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This guide was based upon a robust and insightful guide by Virginia Dearborn at Princeton Theological Seminary's Wright Library. Materials were changed to better match MTSO's collection, but her work creating bibliographies, finding open resources, and writing thorough descriptions are all present in this guide. You can see her original work with more resources focused toward Princeton Theological Seminary by clicking here.
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Women's History Month Display
Selected Women's History Month Titles
Books are listed alphabetically by title.
Black feminist thought: knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment by Call Number: HQ1426 .C633 2000ISBN: 0415924847Publication Date: 1999-12-07
Dancing with God : the Trinity from a womanist perspective by Call Number: BT83.9 .B33 2006ISBN: 9780827206335Publication Date: 2006-12-01
Expanding responsibility for the just war : a feminist critique by ISBN: 9781108473149Publication Date: 2018-11-30
Fannie Lou Hamer's Revolutionary Practical Theology: Racial and Environmental Justice Concerns by ISBN: 9789004438071Publication Date: 2020-10-12
Feminine Journeys of the Mahabharata: Hindu Women in History, Text, and Practice by ISBN: 9783030731656Publication Date: 2021
Feminist Trauma Theologies : body, scripture and church in critical perspective by Call Number: BT732.7 .F46 2020ISBN: 9780334058724Publication Date: 2020-02-28
Fourierist Communities of Reform: The Social Networks of Nineteenth-Century Female Reformers by ISBN: 9783030683566Publication Date: 2021-07-23
Gaia & God : an ecofeminist theology of earth healing by Call Number: BT695.5 .R83ISBN: 0060670223Publication Date: 1992-11-01
Gendered paradigms in theologies of survival : silenced to survive by Call Number: BL458 .Y68 2020ISBN: 1498579094Publication Date: 2019-11-07
Gender trouble : feminism and the subversion of identity by ISBN: 9780415389556Publication Date: 2006-05-12
Her father's daughter : gender, power, and religion in the early Spanish kingdoms by ISBN: 9781501714320Publication Date: 2017-11-15
Hope abundant : Third World and indigenous women's theology by Call Number: BT83.55 .H59 2010ISBN: 9781570758805Publication Date: 2010-09-01
Katie's canon : womanism and the soul of the black community (25th anniversary ed.) by Call Number: PS153.N5 C36 2021ISBN: 9781506471297Publication Date: 2021-11-23
New Critical Studies on Early Quaker Women, 1650-1800 by ISBN: 9780198814221Publication Date: 2018-06-26
Planetary solidarity : global women's voices on Christian doctrine and climate justice by Call Number: BT695.5 .P536 2017ISBN: 150643262XPublication Date: 2017-09-01
A Primer in ecotheology : theology for a fragile earth by ISBN: 9781498237017Publication Date: 2017-01-01
A Reader in Latina Feminist Theology: religion and justice by Call Number: BT83.55 .R39 2002ISBN: 9780292705128Publication Date: 2002-04-15
Sacred Sisters: gender, sanctity, and power in medieval Ireland by ISBN: 9463721509Publication Date: 2019-11-20
Women and religion : contemporary and future challenges in the Global Era by ISBN: 9781447336358Publication Date: 2018-10-15
The Women are up to something : how Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch revolutionized ethics by ISBN: 9780197541074Publication Date: 2021-11-01
More Selected Women's History Month Titles
Selected titles listed by call number
Womanist Theological Ethics: a reader by Call Number: BJ1278.F45 W66 2011ISBN: 9780664235376Publication Date: 2011-10-27
Passionate and Pious: religious media and black women's sexuality by ISBN: 9780822369998Publication Date: 2017-12-15
Canadian Women Shaping Diasporic Religious Identities by ISBN: 9781771121538Publication Date: 2016-01-01
