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Books for Women's History Month March 2023 |
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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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Wahala : a novel
by Nikki May
When charismatic Isobel explodes into their close-knit group, at first seemingly bringing out the best in each woman, Boo, Simi and Ronke, three Anglo-Nigerian best friends, find their close friendship starting to crack as this lethally glamorous woman wreaks havoc on their lives. 125,000 first printing.
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Lady justice : women, the law, and the battle to save America
by Dahlia Lithwick
"Dahlia Lithwick, one of the nation's foremost legal commentators, tells the gripping and heroic story of the women lawyers who fought the racism, sexism, and xenophobia of Donald Trump's presidency-and won. After the sudden shock of Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016, many Americans felt lost and uncertain. It was clear he and his administration were going to pursue a series of retrograde, devastating policies. What could be done? Immediately, women lawyers all around the country, independently of each other, sprang into action, and they had a common goal: they weren't going to stand by in the face of injustice, while Trump, Mitch McConnell, and the Republican party did everything in their power to remake the judiciary in their own conservative image. Over the next four years, the women worked tirelessly to hold the line against the most chaotic and malign presidency in living memory. There was Sally Yates, the acting attorney general of the United States, who refused to sign off on theMuslim travel ban. And Becca Heller, the founder of a refugee assistance program who brought the fight over the travel ban to the airports. And Roberta Kaplan, the famed commercial litigator, who sued the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville. And, of course, Stacey Abrams, whose efforts to protect the voting rights of millions of Georgians may well have been what won the Senate for the Democrats in 2020. These are just a handful of the stories Lithwick dramatizes in thrilling detail to tell a brand-new and deeply inspiring account of the Trump years. With unparalleled access to her subjects, she has written a luminous book, not about the villains of the Trump years, but about the heroes. A celebration of the tireless efforts, legal ingenuity, and indefatigable spirit of the women whose work all too often went unrecognized at the time, Lady Justice is destined to be treasured and passed from hand to hand for generations to come, not just among lawyers and law students, but among all optimistic and hopeful Americans"
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This woman's work : essays on music
by Sinéad Gleeson
Edited by an iconic musician and an award-winning writer, an array of talented contributors challenge the male dominance and sexism that have been hard-coded in canons of music, literature and film, while also discussing the female artists that matter to them and their own personal experiences.
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Manifesto : on never giving up
by Bernardine Evaristo
"Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker Prize win was an historic and revolutionary occasion, with Evaristo being the first Black woman and first Black British person ever to win the prize in its fifty-year history. Girl, Woman, Other was named a favorite book of the year by President Obama and Roxane Gay, was translated into thirty-five languages, and has now reached more than a million readers. Evaristo's astonishing nonfiction debut, Manifesto, is a vibrant and inspirational account of Evaristo's life and career as she rebelled against the mainstream and fought over several decades to bring her creative work into the world. With her characteristic humor, Evaristo describes her childhood as one of eight siblings, with a Nigerian father and white Catholic mother, tells the story of how she helped set up Britain's first Black women's theatre company, remembers the queer relationships of her twenties, and recounts her determination to write books that were absent in the literary world around her. She provides a hugely powerful perspective to contemporary conversations around race, class, feminism, sexuality, and aging. She reminds us of how far we have come, and how far we still have to go. In Manifesto, Evaristo charts her theory of unstoppability, showing creative people how they too can visualize and find success in their work, ignoring the naysayers. Both unconventional memoir and inspirational text, Manifesto is a unique reminder to us all to persist in doing work we believe in, even when we might feel overlooked or discounted. Evaristo shows us how we too can follow in her footsteps, from first vision, to insistent perseverance, to eventual triumph"
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Hope and Glory : a novel
by Jendella Benson
Leaving her glamorous life in LA, Glory Akindele returns to London to mourn her fathers death and discovers that her previously close family has fallen apart and decides to stay and try to reunite them. 75,000 first printing.
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When we were sisters : a novel
by Fatimah Asghar
After the death of their parents, three Muslim American sisters are left to raise one another, and as the youngest, Kausar, grows up, she must choose whether to remain in the life of love, sorrow and codependency shes known or carve out a new path for herself.
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Body work : the radical power of personal narrative
by Melissa Febos
Drawing on her own experiences, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Whip Smart discusses how to confront the emotional, psychological and physical work of writing about our most intimate lives. Original.
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Red paint : the ancestral autobiography of a Coast Salish punk
by Sasha taqwšeblu LaPointe
Examining what it means to be vulnerable in love and art, an indigenous artist, blending together punk rock with traditional spiritual practices, throws herself headlong into the world, determined to build a better future for herself and her people.
