LibGuides: Library Displays: 2016

Kansas Notable Books 2016

"The Kansas Notable Books List is the annual recognition of 15 outstanding
   titles either written by Kansans or about a Kansas related topic. The Kansas
   Notable Book List highlights our lively contemporary writing community and
   encourages readers to enjoy some of the best writing of the authors among
   us.

A committee of academics, librarians, and authors of previous Notable
   Books identifies quality titles from among those published the previous year,
   and the State Librarian makes the selection for the final List. A medal
   awards ceremony honors the books and their authors.

Kansas Notable Books is a project of the Kansas Center for the Book, a program of the State Library. Throughout the award year, the State Library promotes and encourages the promotion of all the titles on that year's list at literary events, and among librarians and booksellers" (2016 Kansas State Library).

For more information, visit https://kslib.info/1276/2016-Notable-Books

This display was created by Connie Baquez. Dates: October 2016 to December 2016.

Alphabet School by Stephen T. Johnson (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ6 J6974a61
ISBN: 9781416925217
Publication Date: 2015-09-08
Explore the ins and outs of A to Z in an educational setting in this innovative picture book from the Caldecott Honor–winning creator of Alphabet City and A Is for Art. Imagine a school. Any school. Be it your school, one from memory, or even a dream school. Then enter and embark on a journey of wonder and delight. Look closely. There’s a letter C in the curve of a globe, a little L in the handle of a pencil sharpener, or at recess, a vibrant yellow V in a geodesic climbing dome. Can you find the letters on every page? From inside the classroom to outside on the playground, Caldecott Honor artist and author Stephen T. Johnson renders the ordinary extraordinary with timeless imagery, inviting us to reexamine and rediscover our schools anew, and to find beauty and joy in the most unexpected places.
A Bitter Magic by Roderick Townley
Call Number: PZ5 823 T74649b5
ISBN: 9780449816493
Publication Date: 2015-11-10
A deliciously quirky tale of secrets, magic, and illusions. Everything is in place: the packed theater, the Amazing Thummel, and, center stage, the magician's mysterious assistant. Some have called her the most beautiful woman in Europe. Then, in a swirl of light, she vanishes! An astounding illusion, but she never reappears. All that remains are a bloodstained white scarf and her daughter, Cisley, who lives in a glass castle and walks her pet lobster each morning by the sea. Enter Cole, a rambunctious boy from town and Cisley's first true friend. Together they hunt for clues to her mother's disappearance. They puzzle over broken mirrors, ever-shifting labyrinths, a closet full of whispering ball gowns, and a fatal quest for a pure black rose. Roderic Townley spins a deliciously spooky tale of one girl's journey to discover what's real and what is simply an illusion.
Bottled by Dana Bowman
Call Number: HV5137 .B69 2015
ISBN: 193761297X
Publication Date: 2015-09-22
An unflinching and hilarious memoir about recovery as a mother of young kids, Bottled explains the perils moms face with drinking and chronicles the author’s path to recovery, from hitting bottom to the months of early sobriety--a blur of pain and chaos--to her now (in)frequent moments of peace. Punctuated by potent, laugh-out-loud sarcasm,Bottled offers practical suggestions on how to be a sober, present-in-the-moment mom, one day at a time, and provides much needed levity on an issue too often treated with deadly seriousness. Dana Bowman is a long-time English teacher and part-time professor in the department of English at Bethany College, Kansas. Author of the popular mombsieblog.com, she leads and presents workshops on both writing and addiction, with a special emphasis on being a woman in recovery while parenting young children.
The Boy Who Became Buffalo Bill by Andrea Warren
Call Number: PZ5 921 S6754b5
ISBN: 9781477827185
Publication Date: 2015-11-03
The greatest entertainer of his era, Buffalo Bill was the founder and star of the legendary show that featured cowboys, Indians, trick riding, and sharpshooters. But long before stardom, Buffalo Bill--born Billy Cody--had to grow up fast. While homesteading in Kansas just before the Civil War, his family was caught up in the conflict with neighboring Missouri over whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free or slave state. To support his family after a pro-slaver killed his father, Billy--then eleven--herded cattle, worked on wagon trains, and rode the Pony Express. As the violence in Bleeding Kansas escalated, he joined the infamous Jayhawkers, seeking revenge on Missourians, and then became a soldier, scout, and spy in the Civil War--all by age seventeen. Award-winning author Andrea Warren brings to life the compelling childhood of an adventurous, determined boy who transformed himself into a true American icon.
Diary of a Waitress by Carolyn Meyer
Call Number: PZ5 823 M6105d5
ISBN: 9781620916520
Publication Date: 2015-04-07
In 1926, droves of Americans traveled by train across the United States to visit the West. They ate at Harvey Houses, where thousands of well-trained waitresses provided first-class service. The Waitresses: The Journal of a Harvey Girl tells the first-person story of one spunky girl, Kitty Evans, as she faces the often funny and painful experiences she and fellow waitresses Cordelia and Emmy endure. As Kitty writes about her escapades, a loveable teenager emerges; she embraces adventure, independence, her position as a Harvey Girl, and a freelance writing career. In this fast-paced novel, best-selling author Carolyn Meyer, who has visited and researched several Harvey Hotels, brings together an unforgettable heroine with the universal themes of friendship, identity, and young love.
Harvey Houses of Kansas by Rosa Walston Latimer
Call Number: TX909.2.K2 L38 2015
ISBN: 9781626198470
Publication Date: 2015-10-12
Starting in Kansas, Fred Harvey's iconic Harvey House was the first to set the standard for fine dining and hospitality across the rugged Southwest. In 1876, the first of Harvey's depot restaurants opened in Topeka, followed just a few years later by the first combination hotel and restaurant in Florence. Fred Harvey and the Harvey Girls introduced good food and manners to the land of Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp and raucous cattle drives. In her third book on the Harvey House legacy, author Rosa Walston Latimer goes back to where it all began in this history of hospitality from the Sunflower State.
Kansas Trail Guide by Jonathan M. Conard; Kristin M. Conard
Call Number: GV199.42.K2 C66 2015
ISBN: 9780700620661
Publication Date: 2015-04-03
From the windswept plains to the majestic Flint Hills, the subtle beauty of the Sunflower State is best appreciated from its myriad wide-ranging trails. And whether you're an avid hiker or desultory explorer, a bicyclist or horseback rider, this book makes a most congenial guide. An invaluable companion for exploring new trails or learning about accustomed routes, this comprehensive guide will tell you all you need to know (as well as what it might surprise you to learn) about the trails that crisscross Kansas—history and geography, wildlife and scenery, park locations and cultural possibilities, and, now and then, even a bit of geology and botany. The illustrated guide includes detailed full-color maps, GPS coordinates, and, of course, extensive route descriptions—through historic sights and prairies and state parks, to lakes and rivers and wildlife refuges. The authors identify the best trails for families or going solo; for running or hiking, biking or horseback riding; for hunting wildflowers, encountering wildlife, enjoying scenic vistas, or exploring Kansas history. They also include helpful descriptions of flora and fauna, and historical highlights for each area. Concise, complete, and engaging, this is the guide anyone journeying the trails of Kansas, seasoned hiker and armchair traveler alike, should not be without.
Kansas Wildflowers and Weeds by Michael John Haddock; Craig Carl Freeman; Janet E. Bare
Call Number: QK161 .H32 2015
ISBN: 9780700620814
Publication Date: 2015-03-27
In the 35 years since the publication of Janet E. Bare's popular Wildflowers and Weeds of Kansas, our understanding of flowering plants has undergone dramatic changes. This transformation is reflected in the pages of Kansas Wildflowers and Weeds. A reference and a guidebook for a new generation of plant enthusiasts, this volume includes up-to-date nomenclature, keys, and descriptions, as well as habitat, distribution, and ecological information. In addition to herbaceous plants, the book profiles several woody species generally perceived to be either "showy wildflowers" or "weedy"—species such as Amorpha fruticosa (false indigo bush), Campsis radicans (trumpet vine), Ceanothus herbaceus (Jersey tea), Cephalanthus occidentalis (buttonbush), Rhus glabra (smooth sumac), Rosa Arkansana (prairie rose), and Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy). Designed for the professional botanist and passionate amateur alike, Kansas Wildflowers and Weeds brings names and taxonomic information into line with recent revolutions in studies of DNA, macro- and micromorphology, cytology, ecology, and phenology. It expands upon Bare's earlier book's 831 entries with descriptions of 1,163 species—representing about 56 percent of the native and naturalized species currently known in Kansas—as well as 742 color photographs. For purposes of identification, conservation, study, or the simple pleasure of thumbing through, it is a resource without parallel.
The Madman and the Assassin by Scott Martelle
Call Number: E457.5 .M37 2015
ISBN: 9781613730188
Publication Date: 2015-04-01
Union cavalryman Boston Corbett became a national celebrity after killing John Wilkes Booth, but as details of his odd personality became known, he also became the object of derision. Over time, he was largely forgotten to history, a minor character in the final act of Booth's tumultuous life. And yet Corbett led a fascinating life of his own, a tragic saga that weaved through the monumental events of nineteenth-century America. Corbett was an English immigrant and devout Christian who long struggled not only with poverty but also with mental illness, which was likely caused by the mercury he used in his job as a silk hat finisher. He was one of the first volunteers to join the US Army at the outbreak of the Civil War, a path that would in time land him in the notorious Andersonville prison camp. Eventually released, he ended up in the squadron that cornered Lincoln's assassin in a Virginia barn. After the war, he headed west as a homesteader to the plains of Kansas, where his shaky mental health led to his undoing. The Madman and the Assassin is the first full-length biography of Boston Corbett, a man thrust into the spotlight during a national news event and into an unwelcome transformation from anonymity to fame, and back to obscurity.
Notorious Kansas Bank Heists by Rod Beemer
Call Number: HV6661.K22 B4 2015
ISBN: 9781626198357
Publication Date: 2015-12-07
Bank robbers wreaked havoc in the Sunflower Scale. After robbing the Chautauqua State Bank in 1911, outlaw Elmer McCurdy was killed by lawmen but wasn't buried for sixty-six years. His afterlife can be described only as bizarre. Belle Starr's nephew Henry Starr claimed to have robbed twenty-one banks. The Dalton gang failed in their attempt to rob two banks simultaneously, but others accomplished this in Waterville in 1911. Nearly four thousand known vigilantes patrolled the Sunflower State during the 1920s and 1930s to combat the criminal menace. One group even had an airplane with a 50-caliber machine gun. Join author Rod Beemer for a wild ride into Kansas's tumultuous bank heist history. Book jacket.
Sun and Moon by Lindsey Yankey
Call Number: 9781927018606
ISBN: 9781927018606
Publication Date: 2015-04-15
Sun and Moon have always held their own places in the sky, but after a lifetime of darkness all Moon wants is to spend just one day as Sun. Sun agrees, but only if first Moon takes a careful look at his night, before making his final decision. Follow Moon as he travels through the dark discovering enchanting animals and scenes unique to the night-time, foxes hunting, children dreaming, lamplighters and fireflies. Will Moon still wish to trade Sun places in the sky? Or will he realise the beauty of what he already has?
To Leave a Shadow by Michael Graves
Call Number: PS3607.R38646 T6 2015
ISBN: 9780692567791
Publication Date: 2015-11-12
A 2016 Kansas Notable Book Award Winner: Pete Stone hadn't always been a private eye. He'd lost his dairy business at the toss of a coin when the depression hit. His children grew up, as children do, and his wife left him for a chinchilla farmer. He had learned to like his solitude. When Mrs. Lucille Hamilton walked through his door searching for her missing husband, Pete was the only one who believed her husband's death hadn't been a suicide. "With a clean, detailed, vigorous style, Graves introduces us to Detective Pete Stone, his worldly and lovable gumshoe. Set in 1930's Wichita, Midwesterners will take particular joy in Graves's depiction of the city and the jazz age in this compelling mystery." --Kevin Rabas, Lisa's Flying Electric Piano
Twenty-Five Years among the Indians and Buffalo by William D. Street
Call Number: F686 .S88 2015
ISBN: 9780700621712
Publication Date: 2015-11-02
Nearing 60, William D. Street (1851-1911) sat down to write his memoir of frontier life. Street's early years on the plains of western Kansas were both ordinary and extraordinary; ordinary in what they reveal about the everyday life of so many who went out to the western frontier, extraordinary in their breadth and depth of historical event and impact. His tales of life as a teamster, cavalryman, town developer, trapper, buffalo hunter, military scout, and cowboy put us squarely in the middle of such storied events as Sheridan's 1868-1869 winter campaign on the southern Plains and the Cheyenne Exodus of 1878. They take us trapping beaver and hunting buffalo for hides and meat, and driving cattle on the Great Western Cattle Trail. They give us insight into his evolving understanding of his multi-decade relationship with the Lakota. And they give us a front-row seat at the founding and development of Jewell and Gaylord, Kansas, and a firsthand look at the formation of Jewell's "Buffalo Militia." In later life Street rose to prominence as a newspaper publisher, state legislator, and regent of the Kansas State Agricultural College. At the time of his death—noted in the New York Times—he was still at work on his memoir. Handed down through his family over the past century and faithfully transcribed here, Street's story of frontier life is as rich in history as it is in character, giving us a sense of what it was to be not just a witness to, but a player in, the drama of the plains as it unfolded in the late nineteenth century. Edited by Street's great-grandson, with an introduction by Richard Etulain, a leading scholar of the West, this memoir is history as it was lived, recalled in sharp detail and recounted in engaging prose, for the ages.
While the Kettle's On by Melissa Fite-Johnson; Melissa Fite Johnson; Laura Lee Washburn (Introduction by)
Call Number: PS3610.O455 W455 2014
ISBN: 9780982454954
Publication Date: 2014-07-04
These are poems by Kansas poet Melissa Fite Johnson, dealing with themes of family, loss, love, and nature.