The Birth of a celestial light : a feminist evaluation of an Iranian spiritual movement - inter-universal mysticism by ISBN: 9781443870481Publication Date: 2015-01-01
West Africa's Women of God: Alinesitoué and the Diola prophetic tradition by ISBN: 025301767XPublication Date: 2015-11-09
Other Dreams of Freedom: religion, sex, and human trafficking by ISBN: 9780199942190Publication Date: 2012-12-18
Melania: early Christianity through the life of one family by ISBN: 9780520292086Publication Date: 2017
An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation by Call Number: BS521.2 .J86 2015ISBN: 9780664259877Publication Date: 2015-11-06
Preaching the Women of the Old Testament: who they were and why they matter by Call Number: BS575 .J38 2017ISBN: 9780664259693Publication Date: 2017-02-16
A New gospel for women : Katharine Bushnell and the challenge of Christian feminism by Call Number: BS680.W7 D86 2015ISBN: 9780190205645Publication Date: 2015-05-01
After Exegesis: feminist biblical theology : essays in honor of Carol A. Newsom by Call Number: BS1181.8 .A38 2015ISBN: 9781481303804Publication Date: 2015-10-15
Feminist Theory and the Bible: interrogating the sources by Call Number: BS1181.8 .F83 2016ISBN: 9781498527811Publication Date: 2016-02-23
The Bible As Political Artifact: on the feminist study of the Hebrew Bible by Call Number: BS1181.8 .S56 2017ISBN: 9781506420479Publication Date: 2017-10-15
Fragmented women : feminist (sub)versions of biblical narratives by ISBN: 9780567662934Publication Date: 2015-12-17
Our Mother Saint Paul by Call Number: BS2651 .G38 2007ISBN: 9780664231491Publication Date: 2007-07-03
Our cry for life : feminist theology from Latin America by Call Number: BT83.55 .P5513ISBN: 0883448955Publication Date: 1993-10-01
Latina Evangelicas: a theological survey from the margins by Call Number: BT83.575 .M37 2013ISBN: 9781608991365Publication Date: 2013-01-15
Embracing the other : the transformative spirit of love by ISBN: 9780802872999Publication Date: 2015-10-21
Missionary Positions: a postcolonial feminist perspective on sex work and faith-based outreach from Australia by Call Number: BT708 .M4275 2017ISBN: 9789004353176Publication Date: 2017-09-15
Christian Doctrines for Global Gender Justice by Call Number: BV639.W7 C447 2015ISBN: 9781137475459Publication Date: 2015-06-04
Searching for Sunday : loving, leaving, and finding the church by Call Number: BV639.W7 E93 2015ISBN: 9780718022129Publication Date: 2015-04-14
Chariots of ladies : Francesc Eiximenis and the court culture of medieval and early modern Iberia by ISBN: 0801453836Publication Date: 2015-11-25
What a woman ought to be and to do : Black professional women workers during the Jim Crow era by ISBN: 0226751309Publication Date: 2010-01-15
Women's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia: an anthology of the earliest female authors by ISBN: 9781107052055Publication Date: 2017-11-02
Links to Women's History
- Audio from the 4th African Women Extraordinaire Symposium: Women and Violence in AfricaOrganized by Princeton Theological Seminary Professor McKee’s Women in African Christianity course in conjunction with the History and Ecumenics Department, and The Center for Theology, Women, and Gender.
- Black Women’s Suffrage Digital Collection | DPLA"The Black Women’s Suffrage Digital Collection is a collaborative project to provide digital access to materials documenting the roles and experiences of Black Women in the Women’s Suffrage Movement and, more broadly, women’s rights, voting rights, and civic activism between the 1850s and 1960. The materials in this collection include photographs, correspondence, speeches, event programs, publications, oral histories, and other artifacts."
