Research Guides: Library Displays at UCBA: Women's History Month

Women's History Month

This year's selections highlight the 2023 theme for Women's History Month - "Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories." These books, focusing on women from all forms of media, along with others are located near the Library's Information Desk. The print and virtual displays are available until March 31, 2023.

National Women's History Alliance (2023 Theme)

The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
Call Number: PS3570.A48 B6 2001 Blue Ash Display
ISBN: 0399146431
Publication Date: 2001
Inspired by her own experiences with family secrets kept by one generation from the next, and drawn from a lifetime of questions and images, Amy Tan's novel mixes pure fiction with elements of autobiography.
Dearly by Margaret Atwood
Call Number: PR9199.3.A8 A6 2020 Blue Ash Display
ISBN: 9780063032491
Publication Date: 2020
Margaret Atwood's first collection of poetry in over a decade is introspective and personal in tone, addressing themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and zombies.
Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith by Grace Ellis; Hannah Templer (Illustrator); Joan Schenkar (Afterword)
Call Number: PS3558.I366 Z58 2022 Blue Ash Display
ISBN: 9781419744334
Publication Date: 2022
Flung Out of Space is a comic about what it was like to write comics in the 1950s, but also about what it means to be a writer at any time in history, struggling to find your voice.
The Mother of Black Hollywood by Jenifer Lewis
Call Number: PN2287.L434 A3 2017 Blue Ash Display
ISBN: 9780062410405
Publication Date: 2017
This "Mega Diva" and costar of the hit sitcom black-ish bares her soul in this touching and poignant--and at times side-splittingly hilarious--memoir of a Midwestern girl with a dream, whose journey took her from poverty to the big screen, and along the way earned her many accolades.
Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World by Zahra Hankir (Editor); Christiane Amanpour (Foreword)
Call Number: P94.5.W652 A737 2019 Blue Ash Display
ISBN: 9780143133414
Publication Date: 2019
Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection.
Reckonings by Jana Sequoya Magdaleno (Editor); Hertha D. Sweet Wong (Editor); Lauren Stuart Muller (Editor)
Call Number: PS508.I5 R36 2008 Blue Ash Display
ISBN: 9780195109245
Publication Date: 2008
These stories share an understanding of Native women's lives in their various modes of loss and struggle, resistance and acceptance, and rage and compassion, ultimately highlighting the individual and collective will to endure.