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Women's History Month
Women's History Month serves to recognize and celebrate women's historic achievements.The theme for 2006 Women's History Month, "Women: Builders of Communities & Dreams," honors the spirit of possibility and hope set in motion by generations of women in their creation of communities and their encouragement of dreams. It also honors women for bringing communities together and for restoring hope in the face of impossible odds.
To accompany the exhibit on the first floor of McCain library, is a companion bibliography consisting of books, journal articles and other information resources, highlighting the achievements of women in their societies.
Inez Milholland Boissevan was a popular speaker for the cause of suffrage, and she refused to cut back her schedule to accommodate her pernicious anemia. She collapsed during a speech in Los Angeles on October 22, 1916. At the hospital, blood transfusions over the next days could not save her, and she died November 25, 1916. Many suffragists considered her a martyr to the cause of woman suffrage. Here, she was depicted with the white horse she rode at the head of the suffrage parade, March 3, 1913. Image downloaded from http://womenshistory.about.com/library/pic/1913/bl_p_191313.htm, 3/1/2006.
Selected Books
Baxter, Annette Kar & Stevenson, Louise L. Women's history, New York : M. Wiener Pub., 1987 HQ1410 .W683 DISPLAY-LIB
Berkin, Carol. Revolutionary mothers: women in the struggle for America's independence, New York: Knopf, 2005. E276 .B47
Bolton, Sarah Knowles. Famous leaders among women, New York, Boston: T. Y. Crowell & Co. [1895] CT3202 .B6 DISPLAY-LIB
Bookman, Ann & Morgen, Sandra. Women and the politics of empowerment, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988 HQ1236.5.U6
Coles, Robert & Coles, Jane Hallowell. Women of crisis: lives of struggle and hope, New York : Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence, c1978. HQ1412 .C64 DISPLAY-LIB
Felder, Deborah G. The 100 most influential women of all time: a ranking past and present, Secaucus, N.J.: Carol Pub. Group, c1996.
CT3202 .F395 DISPLAY-LIBHanaford, Phebe A. Daughters of America, Augusta, Me., True and company, [pref. 1882]. CT3234 .H3 DISPLAY-LIB
Haven, Kendall F. Amazing American women [electronic resource]: 40 fascinating 5-minute reads, Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1995.
CT3260 .H38 1995ebHoran, James David. Desperate women, New York: Putnam [1952] E176 .H8 DISPLAY-LIB
Katz, Esther & Rapone, Anita. Women's experience in America: an historical anthology, New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, c1980. HQ1410 .W67 DISPLAY-LIB
Kling, Joseph M. & Posner, Prudence Sarah. Dilemmas of activism: class, community, and the politics of local mobilization, Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1990 HN65 .D493 DISPLAY-LIB
Lindenmeyer, Kriste. Ordinary women, extraordinary lives: women in American history, Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2000. CT3260 .O67 DISPLAY-LIB
May, Antoinette. Different drummers: they did what they wanted, Millbrae, Calif.: Les Femmes Pub., 1976. CT3234 .M37 DISPLAY-LIB
Mehta, Sunita. Women for Afghan women: shattering myths and claiming the future, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002 HQ1735.6 .W66 DISPLAY-LIB
O'Barr, Jean F. Feminism in action: building institutions and community through women's studies, Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1994 HQ1181.U5 O24 DISPLAY-LIB
Opfell, Olga S. The lady laureates: women who have won the Nobel Prize, Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1978. AS911.N9 O63
DISPLAY-LIBPeterson, K. Jean. & Lieberman, Alice A. Building on women's strengths
a social work agenda for the twenty-first century, New York: Haworth Social Work Practice Press, 2001 HV1445 .B85 2001ebScott, Anne Firor. Making the invisible woman visible, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1984. HQ1412 .S36 DISPLAY-LIB
Seifer, Nancy. Nobody speaks for me!: self-portraits of American working class women, New York : Simon and Schuster, c1976. HQ1412 .S44 DISPLAY-LIB
Smith, Bonnie G. Global feminisms since 1945: a survey of issues and controversies, London; New York: Routledge, 2000 HQ1154 .G56 DISPLAY-LIB
Stern, Madeleine B. We the women: career firsts of nineteenth-century America, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, c1994. CT3260 .S73 DISPLAY-LIB
Stoddard, Hope. Famous American women New York, Crowell [1970] CT3260 .S83 DISPLAY-LIB
