Celebrate Women’s History Month with our collection of books that highlight the lives and accomplishments of women throughout history. This year, we’re highlighting the first woman to serve as United States attorney general, pioneering women in archaeology, Black women activists, and more.
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Janet Reno
A Life
Judith Hicks Stiehm
The first full biography of former United States attorney general Janet Reno, this book examines the guiding forces that shaped Reno’s character, the trails blazed by Reno in her professional roles, and the lasting influence of Reno on American politics and society.
It’s Our Movement Now
Black Women’s Politics and the 1977 National Women’s Conference
Edited by Laura L. Lovett, Rachel Jessica Daniel, and Kelly N. Giles
This volume offers a panoramic view of Black feminist politics through the stories of Black women who attended the 1977 National Women’s Conference, placing the diversity of Black women’s experiences and their leadership at the center of the history of the women’s movement.
Mary McLeod Bethune the Pan-Africanist
Ashley Robertson Preston
Broadening the familiar view of Mary McLeod Bethune as an advocate for racial and gender equality within the United States, this book highlights Bethune’s global activism and her connections throughout the African diaspora.
Grit-Tempered
Early Women Archaeologists in the Southeastern United States
Edited by Nancy Marie White, Lynne P. Sullivan,
and Rochelle A. Marrinan
With a New Preface
Updated with a new preface on the 25th anniversary of its first publication, this volume documents the lives and work of pioneering women archaeologists in the southeastern United States from the 1920s through the 1960s.
Bertha Maxwell-Roddey
A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership
Sonya Y. Ramsey
This biography of educational activist and Black studies pioneer Bertha Maxwell-Roddey examines a life of remarkable achievements and leadership in the early years of the desegregated South. Sonya Ramsey describes how Maxwell-Roddey and her peers turned hard-won civil rights and feminist milestones into tangible accomplishments in North Carolina and nationwide from the late 1960s to the 1990s.
Dancing Past the Light
The Life of Tanquil Le Clerq
Orel Protopopescu
This book cinematically illuminates the glamorous and moving life story of Tanaquil “Tanny” Le Clercq (1929-2000), one of the most celebrated ballerinas of the twentieth century, describing her brilliant stage career, her struggle with polio, and her important work as a dance teacher, coach, photographer, and writer.
The Public Health Nurses of Jim Crow Florida
Christine Ardalan
Highlighting the long unacknowledged role of a group of pioneering professional women, The Public Health Nurses of Jim Crow Florida tells the story of healthcare workers who aimed to serve those people out of reach of modern medical care while simultaneously battling racism in a state where white supremacy formed the bedrock of society.
The Citizenship Education Program and Black Women’s Political Culture
Deanna M. Gillespie
This book details how African American women used lessons in basic literacy to crack the foundation of white supremacy and sow seeds for collective action during the civil rights movement. Gillespie traces the history of the Citizenship Education Program (CEP), a grassroots initiative that taught people to read and write in preparation for literacy tests required for voter registration—a profoundly powerful objective in the Jim Crow South.
Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba
Takkara K. Brunson
This book traces how women of African descent battled exclusion on multiple fronts and played an important role in forging a modern democracy.
Sisterly Networks
Fifty Years of Southern Women’s Histories
Edited by Catherine Clinton
Tracing the development of the field of southern women’s history over the past half century, Sisterly Networks shows how pioneering feminists laid the foundation for a strong community of sister scholars and delves into the work of an organization central to this movement, the Southern Association for Women Historians (SAWH).
The Extraordinary Life of Jane Wood Reno
Miami’s Trailblazing Journalist
George Hurchalla
Journalist, activist, and adventurer, Jane Wood Reno (1913–1992) was one of the most groundbreaking and colorful American women of the twentieth century. Told by her grandson, George Hurchalla, The Extraordinary Life of Jane Wood Reno is an intimate biography of a free thinker who shattered barriers during the explosive early years of Miami.
Use code WHM24 for discount prices on women’s history books through March 31, 2024.
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