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Women's History Month, March 2008
A Select Bibliography of Resources from Palomar College Library
 

WEBSITES

National Women's History Project
http://www.nwhp.org/

National Women's History Museum
http://www.nwhm.org/home/home.html

300 Women Who Changed the World
http://search.eb.com/women/

Women's Liberation Movement
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/

Resources on Women's History Month
http://www.gale.com/free_resources/whm//

African American Women's History
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/africanamerican/index_r.htm

Biographies of Notable Women
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_list.htm

Women's Studies Resources (Palomar College)
http://www.palomar.edu/library/subjects/womensstudies.htm

Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America (Harvard)
http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles/

BOOKS

The books listed below may be found at Palomar College Library.   For location and additional information about each title, click on the blue hyperlink.  Search the catalog for additional books or search the catalogs of other libraries.

HQ1412 .A65
Archer, Jules.  Breaking Barriers: The Feminist Revolution, from Susan B. Anthony to Margaret Sanger to Betty Friedan.  New York: Viking, 1991.

R692 .B35 1994
Bailey, Brooke.  The Remarkable Lives of 100 Women Healers and Scientists. Holbrook, Mass: B. Adams, Inc. 1994.

PS374 .H5 B39 1999
Baym, Nina.  American Women Writers and the Work of History, 1790-1860.  New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995.

HQ1155 .F44 2008
Fisanick, Christina. Feminism. Detroit: Greenhaven Press. 2008.

PR808 .W65 J63 1995
Joannou, Maroula. Ladies, Please Don't Smash These Windows: Women's Writing, Feminist Consciousness, and Social Change, 1918-38. Oxford: Berg, 1995.

HQ1075 .I52 2006
Joshi, S.T. In Her Place: A Documentary History of Prejudice Against Women. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2006.

HQ1593 .P37 1999
Parrot Pie for Breakfast: An Anthology of Women Pioneers.  Oxford University Press, 1999.

HQ1412 .R497 1991
Reynolds, Moira Davison.  Women Champions of Human Rights: Eleven U.S. Leaders of the Twentieth Century.  Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1991.

GV709.18 .U6 S86 2005
Suggs, Welch. A Place on the Team: The Triumph and Tragedy of Title IX. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.

D810 .W7 Y45 2004
Yellin, Emily.  Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front during World War II.  New York: Free Press, 2004.

UB418 .W65 Z45 2005
Zeigler, Sara L. Moving Beyond G.I. Jane: Women and the U.S. Military. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005.

VIDEOS & DVDs

The following videos and DVDs listed below may be found at Palomar College Library.   Location and additional information on each title can be found by clicking the blue hyperlink.

HQ1410 .G74 1996
Great Women in American History.  Videocassette. Educational Distributors of America, 1996.

HQ1412 .N68 2003
Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony.  By Ken Burns and Paul Barnes. PBS Home Video. DVD. Warner Home Video, 1999.

HQ1410 .W645
Women in American Life.  By Mary Ruthsdotter and Bonnie Eisenberg. Videocassette. National Women's  History Project, 1988-1990.

ARTICLES

The full-text of the following articles may be found by clicking on the blue hyperlink.
Find additional articles in other online databases. Passwords are required for off-campus access to these databases.

Anthony, Susan B.  "The Status of Woman, Past, Present, and Future." Essential Documents in American History, Essential Documents, 1492-Present   p. 901-909. http://prozy.palomar.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&an=21213328&site=ehost-live

Gorn, Elliott J.  “Mother Jones: The Woman.”  Mother Jones  May/June 2001: 58-60.
http://prozy.palomar.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&an=4418083

LaFollette, Marcel E. "Eyes on the Stars: Images of Women Scientists in Popular Magazines." Science, Technology, & Human Values 13 (1988): 262-275.   http://prozy.palomar.edu/login?url=http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0162-2439(198822/23)13:3/4<262:EOTSIO>2.0.CO;2-R

Rapoport, Sarah.  "Rosalind Franklin: Unsung Hero of the DNA Revolution."  History Teacher Nov 2002: 116-127.  http://prozy.palomar.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&an=8648180

Sklar, Kathryn Kish.  "Hull House in the 1890s: A Community of Women Reformers."  Signs 10 (1985): 658-677. http://prozy.palomar.edu/login?url=http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0097-9740(198522)10:4<658:HHIT1A>2.0.CO;2-O

"Top 10 Women's History Books." Booklist 103, 12 (2/15/2007). http://prozy.palomar.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=24257562&site=ehost-live

cj; rev. 3/03/08
 


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