Canada's Great Women
Portraits by Robert Carter
Featured Resource
Champions for Peace: Women Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize by Publication Date: 2018eBook
Only seventeen women have won the Nobel Prize for Peace since it was first awarded in 1901. In this compelling book, Judith Stiehm narrates these women's varied lives in fascinating detail.
Women Making History
For the Record: the First Women in Canadian Architecture by Call Number: Fennell STACKS NA1997 .F67 2008Publication Date: 2008
Broad Band: the Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Call Number: Fennell STACKS QA76.2.A2 .E93 2018Publication Date: 2018
How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement by Publication Date: 2013eBook
Revenge of the She-Punks: A Feminist Music History From Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot by Publication Date: 2019eBook
Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement by Publication Date: 2020eBook
- Women in STEM
Women have always made significant contributions to science, technology, engineering and math, but inequalities remain in those fields. In this selection of films, we meet women breaking down those barriers. - 10 Films by Influential WomenFrom politics to the environment to the arts, these films by some of Canada's finest filmmakers address the issues that affect us all.
- One Leg at a Time (Women and Trousers) (Video Duration 12 minutes)
It may be difficult to imagine nowadays, but less than a century ago, trousers were still unthinkable for women. - Jane Goodall: The Hope (Video Duration 1 hour 28 minutes)Offers an intimate perspective of Goodall’s pivotal transformation from scientist to inspirational activist and leader and how she is galvanizing a future generation to create lasting change.
- Sisters With Transistors: Electronic Music's Unsung Heroines (Video Duration 1 hour 26 minutes)
The untold story of electronic music's female pioneers who embraced machines to transform how we produce and listen to music today.