Tenure 2016

To honor the occasion of receiving tenure and/or promotion, as well as Professor
   Incentive Reviews, this year's awardees were asked to name a book that had
   influenced their lives or careers. This book exhibit celebrates the new awardees
   along with their selections and reflections. Commemorative book plates have been
   placed in each selected book.

The second selection of titles was chosen by this year's Senior Honor Award
Recipients for 2015-2016. For additional information about Wichita State
University's Senior Honor Awards (including past recipients), visit their homepage.

This exhibit was displayed in Spring 2016 and was created by Cathy Moore-Jansen.
Dates: June 2016 - September 2016.

Gray's Anatomy: The Anatomical Basis of Medicine and Surgery by Henry Gray
Call Number: QM23.2 .G72
ISBN: QM23.2.G72
Publication Date: 2008
A landmark in medicine ever since the first edition in 1858, Gray's Anatomy now celebrates its 150th anniversary! From state-of-the-art coverage of important new areas such as functional neuroimaging, embryogenesis, and biomechanics through a full-color art program, the new 40th Edition sets a new world standard for accuracy, clarity, and clinical relevance. It is THE place to turn when you want to be sure about the anatomical considerations that pertain to safe and effective practice. You'll find it an invaluable clinical resource, a pleasure to consult, and a reference that you'll be proud to have on your shelf. This title was selected by Barbara Smith, Department of Physical Therapy.
The Disability Studies Reader by Lennard J. Davis (Editor)
Call Number: HV1568 .D5696 2013
ISBN: 9780415630511
Publication Date: 2013-02-08
The Fourth Edition of the Disability Studies Readerbreaks new ground by emphasizing the global, transgender, homonational, and posthuman conceptions of disability. Including physical disabilities, but exploring issues around pain, mental disability, and invisible disabilities, this edition explores more varieties of bodily and mental experience. New histories of the legal, social, and cultural give a broader picture of disability than ever before. This title was selected by Donna Sayman, Department of Curriculum and Instruction.
Hypatia's Daughters by Linda L. McAlister
Call Number: B105.W6 H97 1996
ISBN: 0253330572
Publication Date: 1996-06-01
Offering a study of women philosophers, from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, this is a comprehensive view of women in the history of philosophy. Covering various ideas - from religion, to evolution, to political theory, this volume brings creative women thinkers into mainstream discussion of the history of philosophy. This title was selected by Chinyere Okafor, Center for Women's Studies and Religion.
The Future of Nursing by Sue Johnson
ISBN: 9781558105836
Publication Date: 2014-11-01
A guide for new nurse managers, with Florence Nightingale as a mentor. Includes Nightingale-based perspectives on advocacy, communication, conflict and collaboration, career and staff development, community partnerships, evidence- and research-based practice, resource and fiscal management, safety, and strategic planning in health care and nursing. This title was selected by Debra Pile, School of Nursing.
A People's History of the World by Chris Harman
Call Number: D20 .H35 2008
ISBN: 9781844672387
Publication Date: 2008-04-17
Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals. In a bravura conclusion, Chris Harman exposes the reductive complacency of contemporary capitalism, and asks, in a world riven as never before by suffering and inequality, why we imagine that it can or should survive much longer. Ambitious, provocative and invigorating, A People's History of the World delivers a vital corrective to traditional history, as well as a powerful sense of the deep currents of humanity which surge beneath the froth of government. This title was selected by Mark Walsh, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics.
Airplane Flight Dynamics and Automatic Flight Controls I by Jan Roskam
Call Number: TL570 .R644 2003
ISBN: 1884885179
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
This title was selected by James Steck, Center for Women's Studies and Religion.
CUDA by Example by Jason Sanders; Edward Kandrot
Call Number: QA76.76.A65 S255 2011
ISBN: 9780131387683
Publication Date: 2010-07-19
CUDA by Example, written by two senior members of the CUDA software platform team, shows programmers how to employ this new technology. The authors introduce each area of CUDA development through working examples. After a concise introduction to the CUDA platform and architecture, as well as a quick-start guide to CUDA C, the book details the techniques and trade-offs associated with each key CUDA feature. You'll discover when to use each CUDA C extension and how to write CUDA software that delivers truly outstanding performance. This title was selected by Abu Asaduzzaman, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook by Julie A. Jacko (Editor); Andrew Sears (Editor); Mike Byrne (Contribution by); Stuart Card (Contribution by); Gilbert Cockton (Contribution by)
Call Number: QA76.9.H85 H8568 2003
ISBN: 0805838384
Publication Date: 2002-09-01
"The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies, and Emerging Applications" is a comprehensive survey of this fast-paced field that is of interest to all HCI practitioners, educators, consultants, and researchers. This new "Handbook" offers a comprehensive compendium of foundational principles, as well as the most recent advances in conceptualizing, designing, and evaluating computing technologies. In this volume, an unprecedented number of top experts in the field of HCI share their expertise, experience, and insight regarding research, technological advancements, and specific methodologies in the field of human-computer interaction. This title was selected by Barbara Chaparro, Department of Psychology.
Thunder Boy Jr. by Sherman Alexie; Yuyi Morales (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ6 A3847t4
ISBN: 9780316013727
Publication Date: 2016-05-10
Thunder Boy Jr. is named after his dad, but he wants a name that's all his own. Just because people call his dad Big Thunder doesn't mean he wants to be Little Thunder. He wants a name that celebrates something cool he's done, like Touch the Clouds, Not Afraid of Ten Thousand Teeth, or Full of Wonder. But just when Thunder Boy Jr. thinks all hope is lost, he and his dad pick the perfect name...a name that is sure to light up the sky. National Book Award-winner Sherman Alexie's lyrical text and Caldecott Honor-winner Yuyi Morales's striking and beautiful illustrations celebrate the special relationship between father and son. This title was selected by Gayla Lohfink, Department of Curriculum and Instruction.
Martyrs' Mirror by Thieleman J. van Braght
Call Number: BR1600 .B8313 2015
ISBN: 9780836113907
Publication Date: 2010-09-24
Written and published in 1659 by a Dutch Mennonite, Thieleman J. van Braght, to strengthen the faith of his fellow believers, this classic gives the graphic accounts of more than 4,000 Christians who endured suffering, torture, and a martyr's death because of their simple faith in the gospel of Christ. Songs, letters, prayers, and confessions appear with the stories of many "defenseless Christians" who were able to love their enemies and return good for evil. This gigantic book calls believers to follow Jesus in all areas of life, even unto death. Come what may, true Christian commitment demands supreme discipleship and steadfast adherence to the teachings modeled by Jesus and his apostles. This title selected by Susan Unruh, Department of Counseling, Educational and School Psychology.
Mind, Value, and Reality by John H. McDowell
Call Number: B29 .M426 1998
ISBN: 0674576136
Publication Date: 1998-05-07
This paper collects some of John McDowell's papers, written at various times over the 1980s and 1990s. One group of essays deals mainly with issues in the interpretation of the ethical writings of Aristotle and Plato. A second group of papers contains more direct treatments of questions in moral philosophy that arise naturally out of reflection on the Greek tradition. Some of the essays in the second group exploit Wittgensteinian ideas about reason in action, and they open into the third group of papers, which contains readings of central elements in Wittgenstein's difficult later work. A fourth group deals with issues in the philosophy of mind and with questions about personal identity and the special character of first-personal thought and speech. This title was chosen by Noell Birondo, Department of Philosophy.
Love at Goon Park by Deborah Blum
Call Number: BF109.H346 B58 2011
ISBN: 0738202789
Publication Date: 2002-10-02
In this meticulously researched and masterfully written book, Pulitzer Prize-winner Deborah Blum examines the history of love through the lens of its strangest unsung hero: a brilliant, fearless, alcoholic psychologist named Harry Frederick Harlow. Pursuing the idea that human affection could be understood, studied, even measured, Harlow arrived at his conclusions by conducting research on the primates in his University of Wisconsin laboratory. His work sparked a psychological revolution. The more children experience affection, he discovered, the more curious they become about the world: Love makes people smarter. The biography of both a man and an idea, The Measure of Love is a powerful and at times disturbing narrative that will forever alter our understanding of human relationships. This title was selected by Lou Medvene, Department of Psychology.
A Spirited Resistance by Gregory Evans Dowd
Call Number: E77 .D694 1992
ISBN: 0801842360
Publication Date: 1991-11-01
Departing from the traditional confines of the history of American Indians, Gregory Evans Dowd carefully draws on ethnographic sources to recapture the beliefs, thoughts, and actions of four principal Indian nations--Delaware, Shawnee, Cherokee, and Creek. The result is a sensitive portrayal of the militant Indians--often led by prophets--who came to conceive of themselves as a united people, and launched an intertribal campaign to resist the Anglo-American forces. This title was selected by Robert Owens, Department of History.

