New Resources for Women’s History Month: Learning about Women’s History
As Women’s History Month continues, the GSU Library has a wide range of books about women’s history, to help you learn more and to inspire women to create their own history! Recently arrived on our shelves are these books, among others:
- Shaping Our Struggles: Nigerian Women in History, Culture and Social Change, edited by Obioma Nnaemeka and Chima J. Korieh (2011)
- Radical Spiritual Motherhood: Autobiography and Empowerment in Nineteenth-Century African American Women, by Rosetta R. Haynes (2011)
- Radicalism at the Crossroads :
African American Women Activists in the Cold War, by Dayo F. Gore (2011) - Fashioning Teenagers: A Cultural History of Seventeen Magazine, by Kelley Massoni (2010)
- Talk with You Like a Woman: African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890-1935, by Cheryl D. Hicks (2010)
- A Jewish Feminine Mystique?: Jewish Women in Postwar America, edited by Hasia R. Diner, Shira Kohn, and Rachel Kranson (2010)
For the visually oriented, check out these pictorial histories:
- Venus with Biceps: A Pictorial History of Muscular Women, by David L. Chapman and Patricia Vertinsky (2010)
- Forbidden Fruit: A History of Women and Books in Art, by Christine Innman (2009)
- Everyday Icon: Michelle Obama and the Power of Style, by Kate Betts (2011)
And last but not least, check out these recent documentaries:
- The Heretics, as told by Joan Braverman (2009), a documentary about the Heresies, a feminist art collective
- Red Moon: Menstruation, Culture and the Politics of Gender (2010)