Taves, Isabella. Successful women and how they attained success, New York, Books Inc., 1943. CT3260 .T3 DISPLAY-LIB
Ward, Geoffrey C. Not for ourselves alone : the story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony : an illustrated history, New York: A.A. Knopf, 1999. HQ1412 .W36 DISPLAY-LIB
Ware, Susan. Modern American women: a documentary history, Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2002. HQ1410 .M63 DISPLAY-LIB
Woloch, Nancy. Women and the American experience, New York: Knopf : c1984. HQ1410 .W64 DISPLAY-LIB
Woodward, Helen Beal. The bold women, Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press [1971, c1953]. CT3260 .W67 DISPLAY-LIB
Zilboorg, Caroline & Gall, Susan B. Women's firsts, Detroit: Gale Research, 1997. Ref. CT3203 .W66 1996 DISPLAY-LIB
Selected Articles
Beaver, Patricia D. Women in Appalachia and the South: gender, race, region, and agency. NWSA Journal, Bloomington: Fall 1999 11, (3)
Cawley, Janet. The 25 most influential women in America. Biography, Jun2002 6 (6)
Farkas,Suzanne,Gruner, Sheila, Brunet, Ariane. Together we stand: Resisting and rebuilding for peace. Women & Environments International Magazine, Toronto: Spring 2003 (58/59)
Finn, Janet L . A penny for your thoughts: Stories of women, copper, and community. Frontiers, Boulder: 1998 19 (2)
Fosl, Catherine "There was no middle ground": Anne Braden and the Southern social justice movement. NWSA Journal, Bloomington: Fall 1999 11 (3)
Green, Paula. Women building peace. New Moon Network, Duluth: Jun 30 1997 4 (5)
Hunter, Mark. Leading question. Community Care, 9/5/2002 (1438)
Kabeer, Naila. Resources, agency, achievements: reflections on the measurement of women's empowerment. Development & Change, Jul99 30 (3)
King, Toni C., Ferguson, S. Alese. "I am because we are": clinical interpretations of communal experience among African women.
Women & Therapy, New York: Jan 31, 1996 18 (1)
Leder, Gilah C. Successful females: print media profiles and their implications. Journal of Psychology, May86 120 (3)
Lemkau, Jeanne Parr. Women in male-dominated professions: distinguishing personality and background characteristics. Psychology of Women Quarterly, Winter83 8 (2)
Lips, Hilary M. The Gender Pay Gap: Concrete Indicator of Women's Progress Toward Equality. Analyses of Social Issues & Public Policy, Dec2003 3 (1)
Melamed, Tuvia. Career success: an assessment of a gender-specific model.
Journal of Occupational & Organizational Psychology, Sep96 69 (3)No "Little Women" here. Christian History & Biography, Winter2004 (81)
Ochoa,Gilda Laura. Everyday ways of resistance and cooperation: Mexican American women building Puentes with immigrants. Frontiers. Boulder: 1999 20 (1)
Plaskow, Judith. Three steps forward, two steps back. Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues, Jun2005 (9)
Rosenberg, Dorothy Goldin. Health, peace and the environment: integrating relationships in Women's Health Movement; [1]. Women & Environments International Magazine, Toronto: Fall 2003 (60/61)
Ruffin, Fayth A. Women as Peacemakers. UN Chronicle, New York: Jun-Aug 2004 41 (2)
Shackleton, David. Women's power over men. Everyman, Ottawa: Jul-Sep 2004 (65)
Weathers, Diane. The Measure of a Woman. Essence, May2005 36 (1)
Videos
If women ruled the world [videorecording]: a Washington dinner party / produced by Richard Karz ; director, Don Lennox; presented in cooperation with Prairie Public Television [New York]: Karz Productions, c2002
Video Tape 1588Women at the top [videorecording]/ Educational Broadcasting Corporation ; produced by Jane Petroff ; directed by Bob Morri ; executive producer, Steven Weinstock. Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities, c1985.
Video Tape 252Women world leaders [videorecording] / a documentary film by Laura Liswood ; produced by Jennifer Devlin [and] Fulcrum Productions, UK, for Women's Leadership Project. Washington, DC: Women's Leadership Project, c1996. Video Tape 884
Websites
The History Channel - Women's History Month http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/womenhist/
National Women's History Project 2006 Honorees http://www.nwhp.org/whm/honorees.php
Women's History Month- special features, quizzes,
biographies, and timelines, links, etc. http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womenshistory1.htmlWomen's History Month 2005 -- A National Register of Historic places feature http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/feature/wom/
Women's History- comprehensive women's history research guide http://womenshistory.about.com/
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