The Power of Who by Bob Beaudine
Call Number: BF637.S8 B377 2009
ISBN: 9781599951539
Publication Date: 2009-01-06
Bob Beaudine believes Networking is not working for Americans any longer. This highly respected and well-connected head hunter shares his philosophy on what really works in identifying what your dream in life is and how to get it. With his unique 100/40 principle, Beaudine takes the traditional networking concept, shakes it up and rebuilds it, explaining that individuals already know everyone they need to know. He shows readers that they have established a powerful network simply by interacting with people in their daily lives. Beaudine explains this new way to achieve dreams clearly, in a step-by step fashion using his well-tested knowledge to break it down and help readers tap into the Power of Who. This title was selected by Jakob Gutierrez.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
Call Number: BF637.S8 C68 2004
ISBN: 0743272455
Publication Date: 2004-11-09
In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service, and human dignity -- principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates. This title was selected by Chris Peters.
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Call Number: PR9199.3.M3855 L54 2001
ISBN: 0151008116
Publication Date: 2002-06-04
Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain. This title was selected by Jonathan Dennill.
Searching for Stanley by Kay Hughes; Harold E. Dwyer (Contribution by)
Call Number: D790.2 .H84 2013
ISBN: 9781936840601
Publication Date: 2013-09-30
Searching for Stanley is a timeless, real-life tale that illustrates one family's dedication to finding their beloved Stanley who, like thousands of other American patriots, made the ultimate sacrifice for his country during WWII. This title was selected by Meg J. Loontjer.
If You Feel Too Much by Jamie Tworkowski; Donald Miller (Foreword by)
Call Number: BJ1589 .T96 2015
ISBN: 9780399176494
Publication Date: 2015-05-26
If You Feel Too Muchis a celebration of hope, wonder, and what it means to be human. From personal stories of struggling on days most people celebrate to offering words of strength and encouragement in moments of loss, the essays in this book invite readers to believe that it's okay to admit to pain and it's okay to ask for help. This title was selected by Maha Madi.
Captivating by John Eldredge; Stasi Eldredge
Call Number: BV4527 .E435 2005
ISBN: 0785264698
Publication Date: 2005-04-05
Every woman was once a little girl. And every little girl holds in her heart her most precious dreams. The message of Captivating is this: Your heart matters more than anything else in all creation. The desires you had as a little girl and the longings you still feel are telling you of the life God created you to live. He offers to rescue your heart and release you to live as a fully alive and feminine woman - who is truly captivating. This title was selected by Whitney Wilson.

National Library Week 2016: Transform into Someone's Superhero

The 2016 National Library Week theme is Libraries Transform. First
   sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored
   by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country
   each April. It is a time to celebrate the contributions of our nation's libraries
   and librarians and to promote library use and support.

Find out more at the American Library Association webpage.

This exhibit was displayed in Spring 2016. Dates: April 2016 - June 2016.

This exhibit was created by Laurie Allen.

