Women's History Month

From abolitionists to disability activists, literary figures, and members of Congress, women have played consequential roles in advancing justice and equity. You’re invited to browse descriptions of some of our favorite texts--whether a photographic history of queer liberation, a cookbook of suffragist recipes, a collection of poems, or a memoir--and discover a new page from herstory.

LOCAL SPOTLIGHT: Provocative Mothers and Their Precocious Daughters, by Suzanne Schnittman

Suzanne Schnittman earned her PhD in American History at the University of Rochester, and after years of teaching at colleges around New York State, now works as an independent scholar with a focus on women's history. Her most recent book, Provocative Mothers and Their Precocious Daughters, is available for curbside pickup at Ampersand Books.

 

 


 

Kindred By Octavia E. Butler Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780807083697
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Published: Beacon Press - February 1st, 2004

A Black Women's History of the United States (ReVisioning History) By Daina Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780807001998
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Published: Beacon Press - March 16th, 2021

The Book of Light By Lucille Clifton Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781556590528
Availability: Out of Print - Unavailable
Published: Copper Canyon Press - July 1st, 1992

Lifting as We Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box By Evette Dionne Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9780451481542
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Published: Viking Books for Young Readers - April 21st, 2020

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America By Lillian Faderman Cover Image
$24.95
ISBN: 9780231074896
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Published: Columbia University Press - February 21st, 2012

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color By Ruby Hamad Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781948226745
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Published: Catapult - October 6th, 2020

Crazy Brave: A Memoir By Joy Harjo Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9780393345438
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - July 29th, 2013

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Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist By Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner Cover Image
$14.44
ISBN: 9780807002803
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Published: Beacon Press - February 23rd, 2021

I Love Myself When I Am Laughing... and Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader By Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (Editor), Mary Helen Washington (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (Editor), Mary Helen Washington (Introduction by)
$19.95
ISBN: 9781936932733
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Published: Feminist Press - January 7th, 2020

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All By Martha S. Jones Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9781541618619
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Published: Basic Books - September 8th, 2020

The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World By Janice Kaplan Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781524744236
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Published: Dutton - February 16th, 2021

Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights By Mikki Kendall, A. D'Amico (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Mikki Kendall, A. D'Amico (Illustrator)
$19.99
ISBN: 9780399581793
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Published: Ten Speed Graphic - November 5th, 2019

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot By Mikki Kendall Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780525560562
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Published: Penguin Books - February 23rd, 2021

All Stirred Up: Suffrage Cookbooks, Food, and the Battle for Women's Right to Vote By Laura Kumin Cover Image
$28.95
ISBN: 9781643134529
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Published: Pegasus Books - August 4th, 2020

Belabored: A Vindication of the Rights of Pregnant Women By Lyz Lenz Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9781541762831
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Published: Bold Type Books - August 11th, 2020

999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz By Heather Dune Macadam, Caroline Moorehead (Foreword by) Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780806539379
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Published: Citadel - January 26th, 2021

Oculus: Poems By Sally Wen Mao Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9781555978259
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Published: Graywolf Press - January 15th, 2019

Where the Wild Ladies Are By Aoko Matsuda, Polly Barton (Translated by) Cover Image
By Aoko Matsuda, Polly Barton (Translated by)
$16.95
ISBN: 9781593766900
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Published: Soft Skull - October 20th, 2020

The Slow Moon Climbs: The Science, History, and Meaning of Menopause By Susan Mattern Cover Image
$19.95
ISBN: 9780691216720
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Published: Princeton University Press - March 2nd, 2021

The Not Wives By Carley Moore Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781936932689
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Published: Amethyst Editions - September 10th, 2019

Sontag: Her Life and Work: A Pulitzer Prize Winner By Benjamin Moser Cover Image
$22.00
ISBN: 9780062896407
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Published: Ecco - September 15th, 2020

The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine By Janice P. Nimura Cover Image
$27.95
ISBN: 9780393635546
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - January 19th, 2021

The Women's Suffrage Movement By Sally Roesch Wagner (Editor), Sally Roesch Wagner (Introduction by), Gloria Steinem (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Sally Roesch Wagner (Editor), Sally Roesch Wagner (Introduction by), Gloria Steinem (Foreword by)
$18.00
ISBN: 9780143132431
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Published: Penguin Classics - March 5th, 2019

Provocative Mothers and Their Precocious Daughters: 19th Century Women's Rights Leaders By Suzanne Gehring Schnittman Cover Image
$21.95
ISBN: 9781620236963
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Published: Atlantic Publishing Group - August 4th, 2020

The Firsts: The Inside Story of the Women Reshaping Congress By Jennifer Steinhauer Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781643751344
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Published: Algonquin Books - January 19th, 2021

A Road Unforeseen: Women Fight the Islamic State By Meredith Tax Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781942658108
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Published: Bellevue Literary Press - August 23rd, 2016

You Have the Right to Remain Fat By Virgie Tovar Cover Image
$14.95
ISBN: 9781936932313
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Published: Feminist Press - August 14th, 2018

The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation By Anna Malaika Tubbs Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9781250756121
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Published: Flatiron Books - February 2nd, 2021

The Living is Easy By Dorothy West, Morgan Jerkins (Foreword by), Adelaide M. Cromwell (Afterword by) Cover Image
By Dorothy West, Morgan Jerkins (Foreword by), Adelaide M. Cromwell (Afterword by)
$19.95
ISBN: 9781936932979
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Published: Feminist Press - November 10th, 2020

The Seed Keeper By Diane Wilson Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781571311375
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Published: Milkweed Editions - March 9th, 2021

But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies By Hull (Editor), Patricia Bell-Scott (Editor), Barbara Smith (Editor) Cover Image
By Hull (Editor), Patricia Bell-Scott (Editor), Barbara Smith (Editor)
$24.95
ISBN: 9781558618985
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Published: Feminist Press - September 1st, 2015

Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology By Jess Zimmerman Cover Image
$25.95
ISBN: 9780807054932
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Published: Beacon Press - March 9th, 2021

I Had a Miscarriage: A Memoir, a Movement By Jessica Zucker Cover Image
$18.95
ISBN: 9781558612884
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Published: Feminist Press - March 9th, 2021

The Echoing Ida Collection By Cynthia R. Greenlee (Editor), Kemi Alabi (Editor), Janna A. Zinzi (Editor) Cover Image
By Cynthia R. Greenlee (Editor), Kemi Alabi (Editor), Janna A. Zinzi (Editor)
$24.95
ISBN: 9781558612839
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Published: Feminist Press - January 12th, 2021

We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation By Matthew Riemer, Leighton Brown Cover Image
$40.00
ISBN: 9780399581816
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Published: Ten Speed Press - May 7th, 2019

We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival: Essays on Sex Work and Survival By Natalie West (Editor), Tina Horn (Associate Editor), Melissa Gira Grant (Contribution by) Cover Image
By Natalie West (Editor), Tina Horn (Associate Editor), Melissa Gira Grant (Contribution by)
$24.95
ISBN: 9781558612853
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Published: Feminist Press - February 9th, 2021