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Home / 2024 / October / 24 / Women’s History Month Booklist

Women’s History Month Booklist

October 24, 2024

UBC Okanagan Library has put together a list of books to help us recognize Women’s History Month in Canada. October was designated as Women’s History Month in 1992, and each year we celebrate a new theme or component. This year’s theme is Women at Work: Economic Growth Past, Present and Future and recognizes how women have contributed to the workforce and Canadian economy.

Women’s History Month Booklist

Black girls unbossed : young world changers leading the way by Khristi Lauren Adams

Women of the First Nations : power, wisdom and strength edited by Christina Miller and Patricia Chuchryk ; with Maria Smallface Marule, Brenda Manyfingers and Cheryl Deering

Firekeepers of the twenty-first century : First Nations women chiefs by Cora J. Voyageur

Disinherited generations : our struggle to reclaim treaty rights for First Nations women and their descendants by Nellie Carlson, Kathleen Steinhauer ; as told to Linda Goyette

We’re rooted here and they can’t pull us up : essays in African Canadian women’s history by Peggy Bristow and others

Passage to promise land : voices of Chinese immigrant women to Canada by Vivienne Poy

Viola Desmond : her life and times by Graham Reynolds with Wanda Robson

The life and death of Anna Mae Aquash by Johanna Brand

Mary Ann Shadd : publisher, editor, teacher, lawyer, suffragette by Rosemary Sadlier

Laura Secord by Jennifer Howse

Heroines and history : representations of Madeleine de Verchères and Laura Secord by Colin M. Coates and Cecilia Morgan

100 Canadian heroines : famous and forgotten faces by Merna Forster

Great dames edited by Elspeth Cameron and Janice Dickin

A plea for emigration or Notes of Canada West by Mary Ann Shadd, Phanuel Antwi

Indian in the cabinet : speaking truth to power by Jody Wilson-Raybould

Canuck chicks and maple leaf mamas : women of the great white north, a celebration of Canadian women by Ann Douglas

The girl and the game : a history of women’s sport in Canada by M. Ann Hall

Angels of the workplace : women and the construction of gender relations in the Canadian clothing industry, 1890-1940 by Mercedes Steedman

Women, feminism, and development edited by Huguette Dagenais et Denise Piché = Femmes, féminisme, et développement / sous la direction de Huguette Dagenais et Denise Piché

Feminists don’t wear pink and other lies : amazing women on what the f-word means to them curated by Scarlett Curtis

She persisted in science : brilliant women who made a difference by Chelsea Clinton.

Amplify : graphic narratives of feminist resistance by Norah Bowman, Meg Braem ; art by Dominique Hui

Working for the common good : Canadian women politicians by Madelyn Holmes

Despite the odds : essays on Canadian women and science edited by Marianne Gosztonyi Ainley

Renegade women of Canada : the wild, outrageous, daring and bold by Marina Michaelides

Rethinking Canada : the promise of women’s history by Mona Gleason, Adele Perry, Tamara Myers

Nellie McClung by Charlotte Gray ; with an introduction by John Ralston Saul

Living the edges : a disabled women’s reader edited by Diane Driedger

Belonging : the paradox of citizenship by Adrienne Clarkson

One hundred years of struggle : the history of women and the vote in Canada by Joan Sangster

Independent spirit : early Canadian women artists by A.K. Prakash

Convoluted beauty : in the company of Emily Carr curated by Lisa Baldissera ; essays by Lisa Baldissera, Vinciane Despret and Erika Dyck

Capturing joy : the story of Maud Lewis by Jo Ellen Bogart ; illustrated by Mark Lang

Caught in the act : an anthology of performance art by Canadian women edited by Tanya Mars & Johanna Householder

Gendering the nation : Canadian women’s cinema edited by Kay Armatage and others

The gendered screen : Canadian women filmmakers by Brenda Austin-Smith and George Melnyk

Editing modernity : women and little-magazine cultures in Canada, 1916-1956 by Dean Irvine

Women in exile and alienation : the fiction of Margaret Laurence and Anita Desai by Kaptan Singh

Violence and the female imagination : Quebec’s women writers re-frame gender in North American cultures by Paula Ruth Gilbert

Naturally woman : the search for self in Black Canadian women’s literature by Sharon Morgan Beckford

Waltzing again : new and selected conversations with Margaret Atwood edited by Earl G. Ingersoll

Gently to Nagasaki by Joy Kogawa

Challenging territory : the writing of Margaret Laurence edited by Christian Riegel

The complete journals of L.M. Montgomery : the PEI years, 1889-1900 edited by Mary Henley Rubio and Elizabeth Hillman Waterston

Annie Mae’s movement by Yvette Nolan

Out of the shadows : contributions of twentieth-century women to physics edited by Nina Byers and Gary Williams

Harriet Brooks : pioneer nuclear scientist by Marelene F. Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham

Roberta Bondar : leading science into space by Michael Webb

A history of women in the Canadian military by Barbara Dundas

Surviving in the hour of darkness : the health and wellness of women of colour and indigenous women edited by G. Sophie Harding

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