Working with Adoptive Parents by Virginia M. Brabender; April E. Fallon
Call Number: HV875 .W637 2013
ISBN: 9781118109120
Publication Date: 2013-06-10
Working with Adoptive Parents gathers the current research and best practices on successful interventions in working with adoptive families and translates it into practical applications for therapists to use with this population. The book's strengths-based perspective shows how the adoptive parent might beneficially approach the tasks of parenting and how human service professionals can work with the adoptive parent. With a focus on increasing understanding and cultural competence around adoptive parents, the authors help mental health professionals work effectively with the particular needs of adoptive children and their parents.
Belonging in an Adopted World by Barbara Yngvesson
Call Number: HV875.5 .B44 2010
ISBN: 9780226964461
Publication Date: 2010-06-15
Since the early 1990s, transnational adoptions have increased at an astonishing rate, not only in the United States, but worldwide. In Belonging in an Adopted World, Barbara Yngvesson offers a penetrating exploration of the consequences and implications of this unprecedented movement of children, usually from poor nations to the affluent West. Yngvesson illuminates how the politics of adoption policy has profoundly affected the families, nations, and children involved in this new form of social and economic migration. Starting from the transformation of the abandoned child into an adoptable resource for nations that give and receive children in adoption, this volume examines the ramifications of such gifts, especially for families created through adoption and later, the adopted adults themselves.
Adoption Nation by Adam Pertman
Call Number: HV875.55 .P47 2011
ISBN: 9781558327160
Publication Date: 2011-03-17
With compassion for adopted individuals and adoptive and birth parents alike, Adam Pertman explores the history and human impact of adoption, explodes the corrosive myths surrounding it, and tells compelling stories about its participants as they grapple with issues relating to race, identity, equality, discrimination, personal history, and connections with all their families. For the first edition of this groundbreaking examination of adoption and its impact on us all, Pertman won awards from many organizations, including the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists, the Dave Thomas Center for Adoption Law, the American Adoption Congress, the Century Foundation, Holt International, and the U.S. Congress. In this updated edition, Pertman reveals how changing attitudes and laws are transforming adoption, and thereby American society, in the twenty-first century.
Family Matters by Ruth Lyn Meese
Call Number: HV875.55 .M42 2010
ISBN: 9781591587828
This volume is designed to give librarians and teachers guidance on the subject of adoption and foster care, both as themes in children's literature and as issues affecting many students.
International Adoption by Diana Marre (Editor); Laura Briggs (Editor)
Call Number: HV875.5 .I573 2009
ISBN: 9780814791011
Publication Date: 2009-07-01
Transnational adoption has been marked by the geographies of unequal power, as children move from poorer countries and families to wealthier ones, yet little work has been done to synthesize its complex and sometimes contradictory effects. Rather than focusing only on the United States, International Adoption considers the perspectives of a number of sending countries as well as other receiving countries, particularly in Europe. The book also reminds us that the U.S. also sends children into international adoptions, particularly children of color. The book thus complicates the standard scholarly treatment of the subject, which tends to focus on the tensions between those who argue that transnational adoption is an outgrowth of American wealth, power, and military might (as well as a rejection of adoption from domestic foster care) and those who maintain that it is about a desire to help children in need.
Grassroots Social Action by Charles V. Willie (Editor); Steven P. Ridini (Editor); David A. Willard (Editor); Crystal Brakke (As told to); Becky Branting (As told to); Jeffrey Garrett (As told to)
Call Number: HN65 .G73 2008
ISBN: 9780742560482
Publication Date: 2008-01-28
With the ever-expanding boom of grassroots organizations and their growing importance for public policy, many organizations have been forced to rethink the effects of social, economic, and political disparities in society. Grassroots Social Action explores power negotiations and examines effective and ineffective community actions from the bottom up. Paying special attention to nine case studies, including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the chapters show the complementary relationship between dominant and subdominant people in public policymaking. Grassroots Social Action offers a critical and empowering assessment of how change occurs in communities.
The People Shall Rule by Robert Fisher (Editor)
Call Number: HN65 .P395 2009
ISBN: 9780826516565
Publication Date: 2009-10-16
With the election of a community organizer as president of the United States, the time is right to evaluate the current state of community organizing and the effectiveness of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). Since 2002, ACORN has been dramatically expanding and raising its national profile; it has also been weathering controversy over its voter registration campaigns and an internal financial scandal. The twelve chapters in this volume present the perspectives of insiders like founder Wade Rathke and leading outside practitioners and academics. The result is a thorough detailing of ACORN's founding and its changing strategies, including vivid accounts and analyses of its campaigns on the living wage, voter turnout, predatory lending, redlining, school reform, and community redevelopment, as well as a critical perspective on ACORN's place in the community organizing landscape.
Intergenerational Justice by Austin Sarat (Editor)
Call Number: HN65 .I68 2014
ISBN: 9781617700842
Publication Date: 2013-10-01
Intergenerational Justice explores what, if anything, a concern for intergenerational justice demands of us.
Social Policy and Social Change by Jillian Jimenez
Call Number: HN65 .J56 2010
ISBN: 9781412960489
Publication Date: 2009-08-06
A timely examination of social policy through a social constructivist and economic lens, Social Policy and Social Change illuminates the root causes of common social problems and how policy has attempted to ameliorate them. In so doing, the book focuses on how social policies in the United States can be transformed to promote social justice for all groups. The book uniquely offers both an historical analysis of social problems and social policies, and an economic analysis of how capitalism and the market economy have contributed to social problems and impacted social policies. The book goes beyond the U.S. borders to examine the impact of globalization. The book also discusses social workers as agents of social change and advocates of social and economic justice.
Champions of the Oppressed? by Christopher Murray
Call Number: D744.7.U6 M87 2011
ISBN: 9781612890036
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Explores the relationship between American superhero comics and propaganda during World War II. It contends that superhero comics were an important means by which the war was represented to the American people and argues that the ideological links between superhero comics and propaganda resides in the imagery and rhetoric they both employed in order to fashion, maintain and reshape conceptions of identity, power, and morality for political purposes.
Putting Universal Human Rights to Work by Archibald Stuart
Call Number: HN65 .S78 2012
ISBN: 9781884092831
Publication Date: 2012-09-11
As President Obama and his adversaries in the Republican Party debate fairness and economic inequality, this timely book addresses policy actions Americans can take to reduce inequality and increase social justice in all important areas of social life, jobs, wages, education, housing, civil rights, nutrition, healthcare, and social welfare. This book is important for all Americans concerned about solutions to our most important social problems, and is required reading for courses dealing with social justice, human rights, public policies, and welfare issues in colleges, law schools, seminaries, and other institutions concerned about social justice.
Roots to Power by Lee Staples; Richard A. Cloward (Foreword by); Frances Fox Piven (Foreword by)
Call Number: HN65 .S715 2004
ISBN: 0275969975
Publication Date: 2004-12-01
When ordinary people band together to gain more control over their life conditions, the first order of business is to organize in pursuit of collective action. This how-to manual presents strategies, tactics, methods, and techniques that community members can use to set their own goals, select issues, campaign for these issues, recruit members, develop leaders, hold effective meetings, conduct research, lobby politicians and legislators, and get the word out to the media. The author brings more than three decades of experience to the task of explaining root principles for developing and exercising collective power; he moves effortlessly from such broad discussions into providing specific tips for effective organizing methods and techniques. Armed with the information in this book, any community can bring about social change through collective action.
Transforming Places by Stephen L. Fisher (Editor); Barbara Ellen Smith (Editor)
Call Number: HN79.A127 T73 2012
ISBN: 9780252078385
Publication Date: 2012-02-14
In this era of globalization's ruthless deracination, place attachments have become increasingly salient in collective mobilizations across the spectrum of politics. Like place-based activists in other resource-rich yet impoverished regions across the globe, Appalachians are contesting economic injustice, environmental degradation, and the anti-democratic power of elites. This collection of seventeen original essays by scholars and activists from a variety of backgrounds explores this wide range of oppositional politics, querying its successes, limitations, and impacts. The editors' critical introduction and conclusion integrate theories of place and space with analyses of organizations and events discussed by contributors. Transforming Places illuminates widely relevant lessons about building coalitions and movements with sufficient strength to challenge corporate-driven globalization.
Career Smarts by Russell Wild
Call Number: HF5386 .W496 1999
ISBN: 1574160338
Publication Date: 2000-06-01
Offers insider perspectives on such subjects as leadership, creativity, corporate culture, interviewing, asking for raises and perks, communication, negotiation, job stress, kids and careers, dealing with mad bosses, working at home, and the role of intuition.
Bold by Shaun Smith; Andy Milligan
Call Number: HF5386 .S694 2011
ISBN: 9780749463441
Publication Date: 2011-05-15
More than ever before business success depends on standing out from the crowd and delivering authentic experiences that turn your customers into advocates for your business. BOLD tells the stories of 14 companies that prove that brand building is now about completely rethinking the customer experience and redefining the relationship you have with your customers. Each inspiring story is told by the executives involved who were brave enough to pursue audacious goals, challenge industry norms and win. These inspiring case studies demonstrate that putting purpose before profit, going way beyond what customers expect and relentlessly differentiating themselves from everyone else - in other words, being bold in thought, bold in execution and bold in measuring their success in new ways - pays off.
Becoming a Manager by Linda A. Hill
Call Number: HF5384 .H55 2003
ISBN: 1591391822
Publication Date: 2003-06-01
New managers must learn how to lead others rather than do the work themselves, to win trust and respect, to motivate, and to strike the right balance between delegation and control. It is a transition many fail to make. This book traces the experiences of nineteen new managers over the course of their first year in a managerial capacity. Two themes emerge: first the transition from individual contributor to manager is a profound psychological adjustment--a transformation; second, the process of becoming a manager is primarily one of learning from experience. Through trial and error, observation and interpretation, the new managers learned what it took to become effective business leaders.
How to Write the Perfect Federal Job Résume and Résumé Cover Letter by Melanie Williamson
Call Number: HF5383 .W474 2011
ISBN: 9781601383204
Publication Date: 2011-03-17
According to FederalResumeExperts.com, the format and method of applying for a Federal job with an official resume has changed more than a dozen times in the last twenty years alone. The constant alterations, multiple form options, and sheer importance of getting the application process just right when applying for a Federal position can be a horribly tense situation for any freshly anointed job seeker. Understanding how to write the ideal resume and cover letter when approaching a federal opening can be the difference between you and the hundreds or even thousands of additional applicants pushing for the same position. This book was written for every new job seeker who is striving to land a federal job but does not yet have the necessary tools or knowledge needed to put together the perfect resume and cover letter.
Business and Professional Ethics by Leonard J. Brooks; Paul Dunn
Call Number: HF5387 .B756 2012
ISBN: 9780538478380
Publication Date: 2011-08-02
This book delivers an insider's look at actual companies in the face of a wide range of ethical dilemmas. By integrating the latest information on ethics and governance scandals, legal liability and professional accounting & audit issues, this text highlights the most recent ethical issues faced in today's business environment. Providing real-world examples of ethical issues in the workplace, this accounting text gives you insight into the development of sound patterns of behavior on the part of directors, executives, and accountants. Current cases and key readings provide an interesting, challenging, and practical learning experience.
150 Best Jobs Through Military Training by Janet E. Wall (Foreword by)
Call Number: HF5384 .A15 2008
ISBN: 9781593574628
No other resource gives in-depth, important facts for connecting military training to desirable jobs in the civilian world. This new book covers 75 military occupations and their 150 best civilian counterparts for a total of 225 detailed job descriptions and 45 best jobs lists. The best civilian jobs lists are organized by pay, growth, openings, part-time work, self-employment, gender, interest, and personality type. Bonus lists reveal the top 20 occupations held by veterans and the top 20 fields in which veterans work. The civilian job descriptions divulge pay, growth through 2014, annual openings, tasks, personality type, interest area, skills needed, work environment, and the military job that provides training for it.
Knock 'Em Dead Cover Letters by Yate, Martin John
Call Number: HF5383 .Y378
Publication Date: 2010
In today's fast-paced world, many job seekers skip creating the perfect introduction. But when competition for every job is intense, a cover letter can make a strong first impression and help an applicant stand out from the crowd. In this newest edition of his bestselling text, Martin Yate shows you the four kinds of cover letters—general, executive briefing, broadcast, and letters to recruiters and agencies—and how to craft each one.
Knock 'Em Dead Resumes by Yate, Martin John
Call Number: HF5383 .Y38
Publication Date: 2010
Resumes are among the most important documents people ever write. And in a competitive marketplace, they matter even more. In twelve simple steps, Martin Yate shows how to craft top-flight professional resumes that showcase applicants' strengths and demonstrates what they can contribute to employers.
Step-by-Step Resumes by Evelyn U. Salvador
Call Number: HF5383 .S25 2011
ISBN: 9781593577780
Publication Date: 2010-08-01
