Celebrating Women’s

Equality Day
Selected Resources Available at
the

Resource Center Dallas • 2701 Reagan Street,

Dallas, TX
214-540-4451 • library@rcdallas.org

SELECTED BOOKS
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism. By bell hooks. E 185.86 H73 1984
Examines the impacts of sexism and racism within the women's movement, as well as
black women's involvement with feminism.
Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism. By Sheila HQ 1597 R678 1981
Rowbotham, Lynne Segal, and Hilary Wainwright.
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and ML3521 D355 1998
Billie Holiday. By Angela Y. Davis.
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community. By HQ 75.5 K47 B66 1994
Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis. History of the lesbian
community in Buffalo, New York from the mid-1930s up to the early 1960s
Borderlands = La Frontera. By Gloria Anzaldua. Combines poetry, memoir, history, PS 3551 N95 B6 1999
cultural anthropology, and theory to show "mestiza consciousness."
Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About. Ed. by Carla HQ 75.6 T78 C53 1991
Trujillo
Dancing at the edge of the world: thoughts on words, women, places. By Ursula PS 3562.E42 D36 1989
LeGuin.
Different daughters: a history of the Daughters of Bilitis and the rise of the lesbian HQ 75.6 G36 D54 2006
rights movement. By Marcia Gallo.
The Encyclopedia of Amazons: Women Warriors from Antiquity to the modern era. HQ 1115 S25 1992
By Jessica Salmonson
Failure is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in her own words. Edited by Lynn Sherr. HQ1413 A55 S48 1995
Femininity. By Susan Brownmiller. A look at stereotypical feminine esthetics and their HQ 1426 B76 1984
uses in maintaining gender roles.
Feminism: The essential historical writings. Edited by Miriam Schneir. HQ1154 S29 1972
The First Sex. By Elizabeth Gould Davis. One of the first books to look at ancient HQ 1121 D37 1971
matriarchal cultures.
For Her Own Good: 150 years of the experts' advice to women. By Barbara HQ 1426 E38 1989
Ehrenreich and Deirdre English. How professional “experts” turned common
events in women's lives into "problems" that only they could solve.
For Lesbian Parents: your guide to helping your family grow up happy, healthy, HQ 755.43 J64 F6 2001
and proud. By Suzanne Johnson
A Fragile Union: New & Selected Writings. By Joan Nestle. ALA Stonewall Book PS 3564 E822 F73 1998
Award Finalist 1999. Lambda Literary Award Winner Lesbian Studies 1998
The Gloria Anzaldúa reader. By Gloria E. Anzaldúa; Edited by AnaLouise PS 3551 N95 A6 2009
Keating.
Hidden from History; Rediscovering Women In History From The 17th Century To HQ 1597 R68 1975
The Present. By Sheila Rowbotham. Women’s role in history from the 17th to the
20th Centuries.
Inventing Ourselves: Lesbian Life Stories. By Hall Carpenter Archives. Oral HQ 75.5 H35 I58 1989
histories from British lesbians from the 20th Century.
The Judy Grahn reader. By Judy Grahn. PS 3557 R226 A6 2009
Lesbian-feminism in turn-of-the-century Germany. By Lillian Faderman. HQ 75.6 G3 L47 1980
Lesbian Nation: the Feminist Solution. By Jill Johnston. A collection of essays on HQ 75.1 J66 L47 1973
lesbian feminism. Publishing Triangle 100 Best Lesbian & Gay Non-Fiction Books.
Lesbian/Woman. By Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon. History of the lesbian rights HQ 75.5 M37 L47 1991
movement by early lesbian rights activists.
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: a History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century HQ 75.5 F33 O33 1991
America. By Lillian Faderman. Relates lesbian life in 20th Century US, includes
16 pages of photos. Multiple awards.
Rubyfruit Jungle. By Rita Mae Brown. Modern classic novel about growing up as a PS 3552 R698 R8 1973
black lesbian in America. Publishing Triangle 100 Best Lesbian & Gay Novels.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Audre Lorde. Essays on racism, self- E 185.86 L675 S57 1984
acceptance, motherhood and being a woman.
Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder. By Barbara Jordan. Speeches from the E 838.5 J6735 2007
late Texas Congresswoman. Includes DVD.
Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love between Women, from HQ 75.5 F33 S8 1981
the Renaissance to the Present. By Lillian Faderman.
To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America. By Lillian HQ 75.5 F35 T6 1999
Faderman.
The Woman’s Bible. By Elizabeth Cady Stanton. BS 575 S68 1974b
Woman on the edge of time. By Marge Piercy. A feminist science fiction novel. PS3566 I4 W6 1976
Women, race & class. By Angela Davis. E 185.86 D383 1983

SELECTED BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Susan B. Anthony: a biography of a singular feminist. By Kathleen Barry. HQ 1413 A55 B36 1988
Fun Home. By Alison Bechdel. Multiple awards for this biographical graphic novel. PN 6727 B3757 Z46 2006
The Truth Is -- my life in love and music. By Melissa Etheridge. ML 420 E88 A3 2001
To Be Young, Gifted, and Black. Lorraine Hansberry in her own words. PS 3515 A515 Z8 1995
Billie Jean. By Billie Jean King. GV 994 K56 A33 1982
K.D. Lang: all you get is me. By Victoria Starr. ML 420 L238 S73 1994
Warrior poet: a biography of Audre Lorde. By Alexis DeVeaux. PS 3562 O75 Z66 2004
Sita. By Kate Millett. Publishing Triangle 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Nonfiction Books HQ 75.9 M54 S5 1977
Fire in the rain-- singer in the storm: an autobiography. By Holly Near. ML 420 N375 A3 1990
Sappho. By Jane Snyder. (from children’s series, Lives of Notable Gay Men and PZ 920 S366 1995
Lesbians)
From the closet to the courts: the lesbian transition. By Ruth Simpson. Memoir HQ 76 S54 1977
by a founder of the first US lesbian Community Center.
Awakening: How a 53 year old wife and mother "became" a lesbian. By Pat HQ 75.9 S76 A9 2009
Stone.

The same river twice: honoring the difficult: a meditation on life, spirit, art, and PS 3573 A425 Z47 1996
the making of the film, The color purple, ten years later. By Alice Walker.

SELECTED FILMS
History Lessons. A humorous look at old headlines, films, and newsreels.
I, the Worst of All. Based on the life of 17th Century Mexican nun, Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz.
Iron Jawed Angels. Alice Paul radicalizes the women’s suffrage movement.
No Secret Anymore: The Times of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon. Part of Visionaries & Visionaries: Early Leaders
in the LGBT Movement.
ThisofisElizabeth
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story a small sampling of books
Cady Stanton and
& Susan resources in our
B. Anthony
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