Contributors
Suggestions for the list from: Megan Haught, Jamie LaMoreaux, Richard Harrison, Mary Rubin, Carrie Moran, Cindy Dancel, Missy Murphey, Susan MacDuffee, Peggy Nuhn, and Larry Cooperman.
Keywords
featured bookshelf, women's history, diversity, reading, dei, lib-edi
Description
Here at the UCF Libraries, we have created a list of suggested, and favorite, books about women’s history in both fact and fiction.
Abstract
Women’s History Month began as a week-long celebration by in Sonoma, California in 1978 which was centered around International Women’s Day on March 8. A year later during a women’s history conference at Sarah Lawrence College, participants learned how successful the week was and decided to initiate similar in their own areas. President Carter issued the first proclamation for a national Women’s History Week in 1980. In 1987, Congress (after being petitioned by the National Women’s History Project) passed Pub. L. 100-9 designating March as Women’s History Month. U.S. Presidents have issued proclamations on Women’s History Month since 1988.
Here at the UCF Libraries, we have created a list of suggested, and favorite, books about women’s history in both fact and fiction.
Date Created
3-1-2017
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
STARS Citation
Haught, Megan M., "Featured Bookshelf: 2017 Women's History Month" (2017). Featured Bookshelf. 10.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/featured-bookshelf/10