In honor of Women’s History Month, throughout March the University System of Maryland Women?s Forum (USMWF) will be featuring affiliates of the USM and other topics of interest to highlight the ever increasing roles women play, as well as their contributions. This week we are providing a Women?s History Reading List (compiled by the University of Baltimore Langsdale Library):
Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters ? The Early Years
Jane Goodall
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000
QL31.G58 A3 2000
An Atomic Romance: A Novel
Bobbie Ann Mason
New York: Random House, 2005
PS3563.A7877 A88 2005
A Companion to Feminist Geography
Lise Nelson & Joni Seager
Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2005
Net Library E-Book (Access to this electronic book is available to students, faculty, staff, and on-site users at USMAI institutions)
Courage for the Earth: Writers, Scientists, and Activists Celebrate the Life and Writing of Rachel Carson
Peter Matthiessen
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007
QH545.P4 C684 2007
Ecological Politics: Ecofeminists and the Greens
Greta Gaard
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998
GE197 .G33 1998
The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement
Mark Hamilton Lytle
New York: Oxford University Press, 2007
QH31.C33 L98 2007
Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey
Jane Goodall
New York: Warner Books, 1999
QL31.G58 R45 1999
Saving the World: A Novel
Julia Alvarez
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006
PS3551.L845 S28 2006
Silent Spring (40 th Anniversary Ed.)
Rachel Carson
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002
QH545.P4 C38 2002
The Tree-Sitter: A Novel
Suzanne Matson
New York: Norton, 2006
PS3563.A8378 T74 2006
Women Pioneers for the Environment
Mary Joy Breton
Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998
GE55 .B74 1998
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