{"id":2455,"date":"2010-03-08T10:08:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T14:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/?p=2455"},"modified":"2010-10-06T16:19:28","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T20:19:28","slug":"womens-history-month-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/womens-history-month-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s History Month – Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

Week of March 8, 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the News:<\/em><\/strong> It’s Women’s History Month! This week: Newly-acquired books related to women and feminist studies.<\/p>\n

Also In the News<\/em><\/strong>: FAU has a new President (a woman!) Mary Jane Saunders, PhD, was recently named as the University’s sixth president.
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Advice from the Top: What Minority Women Say about their Career Success<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Valencia Campbell.\u00a0 Praeger Publishers, 2009.
\nCall Number: <\/em>HD6054.3 .C36 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

African American Women Voters: Racializing Religiosity, Political Consciousness, and Progressive Political Action in U.S. Presidential Elections from 1964 through 2008.<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By: Lisa Nikol Nealy.\u00a0 University Press of America, 2009.
\nCall Number: JK1924 .N43 2009<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n

The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture and Social Change<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Angela McRobbie. Sage, 2009
\nCall Number: HQ1155 .M37 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

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Agnes Lake Hickok: Queen of the Circus, Wife of a Legend<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By: Linda A. Fisher and Carrie Bowers.\u00a0 University of Oklahoma Press, 2009.
\nCall Number: CT275.H5955 F57 2009<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The American Women’s Movement, 1945-2000: A Brief History with Documents<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Nancy MacLean.\u00a0 Bedford\/St. Martin’s, 2009.
\nCall Number: HQ1236.5.U6 M323 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

The Birth of Feminism: Woman as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and England<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Sarah Gwyneth Ross.\u00a0 Harvard University Press, 2009.
\nCall Number: HQ1641 .R68 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Black Women in New South Literature and Culture<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Sherita L. Johnson.\u00a0 Routledge, 2009.
\nCall Number: PS261 .J55 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Elizabeth Gilbert.\u00a0 Viking, 2010.
\nCall Number: HQ834 .G48 2010<\/a><\/p>\n

Controlling Representations: Depictions of Women in a Mainstream Newspaper, 1900-1950.<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Katherine H. Adams, Michael L. Keene, and Melanie McKay.\u00a0 Hampton Press, 2009.
\nCall Number: PN4888.W65 C66 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Disfigured: A Saudi Woman’s Story of Triumph over Violence<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Rania al-Baz.\u00a0 Olive Branch Press, 2009.
\nCall Number: HQ1730.Z75 A4413 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Equal: Women Reshape American Law<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Fred Strebeigh.\u00a0 W. W. Norton, 2009.
\nCall Number: KF4758 .S77 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Feminisms Redux: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism<\/strong>
\n<\/em>Edited by Robyn Warhol-Down and Diane Price Herndl. Rutgers University Press, 2009
\nCall Number: PN98 .W64 F367 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Feminist Art and the Maternal<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Andrea Liss.\u00a0 University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
\nCall Number: Available online via NetLibrary<\/a><\/p>\n

Gender and Elections: Shaping the Future of American Politics<\/strong>
\n<\/em>Edited by Susan J. Carroll and Richard L. Fox.\u00a0 Cambridge University Press, 2010.
\nCall Number: HQ1236.5.U6 G444 2010<\/a><\/p>\n

Gender, Human Security, and the United Nations: Security Language as a Political Framework for Women<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Natalie Florea Hudson.\u00a0 Routledge, 2010.
\nCall Number: UA23 .H783 2010<\/a><\/p>\n

Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Nona Willis Aronowitz and Emma Bee Bernstein. Seal Press, 2009
\nCall Number: HQ1421 .A76 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

The Help<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Kathryn Stockett.\u00a0 Amy Einhorn Books, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2009.
\nCall Number: PS3619.T636 H45 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Sheila Jeffreys. Routledge, 2009
\nCall Number: HQ117 .J45 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Motherhood Misconceived: Representing the Maternal in U.S. Films<\/em><\/strong>
\nEdited by Heather Addison, Mary Kate Goodwin-Kelly, and Elaine Roth.\u00a0 State University of New York Press, 2009.
\nCall Number: HQ759 .M8745 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Not Becoming My Mother: And Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Ruth Reichl.\u00a0 Penguin Press, 2009.
\nCall Number: TX649.R45 A3 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women’s Reproduction in America<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Jeanne Flavin.\u00a0 New York University Press, 2009.
\nCall Number: HQ1236.5.U6 F532 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Palestinian Women and Politics in Israel<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud.\u00a0 University Press of Florida, 2009.
\nCall Number: HQ1236.5.I75 D36 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Safe Motherhood in a Globalized World<\/strong>
\n<\/em>Edited by Barbara Wejnert, Suzanne K. Steinmetz, Nirupama Prakash.\u00a0 Routledge, 2009.
\nCall Number: HQ759 .S2 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Sarah from Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe.\u00a0 PublicAffairs, 2009.
\nCall Number: F910.7.P35 C66 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Sam Canyon.\u00a0 University of Washington Press, 2009.
\nCall Number: HQ1769.T55 S35 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Still Brave: The Evolution of Black Women’s Studies<\/em><\/strong>
\nEdited by Stanlie M. James et al. Feminist Press, 2009
\nCall Number: E185.86 .S765 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

The Suffering Will Not Be Televised: African American Women and Sentimental Political Storytelling<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Rebecca Ann Wanzo.\u00a0 State University of New York Press, 2009.
\nCall Number: E185.86 .W355 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Uncommon Women: Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women’s Writing<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Laura Laffrado.\u00a0 Ohio State University Press, 2009.
\nCall Number: PS152 .L34 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Voices Revealed: Arab Women Novelists, 1898-2000<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Shaaban Bouthaina.\u00a0 Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009.
\nCall Number: PJ7577 .S448 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

What Kind of Liberation?: Women and the Occupation of Iraq<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Nadje Sadig Al-Ali.\u00a0 University of California Press, 2009.
\nCall Number: HQ1735 .A66 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Women at the Top: What Women University and College Presidents Say about Effective Leadership<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Mimi Wolverton, Beverly L. Bower, and Adrienne E. Hyle.\u00a0 Stylus, 2009.
\nCall Number: LA2311 .W64 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Women in Engineering: Pioneers and Trailblazers<\/em><\/strong>
\nEdited by Margaret E. Layne.\u00a0 ASCE Press, 2009.
\nCall Number: TA157 .W674 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Women in Science: Then and Now<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Vivian Gornick.\u00a0 The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2009.
\nCall Number: Q130 .G67 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Women on the Line<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Miriam Glucksmann, a.k.a. Ruth Cavendish.\u00a0 Routledge, 2009.
\nCall Number: HD6073.A82 G73 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Women, Science, and Technology: A Reader in Feminist Science Studies<\/em><\/strong>
\nEdited by Mary Wyer, et al.\u00a0 Routledge, 2009.
\nCall Number: Q130 .W672 2008<\/a><\/p>\n

Women, Water, and Memory: Recasting Lives in Palestine<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Nefissa Naguib.\u00a0 Brill, 2009.
\nCall Number: HQ1728.5 .N33 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Women’s Activism in South Africa: Working Across Divides<\/em><\/strong>
\nEdited by Hannah Britton, Jennifer Fish, and Sheila Meintjes.\u00a0 University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2009.
\nCall Number: HQ1236.5.S6 W654 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

You’ve Come a Long Way, Maybe: Sarah, Michelle, Hillary, and the Shaping of the New American Woman<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Leslie Sanchez.\u00a0 Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
\nCall Number: HQ1236.5.U6 S267 2009<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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