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Celebrating Cultural Heritage: Women's History Month

Curated recommendations and resources in recognition of various cultural heritages.

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We're celebrating Women's History Month with 9 to 5 (1980) and Lady Bird (2017)! This episode finds Emory and Kelsea loving some Timothée Chalamet and Meredith wishing for a work kimono.

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Recommendations

 

Women's History Recommendations

Birds of Paradise
by Diana Abu-Jaber

F ABU-JABER

 

All the Birds in the Sky
by Charlie Jane Anders

F ANDERS

 

The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood

F ATWOOD

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Milk Fed
by Melissa Broder

F BRODER

Joan
by Katherine J. Chen

F CHEN

The House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros

F CISNEROS

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Song of a Captive Bird
by Jasmin Darznik

F DARZNIK

The Plague of Doves
by Louise Erdrich

F ERDRICH

My Brilliant Friend
by Elena Ferrante

F FERRANTE

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Of Women and Salt
by Gabriela Garcia

F GARCIA

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Maame
by Jessica George

F GEORGE

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The Women
by Kristin Hannah

F HANNAH

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The Painter's Daughters
by Emily Howes

F HOWES

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Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee

F LEE

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Her Body and Other Parties
by Carmen Maria Machado

F MACHADO

Circe
by Madeline Miller

F MILLER

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Nightcrawling
by Leila Mottley

F MOTTLEY

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Little Fires Everywhere
by Celeste Ng

F NG

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Hamnet: A Novel of the Plague
by Maggie O'Farrell

F O'FARRELL

 

Detransition, Baby
by Torrey Peters

F PETERS

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Sister Mother Warrior
by Vanessa Riley

F RILEY

Love and Fury: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft
by Samantha Silva

F SILVA

 

The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan

F TAN

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Cherokee America
by Margaret Verbel

F VERBEL

 

Black Cake
by Charmaine Wilkerson

F WILKERSON

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Lakota Women
by Mary Brave Bird

BIO BRAVE BIRD

The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank

BIO FRANK

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Native Country of the Heart
by Cherríe Morga

BIO MORAGA

 

Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi

BIO PERSEPOLIS

 

Out of the Shadows: Six Visionary Victorian Women in Search of a Public Voice
by Emily Midorikawa

133.9092 M6296 2021

 

Underestimated: The Wisdom and Power of Teenage Girls
by Chelsey Goodan

305.2352 G6468u 2024

 

Revolutionary Women: 50 Women of Color Who Reinvented the Rules
by Ann Shen

305.42 S5461r 2022

 

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
by Caroline Criado Perez

305.420721 C9281i 2019

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The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization that Transformed America
by Katherine Turk

305.420973 T9391w 2023

It's Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality, and Race
ed. by Mariam Khan

305.48697 I896i 2020

 

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by Roxane Gay

306.4613 G2851h 2017

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Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
by Leslie T. Chang

331.40951 C45625f 2009

 

When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe
by Maureen Quilligan

321.6094 Q68w 2021

 

Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote
by Ellen Carol DuBois

324.6230973 D815s 2021

Know My Name: A Memoir
by Chanel Miller

362.883092 M6471k 2019

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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
by Kate Moore

363.17990820973 M8211r 2017

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The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney
by Nathalia Holt

384.80979494 H7581q 2019

Hidden Figures
by Margot Lee Shetterly

510.92520973 L4813h 2016

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The Sky Is for Everyone: Women Astronomers in Their Own Words
ed. by Virginia Trimble

520.92 S6297s 2022

Dear Ijeawele, or, A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

649.133 A235d 2017

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When Women Lead: What They Achieve, Why They Succeed, and How We Can Learn from Them
by Julia Boorstin

658.409 B7249w 2022

 

The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion

813.54 D556y 2005

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When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
by Kara Cooney

932.010922 C7757w 2018

 

Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico: Portraits of Soladeras, Saints, and Subversives
by Kathy Sosa

972.0816 R4548r 2020

Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation
by Cokie Roberts

973.30922 R643f 2004

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Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
dir. Justine Triet

DVD ANATOMY

Battle of the Sexes (2017)
dir. Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton

DVD BATTLE

But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)
dir. Jaime Babbit

DVD BUT

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The Color Purple (1985)
dir. Steven Spielberg

DVD COLOR

Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
dir. John M. Chu

DVD CRAZY

The Farewell (2019)
dir. Lulu Wang

DVD FAREWELL

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Gone Girl (2014)
dir. David Fincher

DVD GONE

Grandma (2015)
dir. Paul Weitz

DVD GRANDMA

The Hate U Give (2018)
dir. George Tillman Jr.

DVD HATE

Hidden Figures (2016)
dir. Theodore Melfi

DVD HIDDEN

Hustlers (2019)
dir. Lorene Scafaria

DVD HUSTLERS

Jennifer's Body (2009)
dir. Karyn Kusama

DVD JENNIFER'S

A League of Their Own (1992)
dir. Penny Marshall

DVD LEAGUE

Legally Blonde (2001)
dir. Robert Luketic

DVD LEGALLY

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Little Women (2019)
dir. Greta Gerwig

DVD LITTLE

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Nomadland (2020)
dir. Chloé Zhao

BLU NOMADLAND

9 to 5 (1980)
dir. Colin Higgins

DVD NINE

One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977)
dir. Agnès Varda

DVD ONE

Roma (2018)
dir. Alfonso Cuarón

DVD ROMA

Saving Face (2004)
dir. Alice Wu

DVD SAVING

 
 

Turning Red (2022)
dir. Domee Shi

DVD TURNING

20th Century Women (2016)
dir. Mike Mills

DVD TWENTIETH

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The Woman King (2022)
dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood

BLU & DVD WOMAN

Working Girls (1986)
dir. Lizzie Borden

DVD WORKING