, TV, stage, screen, blogs, podcasts, and more. The timely theme honors women in every community who have devoted their lives and talents to producing art, pursuing truth, and reflecting the human condition decade after decade".

Learn more by visiting the National Women's History Alliance Website.

Feminist Writings by Simone de Beauvoir; Margaret A. Simons (Editor); Marybeth Timmermann (Editor); Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir (Foreword by)
Call Number: 848.914 B386
ISBN: 9780252039003
Publication Date: 2015-02-26
The philosopher's writings on, and engagement with, twentieth century feminism By turns surprising and revelatory, this sixth volume in the Beauvoir Series presents newly discovered writings and lectures while providing new translations and contexts for Simone de Beauvoir's more familiar writings. Spanning Beauvoir's career from the 1940s through 1986, the pieces explain the paradoxes in her political and feminist stances, including her famous 1972 announcement of a "conversion to feminism" after decades of activism on behalf of women.
Florine Stettheimer by Stephen Brown; Georgiana Uhlyarik
Call Number: 759.92 S841
ISBN: 9780300221985
Publication Date: 2017-05-16
A new look at the art of one of the most charming and idiosyncratic personalities of early 20th-century New York Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944) was a New York original: a society lady who hosted an avant-garde salon in her Manhattan home, a bohemian and a flapper, a poet, a theater designer, and above all an influential painter with a sharp satirical wit. Stettheimer collaborated with Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson, befriended (and took French lessons from) Marcel Duchamp, and was a member of Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe's artistic and intellectual circle. Beautifully illustrated with 150 color images, including the majority of the artist's extant paintings, as well as drawings, theater designs, and ephemera, this volume also highlights Stettheimer's poetry and gives her a long overdue critical reassessment.
A History of Early Modern Women's Writings by Patricia Phillippy (Editor)
Call Number: 820.99287 H674
ISBN: 9781107137066
Publication Date: 2018-01-18
A History of Early Modern Women's Writing is essential reading for students and scholars working in the field of early modern British literature and history. This collaborative book of twenty-two chapters offers an expansive, multifaceted narrative of British women's literary and textual production in the period stretching from the English Reformation to the Restoration. Chapters work together to trace the contours of a diverse body of early modern women's writing, aligning women's texts with the major literary, political, and cultural currents with which they engage.
Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's Literature by Geneva Cobb Moore; Andrew Billingsley
Call Number: 810.99287 M821
ISBN: 9781611177480
Publication Date: 2017-03-30
Geneva Cobb Moore deftly combines literature, history, criticism, and theory in Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's Literature by offering insight into the historical black experience from slavery to freedom as depicted in the literature of nine female writers across several centuries.
My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Mary Hartnett (As told to); Wendy W. Williams (As told to)
Call Number: 347.732634 G493
ISBN: 9781501145247
Publication Date: 2016-10-04
The New York Times bestselling book from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg--"a comprehensive look inside her brilliantly analytical, entertainingly wry mind, revealing the fascinating life of one of our generation's most influential voices in both law and public opinion" (Harper's Bazaar). My Own Words "showcases Ruth Ginsburg's astonishing intellectual range" (The New Republic).
Notable American Women Writers by Laura M Nicosia(Editor)James F Nicosia(Editor)
Call Number: Ref 810.99287 N899
ISBN: 9781642654929
Publication Date: 2020
Notable American Women Writers provides in-depth critical essays on women who are at the top of their game in all areas of writing, from picture books to scholarly writing, from poetry to screenplays, from memoir to philosophy. The women writers featured in this set have been selected to represent not only all types of writing, but all areas of the Americas, including Canada, the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Jamaica, and more. The women in these volumes are artists, social transformers, builders, thinkers, poets, playwrights, populists, elitists, products of their society, and shapers of their culture.
Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World by Lyndall Gordon
Call Number: 820.9 G662
ISBN: 9780349006338
Publication Date: 2017
Outsiders tells the stories of five novelists - Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf - and their famous novels. We have long known their individual greatness but in linking their creativity to their lives as outsiders, this group biography throws new light on the genius they share. 'Outsider', 'outlaw', 'outcast': a woman's reputation was her security and each of these five lost it. As writers, they made these identities their own, taking advantage of their separation from the dominant order to write their novels.

