Women's History Month, March 2025

"As women achieve power, the barriers will fall. As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former US Supreme Court Associate Justice

Updated February 27, 2025
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The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
Skloot, Rebecca
Paper Book
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells - taken without her knowledge - became a multimillion-dollar industry and one of the most important tools in medicine. Yet Henrietta's family did not learn of her 'immortality' until...

616.0277 Skloot 2010

The radium girls : the dark story of America's shining women
Moore, Kate (Writer and editor)
Paper Book
Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club choice New York Times bestseller 'Fascinating' Sunday Times 'Thrilling' &★&★&★&★&★ Mail on Sunday All they wanted was the chance to...

363.1799 Moore 2017

Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
Lee Shetterly, Margot.
Paper Book

510.92 L516 2016

Parachute women : Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and the women behind the Rolling Stones
Winder, Elizabeth
Paper Book
The Rolling Stones have long been considered one of the greatest rock-and-roll bands of all time. At the forefront of the British Invasion and heading up the counterculture movement of the 1960s, the Stones' innovative music and iconic performances defined a generation, and fifty years later,...

782.4216 Winder 2023

Little wonder : the fabulous story of Lottie Dod, the worlds first female sports superstar
Abramsky, Sasha
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the YearOne of The Times 50 Best Sports BooksLittle Wonder tells the epic, and until now largely unchronicled, story of Lottie Dod, the first great heroine in women's sports. Dod was a champion tennis player, golfer, hockey player,...

796.342 Dod Abramsky 2020

Women in science : 50 fearless pioneers who changed the world
Ignotofsky, Rachel
Paper Book
A gloriously illustrated celebration of trailblazing women. Women in Science highlights the contributions of fifty notable women to the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, from both the ancient and modern worlds. The book also contains fascinating infographics...

509.22 Ig5 2016

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 PROSPECT BEST BOOK OF 2023 How did wet nurses drive civilization? Are women always the weaker sex?...

613.0424 Bohannon 2023

The six : the untold story of America's first women astronauts
Grush, Loren
Paper Book
The remarkable true story of America's first women astronauts 'Lifts the curtain on the moment when Neil Armstrong's "one small step for man" expanded to encompass the talent, ambition and perseverance of America's first female astronauts' MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY,...

629.4097 Grosh 2023

Female innovators who changed our world : how women shaped STEM
Shimizu, Emma
Paper Book
We are not all born with equal opportunities. Yet there have been countless of women who have overcome a range of barriers such as prejudice, illness, and personal tragedy to advance our understanding of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). They used their knowledge to change...

509.252 Shimizu 2022

Women & power : a manifesto
Beard, Mary
Paper Book
Mary Beard's feminist manifesto.

305.42 Beard 2017

Liar, temptress, soldier, spy : four women undercover in the Civil War
Abbott, Karen
Ebook
Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and "pioneer of sizzle history" (USA Today), tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War. Karen Abbott illuminates one of the most fascinating yet...

973.785 Ab27 2014

The unwomanly face of war : an oral history of women in World War II
Aleksievich, Svetlana
Paper Book
The unforgettable oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, The Unwomanly Face of War is Svetlana Alexievich's collection of stories from Soviet...

940.5347 Aleksievich 2017

She-wolves : the women who ruled England before Elizabeth
Castor, Helen.
Paper Book
'Highly readable, exciting and thought-provoking' - Hilary Mantel 'A gem of blood-and-thunder storytelling' - Dominic Sandbrook In medieval England, man was the ruler of woman, and the King was the ruler of all. How, then, could royal power lie in...

942.009 C279 2011


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