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Celebrate the Year of the Woman and Suffrage anniversaries through reading.

Books by women and about women: A collection of books authored by USU Faculty

  • Funda, Evelyn. Weeds: A Farm Daughter’s Lament. Winnipeg: Bison Books, 2013.
  • Gantt, Patricia M., and Paul Crumbley. Body My House: May Swenson’s Work and Life. Utah: Utah State University Press, 2006.
  • Grayzel, Susan R. Women’s Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain and France during the First World War. North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
  • Grayzel, Susan R., and Tammy Proctor. Gender and the Great War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
  • Kinkead, Joyce. A Schoolmarm All My Life: Narratives from Early Utah. Utah: Signature Books, 1996.
  • Miller, Kristine. British Literature of the Blitz: Fighting the People’s War. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
  • Proctor, Tammy M., and Sophie de Schaepdrijver. An English Governess in the Great War: The Secret Brussels Diary of Mary Thorp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
  • Proctor, Tammy M. Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War. New York: New York University Press, 2003.
  • Proctor, Tammy M. Scouting for Girls: A Century of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. California: ABC – CLIO, 2009.
  • Proctor, Tammy M. World War I: A Short History. New Jersey: Wiley – Blackwell, 2017.
  • Sand, Alexa. Vision, Devotion, and Self-Representation in Late Medieval Art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
  • Sinor, Jennifer. Ordinary Trauma. Utah: University of Utah Press, 2017.
  • Thomas, Jeannie Banks. Featherless Chickens, Laughing Women, and Serious Stories. Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 1997.
  • Thomas, Jeannie Banks. Naked Barbies, Warrior Joes, and Other Forms of Visible Gender. Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2003.
  • Thorne, Alison. Leave the Dishes in the Sink: Adventures of An Activist in Conservative Utah. Utah: Utah State University Press, 2002. Available for digital download at https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress_pubs/19/.

* USU authors may be available for Book Club Discussions

Books on Suffrage

  • Burr, Hattie A., and Sean Robert Hilliard. The Woman Suffrage Cookbook. New York: Whitlock Publishing, 2015. Original date, 1886.
  • Carpenter, Angelica Shirley. Born Criminal: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Radical Suffragist. South Dakota: South Dakota Historical Society Press, 2018.
  • Cassidy, Tina. Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait?: Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the Fight for the Right to Vote. New York: 37 Ink, 2019.  
  • DuBois, Ellen Carol. Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women's Movement in America, 1848-1869. New York: Cornell University Press, 1999.
  • DuBois, Ellen Carol. Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage. Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1999.
  • DuBois, Ellen Carol. Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2020)
  • Fara, Patricia. A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 
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  • Fowler, Therese Anne. A Well-Behaved Woman: A novel of the Vanderbilts. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2018.
  • Madsen, Carol Cornwall. Battle for the Ballot Essays on Woman Suffrage in Utah, 1870- 1896. Utah: Utah State University Press, 1997. Available for digital download at https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress_pubs/176/.
  • Scott, Patricia Lyn, and Linda Thatcher. Women in Utah History. Utah: Utah State University Press, 2005.
  • Wagner, Sally Roesch. The Women’s Suffrage Movement. New York: Penguin Books, 2019. 
  • Ware, Susan. Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote. Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2019. 
  • Weiss, Elaine. The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote. New York: Penguin Books, 2018. UPR interview with Elaine Weiss available at https://www.upr.org/post/revisiting-womans-hour-great-fight-win-vote-elaine-weiss-access-utah.
  • Westwood, Jean Miles. Madame Chair: A Political Autobiography of an Unintentonal Pioneer. Utah: Utah State University Press, 2007.
  • Whitley, Colleen. Worth Their Salt. Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996.
  • Whitley, Colleen. Worth Their Salt, Too. Utah: Utah State University Press, 2000.

For Younger Readers

  • Bausum, Ann. With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote. Washington D.C.: National Geographic Children’s Books, 2004. Recommended Age: 10 and up.
  • Conkling, Winifred. Votes for Women! American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot. North Carolina: Algonquin Young Readers, 2018. Recommended Age: 13 and up.
  • Gillibrand, Kirsten. Bold & Brave: Ten Heroes Who Won Women the Right to Vote. New York: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2018. Recommended Age: 6 – 10.
  • Hasak-Lowy, Todd, and Susan Zimet. Roses and Radicals: The Epic Story of How American Women Won the Right to Vote. New York: Viking Books for Young Readers, 2018. Recommended Age: 10 and up.
  • Macy, Sue. Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom. Washington D.C.: National Geographic Children’s Books, 2017. Recommended Age: 10 – 14.

For more books for young readers, visit https://www.amightygirl.com/books/mighty-girls-women/women-s-history/suffrage-movement

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