International Women's Day 2025 - Nonfiction for Adults

March 8 is International Women's Day! The theme for 2025 is "Accelerate Action!," so get yourself moving with these great reads about women's roles in important events throughout history.

Updated February 18, 2025
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The abortion caravan : when women shut down government in the battle for the right to choose
Wells, Karin
Paper Book
In the spring of 1970, seventeen women set out from Vancouver in a big yellow convertible, a Volkswagen bus, and a pickup truck. They called it the Abortion Caravan. Three thousand miles later, they "occupied" the prime minister's front lawn in Ottawa, led a rally of 500 women on Parliament Hill,...
A house in the mountains : the women who liberated Italy from fascism
Moorehead, Caroline
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER The extraordinary story of four courageous women who helped form the Italian Resistance against the Nazis and the Fascists during the Second World War. In the late summer of 1943, when Italy changed sides in WWII and the Germans, now their...
No second chances : women and political power in Canada
Graham, Kate
Paper Book
As of September 2021, only thirteen women had reached Canada's top political posts: elected or appointed provincial premier or prime minister. They have represented three major political parties and served across provinces and territories from coast to coast to coast. But, as professor and...
We will be jaguars : a memoir of my people
Nenquimo, Nemonte
Paper Book
REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK Named one of the Best Nonfiction Books of the Year by Library Journal "An unforgettable memoir about fighting for your home and your heart." --Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club November '24 Pick) ...

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