Women's History Month at LMU

By Johanna Neumann

In this sweeping history, the author demonstrates that American women defeated the male patriarchy only after they convinced men that it was in their interests to share political power.

By Sonia Sotomayor

An instant American icon, the third woman, and the first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court, the author tells the story of her life before becoming a judge.

By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The author offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness. 

By Jacqueline Woodson

In vivid poems, the author shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the civil rights movement.

By Sylvia Chan-Malik

An exploration of how U.S. Muslim women’s identities are expressions of Islam as both Black protest religion and universal faith tradition.

By Beth Allison Barr

“Biblical womanhood” isn't biblical: It arose from a series of clearly definable historical moments and is more about human power structures than the message of Christ.

By Mary Gabriel

These women changed American art and society, tearing up the prevailing social code and replacing it with a doctrine of liberation.

By Saidiya Hartman

Recreates the experience of young urban black women in the early twentieth century who desired an existence qualitatively different than the one scripted for them.