Berkshire Athenaeum Celebrates Women's History Month
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PITTSFIELD, Mass. The Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield's public library, is observing Women's History Month this March with displays from the library's adult and children's collections, as well as a list of recommended readings.
"The athenaeum collections offer works by and about women throughout history and today —their diverse stories, experiences, and accomplishments. We encourage readers to select materials from our physical and digital collections that speak to these themes," said Outreach Librarian Alicia Hyman.
Women's History Month began in 1980 as a week in March proclaimed by President Jimmy Carter, who remarked that "too often the women were unsung and sometimes their contributions went unnoticed. But the achievements, leadership, courage, strength, and love of the women who built America was as vital as that of the men whose names we know so well."
In 1987 Congress declared the weeklong event a month-long observance in perpetuity.
The athenaeum is open 9 a.m. -9 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. Friday; and 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Saturday. For more information or questions about accessing library services or materials, please call 413-499-9480, Ext. 4 or email info@pittsfieldlibrary.org.
Fiction:
Atwood, Margaret - The Handmaid's Tale (FICTION Atwood)
Arafat, Zaina - You Exist Too Much (FICTION Arafat)
Barry, Quan - We Ride upon Sticks (FICTION Barry)
Butler, Octavia - Parable of the Sower (SCI FI Butler)
Erdrich, Louise - Love Medicine (FICTION Erdrich)
Heti, Sheila - Motherhood (FICTION Heti)
Kirby, Gwen - Shit Cassandra Saw (FICTION Kirby)
Miller, Madeline - Circe: A Novel (FICTION Miller)
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia - Gods of Jade and Shadow (FICTION Moreno-Garcia)
Ozeki, Ruth - A Tale for the Time Being (FICTION Ozeki)
Peters, Torrey - Detransition, Baby (FICTION Peters, Torrey)
Walker, Alice - The Color Purple (FICTION Walker)
Yoder, Rachel - Nightbitch (FICTION Yoder)
Nonfiction:
Bates, Laura - Everyday Sexism (305.42 Bates)
brown, adrienne maree - Pleasure Activism (170 Brown)
Brown, Keah- The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me (813 Brown)
The Crunk Feminist Collection (305.42 Crunk)
Davis, Angela Y. - Angela Davis: An Autobiography (B Davis)
Dunbar, Erica Armstrong - She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman (BTubman)
Duster, Michelle - Ida B. the Queen The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells (B Wells)
hooks, bell- Ain't I a Woman (305.48 Hooks)
Jenkins, Morgan- This Will Be My Undoing Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America (305 48896 Jenkins)
Jewell. Hannah - She Caused a Riot 100 Unknown Women Who Built Cities, Sparked Revolutions, & Massively Crushed It (305 409 Jewell)
Kendall, Mikki-Hood Feminism (305.42 Kendall)
Mailhot, Terese Marie-Heart Berries: A Memoir (813 Mailhot)
Martin, Wednesday - Untrue Why Nearly Everything We Believe about Women, Lust, and
Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free (306,736 Martin) Morrison, Toni - The Source of Self-Regard Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations (814 Morrison)
Quinn, Bridget - She Votes How US Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next (324.623 Quinn)
Shields Charles J-Lorraine Hansberry The Life behind A Raisin in the Sun (B Hansberry) Simone, Nina- I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone (B Simone) Sjunneson 1-Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism (3624 Sjunneson) Solnit, Rebecca - Recollections of my Nonexistence (813 Solnit)
Talusan Meredith- Fairest: A Memoir (B Talusan) Valenti, Jessica-Sex Object (813 Valenti)
West, Lindy-Shrill (817 West)
Woolf, Virginia - A Room of One's Own (824 Woolf)
Zimmerman, Jess - Women and Other Monsters (155.333 Zimmerman]
Poetry:
Angelou Maya- The Complete Poetry (811 Angelou)
Clifton, Lucille-How to Carry Water Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton (811 Clifton):
Giovanni Nikki-Chasing Utopia A Hybrid (811 Giovanni)
Gorman, Amanda - Call Us What We Carry (YA 811 Gorman)
Rich Adrienne- Collected Poems: 1950-2012 (811 Rich)
DVDs:
Frida (DVD Frida)
Hidden Figures (DVD Hidden) A League of Their Own (DVD League)
Little Women (2018) (DVD Little)
9 to 5(DVD Nine)
Set It Off (DVD Set)
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