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Women's History Month

Celebrate Women's History Month, March 2019

Women's History Month in March celebrates the brave, bold, and fearless women who have influenced history. This year we have highlighted "Inspirational Women of the Twentieth Century" in our theme. Women have inspired and proved to be leaders in traditional and non-traditional roles, whether in the fields of science, politics, environment, legal, the arts, and more. Please join the McCarthy Library staff in celebrating key historical figures, milestones, and motivational messages that remember those who inspired us..

Women Champions in Science

Obsessive Genius by Barbara Goldsmith
Call Number: 921 Curie
ISBN: 0393051374
Publication Date: 2004-11-01
Draws on diaries, letters, and family interviews to discuss the lesser-known achievements and scientific insights of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist, documenting how she was compromised by the prejudices of a male-dominated society.
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Call Number: 510.925 LEE SHETTERLY
ISBN: 9780062363596
Publication Date: 2016-09-06
he phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA at the leading edge of the feminist and civil rights movement, whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space--a powerful, revelatory contribution that is as essential to our understanding of race, discrimination, and achievement in modern America as Between the World and Me and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall; Hugo Van Lawick (Photographer); Stephen Jay Gould
Call Number: 599.884 GOODALL
ISBN: 0395331455
Publication Date: 1983-04-22
oth a landmark scientific study and a fascinating adventure story, this best-selling classic is an absorbing account of the early years of Jane Goodall's struggle in remote Africa to approach primates in the wild as no one had ever done before. It is also the story of her breakthrough.
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson; Linda Lear (Introduction by); Edward O. Wilson (Afterword by)
Call Number: 363.7384 CARSON
ISBN: 0618249060
Publication Date: 2002-10-22
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Carson's passionate concern for the future of our planet reverberated powerfully throughout the world, and her eloquent book was instrumental in launching the environmental movement. It is without question one of the landmark books of the twentieth century.

Women's History Organizations

National Women's History Museum
Women's contributions and accomplishments for the most part have been overlooked and consequently omitted from mainstream culture. The National Women's History Museum helps fill that void.

National Women's History Alliance
The National Women’s History Alliance formerly, the National Women’s History Project, is a leader in promoting Women’s History and is committed to the goals of education, empowerment, equality, and inclusion.

Celebrating Women's History Month
The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in commemorating and encouraging the study, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in American history.

Women's History Month 2019: Home

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Most Admired Woman in your Life

Women's History Month

Women Champions in Science

Women's History Organizations

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