International Women's Day

International Women's Day, celebrated on March 8th 2023, is a day where we are invited to highlight women's achievements, raise awareness about discrimination and take action to drive gender parity. Below are diverse and intersectional resources curated by the Angus L. Macdonald Library that celebrate those who identify as women.  

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Resources

The Librarians at Angus L. Macdonald have put together a book display located on the first floor of the library. The book display will be up from March 3rd -March 12th. Below are select resources you can access through the library.

Books

• A Mind Spread out on the Ground
• A Really Good Brown Girl
• Heart Berries
• Split Tooth
• An Honest Woman 
• The Politics of Women's Suffrage: Local, national and international dimensions
• Writing women's history since the Renaissance
• Strategic Sisterhood: the national council of negro women in the black freedom struggle 
• Demanding equality: one hundred years of Canadian feminism 
• Runaway wives and rogue feminists: the origins of the women's shelter movement in Canada 
• Compelled to act: histories of women's activism in western Canada 
• Laundry Lines: Poems and Stories
• One Hundred Years of Struggle: the history of women and the vote in Canada
• A recognition of being: reconstructing native womanhood 
• Iskwewak kah' ki yaw ni wahkomakanak : neither Indian princesses nor easy squaws
• About Canada: Women's Rights 
• Beyond Bylines: Media workers and women's rights in Canada
• Canadian women & the struggle for equality 
• The persons case: the origins and legacy of the fight for legal personhood

Films Available Through the Library

• Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again 
• Status Quo? The Unfinished Business of Feminism in Canada
• The Boxing of Girls in Kabul
• Making Movie History: The Women
• Sisters in the Struggle
• Keepers of the Fire
• Michaëlle Jean: A Woman of Purpose
• Standing Tall
• I Like Girls
• The Colour of Beauty
• Have You Eaten?

Research Guides

• Women's and Gender Studies

Primary Resources and Journals

• Gale Primary Sources: Women's Studies Archive
• Gender & Society 
• Feminist Studies 
• Signs 
• Sex Roles 
• Women's Studies International Forum 

Online Collections

• The Women's Library @LSE (London School of Economics)
• A Celebration of Women Writers
• African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
• Documents of the Women's Liberation Movement 
• Lesbian Herstory Archives
• International Archives of the Second Wave of Feminism 
• Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from around the World 
• World Bank Gender Equality Data and Statistics 
• !Women Art Revolution (!W.A.R.): Voices of a Movement