Readers will gain 10 steps to building a resume with ease. The included CD-ROM is filled with worksheets, templates, and designer resume samples. By filling in the blanks, checking the relevant boxes, and pasting in prewritten 'Resume ClipBullets ,' readers can pull together an effective resume with ease. Step-by-Step Resumes also includes an extensive collection of thousands of powerful resume keywords to help readers' resumes stand out in electronic databases. New content for this edition includes a section on integrating your resume into your social networking strategy, as well as new personal branding worksheets and expanded tips on e-mailing resumes.
Step-by-Step Cover Letters by Evelyn U. Salvador
Call Number: HF5383 .S247 2011
ISBN: 9781593577803
Publication Date: 2010-08-01
Finally, a companion to the groundbreaking Step-by-Step Resumes workbook! Step-by-Step Cover Letters uses a foolproof system of paragraph starters and an overall framework to help readers easily build outstanding cover letters that will get interviews and job offers. Professional resume writer and personal branding strategist Evelyn Salvador leads you through the steps of writing a compelling first paragraph, showing the value you bring, developing and communicating your brand in your letter, summarizing your key accomplishments, editing your letter, and compelling the employer to pick up the phone and call you for an interview. The included CD-ROM is chock-full of cover letter samples and templates, as well as letter-building worksheets and other tools.
Find a Job Through Social Networking by Ellen Sautter; Diane Crompton
Call Number: HF54.56 .S28 2011
ISBN: 9781593578176
Publication Date: 2010-10-01
This timely book unveils the reality that online networking is more than a fun way to pass time. It's a career management strategy that is rapidly changing the way job seekers and employers connect in the world of work. With this guide, readers will discover how to launch their online networking efforts and will gain advice for getting the most out of LinkedIn, Twitter, blogs and other sites. They'll also learn how to find jobs, seek advice, research employers, build a network, and create online portfolios and blogs. Additional guidance and worksheets help readers develop and communicate their personal brand online.
Changing Careers by Gerald A. Gladstein
Call Number: HF5384 .G54 1994
ISBN: 1878822365
Publication Date: 1994-12-18
The ten-year demonstration project on career change undertaken by the University of Rochester Adult Counseling Center was unique, drawing on key concepts from developmental psychology, personality theory, counselling theory, and the sociology of careers to provide adult career counselling; the findings of the project will become routinely cited in all fields relating to career change. This book covers the background and history of the Center, its functioning and management, the clients and the counsellors (with case studies), and conclusions and evaluation.
Career Change by David P. Helfand
Call Number: HF5384 .H44 1995
ISBN: 0844242748
Publication Date: 1995-04-01
Those looking for a new career direction will find reassuring advice in this upbeat guide--from overcoming obstacles to adapting to change to assessing a new employer.
Military-to-Civilian Career Transition Guide by Janet I. Farley
Call Number: HF5384 .F37 2010
ISBN: 9781593577315
Publication Date: 2009-09-01
This book provides a framework for career transition for military service members and their families. While other books similar in scope address just one or two aspects of the job search process, this one addresses the entire transition process and includes the family perspective with it.
The Presidential Election of 2012 by Douglas M. Brattebo (Editor); Tom Lansford (Editor)
Call Number: JK526 2012 .T73 2016
ISBN: 9781629220031
Publication Date: 2015-10-15
The presidential election of 2012 was among the most important in American history, both for the policies that will persist due to its result, as well as the national political transformation it portends. The contest's outcome was the product of complex and fast-moving societal changes--demographic, technological, and economic--surfacing in American society. This volume, consisting of essays by leading scholars of American politics and the American presidency, examines the 2012 presidential election in its many facets. Particularly prominent in these analyses are: the role of religious and cultural divisions in contemporary American politics; the status of the two main political parties, their core constituencies, and demographic forces; the rhetorical approaches of the two nominees; the strategies and tactics of the two campaigns; and the decisive impact of economic, domestic, and foreign policies.
See How They Ran by Gil Troy
Call Number: JK524 .T76 1996
ISBN: 0674796802
Publication Date: 1996-03-01
Many Americans feel that presidentials have become inordinately expensive, shallow, and vulgar. The seemingly endless contest even appears to discourage the most suitable candidates from seeking the highest office in the land. Frustrated, we long for the good old days of dignified campaigns and worthy candidates. As Troy's fascinating history demonstrates, however, they never existed. This definitive volume examines every presidential campaign from 1840 to the present to explore why candidates campaign as they do, and why Americans complain about it. Troy reveals what our presidential campaigns tell us about American democracy itself.
Game Change by John Heilemann; Mark Halperin
Call Number: JK526 2008 .H45 2010
ISBN: 9780061733635
Publication Date: 2010-01-11
Game Change is the New York Times bestselling story of the 2008 presidential election, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, two of the best political reporters in the country. In the spirit of Richard Ben Cramer’s What It Takes and Theodore H. White’s The Making of the President 1960, this classic campaign trail book tells the defining story of a new era in American politics, going deeper behind the scenes of the Obama/Biden and McCain/Palin campaigns than any other account of the historic 2008 election.
The End of Race? by Donald R. Kinder; Allison Dale-Riddle
Call Number: JK526 2008 .K567 2012
ISBN: 9780300175196
Publication Date: 2012-01-24
How did race affect the election that gave America its first African American president? This book offers some fascinating, and perhaps controversial, findings. Donald R. Kinder and Allison Dale-Riddle assert that racism was in fact an important factor in 2008, and that if not for racism, Barack Obama would have won in a landslide. On the way to this conclusion, they make several other important arguments. In an analysis of the nomination battle between Obama and Hillary Clinton, they show why racial identity matters more in electoral politics than gender identity. Comparing the 2008 election with that of 1960, they find that religion played much the same role in the earlier campaign that race played in '08. And they argue that racial resentment, a modern form of racism that has superseded the old-fashioned biological variety, is a potent political force.
At This Defining Moment by Enid Lynette Logan
Call Number: JK526 2008 .L64 2011
ISBN: 9780814752975
Publication Date: 2011-10-01
In January 2009, Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United States. In the weeks and months following the election, as in those that preceded it, countless social observers from across the ideological spectrum commented upon the cultural, social and political significance of 'the Obama phenomenon.' In 'At this Defining Moment' Enid Logan provides a nuanced analysis framed by innovative theoretical insights to explore how Barack Obama's presidential candidacy both reflected and shaped the dynamics of race in the contemporary United States. Using the 2008 election as a case study of U.S. race relations, Logan ultimately concludes that while the selection of an individual African American man as president does not mean that racism is dead in the contemporary United States, we must also think creatively and expansively about what the election does mean for the nation and for the evolving contours of race in the 21st century.
Opportunity 08 by Michael E. O'Hanlon (Editor)
Call Number: JK526 2008 .O77 2008
ISBN: 9780815764717
Publication Date: 2008-09-10
Voters say they want to hear more from candidates about the critical issues facing our nation and less about partisan politics. Opportunity 08 answers the call with authoritative analysis and innovative policy solutions for the problems that matter most to the future of our society, our prosperity, and our world. Reflecting an impressive breadth of expertise, opinions, and political beliefs, the contributors to this book tackle diverse challenges including how to deal with Iran and Iraq, the rise of China, climate change, poverty and inequality, and retirement security. New chapters in this updated and expanded second edition include examinations of homeland security, foreign aid, health care reform, and the U.S. relationship with Pakistan.
Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign by Katherine H. Adams; Michael L. Keene
Call Number: HQ1413.P38 A23 2008
ISBN: 9780252032202
Publication Date: 2007-12-11
Past biographies, histories, and government documents have ignored Alice Paul's contribution to the women's suffrage movement, but this groundbreaking study scrupulously fills the gap in the historical record. Masterfully framed by an analysis of Paul's nonviolent and visual rhetorical strategies, Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign narrates the remarkable story of the first person to picket the White House, the first to attempt a national political boycott, the first to burn the president in effigy, and the first to lead a successful campaign of nonviolence.
Women Speaking, Women Listening by Maura O'Neill
Call Number: BL458 .O54 1990
ISBN: 0883446987
Publication Date: 1990-07-01
In Women Speaking Women Listening, Maura O'Neill carefully presents a wealth of data concerning issues arising in specific cross-cultural encounters between women. In particular, she criticizes the absence of women from pluralist inter-religious dialogue as expressive of its androcentric underpinnings, and advocates "truth as conversation" between women of different faiths sharing their experiences.
Developing Women Leaders by Anna Marie Valerio
Call Number: HD6054.3 .V34 2009
ISBN: 9781405183710
Publication Date: 2009-10-12
Developing Women Leaders answers the question "How do we best develop women leaders?" with practical solutions drawn from current literature and the author's personal interviews with high-achievers in major US companies and universities.
Women's Leadership and Participation by Joanna Hoare (Editor); Fiona Gell (Editor)
Call Number: HQ1236 .W6519 2009
ISBN: 9781853396960
Publication Date: 2009-12-03
Women are often denied the right to participate in decision-making, whether as active citizens, or as leaders. In particular, women living in poverty often have little opportunity to influence decisions and policies that will have a direct impact on the welfare of themselves, their communities, and their livelihoods. Women's Leadership and Participation illustrates methodological approaches and learning points, covering a range of issues, from women's participation in national elections to female decision-making in community livelihood initiatives. It asks the questions: what are the structural barriers to women's leadership and participation? How can women be encouraged to take up leadership positions? Once they are leading, how can women (and men) be supported to carry out their roles effectively and for progressive purposes?
Sustaining Activism by Jeffrey W. Rubin; Emma Sokoloff-Rubin
Call Number: HQ1236.5.B6 R83 2013
ISBN: 9780822354062
Publication Date: 2013-02-18
In 1986, a group of young Brazilian women started a movement to secure economic rights for rural women and transform women's roles in their homes and communities. Together with activists across the country, they built a new democracy in the wake of a military dictatorship. In Sustaining Activism, Jeffrey W. Rubin and Emma Sokoloff-Rubin tell the behind-the-scenes story of this remarkable movement. As a father-daughter team, they describe the challenges of ethnographic research and the way their collaboration gave them a unique window into a fiery struggle for equality. Highlighting the tensions within the movement about how best to effect change, Sustaining Activism ultimately shows that democracies need social movements in order to improve people's lives and create a more just society.
Winning Peace by Dietrich Fischer; Jan Oberg; Wilhelm Nolte
Call Number: JX1952 .F594 1989
ISBN: 0844815748
Publication Date: 1989-04-01
In this title, three authors from Switzerland, the US, and Germany reflect on defense strategies and global ethics.
Bringing Peace Home by Karen S. Warren (Editor); Duane L. Cady (Editor)
Call Number: JX1965 .B75 1996
ISBN: 0253330866
Publication Date: 1996-10-01
Feminist peace issues are explored along a wide spectrum of personal and political issues -- from the personal violations of rape, incest, and domestic abuse, to the violence of racism, sexism, economic exploitation, war, and genocide.
Educating for Peace by Birgit Brock-Utne
Call Number: JX1965 .B76 1985
ISBN: 0080323707
Publication Date: 1985-07-01
This book, written by a Norwegian professor whose primary academic interests are peace education, peace research, and feminist studies, is part of the The Athene Series which is an international collection of feminist books.
Global Images of Peace and Education by T. M. Thomas (Editor); David R. Conrad (Editor); Gertrude F. Langsam (Editor)
Call Number: JX1952 .G56 1987
ISBN: 0911168672
Publication Date: 1987-01-01
This book of essays was prepared by members of the Society for Educational Reconstruction (SER) in honor of their eminent mentor, Theodore Brameld, champion of the view of education not only as a transmitter of culture but also as a powerful initiator of social change. Its major value consists of reminding us that the "new" emphasis on global education is not as new as some would have us think. Brameld's prolific writings and his visionary philosophy certainly provide a theoretical foundation for the current rush to jump on the bandwagons of global education, human rights education, peace education, development education, and a host of other new programs. However, this volume also serves to remind us of how little movement has been made in the direction of using schools and/or education as a major force in accomplishing needed reconstruction of society.
From Warism to Pacifism by Duane L. Cady
Call Number: JX1952 .C26 1989
ISBN: 0877226032
Publication Date: 1989-01-25
Exposes the pervasive, subconscious warism that is the dominant ideology in modern Western culture. Citing common objections to pacifist values, this title describes peace as something more than the mere absence of war and demonstrates that pacifism is a defensible position.
Women Strike for Peace by Amy Swerdlow; Catherine R. Stimpson (Foreword by)
Call Number: JX1965 .S94 1993
ISBN: 0226786358
Publication Date: 1993-11-15
"Women Strike for Peace" is the only historical account of this ground-breaking women's movement. Amy Swerdlow, a founding member of WSP, restores to the historical record a significant chapter on American politics and women's studies. Weaving together narrative and analysis, she traces WSP's triumphs, problems, and legacy for the women's movement and American society.
Elizabeth Leads the Way by Tanya Lee Stone; Rebecca Gibbon (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ5 305.42 S88138e4
ISBN: 0805079033
Publication Date: 2008-04-29
Elizabeth Cady Stanton stood up and fought for what she believed in. From an early age, she knew that women were not given rights equal to men. But rather than accept her lesser status, Elizabeth went to college and later gathered other like-minded women to challenge the right to vote. Here is the inspiring story of an extraordinary woman who changed America forever because she wouldn't take "no" for an answer.
Minty by Alan Schroeder; Jerry Pinkney (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ5 305.567 S48176m5
ISBN: 0803718888
Publication Date: 1996-05-01
Young Harriet Tubman, whose childhood name was Minty, was stubborn and headstrong--considered a problem slave by her master. Her dream of freedom was the only thing that made life bearable on the Brodas plantation in the 1820's.
You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer! by Shana Corey; Chesley McLaren (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ5 305.42 C79797y6
ISBN: 0439078199
Publication Date: 2000-03-01
Amelia Bloomer, who does not behave the way 19th-century society says a proper lady should, introduces pantaloons to American women.

