Women's History Month Material Available in Mullins Library and Online

In celebration of Women's History Month, Mullins Library staff have compiled a list of digital material available to all students, staff and faculty. Physical items are also available on display on Level 4 of Mullins Library. 

e-Books 

Non-Fiction 

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson is about the struggles the United States has experienced due to the preservation of the constraints and legacy of slavery. 

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning is poet Cathy Park Hong's account of life as an Asian American. Drawing on her own experiences and insights, it paints a picture of the purgatorial status that Asian Americans still face. 

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women is a cultural history of radium that focuses on a series of court cases in which young women, ravaged by the effects of radium, took on powerful radium companies in court. 

Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath focuses on Plath's literary and intellectual achievements while restoring the woman behind the long-held myths about her life and art. 

Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge tells the true story of a young, enslaved woman who escaped from George Washington's household in 1796. Through meticulous research, Erica Armstrong Dunbar uncovers the untold story of Judge's daring escape and her fight for freedom. 

Fiction 

Little Women follows four sisters as they recognize their flaws and work to overcome them. The novel focuses on love, family, morality and personal growth. 

In The Vanishing Half, the Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern Black community and running away at age 16, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities and their racial identities. 

Pride and Prejudice follows the turbulent relationship between Elizabeth Bennet, the daughter of a country gentleman, and Fitzwilliam Darcy, a rich aristocratic landowner. They must overcome the titular sins of pride and prejudice to fall in love and marry. 

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood is a dystopian novel about a woman's struggles in a totalitarian society where her identity, fertility and freedoms are suppressed. Through Offred's journey, the book highlights the dangers of extremist religious beliefs and the importance of individual resistance. 

Streaming Videos 

In The Passion of Joan of Arc, Renee Falconetti portrays the young maiden who died for God and France.  

Rise of the Wahine: Champions of Title IX is the winner of the Hawaii International Film Festival Audience Award for Best Documentary. It tells the story of how Donnis Thompson, Patsy Mink and Beth McLachlin fought for the rights of young women to play sports in the years following the Civil Rights movement and the passage of Title IX. 

Ida B Wells: A Passion for Justice documents the dramatic life and turbulent times of the pioneering African American journalist, activist, suffragist and anti-lynching crusader of the post-Reconstruction period. 

Warrior Queen Boudica's story has been recorded by Roman historians, pondered by scholars and examined by archaeologists who continue to dig for clues about the woman who led a rebellion that changed the course of history. 

Rosa Parks: The Path to Freedom is a documentary about the dynamic but quiet woman whose demand for her civil rights led to the social changes of the 60s. 

The Genius Of Marie Curie: The Woman Who Lit Up The World tells the story of the first woman to be awarded a Nobel prize and how her achievements were possible in a time when a woman's place was in the home, not the laboratory. 

Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde paints a portrait of the award-winning Black, lesbian poet, mother, teacher and activist. 

The women's suffrage movement inspired the silent film, What 80 Million Women Want, which includes appearances by equal rights crusaders Emmeline Pankhurst and Harriet Stanton Blatch. 

Extraordinary Women is a series of 12 different videos about extraordinary women throughout history.