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women’s history

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrenched this literary masterpiece from her own experience. Narrated with superb psychological skill and dramatic precision, it tells the story of a nameless woman driven mad by enforced confinement after the birth of her child.

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir

Following de Beauvoir’s journey from obedient daughter in a bourgeois family to striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition often quashed in women in the 1920s. An intellectual rebel and one of the leading thinkers of her generation.

The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

Set during the Chinese revolution of the 1940s, Hong Kingston listened to her mother's tales of a China where girls are worthless. Growing up in a changing America, surrounded by Chinese myth and memory, this is her story of her journey into womanhood.

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Elizabeth Zott finds herself as the reluctant star of America's most beloved cooking show, Supper at Six. Her unusual approach to cooking proves revolutionary, because as it turns out, Zott isn't just teaching women to cook. She's daring them to change the status quo.

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

This graphic novel tells the story of Marjane Satrapi's life growing up during the Iranian Revolution. The intelligent and outspoken child of radical Marxists, Marjane paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran and the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life.