Cuddle up with a great book on women's history.
“I hope… to encourage historians to view different dimensions of women's work and thought in context. Only then will we understand the scope of women's contributions to history as distinct from their appreciation of the limitations of the society in which they operated. Each stage of the development of "herstoryography" merits our full attention, with careful thought to the way in which all dimensions exist and relate one to the other, and with caution for the possible ways we may inadvertently create our own barriers to that which we most wish to discover…" –Janis L. MacDonald
u.S. wOMEN'S hISTORY
Take a peek at our featured books on U.S. Women's History.
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World wOMEN'S hISTORY
Check out our recommendations for books on women's history around the world.
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Click the cover to find the book on Amazon!
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Feminist Reads
Check out these featured books on feminism!
Covering two decades—from the early sixties to the early eighties—the pieces in Gloria Steinem’s diverse, stimulating, and often-prescient first collection dare to ask how our world might change for the better if we each behaved “as if everyone mattered.”
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A major new work by a leading historian and pioneer in women's studies, The Creation of Patriarchy is a radical reconceptualization of Western civilization that makes gender central to its analysis. Gerda Lerner argues that male dominance over women is not "natural" or biological, but the product of an historical development begun in the second millennium B.C. in the Ancient Near East. As patriarchy as a system of organizing society was established historically, she contends, it can also be ended by the historical process.
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From Medusa to Philomela (whose tongue was cut out), from Hillary Clinton to Elizabeth Warren (who was told to sit down), Beard draws illuminating parallels between our cultural assumptions about women’s relationship to power—and how powerful women provide a necessary example for all women who must resist being vacuumed into a male template.
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Resources for Educators
Check out these texts about how to teach Women's History
Through Women’s Eyes: An American History with Documents was the first text to present a narrative of U.S. women’s history within the context of the central developments of the United States and to combine this core narrative with written and visual primary sources in each chapter.
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A Primer for Teaching Women, Gender, and Sexuality in World History is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching women, gender, and sexuality in history for the first time, for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their courses, for those who are training future teachers to prepare their own syllabi, and for teachers who want to incorporate these issues into their world history classes.
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Clio in the Classroom is full of essays that provide concise, up-to-date overviews of American women's history from colonial times to the present that include its ethnic, racial, and regional changes. It looks at conceptual framework keys to understanding women's history and American history, such as sexuality, citizenship, consumerism, and religion. The text also offers concrete approaches for the classroom, including the use of oral history, visual resources, material culture, and group learning.
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Books Adapted for Young People
Check out these books we recommend, adapted for young people.
Through dazzling research and countless interviews with the surviving code girls, Liza Mundy brings their story to life with zeal, grace, and passion. Abridged and adapted for a middle grade audience, Code Girls brings this important story to young readers for the first time, showcasing this vital story of American courage, service, and scientific accomplishment.
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It is crucial for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth to know their history. But this history is not easy to find since it’s rarely taught in schools or commemorated in other ways. A Queer History of the United States for Young People corrects this and demonstrates that LGBTQ people have long been vital to shaping our understanding of what America is today.
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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks illustrates how the movement radically sought to expose and eradicate racism in jobs, housing, schools, and public services, as well as police brutality and the over-incarceration of Black people—and how Rosa Parks was a key player throughout.
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The original academic text is fully adapted by renowned curriculum experts Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza, for middle-grade and young adult readers to include discussion topics, archival images, original maps, recommendations for further reading, and other materials to encourage students, teachers, and general readers to think critically about their own place in history.
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Resources for Young Readers
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Check out A Mighty Girl, a website with all sorts of resources for young children, but we especially love the women's history section.
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In collaboration with Car-Line Picks' Janice Leigh Shelton, we are bringing you amazing books on women in history appropriate for a younger audience. You can follow her instagram account @carlinepicks for more book recommendations.
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