What We're Recommending Online for Women's History Month

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"Girlhood (It's Complicated)" courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution by artist Krystal Quiles
Girlhood (It's Complicated) by Krystal Quiles

Check out some of our staff recommendations that celebrate woman authors and experiences for that are also available through Dogwood Digital Library-- accessible through our database list or through the Libby app. 


All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson

Recommended by Courtney Bippley, Main Campus Librarian: "This book has advice, inspiration, hope, and data for anyone and everyone, no matter where you are in your climate change awareness."

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Available as an audiobook through Dogwood Digital Library. 

braiding sweetgrass: indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants by robin wall kimmerer

Recommended by Meredith Lewis, Orange County Campus Librarian: "The author is a university professor of botany, a poet, and a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She draws on all those areas to examine the relationship between humans and plant-life/the natural world. A really beautiful, meditative, and thought-provoking set of essays."

Available as an ebook through . 

Hidden Figures: The American dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Sheeterly

Recommended by Susan Baker, Main Campus Librarian: "Before there was the movie, there was the book.  Hidden Figures tells the story of the African American women mathematicians hired to work as human 'computers' from the 1930s through the 1960s in the laboratory that later became NASA.  The book [is] definitely worth checking out if you saw the movie and want to learn more."

Available and through as both an ebook and audiobook.

madame cj walker: the making of an american icon by erica l ball

Recommended by Julie Humprey, Library Director: "Walker was an important philanthropist and businesswoman from the early twentieth century.  She created a hair care enterprise and lived a remarkable life and isn't as well-known as she should be."

Available as an ebook through .

Songteller by Dolly Parton audiobook

Recommended by the 麻豆影视 Library: "You may think of Dolly Parton as country star with a rags-to-riches backstory and a stack of Grammys higher than her biggest blonde wig, famous for crooning "Jolene" and belting out "9 to 5".   But Dolly's done more than make a living; she has made others' lives sing, not just with high dollar philanthropic donations to numerous worthy causes but with programs she initiated herself, including her , which gets books into the hands of children across the globe.  Learn to love the woman behind the legend."

Available as an audiobook through  (and read by Dolly Parton herself). 

the radium girls: the dark story of america's shining women by kate moore book cover

Recommended by Tracey Callision, Main Campus Librarian: "In the early 20th Century, Madame Curie's discovery of the element radium sparked a huge industry of its applications in medicine and fashion, leading to warehouses of women who worked with it every day.  As they began to sicken and die from working so closely with the poisonous substance, they found themselves embroiled in one of the largest scandals and labor struggles in the history of the US."

Available and . 

just as i am by cicely tyson

Recommended by Rachel Smith, Northern 麻豆影视 Center Librarian: "I loved this book and couldn鈥檛 put it down! It鈥檚 like every word is spoken direct to you by Cicely Tyson herself. A line in particular stood out to me, as Cicely was describing one of her mother's recipes: 'My mother鈥檚 secret wasn鈥檛 any single ingredient. Her creations were a symphony of flavors, blended together perfectly with love immeasurably.'"

Available . 

with her fist raised: dorothy pitman hughes and the transformative power of black community activism by Laura L lovett and narrated by sandra sims

Recommended by Stephen Brooks, Main Campus Librarian: "Often overlooked by mainstream white feminism, Dorothy Pitman Hughes is best-known as Gloria Steinem's traveling and speaking companion. This new, first biography of Hughes gives her her due, as a co-founder of Ms. Magazine and an activist fighting for women's rights and against gentrification."

Available as an audiobook through

Mi pa铆s inventado by Isabel Allende

Recommended by the 麻豆影视 Library and part of our new Spanish Language Collection: "Un audiolibro lleno de amor y de humor que reconstruye, desde la evocaci贸n, la vida, la felicidad a帽orada y los espacios m谩s queridos de Isabel Allende."

Available . 


And check out these other awesome reads through Dogwood Digital:


Dogwood Digital Library

The 麻豆影视 Library is a member of the , a collection of online ebooks and audiobooks through the Overdrive/Libby app. 

麻豆影视 faculty, staff, and students can check out books using their 麻豆影视 username and password, just like they can access databases off-campus. Ebooks and audiobooks check out for 21 days and can be read on your phone, tablet, or computer. 

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