This month we elevate the work of women everywhere, in all eras. Here you’ll find the groundbreakers, the fighters, the “ordinary” women who make the lives of others better.
Gleeson’s Associate Dean for Collection Services, Erika Johnson, attended USF’s Women in Leadership & Philanthropy symposium on March 10, 2022. She found Sister Simone Campbell, one of the Nuns on a Bus, and Dr. Ellen Snee, author of Lead: How Women in Charge Claim Their Authority (on order), inspiring.
Videos
From the comprehensive streaming video database, Docuseek:
- The Girl With The Rivet Gun An unconventional animated documentary short based on the adventures of three real-life “Rosie the Riveters” (2021, 15 minutes)
- Half The Sky: The Women of the Jiang Family Changes in the lives of four generations of Chinese women (1996, 50 minutes)
- Look Us in the Eye: The Old Women’s Project Founders of an activist organization that challenges ageism (2007, 25 minutes)
- My Love Affair with the Brain: The Life and Science of Dr. Marian Diamond One of the founders of modern neuroscience and an inspirational teacher to thousands at UC Berkeley (2017, 57 minutes)
- No Time To Waste: The Urgent Mission of Betty Reid Soskin Celebrates the legendary 98-year-old park ranger’s inspiring life, work and urgent mission to restore critical missing chapters of America’s story (2020, 52 minutes)
- Notes on Marie Menken The story of the “mother of avant-garde film” (2007, 97 minutes)
- Symbiotic Earth: How Lynn Margulis Rocked the Boat and Started a Scientific Revolution Explores the life and ideas of a scientific rebel who challenged entrenched theories of evolution to present a new narrative, life evolves through collaboration (2018, 147 minutes)
- Ursula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own An artistic biography of one of the few women in the world working in monumental sculpture (2020, 57 minutes)
- Without a Whisper: Konnon:kwe The untold story of the profound influence of Indigenous women on the beginning of the women’s rights movement in the United States (2020, 27 minutes)
- Sensei Fran Kicks Ass Octogenarian Fran Vall holds a 6th degree black belt in Judo and a 5th one in Naginata (Japanese sword fighting) (2019, 19 minutes)
Graphic Novels
Mechanics by Jaime Hernandez (1988)
Miss Remarkable & her career by Joanna Rubin Dranger ; translated by Maura Tavares (2003)
Biographies
- Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman: A Memoir from the Early Twentieth Century by Matilda Rabinowitz (2017) [print and electronic]
- Reverend Addie Wyatt: Faith and the Fight for Labor, Gender, and Racial Equality by Marcia Walker-McWilliams (2016)
- Coming Full Circle: From Jim Crow to Journalism by Wanda Smalls Lloyd (2020)
- Hazel Scott: The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist, from Cafe Society to Hollywood to HUAC / Karen Chilton (2016)
- Madam C. J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving: Black Women’s Philanthropy During Jim Crow by Tyrone McKinley Freeman (2020)
- Winning for Women: A Personal Story by Iola Mathews. (2019)
- In Sight: My Life in Science and Biotech by Julia Levy (2020)
- The Flowering: The Autobiography of Judy Chicago (2021)
- The Children’s Senator: Landon Pearson and a Lifetime of Advocacy edited by Virginia Caputo (2020)
- There’s No Crying in Newsrooms: What Women Have Learned About What It Takes to Lead by Kristin Grady Gilger and Julia Wallace (2019)
- The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History by Nathalia Holt (2019)
Workplace counsel
- Solitudes of the Workplace: Women in Universities edited by Elvi Whittaker (2015)
- Women in IT: Inspiring the Next Generation (2014)
- Women Kind: Unlocking the Power of Women Supporting Women by Kirstin Ferguson and Catherine Fox (2018)
- Beyond the Glass Ceiling and Metaphors (2016)
- The Collective Wisdom of High-performing Women: Leadership Lessons from the Judy Project edited by Colleen Moorehead (2019)
- Women and Leadership in Higher Education edited by Karen A. Longman and Susan R. Madsen (2014)
- Transgender Workplace Diversity: Policy Tools, Training Issues and Communication Strategies for HR and Legal Professionals by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss (2007) (PFLAG recommended)
- Gender, Communication, and the Leadership Gap edited by Carolyn M. Cunningham, Heather M. Crandall, and Alexa Dare (2017)
- Gender Diversity and Non-binary Inclusion in the Workplace: The Essential Guide for Employers by Sarah Gibson and J. Fernandez (2018)
- The Gender-sensitive University: A Contradiction in Terms? edited by Eileen Drew and Siobhán Canavan (2021)
- Mastering Your Inner Critic…and 7 Other High Hurdles to Advancement: How the Best Women Leaders Practice Self-Awareness to Change What Really Matters by Susan Brady
Curated by Penny Scott and Justine Withers
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