In celebration of Women’s History Month, The National History Women’s Project (NHWP) is recognizing women in the forefront of the environmental movement. From the instinctual ecological considerations of gathering to battling the political complexities of bureaucracies and industries, women have always played a role in protecting and sustaining the world around them.

During the month of March the FAU library, Boca campus, is displaying books in the lobby highlighting women’s relationship to the environment. Browse titles from Florida’s own Marjory Stoneman Douglas such as The everglades: River of grass and The wide brim: early poems and ponderings by Marjory Stoneman Douglas, or NHWP’s featured honoree Rachael Carson’s selected writings, The house of life: Rachel Carson at work.

Find these selected titles in the lobby, and on the library’s shelves after March:

American women conservationists : twelve profiles
By Madelyn Holmes. McFarland, 2004.
Call Number: QH26.H66 2004

Ecofeminism
By Marla Mies & Vandana Shiva, Fernwood Publications, 1993.
Call Number: HQ1233 .M547 1993

The Life and Death of Petra Kelly
By Sara Parkin. Pandora, 1994
Call Number: DD260.65.K45 P37 1994

Revealing new worlds: three Victorian women naturalists
By Suzanne Le May Sheffield. Routledge, 2001.
Call Number: HQ1595.A3S54 2001

Shrinking the cat : genetic engineering before we knew about genes
by Sue Hubbell; with illustrations by Liddy Hubbell. Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
Call Number: S494.H83 2001

Silent Spring
By Rachel Carson; drawings by Lois and Louis Darling. Houghton Mifflin, 1962.
Call Number: QH31.C33B7

Such news of the land: U.S. women nature writers
Edited by Thomas S. Edwards and Elizabeth A. De Wolfe.  University Press of New England, 2001.
Call Number: PS163.E39 2001