UBC Okanagan Library has put together a list of books to help us recognize Women’s History Month in Canada. October was designated as Women’s History Month in 1992, and each year we celebrate a new theme or component. This year’s theme is Women at Work: Economic Growth Past, Present and Future and recognizes how women have contributed to the workforce and Canadian economy.
Women’s History Month Booklist
Black girls unbossed : young world changers leading the way by Khristi Lauren Adams
Women of the First Nations : power, wisdom and strength edited by Christina Miller and Patricia Chuchryk ; with Maria Smallface Marule, Brenda Manyfingers and Cheryl Deering
Firekeepers of the twenty-first century : First Nations women chiefs by Cora J. Voyageur
Disinherited generations : our struggle to reclaim treaty rights for First Nations women and their descendants by Nellie Carlson, Kathleen Steinhauer ; as told to Linda Goyette
We’re rooted here and they can’t pull us up : essays in African Canadian women’s history by Peggy Bristow and others
Passage to promise land : voices of Chinese immigrant women to Canada by Vivienne Poy
Viola Desmond : her life and times by Graham Reynolds with Wanda Robson
The life and death of Anna Mae Aquash by Johanna Brand
Mary Ann Shadd : publisher, editor, teacher, lawyer, suffragette by Rosemary Sadlier
Laura Secord by Jennifer Howse
Heroines and history : representations of Madeleine de Verchères and Laura Secord by Colin M. Coates and Cecilia Morgan
100 Canadian heroines : famous and forgotten faces by Merna Forster
Great dames edited by Elspeth Cameron and Janice Dickin
A plea for emigration or Notes of Canada West by Mary Ann Shadd, Phanuel Antwi
Indian in the cabinet : speaking truth to power by Jody Wilson-Raybould
Canuck chicks and maple leaf mamas : women of the great white north, a celebration of Canadian women by Ann Douglas
The girl and the game : a history of women’s sport in Canada by M. Ann Hall
Angels of the workplace : women and the construction of gender relations in the Canadian clothing industry, 1890-1940 by Mercedes Steedman
Women, feminism, and development edited by Huguette Dagenais et Denise Piché = Femmes, féminisme, et développement / sous la direction de Huguette Dagenais et Denise Piché
Feminists don’t wear pink and other lies : amazing women on what the f-word means to them curated by Scarlett Curtis
She persisted in science : brilliant women who made a difference by Chelsea Clinton.
Amplify : graphic narratives of feminist resistance by Norah Bowman, Meg Braem ; art by Dominique Hui
Working for the common good : Canadian women politicians by Madelyn Holmes
Despite the odds : essays on Canadian women and science edited by Marianne Gosztonyi Ainley
Renegade women of Canada : the wild, outrageous, daring and bold by Marina Michaelides
Rethinking Canada : the promise of women’s history by Mona Gleason, Adele Perry, Tamara Myers
Nellie McClung by Charlotte Gray ; with an introduction by John Ralston Saul
Living the edges : a disabled women’s reader edited by Diane Driedger
Belonging : the paradox of citizenship by Adrienne Clarkson
One hundred years of struggle : the history of women and the vote in Canada by Joan Sangster
Independent spirit : early Canadian women artists by A.K. Prakash
Convoluted beauty : in the company of Emily Carr curated by Lisa Baldissera ; essays by Lisa Baldissera, Vinciane Despret and Erika Dyck
Capturing joy : the story of Maud Lewis by Jo Ellen Bogart ; illustrated by Mark Lang
Caught in the act : an anthology of performance art by Canadian women edited by Tanya Mars & Johanna Householder
Gendering the nation : Canadian women’s cinema edited by Kay Armatage and others
The gendered screen : Canadian women filmmakers by Brenda Austin-Smith and George Melnyk
Editing modernity : women and little-magazine cultures in Canada, 1916-1956 by Dean Irvine
Women in exile and alienation : the fiction of Margaret Laurence and Anita Desai by Kaptan Singh
Violence and the female imagination : Quebec’s women writers re-frame gender in North American cultures by Paula Ruth Gilbert
Naturally woman : the search for self in Black Canadian women’s literature by Sharon Morgan Beckford
Waltzing again : new and selected conversations with Margaret Atwood edited by Earl G. Ingersoll
Gently to Nagasaki by Joy Kogawa
Challenging territory : the writing of Margaret Laurence edited by Christian Riegel
The complete journals of L.M. Montgomery : the PEI years, 1889-1900 edited by Mary Henley Rubio and Elizabeth Hillman Waterston
Annie Mae’s movement by Yvette Nolan
Out of the shadows : contributions of twentieth-century women to physics edited by Nina Byers and Gary Williams
Harriet Brooks : pioneer nuclear scientist by Marelene F. Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham
Roberta Bondar : leading science into space by Michael Webb
A history of women in the Canadian military by Barbara Dundas
Surviving in the hour of darkness : the health and wellness of women of colour and indigenous women edited by G. Sophie Harding