Books By & About Women: Non-Fiction for Women’s History Month

During Women’s History Month this March, the Drexel Libraries will feature just a few of the many resources that highlight the experiences, perspectives and achievements of women throughout history and across the world.

We invite you to explore this list of non-fiction resources and databases and then check out our Women’s History Month fiction staff picks too. All of the resources in these lists aim to inspire and to teach others about women from diverse backgrounds and to celebrate the past, empower the present, and inspire a more gender inclusive and equitable future for all.

Cultural Studies and History

• A History of Islam in 21 Women by Hossein Kamaly
• Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal
• Asian Women, Identity and Migration by Nish Belford, Reshmi Lahiri-Roy
• Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World by Richard Rhodes
• Making livable worlds : Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice  by Hilda Lloréns
• Protecting the Rights of Women Migrant Domestic Workers by Sophie Henderson
• The Migration of Professional Women from Nigeria to the UK by Joy Ogbemudia
• Unruly Women: Race, Neocolonialism, and the Hijab by Falguni A Sheth
• Gale Primary Sources: Women’s Studies Archive: The Women's Studies Archive covers primarily the 19th and 20th centuries and incorporates a range of primary sources, providing a close look at some of the pioneers of women’s history, a deep dive into the issues that have affected women, and the many contributions they have made to society.

Diversity and Representation

• A feminist theory of violence: a decolonial perspective by Françoise Vergès, Translated by Melissa Thackway
• Afropean Female Selves by Christopher Hogarth
• Feminicide and Global Accumulation : Frontline Struggles to Resist the Violence of Patriarchy and Capitalism by Silvia Federici, Susana Draper, Liz Mason-Deese
• Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women's Digital by Moya Bailey
• Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt
• Sex, Consent and Justice : A New Feminist Framework by Tina Sikka
• The Unforgotten Sisters: Female Astronomers and Scientists Before Caroline Herschel by Gabriella Bernardi

Feminism and Gender Studies

• Abolition. Feminism. Now. By Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, Beth Richie
• Charting the Afrofuturist Imaginary in African American Art: The Black Female Fantastic by Elizabeth Carmel Hamilton
• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney C. Cooper
• Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong-And the New Research That's Rewriting the Story by Angela Saini
• The Power and Freedom of Black Feminist and Womanist Pedagogy: Still Woke by Gary L. Lemons, Edited by Cheryl Rodriguez
• Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis P. Gumbs
• Women on the Move by Shelah Gilbert Leader, Patricia Rusch Hyatt

Women's Roles and Relationships

• Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-And the World by Rachel Swaby
• Homeworking Women: A Gender Justice Perspective by Annie Delaney
• Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men by Katrine Marcal
• Overnight Code: The Life of Raye Montague, the Woman Who Revolutionized Naval Engineering by Paige Bowers, David Montague
• Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space by Lynn Sherr
• The Existential Crisis of Motherhood by Claire Arnold-Baker
• The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan
• Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall, Illustrated by Hugo Martinez

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

• Changing the Equation: 50+ US Black Women in STEM by Tonya Bolden
• Chinese Dreams? American Dreams?: The Lives of Chinese Women Scientists and Engineers in the United States by Diane Yu Gu
• Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy
• Dream On!: Supporting and Graduating African American Girls and Women in STEM by Ezella McPherson
• Girls and Women of Color in STEM: Their Journeys in Higher Education by Nahed Abdelrahman, Beverly Irby, Julia Ballenger
• Hidden No More: African American Women in STEM Careers by Caroline Kennon
• Understanding the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Gifted Education: An Anthology by and about Talented Black Girls and Women in STEM by Nicole M. Joseph
• Women in STEM Careers: International Perspectives on Increasing Workforce Participation, Advancement and Leadership by Diana Bilimoria, Linley Lord