Check out the many ways KSL is celebrating Women's History Month!
Event
Read Aloud
Tuesday, March 26 from 2:30 to 4 p.m. in the KSL Art Gallery
Join Kelvin Smith Library and the Flora Stone Mather Center for a Read Aloud celebrating Women's History Month featuring students from ENGL 373: American Women’s Poetry, faculty, and staff who will read selections from women-identifying poets and prose writers who resonate with them. Following the readings themselves, there will be a discussion open to audience participants.
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Online Exhibit
On both the national and the local level, women utilized new tactics and ideas to claim a political voice and influence for themselves. Many working-class and women of color participated in the movement, seeing suffrage as necessary to gain economic and social justice. Yet their contributions were frequently marginalized by the mainstream leaders and are largely absent from the historical record.
This website, created by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, Lauren Dostal, Isabel Fedewa, Jewel Yoder Kuhns, Kellyn Toombs, and Abbey Wells, situates the campaign for suffrage in the longer narrative of the ongoing struggle for women’s rights, giving special attention to northeast Ohio and our University.
View 19TH AT 100: COMMEMORATING THE SUFFRAGE STRUGGLE AND ITS LEGACIES IN NORTHEAST OHIO
Media
Kelvin Smith Library provides access to Kanopy, a streaming video site. Discover Kanopy's collection of educational and documentary films celebrating Women's History Month.
Log in using your CWRU network ID and password and explore Kanopy’s Women’s History Month offerings here.
Books
Find titles authored or edited by current or former CWRU faculty, including both fictional and academic works:
Women in the ancient world by Jenifer Neils
The world we found: a novel by Thrity Umrigar
American tomboys: 1850-1915 / Renee M. Sentilles
Flora Stone Mather: daughter of Cleveland's Euclid Avenue and Ohio's Western Reserve / Gladys Haddad
Space oddities: women and outer space in popular film and culture, 1960-2000 / Marie Lathers
Women and clothes / Brigitte Kronauer ; translated from the German by Jutta Ittner
Women Writers of Gabon: literature and herstory by Cheryl Toman
Handbook on women in business and management / edited by Diana Bilimoria and Sandy Kristin Piderit
Political women and American democracy / edited by Christina Wolbrecht, Karen Beckwith, Lisa Baldez
Women, seduction, and betrayal in biblical narrative / Alice Bach
Defining women's scientific enterprise: Mount Holyoke faculty and the rise of American science / Miriam R. Levin
The politics of public housing: Black women's struggles against urban inequality / by Rhonda Y. Williams
Research Help on the topic of Women and Gender Studies
Contact Olivia Hobbs (olivia.hobbs@case.edu), Research and Engagement Librarian specializing in Women’s Studies or your Library Advisor.
The Women and Gender Studies Research Guide highlights women’s contributions to the humanities, social sciences and the sciences. In addition, it identifies sources that focus on gender issues, sexuality, women of color, the role of women in the family, feminist theory and the history of the women's movement.
The Women in Tech Research Guide supports the Women in Tech Initiative at Case Western Reserve University by providing easy access to a variety of inspirational resources.