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Still mad : American women writers and the feminist imagination, 1950-2020
by Sandra M. Gilbert
"A brilliant, sweeping history of the contemporary women's movement told through the lives and works of the literary women who shaped it. Forty years after their first groundbreaking work of feminist literary theory, The Madwoman in the Attic, award-winning collaborators Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar map the literary history of feminism's second wave. In Still Mad, they offer lively readings of major works by such writers as Sylvia Plath, Lorraine Hansberry, Adrienne Rich, Ursula K. Le Guin, Maxine Hong Kingston, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Toni Morrison. To address shifting social attitudes over seven decades, they discuss polemics by thinkers from Kate Millett and Susan Sontag to Audre Lorde, Andrea Dworkin, and Judith Butler. As Gilbert and Gubar chart feminist gains-including creative new forms of protests and changing attitudes toward gender and sexuality-they show how the legacies of second wave feminists, and the misogynistic culture they fought, extend to the present. In doing so, they celebrate the diversity and urgency of women who have turned passionate rage into powerful writing"
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Olga dies dreaming
by Xochitl Gonzalez
In the wake of Hurricane Maria, Olga, the tony wedding planner for Manhattans power brokers, must confront the effects of long-held family secrets when she falls in love with Matteo, while other family members must weather their own storms. 300,000 first printing.
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Woman : the American history of an idea
by Lillian Faderman
What does it mean to be a "woman" in America? Award-winning gender and sexuality scholar Lillian Faderman traces the evolution of the meaning from Puritan ideas of God's plan for women to the sexual revolution of the 1960s and its reversals to the impactof such recent events as #metoo, the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, the election of Kamala Harris as vice president, and the transgender movement. This wide-ranging 400-year history chronicles conflicts, retreats, defeats, and hard-won victories in both the private and the public sectors and shines a light on the often-overlooked battles of enslaved women and women leaders in tribal nations. Noting that every attempt to cement a particular definition of "woman" has been met with resistance, Faderman also shows that successful challenges to the status quo are often short-lived. As she underlines, the idea of womanhood in America continues to be contested
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When you get the chance
by Emma Lord
In need of an ally to help her pursue her dreams of becoming a Broadway star, Millie Price searches for her birth mother and finds that her past somehow keeps bringing her back to what shes had all along. 100,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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The man who could move clouds : a memoir
by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Interweaving spellbinding family stories, resurrected Colombian history and her own deeply personal reckonings with the bounds of reality, the author shares her inheritance of the secretsthe power to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick and move the clouds. Illustrations.
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Fiona and Jane
by Jean Chen Ho
Two best friends since elementary school, both Taiwanese Americans, navigate their grown-up lives and discover their friendship strained by distance and unintended betrayals after Fiona Lin moves to New York and Jane Shen stays in California.
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Token black girl : a memoir
by Danielle Prescod
A fashion and beauty insider, in this revealing and candid memoir, unpacks the adverse effects of insidious white supremacy in the media to tell a personal story about recovery from damaging concepts of perfection, celebrating identity and demolishing social conditioning.
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On rotation : a novel
by Shirlene Obuobi
With her life crashes down around her, Ghanaian-American med student Angie Appiah, whos spent her life being the Perfect Immigrant Daughter, questions everythingher career, her friendships and her taste in menuntil she meets someone who changes everything. 100,000 first printing.
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The school for good mothers : a novel
by Jessamine Chan
After one moment of poor judgment involving her daughter Harriet, Frida Liu falls victim to a host of government officials who will determine if she is a candidate for a Big Brother-like institution that measures the success or failure of a mothers devotion. 150,000 first printing.
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Broken horses : a memoir
by Brandi Carlile
"Brandi Carlile was born into a musically gifted, impoverished family on the outskirts of Seattle and grew up in a constant state of change, moving from house to house, trailer to trailer, fourteen times in as many years. Though imperfect in every way, her dysfunctional childhood was as beautiful as it was strange, and as nurturing as it was difficult. At the age of five, Brandi contracted bacterial meningitis, which almost took her life, leaving an indelible mark on her formative years and altering her journey into young adulthood. As an openly gay teenager, Brandi grappled with the tension between her sexuality and her faith when her pastor publicly refused to baptize her on the day of the ceremony. Shockingly, her small town rallied around Brandi in support and set her on a path to salvation where the rest of the misfits and rejects find it: through twisted, joyful, weird, and wonderful music. In Broken Horses, Brandi Carlile takes readers through the events of her life that shaped her very raw art-from her start at a local singing competition where she performed Elton John's "Honky Cat" in a bedazzled white polyester suit, to her first break opening for Dave Matthews Band, to many sleepless tours over fifteen years and six studio albums, all while raising two children with her wife, Catherine Shepherd. This hard-won success led her to collaborations with personal heroes like Elton John, Dolly Parton, Mavis Staples, Pearl Jam, Tanya Tucker, and Joni Mitchell, as well as her peers in the supergroup TheHighwomen, and ultimately to the Grammy stage, where she converted millions of viewers into instant fans. Evocative and piercingly honest, Broken Horses is at once an examination of faith through the eyes of a person rejected by the church's basic tenetsand a meditation on the moments and lyrics that have shaped the life of a creative mind, a brilliant artist, and a genuine empath on a mission to give back"
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