Librarian’s Pick: A Century Of Votes For Women – Christina Wolbrecht
"How have American women voted in the first 100 years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment? How have popular understandings of women as voters both persisted and changed over time? In A Century of Votes for Women, Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder...
Librarian’s Pick: Suffrage – Ellen Carol Dubois
"Distinguished historian Ellen Carol DuBois begins in the pre-Civil War years with foremothers Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Sojourner Truth as she explores the links of the woman suffrage movement to the abolition of slavery. After the...
Librarian’s Pick: Being Heumann – Judith Heumann
"A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn’t built for all of us and of one woman’s activism—from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington—Being Heumann recounts Judy Heumann’s lifelong battle to achieve respect, acceptance,...
Librarian’s Pick: Hood Feminism – Mikki Kendall
"Although there are more women CEOs today than there were at the beginning of the 1970s, complaints of workplace harassment and threats toward women who speak out have remained largely unchanged. But author and activist Mikki Kendall explains that the feminist...
Librarian’s Pick: My Dark Vanessa – Kate Elizabeth Russell
"We’re living in a moment when predatory men are being held responsible for the power they wield against women—especially younger women. Typically we hear about it when the now-adult women discuss their abuse years later. In My Dark Vanessa, first-time novelist Kate...
Librarian’s Pick: A Women Like Her – Sanam Maher
"In 2016, Pakistan’s first social media celebrity, Qandeel Baloch, was murdered in a suspected honor killing. Her death quickly became a media sensation. It was both devastatingly routine and breathtakingly brutal, and in a new media landscape, it couldn’t be ignored....
Librarian’s Pick: Women’s Work – Chris Crisman
"Today, young girls are told they can do—and be—anything they want when they grow up. Yet the unique challenges that women face in the workplace, whether in the boardroom or the barnyard, have never been more publicly discussed and scrutinized. With Women’s Work,...
WMPL Budget Vote: Timeline
Updated: March 27, 2020. Our timeline has changed a little! Our Budget Hearing, as well as our Vote and Trustee Election have been postponed. The new dates have been updated below. Keep an eye out for more information about our 2020 budget! We will...
Librarian’s Pick: The Genius Of Women – Janice Kaplan
"Even in this time of rethinking women’s roles, we define genius almost exclusively through male achievement. When asked to name a genius, people mention Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, and Steve Jobs. As for great women? In one survey, the only female genius...
Librarian’s Pick: Hitting A Straight Lick With A Crooked Stick
"Over the past 50 years, Zora Neale Hurston has been restored from nearly forgotten to a canonical writer, in no small part due to the efforts of Alice Walker and Toni Morrison. One of the seminal writers of the Harlem Renaissance, Hurston is most known today for her...