Fiction found here.
Triangular Road: A Memoir by Paule Marshall
My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban: A Young Woman's Story by
Latifa- Afghanistan (YA)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (autobiography)
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (memoir)
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (memoir)
Our Dead Behind Us- Audre Lorde (Poetry)
I Put A Spell On You- Nina Simone (memoir)
My Wicked Ways-Sandra Cisneros (poetry)
When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago (memoir)
Things I Have To Tell You- edited by Betsy Franco (poetry/essays)
The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde- (essays)
Some of Us Did Not Die by June Jordan- (essays)
Never in a Hurry: Essays on People and Places by Naomi Shihab Nye
The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reid
American Chica by Marie Arana (memoir)
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
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2 comments:
Thanks for such a great resource! I've put together my own little reading list for Women's History Month (the first two are carry-overs from Black History Month):
Freedom's Daughters: the unsung heroines of the civil rights movement from 1830 to 1970 by Lynne Olson
Jackie Ormes: the first African American woman cartoonist by Nancy Goldstein
Money, a memoir: Women, Emotions, and Cash by Liz Perle
You're Wearing That?: Understanding Mother and Daughters in Conversation by Deborah Tannen
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History by Laurel Ulrich
Women by Annie Leibovitz
Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters by Courteny Martin
Fasting Girls by Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Girl Culture by Lauren Greenfield
Out to Work: a History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States by Alice Kessler-Harris
Cunt by Inga Muscio
Of course, that's just a drop in the bucket-I'm planning on doing a bit annotated reading list on my blog this month! Also, one of my bloggy friends is sponsoring a mini-challenge: http://regularrumination.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/regular-rumination-celebrates-womens-history-month/
Hi Eva, the nonfiction list is light here. Working on it.I did see something about the rumination challenge. Will check out the link. Thanks,
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