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Women's History Month Resources: Books and Documents at U Maine

Social Movements

American Women and the Repeal of Prohibition by Kenneth D. Rose
Feminist Manifestos by Penny A. Weiss (Editor)
Getting Paid While Taking Time : The Women's Movement and the Development of Paid Family Leave Policies in the United States by Megan Sholar
How We Get Free : Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Editor)
Invisible No More by Andrea Ritchie; Angela Y. Davis (Foreword by)
It's Our Movement Now" Black Women's Politics and the 1977 National Women's Conference by Laura L. Lovett (Editor); Rachel Jessica Daniel (Editor); Kelly N. Giles (Editor)
Jane Addams: Progressive Pioneer of Peace, Philosophy, Sociology, Social Work and Public Administration by Patricia Shields
More Than Medicine: A History of the Feminist Women's Health Movement by Jennifer Nelson
Practicing Citizenship by Kristy Maddux
Unbound : My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement by Tarana Burke
When Hens Crow : The Women's Rights Movement in Antebellum America by Sylvia D. Hoffert
Women's Activist Organizing in US History by Dawn Durante

Abolition and Civil Rights

Women in Politics

Suffrage and Women's Rights

Race and Ethnicity

Women in Early America

Sexuality and Identity

Special Collections at U Maine

Retired Logo of the University of Maine Student Women's Association. (Now The Feminist Collective)

Books:

Diva Julia : the public romance and private agony of Julia Ward Howe by Valarie H. Ziegler

Crusader in Crinoline : The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe
by Robert Forrest Wilson
Isabel W. Greenwood and the women's suffrage movement
by Lynn Lister
"Let the referendum come" : the 1917 campaign of the Maine Woman Suffrage Association for a suffrage referendum
by Lee Webb
Voting Down the Rose : Florence Brooks Whitehouse & Maine's fight for woman suffrage
by Anne B. Gass

Academic Articles and Research Reports:

A 'Labryinth of Uncertainties' - Penobscot River Islands, Land Assignments, and Indigenous Women
by Micah Pawling
Letters to Annie - Ordinary Women in Late Nineteenth Century Maine
by Rachel Catherine Thomas
My Mother Could Send up the Most Powerful Prayer : The Role of African American Slave Women in Evangelical Christianity
by Sherry Abbott
Welfare, Work and Raising Children - Conversations with Twenty-One Maine Families
by Christine Hasted and Rebekah J. Smith

Find more in Special Collections:

Women and the Economy

Reference Books

Women's History Month for Kids

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