Women’s History Month on The Point
This morning on WCAI’s monthly book show Jill was joined by librarian Kellie Porter and filling in for Mindy Todd was Kathryn Eident. Our topic was women’s history, and we had more books than we could possibly mention! You’ll find some “no time for” titles below, as well as all of the titles that we did mention. We covered the waterfront from picture books to deep dives into history, stopping for some poetry and novels along the way.
Kellie’s Picks
Rad American Women A to Z; Rad Women Worldwide by Kate Schatz; illustrated by Miriam Klein Stahl
Circe by Madeline Miller
The Breadwinner series by Deborah Ellis
Women and Power by Mary Beard
Mary Wears What She Wants by Keith Negley
Not Time For
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
Women Warriors by Pamela Toler
The Woman’s Hour: the great fight to win the vote by Elaine Weiss
The Power by Naomi Alderman
Elena Ferrante Neapolitan novels (My Brilliant Friend, etc)
We Should all be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Hedy Lamarr’s Double Life by Laurie Wallmark ; illustrated by Katy Wu
Jill’s Picks
The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977 by Adrienne Rich. The poem I read was “Power”.
A Lady Has the Floor: Belva Lockwood Speaks Out for Women’s Rights by Kate Hannigan, illustrated by Alison Jay
The Second Shelf: a quarterly of are books & words by women
You can find lists of the titles mentioned in The Second Shelf both here and here. You can also find an interview with A. N. Devers, who created both the bookstore and the quarterly here.
Virgil Thomson by Virgil Thomson includes mentions of Mary Butts, Gertrude Stein, and Carrie, Ettie, and Florine Stettheimer.
Figuring by Maria Popova
The Unwomanly Face of War: an oral history of women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich
The Little Book of Feminist Saints by Julia Pierpont, illustrated by Manjit Thapp
Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 remarkable women who changed the world by Ann Shen
Dead Feminists: historic heroines in living color by Chandler O’Leary & Jessica Spring
Not Enough Time For:
Women Warriors: an unexpected history by Pamela D. Toler
Poems from the Women’s Movement edited by Honor Moore
The Women Who Came in the Mayflower by Annie Russell Marble
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie a tale of Love & Fallout by Lauren Redniss
Women Who Read Are Dangerous by Stefan Bollmann
Dressing Barbie: a celebration of the clothes that made America’s favorite doll, and the incredible woman behind them by Carol Spencer
Spring After Spring: how Rachel Carson inspired the environmental movement by Stephanie Roth Sisson
A Computer Called Katherine written by Suzanne Slade and illustrated by Veronica Miller Jamison
Listener Picks
Lady From Savannah: the life of Juliette Low by Daisy Gordon Lawrence
The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
The Radium Girls by Kate Moore