2023: Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories
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National Women’s History Month's 2023 theme is “Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories.”
Throughout 2023, the National Women’s History Alliance will 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.
Source: National Women’s History Month
E-Book titles available for online reading
Ella Fitzgerald: A Biography of the First Lady of Jazz, Updated Edition
By Stuart Nicholson
Reading Arab women's Autobiographies: Shahrazad Tells Her Story
By Nawar Al-Hassan Golley
The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History
By Nathalia Holt
Retold stories, untold histories : Maxine Hong Kingston and Leslie Marmon Silko on the politics of imagining the past
By Joanna Ziarkowska
A Woman's Guide to Claiming Space : Stand Tall. Raise Your Voice. Be Heard.
By Eliza Vancort
Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue: A Life's Work Fighting for a More Perfect Union
By Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Videos on demand
Sandra Cisneros : An Interview
In this 2002 interview, award-winning poet and writer Sandra Cisneros talks about her novel "Caramelo," the story of a Mexican family with members and memories on both sides of the U.S. border.
(8 minutes)
NASA mathematician portrayed in 'Hidden Figures' breaks down how she helped astronauts
Katherine G. Johnson, 98, of Virginia is portrayed in the Hollywood film "Hidden Figures," which is about the role a group of world-class African American female mathematicians played in the 1960s space race.
(2 minutes)
ReSisters Women in Movement
Through interviews with Afghan Parliament member Malalai Joya, Mali community leader Aminata Traore, Indian scientist and ecofeminist Vandana Shiva, and Argentine justice group Madres of Plazo de Mayo, this documentary connects women’s movements across countries, cultures, and generations.
Produced by Laura Fantone
(42 minutes)
Toni Morrison on capturing a mother's "compulsion" to nurture in "Beloved", PBS newshour. September 29, 1987
To remember Toni Morrison, the PBS NewsHour unearthed this 1987 interview with the celebrated American author. At the time, Morrison's "Beloved" had just been published.
(13 minutes)
Frida Kahlo: Between Passion and Pain
A revealing window into the remarkable life of artist Frida Kahlo, featuring her iconic paintings, private diaries and interviews with close friends, critics and historians who know here well.
Directed by Ana Vivas and
Rodrigo Castaño Valencia
(53 minutes)
Unbreakable One Girl Changing the World-The Story of Malala
“They cannot stop me. I will get my education,” declares Malala Yousafzai in this riveting ABC News interview, filmed in the wake of the young activist’s 2013 trip to the United States.
(39 minutes)
Erin Brockovich
A law-office worker investigates a utility company that has contaminated groundwater in a small California town. Based on a true story.
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
(130 minutes)
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women is one of the great young-adult novels of the 19th century. It describes the coming-of-age of the four March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, whose loving mother cares for them while their father serves in the Civil War. Jo, who falls in love and becomes a writer, is clearly an analogue for Alcott herself.
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
(122 minutes) 1949
2022 E-Book titles available for online reading
A Shining Thread of Hope : The History of Black Women in America
By Darlene Clark Hine
and Kathleen Thompson
100 years of women's suffrage : a University of Illinois Press anthology
Compiled by Dawn Durante
Introduction by Nancy A. Hewitt
They Didn't See Us Coming : The Hidden History of Feminism in the Nineties
By Lisa Levenstein
Speaking of Feminism: Today's Activists on the Past, Present, and Future of the U.S. Women's Movement
By Rachel Seidman
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Legacy of Dissent: Feminist Rhetoric and the Law
By Katie L Gibson
The New CEOs: Women, African American, Latino, and Asian American leaders of Fortune 500 companies.
By Richard Zweigenhaft
Successful Women Ceramic and Glass Scientists and Engineers: 100 Inspirational Profiles
By Lynnette Madsen, Cristina Amon, and Shirley Malcom
Encyclopedia of Women in American History
Edited by Joyce Oldham Appleby, Eileen K. Cheng, and Joanne L. Goodwin
Consultants: Miriam J. Cohen and Lyde C. Sizer
2022 Physical Books
America's women : four hundred years of dolls, drudges, helpmates, and heroines
by Gail Collins
Through women's eyes : an American history with documents
by Ellen Carol DuBois and Lynn Dumenil
Sisterhood is forever : the women's anthology for a new millennium
compiled, edited, and with an introduction by Robin Morgan
White women's rights : the racial origins of feminism in the United States
by Louise Michele Newman
Women activists : challenging the abuse of power
by Anne Witte Garland ; foreword by Ralph Nader ; introduction by Frances T. Farenthold
Selections curated from Healey Library's e-Book collection by Roxann Harvey, March 2022 & March 2023
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