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Women's History Month
Selected Reading
Recommended by St. Olaf faculty, staff and students.
Books/Videos | Music | Periodicals | Reference | Instruction
Books/Videos
| Author |
Title |
Check Sage |
Check MUSE |
| Atwood, Margaret |
The Blind Assassin |
Check
Sage |
Check
MUSE |
| Adams, Nelson, director |
Silver Wings & Santiago Blue [video] |
Check
Sage |
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| Allison, Dorothy |
Bastard Out of Carolina |
Check
Sage |
Check
MUSE |
| Anglier, Natalie |
Women: An Intimate Geography |
Check
Sage |
Check
MUSE |
| Bradley, Marion Zimmer |
The Forest House |
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| Bradley, Marion Zimmer |
The Mists of Avalon |
Check
Sage |
Check
MUSE |
| Brontë, Charlotte |
Jane Eyre |
Check
Sage |
Check
MUSE |
| Brumberg, Joan Jacobs |
The Body Project |
Check
Sage |
Check
MUSE |
| Diamant, Anita |
The Red Tent |
Check
Sage |
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| Duden, Barbara |
The Woman Beneath The Skin : A Doctor's Patients
in Eighteenth-Century Germany |
Check
Sage |
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| Dyer, Joyce, editor |
Bloodroot: Relections on Place by Appalachian
Women Writers |
Check
Sage |
Check
MUSE |
| Faderman, Lillian |
To Believe In Women: What Lesbians Have Done For
America--A History |
Check
Sage |
Check
MUSE |
| Faludi, Susan |
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American
Women |
Check
Sage |
Check
MUSE |
| Faust, Drew Gilpin |
Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding
South in the American Civil War |
Check
Sage |
Check
MUSE |
| Formanek-Brunell, Miriam |
Made to Play House : Dolls and the Commercialization
of American Girlhood, 1830-1930 |
Check
Sage |
Check
MUSE |
| Horn, Miriam |
Rebels in White Gloves: Coming of Age With Hillary's
Class--Wellesley '69 |
Check
Sage |
Check
MUSE |
| Horowitz, Daniel |
Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique:
The American Left, The Cold War, and Modern Feminism |
Check
Sage |
Check
MUSE |
| Huong, Ho Xuan |
Spring Essence: The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong |
Check
Sage |
Check
MUSE |
| Jacobs, Harriet |
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl |
Check
Sage |
Check
MUSE |
| Kingsolver, Barbara |
The Poisonwood Bible |
Check
Sage |
Check
MUSE |
| Leonard, Elizabeth D. |
All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil
War Armies |
Check
Sage |
Check
MUSE |
| Marshall, Gail |
Actresses on the Victorian Stage: Feminine Performance
and the Galatea Myth |
Check
Sage |
Check
MUSE |
| Morrison, Toni |
The Bluest Eye |
Check
Sage |
Check
MUSE |
| Newman, Barbara |
Sister of Wisdom: St. Hildegard's Theology of
the Feminine |
Check
Sage |
Check
MUSE |
| Oliver,
Mary |
Poems. Selected |
Check
Sage |
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| Olson, Shannon (Ole alum) |
Welcome to My Planet: Where English is Sometimes
Spoken |
Check
Sage |
Check
MUSE |
| Sorel, Nancy Caldwell |
The Women Who Wrote the War |
Check
Sage |
Check
MUSE |
| Terry, Jennifer & Jacqueline Urla, editors |
Deviant Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Differences
in Science and Popular Culture |
Check
Sage |
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| Van Hook, Bailey |
Angels of Art: Women and Art in American Society,
1876-1914 |
Check
Sage |
Check
MUSE |
| Walker, Alice |
The Color Purple |
Check
Sage |
Check
MUSE |
| Walker, Rebecca |
Black, White and Jewish |
Check
Sage |
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Music
The following is a list of historic women composers
arranged chronologically. Click on their name to see recordings and scores
of their music owned by the St. Olaf Libraries. These women are also featured
on a bulletin board in the Music Library, please stop to see it!
Francesca
Caccini
Barbara
Strozzi
Hildegard
von Bingen
Isabella
Leonarda
Jacquet
de la Guerre
Camilla
de Rossi
Elisabetta
de Gambarini
Cecilia
Maria Barthelemon
Maria
Agata Wolowska Szymanowska
Fanny
Medelssohn Hensel
Clara
Schumann
Louise
Farrenc
Ruth
Crawford Seeger
Amy
Beach
Louise
Talma
Cecilie
Ore
Joan
Tower
Laurie
Anderson
Nancy
Van de Vate
Ellen
Taaffe Zwilich
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Periodicals
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Reference
Many books in the reference collection are relevant to
one or more aspect of Women's History. Browse the reference collection.
Or, use a WORD search in Sage and LIMIT by reference. To find books
both in the general collections and in reference, you may want to search
by Library of Congress Subject Heading, such as:
SUBJECT=> Femininity in Literature
SUBJECT=> Feminist Theory
SUBJECT=> Women in the Workplace
SUBJECT=> Women's Studies
SUBJECT=> Women in the Bible
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Instruction
Interested in Women and the Arts 1100-1700? You may want
to look at Library
Resources for Research Project compiled for Women's Studies 201.
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