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• Normal Women

  900 Years of Making History

  Gregory, Philippa

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  Absolutely fascinating. Philipa Gregory has mined original documents in the UK to share what women have been up for the last 2000 years. It's a remarkable record of how and why women's roles have changed over time. It's long but it is written in a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hild

  Griffith, Nicola

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  I read Hild before I read, "Normal Women," by Phillipa Gregory, and I wondered if it was an example of an optimistic rewriting of history. Based on the historical evidence reported by Gregory, the details of "Hild" fit with this period which is just…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• By Any Other Name

  a Novel

  Picoult, Jodi, 1966-

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  My co-worker suggested this to compliment "Normal Women." It features two women playwriters, one from contemporary time and the other from Shakespearian times. In modern times, Melina Green experiences the struggles of being a female playwrite. Her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Black Women's History of the United States

  Berry, Daina Ramey

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  I haven't read this one, yet, but my hope is that Berry might give insights into the lives of Black women in the U.S. in the same way Gregory's "Normal Women" does.

• Kindred

  Butler, Octavia E.

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  In one of Butler's earlier works, Dana, a black woman from 1970s California is pulled through time to pre-Civil War America. It's a novel about racism and shared history and it's beautifully and compassionately told.

• All That She Carried

  the Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

  Miles, Tiya, 1970-

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  "All That She Carried" is a nonfiction book, but it reads like a novel. With thorough research, Tiya Miles, shows us how much a small, mundane item can reveal about the ones that carried it, and the one that gave it to someone.

• Good Dirt

  a Novel

  Wilkerson, Charmaine,

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  The daughter of an affluent Black family traces the history of an heirloom, uncovering lost histories.

• The Conjuring of America

  Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women's Magic

  Stewart, Lindsey (Lindsey L.),

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  This is on my reading list, but it got a bit lost. It looks amazing. Description from the publisher, ""Emerging first on plantations in the American South, enslaved conjure women used their magic to treat illnesses. These women combined their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Conjure Women

  a Novel

  Atakora, Afia,

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  Another one to add to my reading list! From the publisher, "Like her mother, Rue is an all-knowing midwife, healer, and conjurer of curses on the plantation of Marse Charles. Moving back and forth in time between the years before and after the Civil…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Becoming Kin

  An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

  Krawec, Patty

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  "Weaving her own story with the story of her ancestors and with the broader themes of creation, replacement, and disappearance, Krawec helps readers see settler colonialism through the eyes of an Indigenous writer. Settler colonialism tried to force…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Seed Keeper

  a Novel

  Wilson, Diane, 1954-

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  The Seed Keeper, is about remembering our forebearers and their ways, Rosalie iron Wing was separated from her people and land as an adolescent and placed in the foster care system. This is a story about carrying stories and traditions through…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pandora's Jar

  Women in Greek Myths

  Haynes, Natalie

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  Prior to reading this book, I had learned most of what I knew about Greek Mythology from the 1980s made for TV series. That's where Natalie Haynes first learned about them, too. In Pandora's Jar, she re-examines these myths and what we know about…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Thousand Ships

  a Novel

  Haynes, Natalie

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  Also by Haynes, this is a re-telling of the Trojan War, from the perspective of the women. It meshes perfectly with reading Pandora's Jar.

• A Rome of One's Own

  the Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

  Southon, Emma,

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  Along the same vein of Normal Women and Pandora's Jar, "A Rome of One's Own," is an examination of what we know about women's lives and roles in the Roman Empire. It might change the way you envision the past and the future!

• The Dovekeepers

  a Novel

  Hoffman, Alice

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  A haunting book about the Jewish community of Masada early in the first century. Masada was a mountain-top fortress in the Judaean Desert in southeastern Israel. The Romans laid siege to the mountain top refuge with deadly effect. This historical…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wild Girls

  How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation

  Miles, Tiya, 1970-

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  This book speaks straight to my heart. Tiya Miles shares the stories of some exceptional American women who stand out for rejecting unjust norms of their time. Miles credits the relationships these women had with nature and sports with helping them…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brave Hearted

  the Women of the American West

  Hickman, Katie

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  Katie Hickman puts the roles of women in the American west back into history. Hickman argues that westward expansion of the U.S. wouldn't have been possible without women, that women provided something essential--I agree! Hickman shares some…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Jump-Off Creek

  Gloss, Molly

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  "PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist and winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. William Kittredge called The Jump-Off Creek ""a truly beautiful piece of American storytelling."" The struggles of a widowed homesteader braving the austere and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy

  Four Women Undercover in the Civil War

  Kahler, Abbott, 1973-

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  "Women in the Civil War: Go beyond the battlefield to uncover the spellbinding true story of four women—a socialite, a farmgirl, an abolitionist, and a soldier in disguise—who risked everything for their cause." --from the publisher.

• The All-true Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton

  a Novel

  Smiley, Jane

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  A revelatory book about the time just before the Civil War. Kansas and Missouri were a tinder box of polarization. Abolitionists and anti-abolitionist are racing to the state in the hopes of tipping the scale in the polls. Our narrator, Lidie Newton…Read moreRead more of this annotation