Women's History & Literature Month

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March is the month that we celebrate women! Women throughout history and women in literature, women in art and women in politics, women in the U.S. and women worldwide! All women are celebrated this blustery month!

Enough already with the “Jane Austen needed a man” to rescue her prose condemnations! – Austenprose
Jane Austen

Read the classic, romantic, and independent women that flourish in Jane Austen's books by checking out The Complete Novels. Come to understand the challenges that a woman in Georgian England had to endure from young womanhood to marriage.

If you are looking for something a little more subversive, check out Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo by Margot Mifflin (author of The Blue Tattoo). This book (with lots of illustrative pictures) shows the history of women with tattoos from Native Americans to circuses to the 1970s when there was a new revival for tattoos. 

A small volume that packs a big punch is We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Written in short segments in essay form, this little book is an argument for why all humans should be feminists in today's society--defining what feminism is and why it should be fought for.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

As you can see, we have a wide variety of works about women and by women. 

Please tell us if you would like us to set a volume aside for you at circulation@pvcc.edu!