- The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture, 2020 (video recording)February 25, 2020 “We Don’t Need a Black Messiah: The Crisis of Civilization and Aspirational Black Patriarchy” Speaker: Dr. Tamura Lomax, author, scholar-activist, and cofounder of The Feminist Wire
- Refusing Innocence: The Tribal Consciousness of Asian-American Women Writers (audio with transcript)Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock, recorded February 18, 1991 at Princeton Theological Seminary; Series: Women in Church and Ministry Lectures
Related Links
- Celebrating Reverend Blanca Estrella Otaño-Rivera | Presbyterian Historical Society Blog"...Reverend Blanca Estrella Otaño-Rivera--also known as Blanqui Otaño-- [was] the first Hispanic clergywoman ordained in the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (UPCUSA), in June 1975."
- Center for Womanist LeadershipThe Katie Geneva Cannon Center for Womanist Leadership at Union Presbyterian Seminary recognizes the significance of centering Black women’s scholarship as viable sources and resources for theological education. The center serves as a site of participatory learning for scholars, students, clergy, laity, and community leaders.
- Jacqueline Lapsley on the Book of Job and Astrobiology10 minutes, 16 seconds [audio recording]
- Katie G. Cannon Collection | Presbyterian Historical SocietyThis collection represents in a single online location personal records of Katie's that she intended to distribute among Presbyterian Historical Society, Union Presbyterian Seminary, and Union Theological Seminary in New York. Katie Geneva Cannon was the first Black woman ordained a minister of word and sacrament in the Presbyterian Church.
- Lutheran Women and Their Impact on HistoryFrom the Library Blog of Gettysburg and Philadelphia Libraries, United Lutheran Seminary
- Nevertheless She PreachedNevertheless She Preached exists to empower all people to dismantle patriarchal structures by elevating voices of faith leaders on the margins, especially womxn and sexual minorities of all racial and ethnic backgrounds.
- Pacific, Asian, and North American Asian Women in Theology and Ministry (PANAAWTM)PANAAWTM contributes to Asian and North American Asian women's theology, mentor female leaders of faith communities, and engage in social transformation for justice.
- Redeeming Dangerous Memories: Black Women and Racial Injustice / Keri Day and Miroslav Volf (podcast)For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture S1:E14. "Theologian Keri Day shares her experience as a black woman and a theologian, not only of the past week, but the long history of racism in America, stemming from the racially inflected roots of America’s founding and emerging even from history that has been erased."
- What a forgotten 19th century suffragist can teach us about women's rights vs. the religious rightMarch 8, 2017 Religion Dispatches article by S. Brent Plate. SEE ALSO: Woman, Church and State (book), by Matilda Joslyn Gage (link below)
- Young Clergy Women InternationalYoung Clergy Women International is a network of the youngest ordained clergy women, defined as those under forty. YCWI seeks to provide members with opportunities for online relationship-building and wisdom-sharing.
More Women's History Month Titles
Selected titles listed by call number
Daughters of Thunder : Black women preachers and their sermons, 1850-1979 by Call Number: BR563.N4 C64 1998ISBN: 0787909181Publication Date: 1997-10-10
This Is My Story: testimonies and sermons of Black women in ministry by Call Number: BR563.N4 T465 2005ISBN: 0664227767Publication Date: 2005-04-05
Comedy and Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible : a subversive collaboration by ISBN: 9780199656776Publication Date: 2012-09-29
The View of Women Found in the Deuteronomic Family Laws by Call Number: BS1275.6.W7 P7ISBN: 3110137437Publication Date: 1993-09-01- Latina Evangelicas: a theological survey from the margins by Call Number: BT83.575 .M37 2013ISBN: 9781608991365Publication Date: 2013-01-15
Woman prayer, woman song : resources for ritual by Call Number: BV178 .W5ISBN: 094098900XPublication Date: 1987-04-01
Women Preaching : theology and practice through the ages by Call Number: BV4207 .K56 2004ISBN: 0829815279Publication Date: 2004-08-01
American Catholic Women Religious: Radicalized by Mission by ISBN: 9783319604640Publication Date: 2017-08-18
Rediscovering Eve : ancient Israelite women in context by ISBN: 9780199734559Publication Date: 2012-12-27
