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This week the AUM Library is continuing it’s focus on Women’s History Month by featuring several books that deal with women’s role throughout history. Check these titles and more at the library! You can also check out this week’s elevator flyers by clicking here.
Shattering the Glass : the Remarkable History of Women’s Basketball
By Pamela Grundy and Susan Shackelford
Located on the 4th floor GV886 .G78 2005
Over the past decade, women’s basketball has exploded onto the national sports scene. WNBA and NCAA television ratings have skyrocketed; movies, magazines, and clothing lines showcase female players. But as the authors of Shattering the Glass show, women’s basketball has a much longer history, reaching back over a century of struggle, liberation, and gutsy play.
Shattering the Glass offers a sweeping chronicle of women’s basketball in the United States, from its invention in the late nineteenth century to its dominant position in sports today. Offering vivid portraits of forgotten heroes and contemporary stars, it also provides a broader perspective on the history of the sport, exploring its relationship to changing ideas of womanhood, efforts to expand women’s economic and political rights, and definitions of sexual equality.
Based on original interviews with players, coaches, administrators, broadcasters, and extensively illustrated, Shattering the Glass provides a moving, gritty view of the game on and off the court, and an empowering story of the generations of women who have shaped women’s basketball
Source: http://www.thenewpress.com/index.php?option=com_title&task=view_title&metaproductid=1531
Who cooked the Last Supper? : the Women’s History of the World
By Rosalind Miles
Located on the 4th floor HQ1121 .M55 2001
Men dominate history because men write history. There have been many heroes, but no heroines. This is the book that overturns that “phallusy of history,” giving voice to the true history of the world — which, always and forever, must include the contributions of millions of unsung women. Here is the history you never learned — but should have!
Without politics or polemics, this brilliant and witty book overturns centuries of preconceptions to restore women to their rightful place at the center of culture, revolution, empire, war, and peace. Spiced with tales of individual women who have shaped civilization, celebrating the work and lives of women around the world, distinguished by a wealth of research, Who Cooked the Last Supper? redefines our concept of historical reality
A Woman’s Place There may have been only men sitting at the table, but Who Cooked the Last Supper? asks writer Rosalind Miles. Bent on setting the record straight, Miles offers a keen and passionate look at women’s contributions to civilizations from hunter-gatherer societies to the present, shining a spotlight into neglected corners as well as on familiar figures: who knew, for example, that Florence Nightingale defied a military commander and, wielding a hammer, broke into a locked storeroom after he refused to give her medical supplies? Readers will delight in this rebel-rousing read, previously published in 1990 by Harper Perennial as The Women’s History of the World.
Source: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Who-Cooked-the-Last-Supper/Rosalind-Miles/e/9780609806951
Beyond Image and Convention : Explorations in Southern Women’s History
Edited by Janet Lee Coryell
Located on the 4th floor HQ1438 .S63 B48 1998
Despite their prevailing image and stereotype, southern women have often gone “beyond convention,” living on their own terms within a society that revered tradition and compliance. Spanning the colonial era to the mid-twentieth century, Beyond Image and Convention documents women from widely varied social, economic, religious, and ethnic backgrounds who acted outside the accepted gender boundaries of their day.
Reflecting the quality and breadth of current scholarship in the field of southern women’s history, this collection of essays relies upon previously untapped documentary evidence and, in the process, crafts provocative new interpretations of our collective past. The essays explore the historical experience of black and white southern women across nearly three centuries, including a white woman’s sexual misconduct in colonial North Carolina, one slave woman’s successful attempt to carve out an autonomous existence in southwestern Virginia, an ex-slave’s fight for freedom in postbellum Missouri, and the civil rights activism of two white southern women—Sarah Patton Boyle of Virginia and Alice Norwood Spearman of South Carolina.
Breaking new ground in the study of women’s history, Beyond Image and Convention provides valuable insights for both specialists and general readers.
