100 Must-Read Titles About Women’s History

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The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe (2011) door Nwando Achebe
Herinnering aan mijn Chili (2003) door Isabel Allende
Searching for Life: The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Disappeared Children of Argentina (1999) door Rita Arditti
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years : Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times (1994) door Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Humanizing the Sacred: Sisters in Islam and the Struggle for Gender Justice in Malaysia (2015) door Azza Basarudin
Nature of the Second Sex (1949) door Simone de Beauvoir
Natural Rebels: A Social History of Enslaved Black Women in Barbados (1989) door Hilary McD. Beckles
It's Always Possible: One Woman's Transformation of India's Prison System (1998) door Kiran Bedi
Kroniek van liefde en oorlog (2002) door Gioconda Belli
Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence (2005) door Carol Berkin
Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy: The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army (Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture) (2015) door Phyllis Birnbaum
Discarded Legacy: Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E.W. Harper, 1825-1911 (African American Life) (1994) door Melba Joyce Boyd
The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman (2007) door Nancy Marie Brown
Golda (2008) door Elinor Burkett
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth (2010) door Helen Castor
Wilde Zwanen (1991) door Jung Chang
America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines (2003) door Gail Collins
Het schaakmeisje van een sloppenwijk in Uganda tot internationaal kampioene (2012) door Tim Crothers
Women, Race, and Class (1981) door Angela Y. Davis
I, Phoolan Devi: The Autobiography of India's Bandit Queen (1996) door Phoolan Devi
Isabella: The Warrior Queen (2014) door Kirstin Downey
Sophie Scholl and the White Rose (1999) door Annette Dumbach
Hypatia of Alexandria (1995) door Maria Dzielska
The Chalice and The Blade (1987) door Riane Eisler
Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World (1829) door Catalina de Erauso
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America (1991) door Lillian Faderman
Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America (2005) door Dana Frank
Krijgshaftige koninginnen. Levens en legenden van strijdbare vrouwen (1988) door Antonia Fraser
No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women (2002) door Estelle Freedman
De mystieke vrouw (1963) door Betty Friedan
Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War (2011) door Leymah Gbowee
Women in the Middle Ages (1978) door Frances Gies
Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America (2016) door Kali Nicole Gross
Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir (2003) door Dorothy Height
Women Artists: An Illustrated History (1987) door Nancy G. Heller
Ravensbrück geschiedenis van het concentratiekamp voor vrouwen (2015) door Sarah Helm
Mijn vrijheid de autobiografie (2007) door Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984) door bell hooks
Identity by Design: Tradition, Change, and Celebration in Native Women's Dresses (2007) door National Museum of the American Indian
Wives, Slaves, and Concubines: A History of the Female Underclass in Dutch Asia (2010) door Eric Jones
Women & guerrilla movements : Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas, Cuba (2002) door Karen Kampwirth
In the Days of Our Grandmothers: A Reader in Aboriginal Women?s History in Canada (2006) door Mary-Ellen Kelm
Out to Work: The History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States (1982) door Alice Kessler-Harris
Women of Korea : a history from ancient times to 1945 (1976) door Yung-Chung Kim
Louise Pound: The 19th Century Iconoclast Who Forever Changed America's Views About Women, Academics and Sports (2008) door Marie Krohn
White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender, and Body in North India (2000) door Sarah Lamb
The Creation of Patriarchy (1986) door Gerda Lerner
Madame Chiang Kai-shek: China's Eternal First Lady (2006) door Laura Tyson Li
Pretty-shield: Medicine Woman of the Crows (1932) door Frank B. Linderman
Isabel Orleans-Bragança: The Brazilian Princess Who Freed the Slaves (2008) door James Mcmurtry Longo
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age (2014) door Myra MacPherson
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (2011) door Robert K. Massie
The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World (2014) door Adrienne Mayor
Rigoberta Menchu : een bericht uit Guatemala : het verhaal van Rigoberta Menchu (1983) door Rigoberta Menchú
Borders and Boundaries: How Women Experienced the Partition of India (1998) door Ritu Menon
Far More Terrible for Women: Personal Accounts of Women in Slavery (2006) door Patrick Minges
Dreaming with the Ancestors: Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico (Race and Culture in the American West Series, Vol. 4) (2010) door Shirley Boteler Mock
The Belles of New England: The Women of the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Wove (2002) door William Moran
Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush (1998) door Lael Morgan
De dochter van de paus het buitengewone leven van Felice della Rovere (2005) door Caroline P. Murphy
Night Witches: The Amazing Story Of Russia's Women Pilots in World War II (1981) door Bruce Myles
Daughters of the Earth (1977) door Carolyn Niethammer
Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back (2015) door Janice P. Nimura
De verborgen meisjes van Kabul verhuld protest in Afghanistan (2014) door Jenny Nordberg
Women on Ice: The Early Years of Women's Hockey in Western Canada (2009) door Wayne Norton
Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico (2005) door Jocelyn Olcott
The Winter Queen: Elizabeth of Bohemia (1938) door Carola Oman
Eva Peron (1995) door Alicia Dujovne Ortiz
Wise Women of the Dreamtime: Aboriginal Tales of the Ancestral Powers (1993) door K. Langloh Parker
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom (2015) door Yeonmi Park
Undaunted: My Struggle for Freedom and Survival in Burma (2010) door Zoya Phan
Le Livre de la Cité des Dames (1405) door Christine de Pizan
Thousands of Roads: A Memoir of a Young Woman's Life in the Ukrainian Underground During and After World War II (2001) door Maria Savchyn Pyskir
Palestinian Women of Gaza and the West Bank (1998) door Suha Sabbagh
Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History (2009) door Canyon Sam
Sultana het waar gebeurde, schokkende levensverhaal van een Arabische prinses (2001) door Jean Sasson
Persepolis (2000) door Marjane Satrapi
Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries who Shaped Our History... and Our Future! (2015) door Kate Schatz
In Praise of Black Women, Volume 1: Ancient African Queens (2001) door Simone Schwarz-Bart
Women in Caribbean History: The British-colonised Territories (1999) door Verene Shepherd
A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx (2009) door Elaine Showalter
Nike Is a Goddess: The History of Women in Sports (1998) door Lissa Smith
Walking in the Sacred Manner: Healers, Dreamers, and Pipe Carriers--Medicine Women of the Plains (1995) door Mark St. Pierre
Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science and the World (2015) door Rachel Swaby
The Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women (2010) door Deborah J. Swiss
De stem die nog weet (1997) door Adhe Tapontsang
The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898 (Gender and American Culture) (2014) door Lisa Tetrault
From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i (1993) door Haunani-Kay Trask
Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt (Penguin History) (1994) door Joyce A. Tyldesley
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History (2007) door Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire (2010) door Jack Weatherford
Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution (2006) door Caroline Weber
The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon (2004) door Robert Whitaker
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) door Mary Wollstonecraft
A History of the Wife (2001) door Marilyn Yalom
The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan (2015) door Rafia Zakaria

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