Women's History Month 2016

Women's History Month had its origins as a national celebration in 1981,
   when Congress passed legislation authorizing President Ronald Reagan to
   proclaim a week in March as "Women's History Week." Since then,
   subsequent resolutions have expanded this to a full month paying tribute
   to the generations of women whose commitment to the world have proved
   invaluable to society.

Read more about Women's History Month here.

The materials in this display represent a small offering of the books at
Ablah Library by and about women, celebrating their achievements,
honoring their struggles and successes, and recognizing their impact on society and the
planet.

This exhibit was displayed in Spring 2016. Dates: March - April 2016.

Memories by Aletta Jacobs; Harriet Feinberg (Editor); Annie Wright (Translator); Harriet P. Freidenreich (Afterword by)
Call Number: HQ1657.J3 A3313 1996
ISBN: 1558611371
Publication Date: 1996-05-01
The first of Aletta Jacobs's major works available in English, Memories introduces American readers to a remarkable woman-a key Dutch feminist who herself broke new ground, and who worked alongside world-renowned leaders in the progressive movements of the early twentieth century. The nations's first woman to earn a medical degree, her experiences as a doctor led her to pioneering health care reforms for prostitutes and saleswomen, as well as campaigns for the acceptance and availability of reliable birth control. Her career included equally remarkable achievements in the international woman's suffrage and peace movements, where she worked closely with U.S. activists. In Memories, Jacobs recounts these experiences, and spiritedly imparts her opinions. By turns witty, impassioned, and poignant, Memories brings to life a time of enormous changes for women-and one of the women who helped bring about the changes.
When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone
Call Number: BL458 .S76 1976b
ISBN: 015696158X
Publication Date: 1978-05-04
Here, archaeologically documented,is the story of the religion of the Goddess. Under her, women's roles were far more prominent than in patriarchal Judeo-Christian cultures. Stone describes this ancient system and, with its disintegration, the decline in women's status.
The Essence of Women in Management by Susan Vinnicombe; Nina L. Colwill
Call Number: HD6054.3 .V56 1995
ISBN: 0132853701
Publication Date: 1995-08-21
This text examines the rationale for expanding opportunities for women to achieve a more equal representation in management positions. Using real-life examples of successful women managers, it explores research on the status of women managers in Europe, analyzes female roles in organizations, looks at the balancing act between work and family and illuminates the underlying issues of power and powerlessness. The book also puts forward strategies for shattering the artificial glass ceilings to women's advancement to senior management posts, such as women-only training, networking and mentoring.
Frontier Women by Julie R. Jeffrey
Call Number: HQ1439.W45 J43 1998
ISBN: 080901601X
Publication Date: 1998-02-28
In this new edition of a classic work, Julie Roy Jeffrey maintains the essential core of her account of the extraordinarily diverse contributions women made to the development of the American frontier. Jeffrey has expanded her original analysis to include the often overlooked perspectives of Native American, Hispanic, Chinese, and African American women.
Women and Religion in the African Diaspora by R. Marie Griffith (Editor); Barbara Dianne Savage (Editor)
Call Number: BL458 .W56375 2006
ISBN: 0801883695
Publication Date: 2006-08-29
This landmark collection of newly commissioned essays explores how diverse women of African descent have practiced religion as part of the work of their ordinary and sometimes extraordinary lives. By examining women from North America, the Caribbean, Brazil, and Africa, the contributors identify the patterns that emerge as women, religion, and diaspora intersect, mapping fresh approaches to this emergent field of inquiry. This volume's transnational mixture, along with its use of creative analytical approaches, challenges existing paradigms and summons new models for studying women, religions, and diasporic shiftings across time and space.
Inside the Gender Jihad by Amina Wadud
Call Number: BL458 .W33 2006
ISBN: 1851684638
Publication Date: 2006-06-06
In this engaging study, Dr Amina Wadud, an Afro-American Muslim herself, introduces the feminist movement in Islam and delves into its challenges, its textual foundations in the Qur'an and its achievements. Beginning with her own place in the effort for greater justice for women in Islam, Wadud goes on tackle a number of pertinent issues, including the state of Muslim women's studies as a discipline in mainstream academia and the role of Muslim women in the domestic space.
Radiating Like a Stone by Myrne Roe
Call Number: HQ1439.W5 R33 2011
ISBN: 9780615537948
Publication Date: 2011-12-01
The feminist movement was not something restricted to big cities and the east and west coast or from something on the TV screen. It was real in the Midwest and the yearning for freedom and opportunity was felt by women of that time. Myrne Roe lived these exciting times and recorded her history in a very accessible and lively way.
Bad Girls of Japan by Jan Bardsley (Editor); Laura Miller (Editor)
Call Number: HQ1762 .B334 2005
ISBN: 1403969469
Publication Date: 2005-12-12
Are bad girls casualties of patriarchy, a necessary evil, or visionary pioneers? The authors in this volume propose shifts in our perceptions of bad girls by providing new ways to understand them through the case of Japan. By tracing the concept of the bad girl as a product of specific cultural assumptions and historical settings, Bad Girls of Japan maps new roads and old detours in revealing a disorderly politics of gender. Bad Girls of Japan explores deviancy in richly diverse media: mountain witches, murderers, performance artists, cartoonists, schoolgirls and shoppers gone wild are all part of the terrain.
Sister Circle by Sharon Harley (Editor); Black Women and Work Collective Staff (Contribution by); Nellie Y. McKay (Foreword by)
Call Number: HD6057.5.U5 S576 2002
ISBN: 0813530601
Publication Date: 2002-06-03
Although black women's labor was essential to the development of the United States, studies of these workers have lagged far behind those of working black men and white women. Adding insult to injury, a stream of images in film, television, magazines, and music continues to portray the work of black women in a negative light. Sister Circle offers an innovative approach to representing work in the lives of black women. Contributors from many fields explore an array of lives and activities, allowing us to see for the first time the importance of black women's labor in the aftermath of slavery.
Taking Back the Streets by Temma Kaplan
Call Number: HQ1236.5.C5 K36 2004
ISBN: 0520226712
Publication Date: 2004-02-16
Toward the end of the twentieth century in placesall over the world, women and young people took to the streets to fight injustices they believed they could not confront in any other way. In the hope of changing the way politics is done, they called officials to account for atrocities they had committed and unjust laws they had upheld. They attempted to drive authoritarian governments from power by publicizing the activities these officials tried to hide. This powerful book takes us into the midst of these movements to give us a close-up look at how a new generation bore witness to human rights violations, resisted the efforts of regimes to shame and silence young idealists, and created a vibrant public life that remains a vital part of ongoing struggles for democracy and justice today.
Gender and Elections by Susan J. Carroll (Editor); Richard L. Fox (Editor)
Call Number: HQ1236.5.U6 G444 2014
ISBN: 9781107026049
Publication Date: 2013-12-23
The third edition of Gender and Elections offers a systematic, lively, and multifaceted account of the role of gender in the electoral process through the 2012 elections. This timely yet enduring volume strikes a balance between highlighting the most important developments for women as voters and candidates in the 2012 elections and providing a more long-term, in-depth analysis of the ways that gender has helped shape the contours and outcomes of electoral politics in the United States. Without question, Gender and Elections is the most comprehensive, reliable, and trustworthy resource on the role of gender in US electoral politics.
Women's Leadership and Participation by Joanna Hoare (Editor); Fiona Gell (Editor)
Call Number: HQ1236 .W6519 2009
ISBN: 9781853396960
Publication Date: 2009-12-03
Women are often denied the right to participate in decision-making, whether as active citizens, or as leaders. In particular, women living in poverty often have little opportunity to influence decisions and policies that will have a direct impact on the welfare of themselves, their communities, and their livelihoods. Women's Leadership and Participation illustrates methodological approaches and learning points, covering a range of issues, from women's participation in national elections to female decision-making in community livelihood initiatives. It asks the questions: what are the structural barriers to women's leadership and participation? How can women be encouraged to take up leadership positions? Once they are leading, how can women (and men) be supported to carry out their roles effectively and for progressive purposes?
Sustaining Activism by Jeffrey W. Rubin; Emma Sokoloff-Rubin
Call Number: HQ1236.5.B6 R83 2013
ISBN: 9780822354062
Publication Date: 2013-02-18
In 1986, a group of young Brazilian women started a movement to secure economic rights for rural women and transform women's roles in their homes and communities. Together with activists across the country, they built a new democracy in the wake of a military dictatorship. In Sustaining Activism, Jeffrey W. Rubin and Emma Sokoloff-Rubin tell the behind-the-scenes story of this remarkable movement. As a father-daughter team, they describe the challenges of ethnographic research and the way their collaboration gave them a unique window into a fiery struggle for equality. Highlighting the tensions within the movement about how best to effect change, Sustaining Activism ultimately shows that democracies need social movements in order to improve people's lives and create a more just society.
Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign by Katherine H. Adams; Michael L. Keene
Call Number: HQ1413.P38 A23 2008
ISBN: 9780252032202
Publication Date: 2007-12-11
Past biographies, histories, and government documents have ignored Alice Paul's contribution to the women's suffrage movement, but this groundbreaking study scrupulously fills the gap in the historical record. Masterfully framed by an analysis of Paul's nonviolent and visual rhetorical strategies, Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign narrates the remarkable story of the first person to picket the White House, the first to attempt a national political boycott, the first to burn the president in effigy, and the first to lead a successful campaign of nonviolence.
Intimate Selving in Arab Families by Suad Joseph
Call Number: HQ1784 .I58 1999
ISBN: 0815628080
Publication Date: 1999-12-01
This collection of articles written by feminist scholars focuses on intimate Arab familial relationships. The authors identify key family relationships - mother-son, brother-sister, co-wives, father-daughter - to explore women's contribution to shaping and defining themselves in relation to others.
Women and Power by Janet Townsend; Pilar Alberti; Marta Mercado; Jo Rowlands; Zapata Rowlands
Call Number: HQ1240.5.M6 W66 1999
ISBN: 1856498034
Publication Date: 2000-03-16
This work sets out to throw light on empowerment by showing how women can and do take power into and over their own lives. In exploring the achievements of rural Mexican women, the authors demonstrate how it is often poor women in poor countries who are celebrating new powers and changing their own lives rather than the more obvious beneficiaries of women's liberation in the North.
An Indian Freedom Fighter Recalls Her Life by Geraldine Forbes (Editor); Manmohini Zutshi Sahgal; B. K. Nehru
Call Number: HQ1742 .S235 1994
ISBN: 1563243393
Publication Date: 1994-12-31
Manmohini, a member of the family of Motilal Nehru, father of Jawaharlal Nehru and grandfather of Indira Gandhi, recalls her life, including her years in the anti-British campaign, her prison terms, her marriage and family, and her work in women's organizations and politics.
Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez; Kristin Ohlson
Call Number: HQ1735.6 .R63 2007
ISBN: 0812976738
Publication Date: 2007-12-18
Most Westerners now working in Afghanistan spend their time tucked inside a military compound or embassy. Deborah Rodriguez is one of the very few who lives smack in the middle of the urban insanity that is Kabul. In The Kabul Beauty School, Debbie tells the story of the beauty school she founded and the vibrant women who study and work there. Woven through the book are the stories of Debbie's students there is the newlywed who must fake her own virginity, the 12-year-old bride who has been sold into marriage to pay her family s debts, the brilliant former medic who has not left her house for thirty years. All these women have a story to tell, and all of them bring their stories to The Kabul Beauty School, where, along with Debbie Rodriguez herself, they learn the art of perms, friendship, and freedom.
Sylvia Pankhurst by Katherine Connelly
Call Number: HQ1595.P34 C66 2013
ISBN: 9780745333236
Publication Date: 2013-09-05
From militant suffragette at the beginning of the twentieth century to campaigner against colonialism in Africa after the Second World War, Sylvia Pankhurst dedicated her life to fighting oppression and injustice. In this vivid biography Katherine Connelly examines Pankhurst's role at the forefront of significant developments in the history of radical politics. This lively and accessible biography presents Pankhurst as a courageous and inspiring campaigner, of huge relevance to those engaged in social movements today.
Holding up Half the Sky by Jie Tao; Bijun Zheng; Shirley L. Mow
Call Number: HQ1767 .H643 2004
ISBN: 1558614664
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
These 21 dynamic articles by Chinese women scholars explore the limitations on women's lives in premodern China, detail their involvement in the great political movements of the 20th century and examine how new laws have improved women's status, yet have left them open to exploitation as China enters the global economy. With statistics and reports otherwise unavailable, they give a refreshing outlook on China's women that is breathtaking both for the problems it confronts and for the spirit of struggle it embodies.
From Independence Towards Freedom by Bharati Ray (Editor); Aparna Basu (Editor)
Call Number: HQ1742 .F758 1999
ISBN: 0195645758
Publication Date: 1999-08-19
The twelve essays in this volume critically examine the relationship between the Indian nation and its women, analysing the material and ideological element along with the cultural and social factors constraining women's development as well as those of economics or demography.
Seriously! by Cynthia Enloe
Call Number: HQ1155 .E554 2013
ISBN: 9780520275362
Publication Date: 2013-09-16
In Seriously!, Cynthia Enloe addresses two deeply gendered and contested questions: Who is taken seriously? And who gets to bestow the label "serious" on others? With a strategy of taking both women and gender dynamics seriously, Cynthia Enloe investigates the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair and the banking crash of 2008, the subsequent recession, as well as UN peacekeeping and the ongoing Egyptian revolution. Each case study highlights the gritty experiences of women in diverse circumstances--in banks, on the job market, in war zones, and in revolutions. The results of taking women seriously are fresh insights into what fuels the cultures of hyper-risk taking, of sexual harassment, and the denial of women's post-war security.
African Women's Movements by Aili Mari Tripp; Isabel Casimiro; Joy Kwesiga; Alice Mungwa
Call Number: HQ1788 .A5765 2009
ISBN: 9780521879309
Publication Date: 2008-11-17
Women entered the political scene in Africa after the 1990s, claiming more than one third of the parliamentary seats in countries like Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Burundi. Women in Rwanda hold the highest percentage of legislative seats in the world. Women's movements lobbied for constitutional reforms and new legislation to expand women's rights. This book examines the convergence of factors behind these dramatic developments, including the emergence of autonomous women's movements, changes in international and regional norms regarding women's rights and representation, the availability of new resources to advance women's status, and the end of civil conflict.
Asian Women by Sunera Thobani (Editor); Tineke Hellwig (Editor)
Call Number: HQ1726 .A85 2006
ISBN: 0889614571
Publication Date: 2005-12-01
This collection places Asian women centre stage and challenges a dichotomized view of Asia and the "west" or "north." It offers an understanding of Asian women in their networks of connections through the work of feminist scholars discussing Asian women in North America, Asia, Europe, and Australia. While the focus is on how Asian women are socially constructed and represented in books, on screen, and in the media, it also includes discussions on how Asian women present and represent themselves. Few books deal with Asian women's interconnections, and yet fewer express the range of theoretical perspectives, linkages, and disciplines that are the focus of this collection. Asian Women: Interconnections opens important intellectual discussions about Asian Canadian feminism, and comparative feminisms.
Afrikan Mothers by Nah Dove
Call Number: HQ1593 .D68 1998
ISBN: 0791438813
Publication Date: 1998-07-30
Tells the story of some Afrikan mothers who, under European domination with the United States and the United Kingdom, have struggled to survive and maintain their (and their children's) cultural identities within European-oriented societies.
Breaking the Political Glass Ceiling by Barbara Palmer; Dennis Simon
Call Number: HQ1236.5.U6 P35 2006
ISBN: 0415950872
Publication Date: 2006-03-01
Why has the integration of women into Congress been so slow? Why are there so many more Democratic women in Congress than Republican? This is a book on women in US politics, with key data from primary and general election for House and Senate since 1956. It is meant for students who need a guide to the subject.
The Trouble with Marriage by Srimati Basu
Call Number: HQ1742 .B394 2015
ISBN: 9780520282452
Publication Date: 2015-01-03
The Trouble with Marriage is part of a new global feminist jurisprudence around marriage and violence that looks to law as strategy rather than solution. In this ethnography of lawyer-free family courts and mediations of rape and domestic violence charges in India, Srimati Basu depicts everyday life in legal sites of marital trouble, reevaluating feminist theories of law, marriage, violence, property, and the state. Basu argues that alternative dispute resolution, originally designed to empower women in a less adversarial legal environment, has created new subjectivities, but, paradoxically, has also reinforced oppressive socioeconomic norms that leave women no better off, individually or collectively.
The Modern Girl Around the World by Alys Eve Weinbaum (Editor); Modern Girl around the World Research Group (Editor); Madeleine Yue Dong (Editor); Uta G. Poiger (Editor); Priti Ramamurthy (Editor); Lynn M. Thomas (Editor)
Call Number: HQ1229 .M694 2008
ISBN: 9780822342991
Publication Date: 2008-12-24
During the 1920s and 1930s, in cities from Beijing to Bombay, Tokyo to Berlin, Johannesburg to New York, the Modern Girl made her sometimes flashy, always fashionable appearance in city streets and cafes, in films, advertisements, and illustrated magazines. On the surface, she seemed to disregard the prescribed roles of dutiful daughter, wife, and mother. Contemporaries debated whether the Modern Girl was looking for sexual, economic, or political emancipation, or whether she was little more than an image, a hollow product of the emerging global commodity culture. The contributors to this collection track the Modern Girl as she emerged as a global phenomenon in the interwar period.
Scream from the Shadows by Setsu Shigematsu
Call Number: HQ1762 .S493 2012
ISBN: 9780816667581
Publication Date: 2012-02-27
More than forty years ago a women’s liberation movement called ūman ribu was born in Japan amid conditions of radicalism, violence, and imperialist aggression. Setsu Shigematsu’s book is the first to present a sustained history of ūman ribu’s formation, its political philosophy, and its contributions to feminist politics across and beyond Japan. Through an in-depth analysis of ūman ribu, Shigematsu furthers our understanding of Japan’s gender-based modernity and imperialism and expands our perspective on transnational liberation and feminist movements worldwide.
Women, Spirituality and Transformative Leadership by Kathe Schaaf (Editor); Kay Lindahl (Editor); Kathleen S. Hurty (Editor); Reverend Guo Cheen (Editor); Joan Chittister (Foreword by); Guo Cheen (Editor)
Call Number: BL625.7 .W645 2012
ISBN: 9781594733130
Publication Date: 2011-10-01
This empowering resource engages women in an interactive exploration of the challenges and opportunities on the frontier of women's spiritual leadership. Through the voices of North American women representing a matrix of diversity―ethnically, spiritually, religiously, generationally and geographically―women will be inspired to new expressions of their own personal leadership and called into powerful collaborative action.
Women and Achievement in Nineteenth-Century Europe by Linda L. Clark
Call Number: HQ1587 .C53 2008
ISBN: 9780521650984
Publication Date: 2008-04-17
This major new history of European women's professional activities and organizational roles during the 'long' nineteenth century examines what women could and could not do if they sought activity, purpose, or recognition beyond their own homes. Detailing women's accomplishments from England to Russia, Linda L. Clark's unique survey enables readers to connect individual life stories with larger political, social, and economic contexts between 1789 and 1914 and is essential reading for students of modern European history, women's history, and gender studies.
Developing Women Leaders by Anna Marie Valerio
Call Number: HD6054.3 .V34 2009
ISBN: 9781405183710
Publication Date: 2009-10-12
Developing Women Leaders answers the question "How do we best develop women leaders?" with practical solutions drawn from current literature and the author's personal interviews with high-achievers in major US companies and universities.
Elizabeth Leads the Way by Tanya Lee Stone; Rebecca Gibbon (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ5 305.42 S88138e4
ISBN: 0805079033
Publication Date: 2008-04-29
Elizabeth Cady Stanton stood up and fought for what she believed in. From an early age, she knew that women were not given rights equal to men. But rather than accept her lesser status, Elizabeth went to college and later gathered other like-minded women to challenge the right to vote. Here is the inspiring story of an extraordinary woman who changed America forever because she wouldn't take "no" for an answer.
Remember the Ladies by Cheryl Harness (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ5 305.4 H289799r4
ISBN: 0688170188
Publication Date: 2001-02-06
In a letter cautioning her husband to "Remember the Ladies," Abigail Adams makes a plea for women's rights. She realized that women had the potential for greatness if only their brethren would, as Sarah Grimke wrote in 1838, "take their feet from off our necks." Cheryl Harness introduces readers to 100 illustrious American women. From colonial poet Phillis Wheatley and Civil War nurse Clara Barton to comic actress Lucille Ball and Vietnam Memorial architect Maya Ying Lin, she highlights ladies of all talents, races, and eras. Cheering the advancements of recognizable leaders, the author also introduces readers to less familiar but equally important women. Her passion and humor reflect the attitudes of pioneers who pushed the boundaries of the feminine sphere to the limits--and then pushed a little further.
You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer! by Shana Corey; Chesley McLaren (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ5 305.42 C79797y6
ISBN: 0439078199
Publication Date: 2000-03-01
Amelia Bloomer, who does not behave the way 19th-century society says a proper lady should, introduces pantaloons to American women.
Minty by Alan Schroeder; Jerry Pinkney (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ5 305.567 S48176m5
ISBN: 0803718888
Publication Date: 1996-05-01
Young Harriet Tubman, whose childhood name was Minty, was stubborn and headstrong--considered a problem slave by her master. Her dream of freedom was the only thing that made life bearable on the Brodas plantation in the 1820's.
Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass by Lorelle D. Semley; Fundação Pierre Verger (Contribution by)
Call Number: HQ1811.Z9 K487 2011
ISBN: 9780253222534
Publication Date: 2010-11-29
Lorelle D. Semley explores the historical and political meanings of motherhood in West Africa and beyond, showing that the roles of women were far more complicated than previously thought. While in Kétu, Bénin, Semley discovered that women were treasurers, advisors, ritual specialists, and colonial agents in addition to their more familiar roles as queens, wives, and sisters. These women with special influence made it difficult for the French and others to enforce an ideal of subordinate women. As she traces how women gained prominence, Semley makes clear why powerful mother figures still exist in the symbols and rituals of everyday practices.
Korean Immigrant Women and the Renegotiation of Identity by Keumjae Park
Call Number: HQ1421 .P37 2009
ISBN: 9781593323240
Publication Date: 2009-02-01
Park examines the process of identity transition and renegotiation among immigrant women. Taking the conceptualization of identity as a structural construct, connected to and reflected upon social inequalities, Park shows the ways in which immigrant women's pre-migration class, gender, and national identities are confronted and redefined in the host society. Using in-depth interviews with a sample of Korean immigrant women, she documents various fronts where renegotiation of identities takes place in the social contexts of the U.S. The analysis underscores the ways in which identity links individuals to social structures, and highlights the interplay between macro-identity categories and micro-identity practices.
Down to Business by Clara Villarosa; Alicia Villarosa
Call Number: HD6054 .V55 2009
ISBN: 9781583333549
Publication Date: 2009-09-01
At age fifty-two, after years of working her way up the corporate ladder, Clara Villarosa found herself out of a job. But she didn't let that get her down. Instead, she put her gifts to the test and started her own business, which became one of the country's best-known independent specialty bookstores. Now, twenty years and two successful stores later, Clara is a highly sought-after business coach and expert in the industry. This book expands on Villarosa's previous book to offer women everywhere a targeted plan to help them launch the small business of their dreams. Packed with stories of businesswomen at all stages of the game, Villarosa brings together inspiring, real-life stories with her award-winning business savvy. Encouraging and empowering, Down to Business will get you motivated to dust off your dream and get your plan into action.
Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America by Rosemary Skinner Keller (Editor); Rosemary Radford Ruether (Editor); Marie Cantlon (Editor)
Call Number: BL458 .E52 2006
ISBN: 0253346851
Publication Date: 2006-04-19
The Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America harvests the fruits of 25 years of scholarship on the history and current state of women’s religious experience in North America. The result of a five-year project led by Rosemary Skinner Keller and Rosemary Radford Ruether and funded by the Lilly Endowment and the Henry Luce Foundation, the encyclopedia marshals the talents of more than 150 scholars to produce the most comprehensive and up-to-date description and analysis of women and religion in North America. The encyclopedia is interreligious, interracial, and multicultural and is aimed at a broad general audience.

