It's #InternationalWomensDay ! We have a thematic #bookstack prepared for you. See the replies for details on each book.
Why the crocus? Not to say women should be gifted flowers today (no!) but because the crocus's colours purple, white and green 🇬🇧 / yellow 🇺🇸 reflect the #Suffragette flag
"Rare Merit" by Colleen Skidmore follows the development of #photography in #Canada in the 19th & early 20th c among women photographers, showing their importance for the medium
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1837655480
#WomensDay #InternationalWomensDay #WomensStudies #CanadianStudies #WomensStudies
This empowering #memoir by Diane Abbott details her way as a child of the #WindrushGeneration to her becoming Britain's 1st Black female MP
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1798141493
#WomensDay #InternationalWomensDay #BritishStudies #autobiography #BlackStudies #WomensHistory #WomensStudies
"The Waiting Game" by @NikkiClark86 tells the hitherto untold stories of the ladies-in-waiting of the British #Tudor queens, #HenryVIII 's wives
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1904914756
#WomensDay #InternationalWomensDay #BritishHistory #EnglishHistory #Renaissance #History
In her book "Through Her Eyes", Clodagh Finn explores the lives of 21 women who were instrumental for #IrishHistory - crossing 5600 years from #StoneAge to our present day
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1898219222
#WomensDay #InternationalWomensDay #Ireland #IrishStudies #IrishHistory #History #WomensStudies
The cultural association between women & #madness in 19th & 20th c is analysed through the lives of individual women in the US & Britain in #History & #EnglishLiterature in this book by Leslie Ann Harper
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1893560422
#WomensDay #InternationalWomensDay #CulturalStudies #WomensStudies
The book "The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detectives" by Sara Lodge contrasts the adventurous fictional female detectives of #VictorianLiterature with their real-life, historical counterparts in GB & USA
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1897183828
FID Anglo-American Culture