Contributors
Suggestions for the list from: Pat Tiberii, Dawn Tripp, Katie Kirwan, Sandy Avila, Richard Harrison, Sara Duff, and Megan Haught.
Keywords
featured bookshelf, lib-edi, reading, women's history
Description
We have created a list of books about women, both history and fiction, suggested by staff. Please keep reading below to see the full book list with descriptions and catalog links.
Abstract
Women’s History Month began as a week-long celebration 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.
The Libraries hosted two virtual events to celebrate Women’s History Month for 2021. The first is a talk by Nicholson School of Communication faculty member, Dr. Kimberly Voss, called “Make No Mistake, Florida is Crucial”: Sen. Lori Wilson and the Equal Rights Amendment, which discusses efforts to ratify the ERA in Florida. The second is a panel discussion called Women & Academia in the Time of COVID where five UCF faculty and administrators discuss the impact of the COVID pandemic and remote learning on their teaching, scholarship, service loads and personal lives. Both events are free and open to the public. Click on the links to view the event recordings.
We have created a list of books about women, both history and fiction, suggested by staff. Please keep reading below to see the full book list with descriptions and catalog links. And don’t forget to stop by the John C. Hitt Library to browse the featured bookshelf on the main floor near the Research & Information Desk for additional Women’s History Month books.
Date Created
3-1-2021
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: 2021 Women's History Month" (2021). Featured Bookshelf. 31.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/featured-bookshelf/31