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Recommended Reading: March

Highline College's librarians recommend materials from the library collection on a wide variety of topics.

About this Guide

March is Women's History Month, a time to celebrate the accomplishments and contributions of women. This month's recommended reading provides resources related to the history and representation of women throughout the ages.

Online Resources

New York Public Library (NYPL): Women's History in Digital Collections
NYPL provides collections of photographs outlining women's history.
Washington State Historical Society: Women in Washington
Includes biographies of Washington women who shaped the history
National Archives and Record Administration (NARA): Women's History
Documents relating to the history of women in the United States
Women's History Month
Official site for Women's History Month sponsored by The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
United Nations (UN) Women
United Nations entity for gender equality and the empowerment of women

Books in the Library

Americanah: A Novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Call Number: 823.92 A235a 2013
ISBN: 9780307271082
Main Collection--4th Floor
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot By the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai; Christina Lamb
Call Number: 371.82209549 Y82i 2013
ISBN: 0316322407
Main Collection--3rd Floor
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
Call Number: 658.4092082 S213L 2013
ISBN: 9780385349949
Main Collection--3rd Floor
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
Call Number: 347.732634092 S718m 2013
ISBN: 0307594882
Main Collection--3rd Floor
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
Call Number: 979.461092 K55w 1989
ISBN: 9780679721888
Main Collection--4th Floor

eBooks

Black Women in Sequence: Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime by Deborah Elizabeth Whaley
ISBN: 9780295994956
Publication Date: 2015
Available online through EBSCO eBook Collection--Click book title for access
Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics by Hillary L. Chute
ISBN: 9780231150620
Publication Date: 2010
Available online through EBSCO eBook Collection--Click book title for access
Ladies for Liberty: Women Who Made a Difference in American History by John Blundell
ISBN: 9780875868646
Publication Date: 2011
Available online through EBSCO eBook Collection--Click book title for access
Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine by Tim Hanley
ISBN: 9781613749098
Publication Date: 2014
Available online through EBSCO eBook Collection--Click book title for access
Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora by Marta Moreno Vega; Alba Marinieves; Yvette Modestin (editors)
ISBN: 9781558857469
Publication Date: 2012
Available online through EBSCO eBook Collection--Click book title for access