Women's History Month

👩‍🚀👩‍🎨 Nonfiction, biographies, and memoirs for Women's History Month 👩‍🎓👩‍🚒

Updated January 15, 2026
Westchester Library System Mount Pleasant Public Library
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Eve : how the female body drove 200 million years of human evolution
Bohannon, Cat
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FOYLE'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 LONGLISTED FOR BLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 A GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH and PROSPECTBEST BOOK OF 2023 How did wet nurses drive civilization? Are women always the weaker sex?...
The furies : three women and their violent fight for justice
Flock, Elizabeth (Journalist)
Paper Book
The Furies tells the stories of three unforgettable women who chose to use lethal force to gain power, safety, and freedom when the institutions meant to protect them - government, police, courts - utterly failed to do so. Brittany Smith, a young Alabama woman, killed a man she said...
Mother tongue : the surprising history of women's words
Nuttall, Jennifer Anne
Paper Book
A rich, provocative and entertaining history of women's words - of the language we have, and haven't, had to share our lives.'Fascinating, intriguing, witty, a gem of a book' KATE MOSSE'Wonderful' DAILY TELEGRAPH'This superb book teems with historical marvels and their...
The missing thread : a new history of the ancient world through the women who shaped it
Dunn, Daisy
Paper Book
'A brilliant concept, executed with enviable elegance' Lucy Worsley 'A gem of a book. Thanks to Daisy Dunn's elegant and lively retelling of history, the women of the ancient world are restored to the centre of the story of classical antiquity. It was a joy to read'...
The story of art without men
Hessel, Katy
Paper Book
**OUT NOW: How to Live an Artful Life, Katy Hessel's new guide to finding art in the everyday** WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A long overdue, revisionist history of art by the...

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