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Women's History Month

March is Women's History Month. Browse some recent nonfiction about women in history.

Chandler Public Library

28 items

  • The Doctor Was a Woman

    Stories of the First Female Physicians on the Frontier

    Enss, Chris, 1961-
    BookEssex, Connecticut : TwoDot, [2024] — 610.922 ENSS 2024
  • The Bluestockings

    a History of the First Women's Movement

    Gibson, Susannah,
    BookNew York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2024. — 305.420942 GIBSON 2024
  • Agent Zo

    the Untold Story of a Fearless World War II Resistance Fighter

    Mulley, Clare,
    BookNew York : Pegasus Books, 2024. — 940.5486 MULLEY 2024
  • The Cure for Women

    Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever

    Reeder, Lydia,
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Press, 2024. — 610.820973 REEDER 2024
  • The Six

    the Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts

    Grush, Loren,
    BookNew York : Scribner, 2023. — 629.40973 GRUSH 2023
  • The Girls Who Fought Crime

    the Untold True Story of the Country's First Female Investigator and Her Crime Fighting Squad

    Eder, Mari K.,
    BookNaperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, [2023] — BIO FOLEY MAE 2023
  • Brave the Wild River

    the Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

    Sevigny, Melissa L., 1986-
    BookNew York : W.W. Norton and Company, 2023. — 580.92 SEVIGN 2023
  • Women

    the National Geographic Image Collection

    BookWashington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2023] — 779.24 NATION 2023
  • Emotional Labor

    the Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power

    Hackman, Rose,
    BookNew York : Flatiron Books, 2023. — 155.333 HACKMA 2023
  • Good for a Girl

    a Woman Running in a Man's World

    Fleshman, Lauren,
    BookNew York : Penguin Press, 2023. — BIO FLESHM 2023
  • How to Think Like a Woman

    Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind

    Penaluna, Regan,
    BookNew York : Grove Press, 2023. — 190.82 PENALU 2023
  • The Secret History of Home Economics

    How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live

    Dreilinger, Danielle,
    BookNew York, N.Y. : W. W. Norton & Company, [2021] — 640.92 DREILI 2021
  • Let's Get Physical

    How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World

    Friedman, Danielle,
    BookNew York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2022] — 613.71082 FRIEDM 2022
  • The Correspondents

    Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II

    Mackrell, Judith,
    BookNew York : Doubleday, 2021 — 070.44994 MACKRE 2021
  • Suffrage

    Women's Long Battle for the Vote

    DuBois, Ellen Carol, 1947-
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2020. — 324.623 DUBOIS 2020
  • She Come by It Natural

    Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs

    Smarsh, Sarah,
    BookNew York, New York : Scribner, 2020. — BIO PARTON DOLLY 2020
  • No Man's Land

    the Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain's Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I

    Moore, Wendy, 1952-
    BookNew York : Basic Books, 2020. — 940.476421 MOORE 2020