The Feminist Papers by Mary Wollstonecraft 1759-1797,(Author)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781423652847
Publication Date: 2019
By the matriarch of feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women tackles women's rights decades before the women's suffrage movement began. In what is widely considered the very first feminist manifesto, her writing has paved the way of progress for generations to come.
Honouring the Strength of Indian Women by Vera Manuel; Michelle Coupal (Editor); Deanna Reder (Editor); Joanne Arnott (Editor); Emalene Manuel (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780887555763
Publication Date: 2019-05-10
This critical edition delivers a unique and comprehensive collection of the works of Ktunaxa-Secwepemc writer and educator Vera Manuel, daughter of prominent Indigenous leaders Marceline Paul and George Manuel. A vibrant force in the burgeoning Indigenous theatre scene, Vera was at the forefront of residential school writing and did groundbreaking work as a dramatherapist and healer. Long before mainstream Canada understood and discussed the impact and devastating legacy of Canada's Indian residential schools, Vera Manuel wrote about it as part of her personal and community healing. She became a grassroots leader addressing the need to bring to light the stories of survivors, their journeys of healing, and the therapeutic value of writing and performing arts.
Modern Spanish Women As Agents of Change by Jennifer Smith (Editor, Contribution by); Akiko Tsuchiya (Contribution by); Christine Arkinstall (Contribution by); Roberta Johnson (Contribution by); Susan M. McKenna (Contribution by); Linda Willem (Contribution by); Denise DuPont (Contribution by); Margot Versteeg (Contribution by); Rogelia Lily Ibarra (Contribution by); Neus Carbonell (Contribution by); Jo Labanyi (Contribution by)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781684480364
Publication Date: 2018-12-14
This volume brings together cutting-edge research on modern Spanish women as writers, activists, and embodiments of cultural change, and simultaneously honors Maryellen Bieder's invaluable scholarly contribution to the field. The essays are innovative in their consideration of lesser-known women writers, focus on women as political activists, and use of post-colonialism, queer theory, and spatial theory to examine the period from the Enlightenment until World War II.
Oceans at Home: Maritime and Domestic Fictions in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writings by Melissa Gniadek(Author)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781613768297
Publication Date: 2021
The maritime world was central to nineteenth-century America, and ideas about the ocean, seafaring, and encounters with distant peoples and places suffused the cultural imagination. Women writers who were not mariners themselves incorporated oceanic representations and concerns into their work, often through genres that were generally not associated with the sea, such as children's fiction, diaries, and female coming-of- age stories. Melissa Gniadek explores the role of the ocean, with particular attention to the Pacific, in a diverse range of literary texts spanning the late 1820s through the mid-1860s from Lydia Maria Child, Caroline Kirkland, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Harriet Prescott Spofford.
Quo Anima by Jennifer Phelps (Editor); Elizabeth Robinson (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781629220741
Publication Date: 2019-01-18
Quo Anima studies the poetry of contemporary women poets in relation to spirituality and innovative form. In the past two decades, a lively conversation has taken shape as more and more poets have risked engagement with various forms of mysticism. However, much of the critical response to this work has focused on male writers: there is a critical gap where women poets and the subject of spirituality is concerned. Quo Anima addresses that gap by offering a wide array of responses to women writers who are engaging with questions of spirituality.
Templates for Authorship by Windy Counsell Petrie
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781613767979
Publication Date: 2021-01-29
As autobiographies by famous women like Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart became bestsellers in the 1930s, American publishers sought out literary autobiographies from female novelists, poets, salon hosts, and editors. Templates for Authorship analyzes the market and cultural forces that created an unprecedented boom in American women's literary autobiography.
Ukrainian Women Writers and the National Imaginary: From the Collapse of the USSR to the Euromaidan by Oleksandra Wallo (Author)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781487533090
Publication Date: 2020
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian literary world has not only experienced a true blossoming of women's prose, but has also witnessed a number of female authors assume the roles of literary trendsetters and authoritative critics of their culture. In this first in-depth study of how Ukrainian women's prose writing was able to re-emerge so powerfully after being marginalized in the Soviet era, Oleksandra Wallo examines the writings and literary careers of leading contemporary Ukrainian women authors, such as Oksana Zabuzhko, Ievheniia Kononenko, and Maria Matios. Her study shows how these women reshaped literary culture with their contributions to the development of the Ukrainian national imaginary in the wake of the Soviet state's disintegration. The interjection of women's voices and perspectives into the narratives about the nation has often permitted these writers to highlight the diversity of the national picture and the complexity of the national story.

Google Arts & Culture - Votes for Women

This virtual display features portraits of women crucial to the women's suffrage movement from the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.

National Museum of American History - Girlhood (It's Complicated)

"Girlhood" is a digital and physical exhibition put together by the National Museum of American History which explores the concept of girlhood in the United States by taking a look at five different areas of impact: politics, education, work, health, and fashion.

National Women's History Alliance

"The National Women’s History Alliance formerly, the National Women’s History Project, is a leader in promoting Women’s History and is committed to the goals of education, empowerment, equality, and inclusion." (Mission Statement) "Today, NWHA is known nationally as the only clearinghouse providing information and training in multicultural women’s history for educators, community organizations, and parents-for anyone wanting to expand their understanding of women contributions to U.S. history." (Our History)

National Women's History Museum - Online Exhibits

View online exhibits put together by the National Women's History Museum focusing on women involved in civil rights activism, political equality, STEM jobs, the World Wars, and more. The National Women's History Museum is "an innovative online museum dedicated to uncovering, interpreting, and celebrating women’s diverse contributions to society. A renowned leader in women’s history education, the Museum brings to life the countless untold stories of women throughout history, and serves as a space for all to inspire, experience, collaborate, and amplify women’s impact—past, present, and future. We strive to fundamentally change the way women and girls see their potential and power." (About Us)

UN Women

Created in 2010, UN Women is the United Nations entity focused on gender equality and the empowerment of women around the world. View this website to gain a global and historical perspective on women's rights around the world and the efforts being made by the UN in creating change.