Source: http://press.umsystem.edu/spring1998/coryell.htm
Reclaiming the Past : Landmarks of Women’s History
Edited by Page Putnam Miller
Located on the 3rd floor E159 .R42 1992
Miller gives readers a better understanding of women’s history by introducing important locations and examining women’s lives in the context of these historical settings. Each chapter describes a site that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Beginning with Taos Pueblo in New Mexico, built in 1325, the author describes the Native American women who lived there, highlighting their roles as builders and heads of households. Continuing chronologically, she includes lesser-known places such as St. John’s Freehold in St. Mary’s City, MD, where Margaret Brent went before the provincial assembly in 1648 requesting the right to vote. The Boardinghouse at Boott Cotton Mill in Lowell, MA, provides information about the young women who worked in the textile industry. Other landmarks include the Wesleyan Chapel at Seneca Falls, NY (the site of the first women’s rights convention); the M. Carey Thomas Library at Bryn Mawr College; and the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, CA, designed by Julia Morgan. Fact boxes for each locale contain a photograph, contact information (including Web sites), and a summary of its significance. Period black-and-white photographs and maps appear throughout, as do quotes from primary sources. Information on related sites is also included. This clearly written book is a gem for research.
Source: http://www.amazon.com/Landmarks-American-Womens-History/dp/0195145011
In recognition of Black History Month and the Winter Olympics, the AUM Library is highlighting African American Olympic athletes. Check out the link below for some great Olympic moments featuring some amazing athletes!
“Great Olympic Moments – Olympic achievements of African American athletes”
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1077/is_12_55/ai_65572108/?tag=content;col1
MUHAMMAD ALI — In one of the most dramatic, surprising and emotional moments in Olympic history, Muhammad Ali, a former heavyweight champion and 1960 Olympic gold medalist, shocked the world when he stepped out of the darkness and accepted the Olympic torch to light the Olympic caldron during the opening ceremonies of the Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996.
JESSE OWENS — With Adolf Hitler looking on, Jesse Owens’ record-breaking performance at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, at the time the international symbol of racism and fascism, shattered the German dictator’s theory of Aryan supremacy. He won gold medals in the 100- and 200-meter runs, broad jump (now called long jump) and the 400-meter relay. By the time Owens reached the victors’ stand to receive his medals, Hitler and his entourage had left the stadium.
WlLMA RUDOLPH — At the 1960 Olympics in Rome, Wilma Rudolph captured the world’s attention and gained international stardom when she became the first American woman to win three gold medals at one Olympiad. Rudolph, who had overcome a bout with polio as a child, won gold in the 100- and 200-meter dashes, and the 400-meter relay.
MILTON CAMPBELL — At the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, Milton Campbell earned a place in Olympic history when he became the first Black to win the decathlon, and with that victory goes the title of “world’s greatest athlete.”
In celebration of Black History Month, the AUM library is featuring books by African American women writers from the 19th century. The following is an excerpt from the Digital Schomburg African American Women Writers of the 19th Century: check out their website for biographies of these amazing women.
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/toc.html
African American Women Writers of the 19thCentury
Howard Dodson, Chief
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The New York Public Library
The nineteenth century was a formative period in African-American literary and cultural history. Prior to the Civil War, the majority of black Americans living in the United States were held in bondage. Law and practice forbade teaching blacks from learning to read or write. Even after the war, many of the impediments to learning and literary productivity remained. Nevertheless, black men and women of the nineteenth century learned to both read and write. Moreover, more African-Americans than we yet realize turned their observations, feelings, social viewpoints, and creative impulses into published works. In time, this nineteenth-century printed record included poetry, short stories, histories, narratives, novels, autobiographies, social criticism, and theology, as well as economic and philosophical treatises. Unfortunately, much of this body of literature remained, until very recently, relatively inaccessible to twentieth-century scholars, teachers, creative artists, and others interested in black life. Prior to the late 1960s, most Americans (black as well as white) had never heard of these nineteenth-century authors, much less read their works.
