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
Framing Our Past: Canadian Women's History in the Twentieth Century by Call Number: Fennell STACKS HQ1453 .F73 2001Publication Date: 2001
Glory in Their Spirit: How Four Black Women Took On the Army During World War II by Publication Date: 2019eBook
Broad Band: the Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Call Number: Fennell STACKS QA76.2.A2 .E93 2018Publication Date: 2018
The Hidden History of American Fashion: Rediscovering 20th-century Women Designers by Publication Date: 2018eBook
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
Playing it Forward: 50 Years of Women and Sport in Canada by
Call Number: Fennell STACKS GV709.18.C2 .P593 2013Publication Date: 2013
Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement by Publication Date: 2020eBook
We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up: Essays in African Canadian Women's History by Publication Date: 1994eBook
Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote by Publication Date: 2019eBook
Films & Videos
- 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. - The Janes (Video Duration 1 hour 41 minutes)In the pre-Roe v. Wade era––a time when abortion was a crime in most states and even circulating information about abortion was a felony in Illinois––the Janes provided low-cost and free abortions to an estimated 11,000 women.
- Marie Curie: Beyond the Myth (Video Duration 52 minutes)To draw a portrait of this outstanding scientist, the Curie Museum unveils its archives, including some unreleased materials.
- 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.
- A History Of Women's Suffrage Around The World (Video Duration 5 minutes)
A video on the history of voting rights for women. - 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.
- Black Mother Black Daughter (Video Duration 29 minutes)
Black Mother Black Daughter explores the lives and experiences of black women in Nova Scotia, their contributions to the home, the church and the community and the strengths they pass on to their daughters. - Rosies of the North (Video Duration 46 minutes)Sixty years ago, thousands of women from Thunder Bay and the Prairies donned trousers, packed lunch pails and took up rivet guns to participate in the greatest industrial war effort in Canadian history.
- Women on the March (Video Duration 58 minutes)A film record of women at the turn of the century and of the suffragette movement's struggle for equal rights