Celebrate Women's History Month with the Stump Library! These are just a few of the amazing books we have. Looking for more? Just ask!
The 2020 theme for Women's History Month is "Valiant Women of the Vote," and the books listed below celebrate women and girls who got the vote--and get things done. Interested in more? Keep scrolling - there are even more books listed!
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Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work by Edwidge Danticat
Zaha Hadid Architects: Design as Second Nature by the Zaha Hadid Architects
Augusta Savage: Renaissance Woman by Jeffreen Hayes
She Begat This: Twenty Years of the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill by Joan Morgan
The Art of Feminism: Images that Shaped the Fight for Equality, 1857-2017 edited by Helena Reckitt
Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists edited by Laura Silver
Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism by Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley
Goddess of the Americas: Writings on the Virgin of Guadalupe edited by Ana Castillo: Celebrate the Virgin of Guadalupe with these essays, stories, and comics, curated by Chicago writer Ana Castillo. Prefiere leer en español? Se puede leer Diosa de las Américas: Escritos Sobre la Virgen de Guadalupe.
And the Spirit Moved Them: The Lost Radical History of America's First Feminists by Helen Hunt: The story of some of America's first feminists and their radical, religious approach to equality.
Lucretia Mott Speaks: The Essential Speeches and Sermons compiled and edited by Christopher Densmore, Carol Faulkner, Nancy Hewitt, & Beverly Wilson Palmer
Preaching Women: Gender, Power, and the Pulpit by Liz Shercliffe
And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy: Stories from the Byways of American Women and Religion by Adrian Shirk
If They Come For Us by Fatimah Asghar
The January Children by Safia Elhillo
1919 by Eve L. Ewing
Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing
Ironheart: Those With Courage by Eve L. Ewing, Matt Milla, & Clayton Cowles, et al
Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers
Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights by Mikki Kendall & A. D'Amico, et al.
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (co-winner of the 2019 Man Book Prize)
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez (local author)
Yo no soy tu perfect hija méxicana por Erika L. Sánchez (local author)
Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson
American Street by Ibi Zoboi
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent, from the Ancient Egyptians to the Present edited by Margaret Busby
The Answer / La Respuesta by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz with an English translation by Electa Arenal & Amanda Powell
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent edited by Margaret Busby
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves edited by Glory Edim
Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World edited by Zahra Hankir
Ladies' Night at the Dreamland by Sonja Livingston
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison
Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist's Story from the Jim Crow South by Adele Logan Alexander
Rise Up, Women! The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes by Diane Atkinson
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me by Keah Brown
Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster by Stephen Carter
Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Ida: A Sword Among Lions by Paula Giddings
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected by Nnedi Okorafor
Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray by Rosalind Rosenberg
Arab and Arab-American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, & Belonging edited by Rabab Abdulhadi, Evelyn Alsultany, & Nadine Christine Naber
Dear Ijeawele: Or, A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie
Veiled Superheroes: Islam, Feminism, and Popular Culture by Sophia Rose Arjana
#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women edited by Lisa Charleyboy & Mary Beth Leatherdale
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
100 Years of Women's Suffrage: A University of Illinois Press Anthology edited by Dawn Durante
The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona Eltahawy
Mestiza Rhetorics: An Anthology of Mexicana Activism in the Spanish-Language Press, 1887-1922 edited by Jessica Enoch & Cristina Devereaux Ramírez & translated by Joel Bollinger Pouwels & Neil Jay Devereaux
Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets by Feminista Jones
For the Freedom of Her Race: Black Women and Electoral Politics in Illinois, 1877-1932 by Lisa G. Materson
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped WIn the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
Fifty Million Rising: The New Generation of Working Women Transforming the Muslim World by Saadia Zahidi
Parker Looks Up by Parker Curry, Jessica Parker, & Brittany Jackson
Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré by Anika Denise & Paola Escobar
Sembrando Historias: Pura Belpré: Bibliotecaria y Narradora de Cuentos por Anika Denise & Paola Escobar y tranducida por Omayra Ortiz
Dancing Hands by Margarita Engle & Rafael López
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music by Margarita Engle & Rafael López
The Women Who Caught the Babies: A Story of African American Midwives by Eloise Greenfield & Daniel Minter
Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman by Nikki Grimes & Earl B. Lewis
Thunder Rose by Jerdine Nolan
When Marian Sang by Pam Muñoz Ryan & Brian Selznick
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly, Winifred Conkling, & Laura Freeman
Malala's Magic Pencil written by Malala Yousafazi & Kerascoët
Dragons and Marshmallows by Asia Citro & Marion Lindsay
Meet Yasmin! by Saadia Faruqi & Hatem Aly
Yasmin in Charge! by Saadia Faruqi & Hatem Aly
Stella Díaz Has Something to Say by Angela Dominguez
Blackbird Fly by Erin Entrada Kelly
The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Pérez
La Primera Regla del Punk by Celia C. Pérez
Strange Birds: A Field Guide to Ruffling Feathers by Celia C. Pérez
A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée