Women's Lives (Individual Life Stories)
(see also Women's History, Life & Values, Women's Movements, African American Lives, Mexican American Lives, Mexico: Women & Brazil: Women)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Albertson, Chris. Bessie (New Haven: Yale, 2003).
Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (NY: Random House, 1970).
__________. Gather Together in My Name (NY: Random House, 1974).
__________. Singin' & Swingin' & Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (?, 1976).
__________. The Heart of a Woman (NY: Random House, 1981).
__________. All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (NY: Random House, 1986).
__________. A Song Flung Up to Heaven (NY: Random House, 2002).
Arraras, Maria Celeste. Selena's Secret: The Revealing Story behind her Tragic Death (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1997).
Banner, Lois W. Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict & their Circle (NY: Knopf, 2003).
Barker-Benfield, G.J. & Catherine Clinton (eds.) Portraits of American Women, from Settlement to the Present (NY: St. Martin's, 1991).
Boggs, Grace Lee. Living for Change: An Autobiography (Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota, 1998).
Bolton, Ruthie. Gal: A True Life (NY: Harcourt Brace, 1994).
Chesler, Ellen. Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger & the Birth Control Movement in America (NY: Anchor, 19930.
Clark, Septima Poinsette. Ready from Within: Septima Clark & the Civil Rights Movement (ed. Cynthia Stokes Brown; Trenton NJ: Africa World, 1990).
Coiner, Constance. Better Red: The Writings & Resistance of Tillie Olsen & Meridel LeSueur (Urbana: U. of Illinois, 1998).
Dash, Joan. A Life of One's Own: Three Gifted Women & the Men they Married (NY: Harper & Row, 1973). Margaret Sanger, Edna St. Vincent Millay & Maria Goeppert Mayer.
Davidson, Sue. A Heart in Politics: Jeannette Rankin & Patsy T. Mink (Seattle: Seal, 1994).
Davis, Angela Y. With My Mind on Freedom: An Autobiography (NY: Random House, 1974).
Douglas, Helen Gahagan. A Full Life (NY: Doubleday, 1982).
Dumas, Firdoozeh. Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (NY: Villard, 2003).
Durr, Virginia Foster. Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr (ed. Hollinger F. Barnard; NY: Simon & Schuster, 1985).
Falk, Candace. Love, Anarchy & Emma Goldman (NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1984).
Fetherling, Dale. Mother Jones the Miners' Angel: A Portrait (Carbondale: Southern Illinois U., 1974).
Fosl, Catherine. Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden & the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).
Garceau-Hagen, Dee (ed.) Portraits of Women in the American West (NY: Routledge, 2005).
Goldman, Emma. Living My Life (London: Pluto, 1986).
Gorn, Elliott J. Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America (NY: Hill & Wang, 2001).
Guilbault, Rose Castillo. Farmworker's Daughter: Growing Up Mexican in America (?: Heyday, 2005).
Hayman, Bonnie. Tina Modotti: A Tale of Love & Revolution (Mountain View CA: Floricanto, 2003).
Hinojosa, María. Raising Raúl: Adventures Raising Myself & My Son (NY: Viking, 1999).
Hurston, Zora Neale. Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography (NY: Harper & Row, 1942).
Jordan, June. Soldier: A Poet's Childhood (NY: Basic Civitas, 2000).
Kuhn, Maggie with Christina Long & Laura Quinn. No Stone Unturned: The Life & Times of Maggie Kuhn (NY: Ballantine, 1991).
Lindborg, Kristina & Carlos J. Ovando. Five Mexican-American Women in Transition: A Case Study of Migrants in the Midwest (San Francisco, 1977).
Lorde, Audré. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name. A Biomythography (NY: Persephone, 1982).
MacKinnon, Janice R. & Stephen R. MacKinnon. Agnes Smedley: The Life & Times of an American Radical (Berkeley: U. of California, 1988).
Martín, Patricia Preciado. Songs My Mother Sang to Me: An Oral History of Mexican American Women (Tucson: U. of Arizona, 1992).
Mitford, Jessica. A Fine Old Conflict (NY: Knopf, 1977).
Moaveni, Azadeh. Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America & American in Iran (NY: Public Affairs, 2005).
Moritz, Theresa & Albert Moritz. The World's Most Dangerous Woman: A New Biography of Emma Goldman (Vancouver: Subway, 2001).
Niethammer, Carolyn J. I'll Go & Do More: Annie Dodge Wauneka, Navajo Leader & Activist (Lincoln: U. of Nebraska, 2001).
Langer, Elinor. Josephine Herbst (Boston: Northeastern U., 1994).
Price, Ruth. The Lives of Agnes Smedley (NY: Oxford, 2005).
Snow, Helen Foster. My China Years: a Memoir (NY: Morrow, 1984).
Wexler, Alice. Emma Goldman: An Intimate Life (NY: Pantheon, 1984).
In the Library: Fiction
In the Library: For Young Readers
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Drama
Duberman, Martin. Mother Earth: An Epic Drama of Emma Goldman's Life (NY: St. Martin's, 1991).
In the Library: Photography
CD & Audio
Film & Video
"Love it Like a Fool: A Film about Malvina Reynolds" [1977], dir. Susan Wengraf, 28m. From New Day Films.