Love is in the air this week at the AUM Library! In honor of the upcoming day of love, we’ve chosen some romantic novels to help set the mood. Check out these titles and more at the AUM Library.
Jane Eyre
By Charlotte Bronte
This book can be found on the 5th floor
PQ8180.17 .A73 A8345 2005
Part fairytale, part Gothic horror, part love story, Jane Eyre remains one of the most compelling novels ever written. After running away from her unloving and cruel aunt, the orphaned Jane endures a harsh existence at an Evangelical school, where she at least finds some friends and kindness. When she comes of age, she takes a position as governess to the children of the moody, Byronic Mr. Rochester. As time passes, she begins to fall deeply in love with her magnetic employer…but soon realizes that both he and his dark and shadowy mansion hide a terrible secret.
Ever since its publication in 1847, Jane Eyre has enthralled every kind of reader, from the most critical and cultivated to the youngest and most unabashedly romantic. It lives as one of the great triumphs of storytelling and as a moving and unforgettable portrayal of a woman’s quest for self-respect.
Source: http://www.amazon.com/Jane-Vintage-Classics-Charlotte-Bronte/dp/030745519X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265640261&sr=1-1
Love in the Time of Cholera
By Gabriel Garcia Marquez
This book can be found on the 5th floor
PQ8180.17 .A73 A8345 2005
While delivering a message to her father, Florentino Ariza spots the barely pubescent Fermina Daza and immediately falls in love. What follows is the story of a passion that extends over 50 years, as Fermina is courted solely by letter, decisively rejects her suitor when he first speaks, and then joins the urbane Dr. Juvenal Urbino, much above her station, in a marriage initially loveless but ultimately remarkable in its strength. Florentino remains faithful in his fashion; paralleling the tale of the marriage is that of his numerous liaisons, all ultimately without the depth of love he again declares at Urbino’s death. In substance and style not as fantastical, as mythologizing, as the previous works, this is a compelling exploration of the myths we make of love.
Source: http://www.amazon.com/Love-Cholera-Gabriel-Garcia-Marquez/dp/0394561619/ref=reader_auth_dp
Tribute
By Nora Roberts
This book can be found on the 2nd floor in the Browsing Collection
Cilla McGowan always sold the properties she bought and then rebuilt, but this time Cilla planned on keeping the place for herself. Cilla knew restoring her grandmother’s retreat in the Shenandoah Valley would take lots of time, money, and hard work since no one had lived there since Cilla’s grandmother—glamorous Hollywood actress Janet Hardy—committed suicide 30 years ago. What Cilla hadn’t factored into her plans was just how distracting her sexy new neighbor, graphic novelist Ford Sawyer, would be. Or that after Cilla discovers a packet of her grandmother’s letters, someone in the small town will stop at nothing to keep some secrets buried in the past. Once again the extraordinarily imaginative, prolific, and popular Roberts creates a cast of magnetic and superbly nuanced characters and a cleverly ordered plot spiced with subtle suspense and sexy romance. She also evinces a dry wit that serves to enhance the sheer pleasure of her latest completely captivating novel of danger and desire
Source: http://www.amazon.com/Tribute-Nora-Roberts/dp/0515146366/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265637449&sr=1-1
In celebration of Black History Month, the AUM Library is highlighting Black Superheroes in comics, video games, television, and movies. Check out our elevator flyers for information on Green Lantern, Storm, War Machine, and Black Lightning. You can also check out the Museum of Black Superheroes at http://www.blacksuperhero.com/history.html
January is National Staying Healthy Month, and the AUM Library has a great collection of books, articles, and government documents to guide you in your journey to a healthier you in 2010. Check out the links below for helpful information regarding diet and exercise.
Tips for Adults: Healthy Eating & Physical Activity Across Your Lifespan : Better Health and You.
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS112796
A Healthier You
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS109567
Weighing the Evidence in Diet Ads
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS104828
Exercise: Getting Fit for Life
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS110999
