Tag Archives: Women’s History Month

Virtual Book Display for Women’s History Month

March 24, 2010Book Displays, Our CollectionsWomen's History MonthElizabeth Hollenbeck

If you aren’t able to get to the library, check out these e-books, or electronic books.

Critical condition: feminism at the turn of the century by S. Gubar (check for availability)

The reader’s companion to U.S. women’s history by W.P. Mankiller (check for availability)

Waking Sleeping Beauty: feminist voices in children’s novels by R.S. Trites (check for availability)

Women, class, and education by J. Thompson(check for availability)

Reading rape: the rhetoric of sexual violence in American literature and culture, 1790-1990 by S. Sielke (check for availability)

A leisure of one’s own: a feminist perspective on women’s leisure by K. Henderson (check for availability)

Spinsters and lesbians: independent womanhood in the United States by T. Franzen (check for availability)

Feminism and world religions by A. Sharma (check for availability)

Women in the Chinese enlightenment: oral and textual histories by Z. Wang (check for availability)

Gender on campus: issues for college women by S. Gmelch (check for availability)

Contributed by Amy Gowarty, Library Specialist at the Pecan Campus.

Women’s History Month Book Display

March 24, 2010Book Displays, Mid-Valley Campus, Our Collections, Pecan CampusWomen's History MonthElizabeth Hollenbeck

Celebrate Women’s History Month with one of these books from the MidValley Campus Library

or the Pecan Campus Library.

Also, look for these books:

Las Tejanas: 300 Years of History by Teresa Palomo Acosta (check for availability)

The first woman in the republic : a cultural biography of Lydia Maria Child by Carolyn Karcher (check availability)

Founding Mothers: the Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts (check availability)

Girls like us : Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon–and the journey of a generation by Sheila Weller (check availability)

Feminism and contemporary art : the revolutionary power of women’s laughter by Jo Anna Isaak (check availability)

Contributed by Lillian Carillo from the Mid-Valley Campus and Amy Gowarty from the Pecan Campus Library.

Screening of Iron Jawed Angels @ MidValley Campus Library

March 9, 2010Library Events, Mid-Valley Campus, Movies, Previous EventsWomen's History MonthElizabeth Hollenbeck

libevents-ironjawed To celebrate Women’s History Month, the Mid-Valley STC Library will be showing Iron Jawed Angels, a 2004 film about the women’s suffrage movement during the 1910s. This movie follows activists, Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) and Lucy Burns (Frances O’Connor), as they fought tirelessly for a woman’s right to be counted. Returning to the United States from England, Alice Paul and Lucy Burns learned that their ideas about women and voting were too radical for even the National American Woman Suffrage Association. In response, they created the National Woman’s Party, a group that takes drastic measures to ensure women’s rights. Taking the women’s suffrage movement by storm, Paul and Burns put their freedom on the line as they boldly take action.

In a time when it is easy to take the right to vote for granted, this film reminds us that women once had to fight and suffer to step into the voting booth. One hundred years ago women were denied the privilege of expressing their opinions about our government, but because Alice Paul and Lucy Burns (and a number of other brave women such as Susan B. Anthony) refused to be content with their lives as non-voting citizens, we are all able to be counted equally.

Iron Jawed Angels will be showing Wednesday, March 10, 2010 beginning at 10 am at the STC Mid-Valley Library. It will also be showing Thursday, March 11 at 12:00 pm at the Pecan Campus Library.

Contributed by Jessica Cruz, Library Specialist at the Mid-Valley Campus.

Celebrating Women’s History Month with Art

March 4, 2010Library Art Gallery, Previous ExhibitsWomen's History Monthgotvos

March is National Women’s History Month and this year South Texas College’s Pecan Campus Library is celebrating with a distinguished guest speaker series, film documentaries, a workshop and three art exhibitions! The art exhibits are on loan from Humanities Texas, state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Two of the exhibits entitled “Rural Texas Women at Work, 1930-1960” and “Citizens At Last: The Women Suffrage Movement in Texas” are freestanding, framed panel displays including images and text mounted behind Plexiglas. “Rural Texas Women at Work, 1930-1960” features photographs and information from the Texas Agricultural Extension Service archives at Texas A&M University of women in the interior of the home as well as outside working in the farms and fields during two greatly devastating events—the Great Depression and World War II. This exhibit commemorates women’s ability and strength to survive under extreme circumstances and provide for their families.

“Citizens At Last: The Women Suffrage Movement in Texas” celebrates women’s right to vote and the ratification of the 19^th amendment to the Constitution which opened up the long awaited struggle for women to be recognized as citizens and given voting rights. This exhibit focuses on the 27 year Texas womens’ suffrage campaign with archival photographs, newspaper clippings, cartoons, cards and text from the Woman’s Collection of Texas Woman’s University Library.

The exhibit “Changing the Face of Power: Women in the U.S. Senate” originally exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution and presented by the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, features 37 black and white documentary photographs of 14 U.S. women Senators at work and behind the scenes from 2001-2003. The photographs in this exhibition were taken by highly acclaimed photojournalist Melina Mara who began taking photos at the age of six. All text panels for this particular exhibition were provided by the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.

All art exhibits and events are free and open to the public and exhibits will be on view throughout the month of March. Don’t miss this precious opportunity to experience awe inspiring art in appreciation of the graceful strength, power and integrity of women throughout time. For detailed information on all events visit, ( http://news.southtexascollege.edu/?tag=womens-history-month).

Contributed by Sofia Vestweber, Art Gallery Associate for the STC Library Art Gallery.

Movie showing: 14 Women for Women’s History Month

March 3, 2010Book Reviews, Library Events, Movies, Our Collections, Pecan Campus, Previous EventsWomen's History MonthElizabeth Hollenbeck

For Women’s History Month, the Pecan STC Library will be showing 14 WOMEN, a 2006 documentary about the historic 109th Congress that seated an unprecedented 14 women in the Senate. The documentary describes each of their individual triumphs on how they overcame many barriers to be at the place they are right now. These women have made history and are setting examples to other women who wish to enter the political realm as well.

This film discusses how many Americans still are not aware that since the establishment of the U.S. Senate in 1789, there has been a total of thirty-eight woman who have fought and broken society norms by entering this specific segment of the public sphere. It amazes me that although the number of women in the Senate has slightly increased to seventeen right now, this is still a very small number compared to the men that make up the majority of the U.S. Senate.

Let us all do a favor to our generation and start motivating more women who have a passion to run for any type of public office! Let us make history by spreading the word!

The movie was directed by Mary Lambert, famed music video director, and features senators Barbara Boxer, Maria Cantwell, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Susan Collins, Elizabeth Dole, Dianne Feinstein, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Mary Landrieu, Blanche Lincoln, Barbara Mikulski, Lisa Murkowski, Patty Murray, Olympia Snowe, and Debbie Stabenow.

Other movies showing for Women’s History Month:

Date	Time	Movie
Mar. 4	12:00 – 1:00 PM	Her Brilliant Career
Mar. 9	12:00 – 1:00 PM	Sisters of Selma: Bearing Witness for Change
Mar. 11	12:00 – 2:00 PM	Iron Jawed Angels
Mar. 25	12:00 – 1:30 PM	14 Women: the Historic 109th Congress

For a list of speakers for Women’s History Month presenting at STC this month, please visit: http://news.southtexascollege.edu/?p=1894

Contributed by Amy Gowarty, Library Specialist at the Pecan Campus.