 |
Here are some recommended reads from the Rio Salado Library that feature inspirational stories of women who have shaped history and are helping to shape the future.
Women’s Rights Features
- Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
- Rethinking American Women’s Activism by Annalise Orleck
- Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women’s Movements by Dorothy Sue Cobble
- What Women Want: An Agenda for the Women’s Movement by Deborah L. Rhode
Women’s Studies Features
- Women’s Letters: America from the Revolutionary War to the Present by Lisa Grunwald and Stephen J. Adler
- A House of My Own: Stories from My Life by Sandra Cisneros
- Think and Grow Rich for Women: Using Your Power to Create Success and Significance by Sharon Lechter
- Women in Business: The Changing Face of Leadership by Patricia Hogue Werhane
- Women of Power: Half a Century of Female Presidents and Prime Ministers Worldwide by Torild Skard
Autobiographies & Biographies
- My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- My Life, My Love, My Legacy by Coretta Scott King
- Maya Angelou: Adventurous Spirit by Linda Wagner-Martin
- The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis
- I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
- Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
- Bossypants by Tina Fey
- Why Not Me by Mindy Kaling
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane Smiley
- A Widow’s Story: A Memoir by Joyce Carol Oates
Award-Winning Women Authors - Fiction
- Beloved: A Novel by Toni Morrison
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- Wolf Hall: A Novel by Hilary Mantel
- Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko