LibGuides: Women's History Month: Introduction

Introduction

In honor of March being Women's History Month, the Community-Driven Archives Initiative, with assistance from the Labriola National American Indian Data Center, has created a physical book display in Hayden Library (2nd floor) as well as a digital library guide accompanying the display.

We dedicate this Women's History Month book display and library guide to women around the world facing unique, ever-changing forms of patriarchy and antagonism in their daily lives. This collection was created to include voices from different groups of women, specifically focusing on texts that discuss womanhood and feminism in unique contexts across the world. Though we have included materials from LGBTQ, BIPOC, third world, disabled, and religious minority women, we recognize that no collection can be all-encompassing and encourage visitors to seek these materials as a jumping-off point to learn more about each respective topic.

While we may not necessarily agree with all of the views expressed by these content creators, we think it is crucial to share diverse stances on social issues to foster productive conversations and have different women speak for themselves in a way that they deem authentic in order to continue the fight for global women's rights. Our hope is that at least one of these materials is able to inspire strength, hope, and curiosity in our visitors.

We also encourage visitors to explore the Women’s HERstory Library Guide and Event Calendar for more information and the 2021 NEA Big Read Library Guide for Indigenous-specific resources.

Selected woman-focused publications

Feminist Giant
Featured article:
“When Football Goes Home” by Mona Eltahawy
https://www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-football-goes-home

Tasteful Rude
Featured article:
"Don’t Call Me Resilient" by Myriam Gurba
https://tastefulrude.com/dont-call-me-resilient/

Gay Mag
Featured article:
"Hysterical! The Body That Bleeds" by Samantha Irby
https://gay.medium.com/the-body-that-bleeds-ce3cbaa6903a

Ms. Magazine
Featured article:
“Women’s Rights Are Not Just ‘Western Values': A Warning Not to Learn the Wrong Lessons From Afghanistan" by Sima Samar
https://msmagazine.com/2021/09/22/womens-rights-western-values-afghanistan-feminism/

I Weigh
Featured article:
"Understanding My Destiny" by Karen Dutko
https://iweighcommunity.com/understanding-my-destiny/

Selected informational videos on women’s issues

Barbie Explains Feminist Theories | Radical, Liberal, Black, etc

Riot Grrrl: The '90s Movement that Redefined Punk

Tik Talk: Hair artist embraces Black beauty, self-love

Inuk woman shares the meaning behind her traditional tattoos

The price of shame | Monica Lewinsky (TED Talk)

Why we have too few women leaders | Sheryl Sandberg (TED Talk)

Selected current events and women’s issues

List of Taliban Policies Violating Women’s Rights in Afghanistan
https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/09/29/list-taliban-policies-violating-womens-rights-afghanistan

“We Have Had Abortions” Petition Relaunches 50 Years Later—With Support From Original Signatories
https://msmagazine.com/2022/01/20/we-have-had-abortions-petition-ms-magazine/

Activision Blizzard Sued Over ‘Frat Boy’ Culture, Harassment
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/activision-blizzard-sued-by-california-over-frat-boy-culture

Meet Justice Ayesha Malik, Pakistan's first female Supreme Court judge
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/25/1075556977/ayesha-malik-pakistan-supreme-court

Michaela Jaé Rodriguez from 'Pose' is the 1st trans actress to win a Golden Globe
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/10/1071828269/michaela-jae-rodriguez-golden-globes-pose

The South Korean Election’s Gender Conflict and the Future of Women Voters
https://www.cfr.org/blog/south-korean-elections-gender-conflict-and-future-women-voters

FGM victim urges others to seek help and support
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-60085476

On Ukraine’s front lines, women endure the war alone
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2022/2/6/photos-near-ukraines-front-lines-women-endure-the-war-alone

Navajo Nation’s leaders bring awareness to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives
https://www.nhonews.com/news/2022/feb/08/navajo-nations-leaders-bring-awareness-missing-and/

Mexican abortion advocates look to help women in U.S.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/mexican-abortion-advocates-look-to-help-women-in-u-s

China Moves to Overhaul Protections for Women’s Rights, Sort Of
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/02/world/asia/china-womens-rights.html

Women’s march in Bolivia against justice after the release of femicides and rapists
https://www.pressenza.com/2022/02/womens-march-in-bolivia-against-justice-after-the-release-of-femicides-and-rapists/

