A Book List to Celebrate Women’s History Month

The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America,1963-1973 by Clara Bingham

An intimate narrative of the Women’s Movement crafted from interviews and oral histories by the activists at the center.

I Know What the Red Clay Looks like: The Voice and Vision of Black American Women Writers by Rebecca Carroll

This reprint of a 1994 landmark compilation of Black feminist conversations has been expanded with contemporary writers.

Picture Bride, War Bride: The Role of Marriage in Shaping Japanese America by Sonia C. Gomez

This intervention to Asian American history centers the complex role of marriage in Japanese immigration, racial exclusion, and detention.

The Icon & the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America by Stephanie Gorton

A history of two instrumental activists for birth control gives insights into political change and the complicated alliances still debated today.

The Cinema Coven: Witches, Witchcraft and Women’s Filmmaking by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

An analysis of female auteurs that shows the transformation of the figure of the witch in cinema from villain to nuanced depictions of outcasts.

What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World by Prentis Hemphill

Pulling in Black feminist histories, this book reframes concepts of healing and embodiment for contemporary movement work.

Don’t Call Us Girls: Women’s Activism, Protest and Actions in the Vietnam War by Barbara L. Tischler

This history traces roots of anti-Vietnam protests to pre-war women’s work and elevates issues that mobilized women into Civil Rights movements.

Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks by Crystal Wilkinson and Kelly Marshall

This cookbook celebrates generations of Black homemakers in Appalachia with recipes, poetry, stories, and images to whet your appetite.