Women in Horror Month 2016: The Gothic Novel

Women in Horror Month (WiHM) is an international, grassroots initiative, which
   encourages supporters to learn about and showcase the underrepresented work
   of women in the horror industries. Whether they are on the screen, behind the
   scenes, or contributing in their other various artistic ways, it is clear that women
   love, appreciate, and contribute to the horror genre.

WiHM celebrates these contributions to horror throughout the year via the official
   WiHM blog, Ax Wound, The Ax Wound Film Festival, and with the official
   WiHM event/project database in February. This database—in conjunction with
   the WiHM social media fan base—actively promotes do-it-yourself annual film
   screenings, blogs/articles, podcasts, and any other form of creative media with
   the ultimate goal of helping works by and featuring women reach a wider
   audience.

This inclusive and positive movement is open to everyone, just as we believe the horror genre should be.

For more information, check out the Women in Horror Month LibGuide or the Women in Horror Month website.

This year's exhibit features literary works from the gothic tradition, both modern and not, written by women.

This exhibit was displayed in Spring 2016. Dates: February - March 2016.

This exhibit was created by Lizzy Walker.

Children of the Abbey: a Tale by Regina M. Roche
Publication Date: 1854
A novel about the fortunes and loves of an Irish family, the father, Fitzalan, a military man, Amanda, the daughter, and the son, Oscar, in the lordly circles of Scottish and English society, and especially their relationship to the people of Dunreath Abbey.
Don't Look Now by Patrick McGrath (Introduction by); Daphne Du Maurier
Call Number: PR6007.U47 D66 2008
ISBN: 9781590172889
Publication Date: 2008-10-28
Patrick McGrath’s revelatory new selection of du Maurier’s stories shows her at her most chilling and most psychologically astute: a dead child reappears in the alleyways of Venice; routine eye surgery reveals the beast within to a meek housewife; nature revolts against man’s abuse by turning a benign species into an annihilating force; a dalliance with a beautiful stranger offers something more dangerous than a broken heart. McGrath draws on the whole of du Maurier’s long career and includes surprising discoveries together with famous stories like “The Birds.” Don’t Look Now is a perfect introduction to a peerless storyteller.
Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle by Charlotte Turner Smith
Publication Date: 1789
Emmeline, The Orphan of the Castle is the first novel written by English writer Charlotte Turner Smith; it was published in 1788. A Cinderella story in which the heroine stands outside the traditional economic structures of English society and ends up wealthy and happy, the novel is a fantasy. At the same time, it criticises the traditional marriage arrangements of the 18th century, which allowed women little choice and prioritised the needs of the family. Smith's criticisms of marriage stemmed from her personal experience and several of the secondary characters are thinly veiled depictions of her family, a technique which both intrigued and repelled contemporary readers.
The Annotated Frankenstein by Mary Shelley; Susan J. Wolfson (Intro and Notes by); Ronald Levao (Intro and Notes by)
Call Number: PR5397 .F7 2012
ISBN: 9780674055520
Publication Date: 2012-10-31
First published in 1818, Frankenstein has spellbound, disturbed, and fascinated readers for generations. One of the most haunting and enduring works ever written in English, it has inspired numerous retellings and sequels in virtually every medium, making the Frankenstein myth familiar even to those who have never read a word of Mary Shelley’s remarkable novel. Now, this freshly annotated, illustrated edition illuminates the novel and its electrifying afterlife with unmatched detail and vitality.
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson; Laura Miller (Introduction by)
Call Number: PS3519.A392 H3x 1967
ISBN: 9780143039983
Publication Date: 2006-11-28
First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.
The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
Publication Date: 1797
First published in 1797, The Italian is one of the finest examples of Gothic romance. The fast-paced, narrative centres on Ann Radcliffe's most brilliant creation, the sinister monk Schedoni, whose past is shrouded in mystery. From the novel's opening chapters the reader is ushered into a shadowy world in which crime and religion are mingled. In the church of Santa Maria del Pianto in Naples, Ellena Rosalba and Vincentio di Vivaldi first meet; but their love is ill-omened. Leagued against them are the proud and ambitious Marchese di Vivaldi and her confessor Father Schedoni. When Ellena vanishes on the death of her guardian, Vivaldi sets out in pursuit of her across the mountainous regions of southern Italy before himself falling prey to the Holy Inquisition.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Call Number: PR4167 .J3 1976
Publication Date: 1943
A novel of intense power and intrigue, Jane Eyre has dazzled generations of readers with its depiction of a woman's quest for freedom. Having grown up an orphan in the home of her cruel aunt and at a harsh charity school, Jane Eyre becomes an independent and spirited survivor-qualities that serve her well as governess at Thornfield Hall. But when she finds love with her sardonic employer, Rochester, the discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a choice. Should she stay with him whatever the consequences or follow her convictions, even if it means leaving her beloved?
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen; Susan J. Wolfson (Editor)
Call Number: PR4034 .N7 2014
ISBN: 9780674725676
Publication Date: 2014-04-28
The star of Northanger Abbey is seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland, Jane Austen's youngest and most impressionable heroine. Away from home for the first time, on a visit to Bath with family friends, Catherine, a passionate consumer of novels (especially of the gothic variety), encounters a world in which everything beckons as a readable text: not only books, but also conversations and behaviors, clothes, carriages, estates, and vistas.
The Old English Baron by Clara Reeve
Publication Date: 1787
Sir Philip Harclay returns to England after the Crusades, anxious to see his friend Lord Arthur Lovel. But to his dismay, when he arrives at Lovel Castle, he finds his friend is long since dead. However, in a young peasant named Edmund, Sir Philip believes he sees a close resemblance to the late baron. As events unfold, a haunted chamber, a suit of armour, an apparition, and a duel to the death will reveal Edmund's true origin and Lord Lovel's mysterious fate!
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Call Number: PR6007.U47 R4x 1941
ISBN: 0380730405
Publication Date: 2006-09-05
With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For in every corner of every room were phantoms of a time dead but not forgotten—a past devotedly preserved by the sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers: a suite immaculate and untouched, clothing laid out and ready to be worn, but not by any of the great house's current occupants. With an eerie presentiment of evil tightening her heart, the second Mrs. de Winter walked in the shadow of her mysterious predecessor, determined to uncover the darkest secrets and shattering truths about Maxim's first wife—the late and hauntingly beautiful Rebecca.
St. Margaret's Cave, or, The Nun's Story, an ancient legend by Elizabeth Helme
Publication Date: 1801
In a delightful situation, at a short distance from Bremen, in Lower Saxony, at the commencement of the seventeenth century, stood an a ancient, but richly endowed convent, dedicated to the Holy Virgin; and at a further distance of a quarter of a mile, a monastery, which bore the name of St. Francis, endowed with equal munificence.
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Call Number: PS3619.E86 T48 2007
ISBN: 9780743298032
Publication Date: 2007-10-09
Reclusive author Vida Winter, famous for her collection of twelve enchanting stories, has spent the past six decades penning a series of alternate lives for herself. Now old and ailing, she is ready to reveal the truth about her extraordinary existence and the violent and tragic past she has kept secret for so long. Calling on Margaret Lea, a young biographer troubled by her own painful history, Vida disinters the life she meant to bury for good. Margaret is mesmerized by the author's tale of gothic strangeness -- featuring the beautiful and willful Isabelle, the feral twins Adeline and Emmeline, a ghost, a governess,a topiary garden and a devastating fire. Together, Margaret and Vida confront the ghosts that have haunted them while becoming, finally, transformed by the truth themselves.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Call Number: PR4172 .W73 1946b
Publication Date: 1943
Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before; of the intense relationship between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw; and how Catherine, forced to choose between passionate, tortured Heathcliff and gentle, well-bred Edgar Linton, surrendered to the expectations of her class. As Heathcliff's bitterness and vengeance at his betrayal is visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past.
American Women's Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age by Dara Downey
ISBN: 1137323981
Publication Date: 2014-09-29
This book shows just how closely late nineteenth-century American women's ghost stories engaged with objects such as photographs, mourning paraphernalia, wallpaper and humble domestic furniture. Featuring uncanny tales from the big city to the small town and the empty prairie, it offers a new perspective on an old genre.
Behind a Mask by Louisa May Alcott; Madeleine B. Stern (Editor, Introduction by, Afterword by)
Call Number: PS1017 .B4 1995
ISBN: 0688003389
Publication Date: 1995-09-01
Six years before she wrote Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, in financial straits, entered "Pauline's Passion and Punishment," a novelette, in a newspaper contest. Not only did it win the $100 prize, but, published anonymously, it marked the first in the series of "blood & thunder tales" that would be her livelihood for years. In Behind a Mask, editor Madeleine Stern introduces four Alcott thrillers: "Pauline's Passion and Punishment," "The Mysterious Key," "The Abbot's Ghost," and the title story, "Behind a Mask." First published in one volume in 1975, they are regarded as Alcott's finest work in this genre.
The Contested Castle by Kate F. Ellis
Call Number: PR830.T3 E53 1989
ISBN: 0252060482
Publication Date: 1989-06-01
The Gothic novel emerged out of the romantic mist alongside a new conception of the home as a separate sphere for women. Looking at novels from Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Kate Ferguson Ellis investigates the relationship between these two phenomena of middle-class culture - the idealization of the home and the popularity of the Gothic - and explores how both male and female authors used the Gothic novel to challenge the false claim of home as a safe, protected place. Linking terror - the most important ingredient of the Gothic novel - to acts of transgression, Ellis shows how houses in Gothic fiction imprison those inside them, while those locked outside wander the earth plotting their return and their revenge.
Daphne du Maurier by Avril Horner; Sue Zlosnik
Call Number: PR6007.U47 Z67 1998
ISBN: 0312211465
Publication Date: 1998-05-15
This book is the first full-length evaluation of du Maurier's fiction and the first critical study of du Maurier as a Gothic writer. Using the most recent work in Gothic and gender studies, the authors enter the current debate on the nature of female Gothic and raise questions about du Maurier's relationship to such a tradition. They demonstrate that using recognizable popular forms, she was able to explore through Gothic writing the anxieties of modernity in the kind of fiction many peoplefind accessible. This, they claim, explains the compulsive quality of her best novels and their enduring popularity.
The Eighteenth Century Gothic Novel by Dan J. McNutt; Devendra P. Varma (Introduction by)
Call Number: Z2014.F5 M3
ISBN: 0824010582
Publication Date: 1975-01-01
An annotated bibliography of books and literary critics on the novel of the 18th century.
The English Gothic by Robert D. Spector
Call Number: Z2014.H67 S66 1983
ISBN: 0313225362
Publication Date: 1984-02-23
The usefulness of these essays extends far beyond bibliographical value, for each provides an historical and biographical introduction to the author. A refreshing and exceedingly helpful change from traditional bibliographical eesays is Spector's decision to include enumerative bibliographies at the end of each section, which allows the reader to return to the bibliography and locate relatively quickly one source without having to re-read the essay proper. Lucidly written and critically concise, Spector's essays advance greatly the study of the great English Gothic period.
The Gothic Body by Kelly Hurley; Gillian Beer (Contribution by)
Call Number: PR878.T3 H87 1996
ISBN: 0521552591
Publication Date: 1996-12-05
Readers familiar with Dracula and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde may not know that dozens of equally remarkable Gothic texts were written in Great Britain at the end of the nineteenth-century. This book accounts for the resurgence of Gothic, and its immense popularity, during the British fin de siècle. Kelly Hurley explores a key scenario that haunts the genre: the loss of a unified and stable human identity, and the emergence of a chaotic and transformative 'abhuman' identity in its place. She shows that such representations of Gothic bodies are strongly indebted to those found in nineteenth-century biology and social medicine, evolutionism, criminal anthropology, and degeneration theory. Gothic is revealed as a highly productive and speculative genre, standing in opportunistic relation to nineteenth-century scientific and social theories.
Gothic Feminism by Diane Long Hoeveler
Call Number: PR830.T3 H64 1998
ISBN: 0271018097
Publication Date: 1998-10-09
As British women writers in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries sought to define how they experienced their era's social and economic upheaval, they helped popularize a new style of bourgeois female sensibility. Building on her earlier work in Romantic Androgyny, Diane Long Hoeveler now examines the Gothic novels of Charlotte Smith, Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen, Charlotte Dacre Byrne, Mary Shelley, and the Brontës to show how these writers helped define femininity for women of the British middle class.
Gothic (Re)Visions by Susan Wolstenholme
Call Number: PR830.T3 W6 1993
ISBN: 0791412199
Publication Date: 1992-12-18
Gothic fiction usually has been perceived as the special province of women, an attraction often attributed to a thematics of woman-identified issues such as female sexuality, marriage, and childbirth. But why these issues? What is specifically “female” about “Gothic?” This book argues that Gothic modes provide women who write with special means to negotiate their way through their double status as women and as writers, and to subvert the power relationships that hinder women writers.
Hideous Progenies by Steven E. Forry
Call Number: PR5397.F73 F67 1990
ISBN: 0812281314
Publication Date: 1990-02-01
This study of Frankenstein dramatizations contains an historical introduction and the texts of selected dramatizations. The historical introduction charts the development of the dramas from 1823 to 1930, the dawn of the celluloid image made famous by Universal Studios' 1931 production starring Boris Karloff.
Horrifying Sex by Ruth Bienstock Anolik (Editor)
Call Number: PR468.S48 H67 2007
ISBN: 9780786430147
Publication Date: 2007-07-02
The first three sections of this collection of essays refer to popular as well as marginalized Gothic texts to portray the three prototypes of sexual deviance. The fourth section covers literary works that celebrate sexual difference and question the idea that the sexually deviant is socially Other.
In Search of Frankenstein by Radu Florescu; Alan G. Barbour; Matei Cazacu
Call Number: PR5397.F73 F6
ISBN: 0821206141
Publication Date: 1975-01-01
What is the link between Mary Shelley's 1818 novel and the history and myth surrounding the barons Frankenstein - a respected German noble family that inhabitted the Castle Frankenstein on the top of Magnet Mountain near Darmstadt from the early middle ages. All is explored in this fascinating and highly detailed book by an expert on Eastern European history author Radu Florescu leaves no stone unturned in his search for this legendary monster.
Subjects of Slavery, Agents of Change by Kari J. Winter
Call Number: PS152 .W56 1992
ISBN: 082031420X
Publication Date: 1992-09-01
In Subjects of Slavery, Agents of Change, Kari J. Winter compares the ways in which two marginalized genres of women's writing - female Gothic novels and slave narratives - represent the oppression of women and their resistance to oppression. Analyzing the historical contexts in which Gothic novels and slave narratives were written, Winter shows that both types of writing expose the sexual politics at the heart of patriarchal culture and both represent the terrifying aspects of life for women.
Scare Tactics by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Call Number: PS374.W6 W38 2008
ISBN: 9780823229857
Publication Date: 2008-09-15
Scare Tactics identifies an important but overlooked tradition of supernatural writing by American women. Jeffrey Weinstock analyzes this tradition as an essentially feminist attempt to imagine alternatives to a world of limited possibilities. In the process, he recovers the lives and works of authors who were important during their lifetimes and in the development of the American literary tradition, but who are not recognized today for their contributions. Paying attention to these overlooked authors helps us better understand not only the literary marketplace of their time, but also more familiar American Gothicists from Edgar Allan Poe to Shirley Jackson to Stephen King.
Wuthering Heights by David Holbrook
Call Number: PR4172.W73 H6 1997
ISBN: 1850758271
Publication Date: 1997-11-01
In this unconventional study, David Holbrook sets out to demonstrate that this novel is a dramatization of Emily Bronte's own tormented psyche. It draws on various sources in psychoanalytical thought to unravel the novel's dynamics. The author invokes the Jungian analysis offered by Dr Hannah Segal and others, and adds to these the insights of D.W. Winnicott, W.R.D. Fairbairn and R.D. Laing. He sees the novel as a dramatization of intrapsychic conflict within Emily's own soul and as belonging to a remarkable effort on her part to find harmony and fulfilment by engaging with the most savage proclivities within her, as they emerged from the sources of her Irish historical roots and her strange isolated life.