Women’s History on The Point with Mindy Todd
This morning on The Point with Mindy Todd we discussed books having to do with women’s history. Here is the list of books that Melanie & Jill brought along, as well as a couple of listener picks.
Melanie’s Picks
Children’s:
Lives of Extraordinary Women: Rulers, Rebels (and What the Neighbors Thought) by Kathleen Krull and Kathryn Hewitt
Founding Mothers: Remembering the Ladies by Cokie Roberts
U.S.:
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present by Gail Collins
Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation by Judith Mackrell
International:
Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields by Wendy Lower
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang
Other:
Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History – without the Fairy-Tale Endings by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
Six Women of Salem: the untold story of the accused and their accusers in the Salem witch trials by Marilynne K. Roach
Ethnic:
I’ll Take You There: Mavis Staples, The Staple Singers, and the March Up Freedom’s Highway by Greg Kot
Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody
Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog
Jill’s Picks
Children’s Books
Who Says Women Can’t Be Doctors? The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell by Tanya Lee Stone, illustrated by Marjorie Priceman
Miss Moore Thought Otherwise: how Anne Carroll Moore created libraries for children by Jan Pinborough and illustrated by Debby Atwell
In the Bag!: Margaret Knight Wraps It Up by Monica Kulling, illustrated by David Parkins
Young Adult Title (but adults might enjoy as well!)
Bad Girls: sirens, jezebels, murderesses, thieves & other female villains by Jane Yolen and Heidi E. Y. Stemple, illustrated by Rebecca Guay
Everything Else
Below Stairs: the classic kitchen maid’s memoir that inspired Upstairs, Downstairs and Downton Abbey by Margaret Powell
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: the lost legacy of Highclere Castle by The Countess of Carnarvon
Women From the Ankle Down: the story of shoes and how they define us by Rachelle Bergstein
Shoes by Judith Miller
The Complete Book of Shoes by Marta Morales
Women Sailors & Sailors’ Women: an untold maritime history by David Cordingly
Women of Martha’s Vineyard by Thomas Dresser
Women in King Philip’s War compiled and edited by Edward Lodi
Female Adventurers: the women who helped colonize Massachusetts and Connecticut by Alice Plouchard Stelzer
Rebecca Dickinson: independence for a New England Woman by Marla R. Miller
Listener Picks
Juliette Gordon Low: the remarkable found of the Girl Scouts by Stacy A. Cordery
The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
The Whip: a novel by Karen Kondazian
Sail Away Ladies: stories of Cape Cod women in the age of sail by Jim Coogan.