Playlist

Books on display

Everybody (Else) Is Perfect: How I Survived Hypocrisy, Beauty, Clicks, and Likes	Gabrielle Korn
The Pearl That Broke Its Shell	Nadia Hashimi
Embroideries	Marjane Satrapi
Reading Lolita in Tehran	Azar Nafisi
Reviving Ophelia	Mary Pipher
Mean	Myriam Gurba
A Woman Like Her: The Story Behind the Honor Killing of a Social Media Star	Sanam Maher
It’s Not About the Burka	Mariam Khan
My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness	Kabi Nagata
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color	Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza	Gloria Anzaldúa
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories	Sandra Cisneros
Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution	Mona Eltahawy
I’ll Scream Later	Marlee Matlin
History vs Women: The Defiant Lives That They Don't Want You to Know	Anita Sarkeesian and Ebony Adams
Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology	Barbara Smith
Sister Outsider	Audre Lorde
Juliet Takes a Breath	Gabby Rivera
All About Love: New Visions	bell hooks
The Good Women of China	Xue Xinran
So Long a Letter	Mariama Bâ
Siren Song: Understanding Pakistan Through Its Women Singers	Fawzia Afzal-Khan
Revenge of the She-Punks: A Feminist Music History from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot	Vivien Goldman
The Women's Movement against Sexual Harassment	Carrie N. Baker
A Romani Women's Anthology: Spectrum of the Blue Water	Hedina Tahirović-Sijerčić
Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism	Natasha Walter
Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol	Holly Whitaker
Scream from the Shadows: The Women’s Liberation Movement in Japan	Setsu Shigematsu
Read & Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism	Nadya Tolokonnikova
How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed	Slavenka Drakulic
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body	Roxane Gay
Don't Call Me Inspirational: A Disabled Feminist Talks Back	Harilyn Rousso
Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings	Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
Hood Feminism	Mikki Kendall
Performing Sex: The Making and Unmaking of Women's Erotic Lives	Breanne Fahs
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower	Brittney Cooper
Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto	Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, and Nancy Fraser
Play like a Feminist	Shira Chess
Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?	Linda Nochlin
In Her Own Image: Women's Self-Representation in 20th Century Art	Danielle Knafo
Pornography: Men Possessing Women	Andrea Dworkin
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More	Janet Mock
Sultana's Dream	Begum Rokeya
Pakistan for Women	Maliha Abidi
The Favored Daughter: One Woman's Fight to Lead Afghanistan into the Future	Fawzia Koofi
Tomorrow Will Be Different	Sarah McBride
I'm Afraid of Men	Vivek Shraya
Our Wife and Other Stories	Karen King-Aribisala
The Shadow King: A Novel	Maaza Mengiste
The Sex Lives of African Women	Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
Mapping Dalit Feminism: Towards an Intersectional Standpoint	Anandita Pan
Well-Behaved Indian Women	Saumya Dave
Bingo Love	Tee Franklin
DC Comics: Bombshells (Volume 1) Enlisted	Marguerite Bennett
Convenience Store Woman	Sayaka Murata (translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori)
Apple and Knife	Intan Paramaditha
The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds	Selina Siak Chin Yoke
Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies	Joanne Barker
Making Space for Indigenous Feminism	Joyce Green
Keetsahnak: Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters	Kim Anderson, Maria Campbell, and Christi Belcourt
Indigenous Women and Violence: Feminist Activist Research in Heightened States of Injustice	Lynn Stephen and Shannon Speed
Living on the Land: Indigenous Women's Understanding of Place	Nathalie Kermoal, Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez, Nathalie, Kahente Horn-Miller
Violence Against Indigenous Women: Literature, Activism, Resistance	Allison Hargreaves
Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls	Jessica McDiarmid
Invisible Victims: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women	Katherine McCarthy
Deer Woman: An Anthology	Elizabeth LaPensée, Weshoyot Alvitre, Patty Stonefish
Crime and Social Justice in Indian Country	Marianne Nielsen and Karen Jarratt-Snider
Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics, and Literature	Qwo-Li Driskill, Daniel Heath Justice, Deborah Miranda
From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaiʻi	Haunani-Kay Trask

Women's history archival repositories

Women's History Month National Archives

https://www.archives.gov/news/topics/womens-history

Smithsonian Because Her Story archives

https://womenshistory.si.edu/herstory

ASU Library Bj Bud Memorial archives

https://exhibits.lib.asu.edu/s/BjBud/page/welcome

Smith College Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History

https://libraries.smith.edu/special-collections/about/sophia-smith-collection-womens-history

National Women's History Alliance

https://nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org/

Questions? Comments?

We want to hear from you! Whether you want to learn more about one of the topics mentioned here or have feedback for our team, please contact Myra Khan at makhan21@asu.edu.