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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

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Atwood, Margaret The Blind Assassin Check Sage Check MUSE
Adams, Nelson, director Silver Wings & Santiago Blue [video] Check Sage
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
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
Duden, Barbara The Woman Beneath The Skin : A Doctor's Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany Check Sage
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
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
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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Feminist Periodicals: A Current Listing of Contents Check Sage
Gender & History Check Sage Check MUSE
Journal of Women's History Check Sage Check MUSE
Legacy Check Sage
New Books on Women and Feminism Check Sage
Women of Note Quarterly: The Magazine of Historical and Contemporary Women Composers Check Sage

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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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