{"id":1896,"date":"2021-03-11T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/5-books-to-dive-into-for-womens-history-month\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T10:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T18:22:10","slug":"5-books-for-womens-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/5-books-for-womens-history-month\/","title":{"rendered":"5 books to dive into for Women\u2019s History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n    \n                                \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-3422-768x432.jpg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-3422-768x432.jpg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"5 books to dive into for Women\u2019s History Month\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"image-caption\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  Five books picked by USC Dornsife professors explore the rich and diverse history of women fighting for equality around the world. (Image Source: iStock.)\n\n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  \n  <div class=\"text-wrapper\">\n          <nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n        <ul>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\">News<\/a><\/li>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\/?category=faculty\">Faculty<\/a><\/li>\n                  <\/ul>\n      <\/nav>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--page-title\">\n\n    \n  <h1>5 books to dive into for Women\u2019s History Month<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n          <div class=\"subtitle\">\n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  In celebration of Women\u2019s History Month, USC Dornsife professors provide reading suggestions that explore the history of women around the world. <strong>[4\u00bd min read]<\/strong>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    \n           <strong class=\"author-field\"><span >By<\/span><a href=\"mailto:communication@dornsife.usc.edu\">Margaret Crable<\/a><\/strong>\n    \n          <span class=\"post-date-field\">March 11, 2021<\/span>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--social-share \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--social-share\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"content-wrapper\">\n    <span class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list\" style=\"line-height: 32px;\">\n      <span class=\"title\">\n        Share\n      <\/span>\n                        <a class=\"a2a_button_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/#copy_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Link\">\n            <span class=\"a2a_svg a2a_s__default a2a_s_copy_link\">\n              <svg height=\"19\" viewBox=\"0 0 19 19\" width=\"19\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"m7.43475275 9.52380952-2.17490843 2.26076008c-1.08745421 1.058837-1.68841575 2.518315-1.68841575 4.0350275 0 1.5167124.60096154 2.9475732 1.68841575 4.0350274 1.058837 1.0874543 2.51831502 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Alexander Sokolov, a member of the Polish Horse Regiment, saved two men from certain death on the battlefield. He shielded one concussed fellow soldier from enemy fire while guiding him to safety. And, he fought off advancing troops for another who was unhorsed, ultimately letting the man beat a retreat using Sokolov\u2019s horse.<\/p>\n<p>Sokolov\u2019s courage was especially brazen given that he was not actually a man, but a woman named\u00a0Nadezhda Durova. The Russian military forbade women recruits, so she disguised herself as a man and embarked on a successful military career under a pseudonym.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, Durova\u2019s sex was revealed and word of the military heroine reached Tsar Alexander I. He was so impressed by her valor that he bestowed her with the new name \u201cAlexandrov,\u201d based on his own.<\/p>\n<p>Durova\u2019s story is just one in the history of women who have surmounted obstacles to achieve a greatness thought incapable of them. In honor of Women\u2019s History Month, professors at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences provide suggestions for diverse books, including Durova\u2019s memoir, that show how women have fought for their equal place in the world, despite considerable barriers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"style=&quot;float: alignleft\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/ReadingList_InStoryA-3422.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"308\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cf\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty.cfm?pid=1008255\">Sarah Gualtieri<\/a><\/strong>, professor of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ase\/\">American studies and ethnicity<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/hist\/\">history<\/a>, and interim chair of the Department of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/mdes\/\">Middle East Studies<\/a>. Gualtieri is the author of two books on race, migration and Arab American identity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/food-for-our-grandmothers-writings-by-arab-american-and-arab-canadian-feminists\/oclc\/30919755\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Food for our Grandmothers: Writings by Arab-American and Arab-Canadian Feminists<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(South End Press, 1994) edited by Joe Kadi<\/p>\n<p>This is a book I return to often. It is among the first to center the experience of Arab women in the rich and varied knowledges of women of color feminism. It\u00a0brings together artists, poets and essayists to address questions of identity, memory, politics and race among Arab diasporic women.<\/p>\n<p>In Kadi\u2019s introduction, he asks, \u201cDo transplants ever find home \u2026 are we stronger, more innovative and creative, able to make home in odd sites, able to survive in small, hard places, plants growing out of rocks?\u201d The answers to these questions have been foundational to Arab American studies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"style=&quot;float: alignright\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/ReadingList_InStoryB-3422.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"317\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cf\/ase\/faculty_display.cfm?person_id=1085989\"><strong>Natalia Molina<\/strong><\/a>, professor of American studies and ethnicity. A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/3325\/natalia-molina-macarthur-fellowship-genius-grant\/\">MacArthur Fellow<\/a>, Molina is the author of two books that explore race, labor, immigration, gender and space and is the recent recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Fellowship. Her book <em>Placemaking at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant in Los Angeles Nourished its Community<\/em>\u00a0(University of California Press) is slated for\u00a0release in\u00a02022.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basicbooks.com\/titles\/martha-s-jones\/vanguard\/9781541618619\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All<\/em><\/a> (Basic Books, 2020) by Martha Jones<\/p>\n<p>Martha Jones asks, what do democracy and equality look like when we see them from the vantage point of Black women?<\/p>\n<p>Although many accounts begin their discussions of women\u2019s suffrage with the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848, where white women gathered to assert women\u2019s rights,\u00a0<i>Vanguard<\/i>\u00a0provides a longer and more capacious history, dating back earlier in the century to include Black women routinely left out of master historical narratives. Jones provides a portrait of women, organizations and institutions that were the forerunners of today\u2019s Black Lives Matter movement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/ReadingList_InStoryC-3422.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"314\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cf\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty.cfm?pid=1022658\"><strong>Sunyoung\u00a0Park<\/strong><\/a>, associate professor of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ealc\/\">East Asian languages and cultures<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/genderstudies\/\">gender and sexuality studies<\/a>, and director of graduate studies for\u00a0East Asian languages and cultures. Park examines\u00a0Korean literature and culture, postcolonial studies, transnational anarchism and Marxism, science fiction and\u00a0technoculture studies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/queer-korea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Queer Korea<\/i>\u00a0<\/a>(Duke University Press, 2020) edited by Todd A. Henry<\/p>\n<p>This book is replete with new and exciting scholarship from the field of Korean gender studies. It brings to the fore the past and present struggles for survival by sexual minorities in Korea, and it also illuminates anew the changing ideals of normative Korean femininities and masculinities. The authors provide us with a chronological coverage of queer experiences and expressions in Korea spanning from the 1920s through contemporary times.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"style=&quot;float: alignright\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/ReadingList_InStoryD-3422.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cf\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty.cfm?pid=1032936\"><strong>Rhacel Salazar Parre\u00f1as<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0professor of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/soci\/\">sociology<\/a> and gender studies. Parre\u00f1as\u00a0is an ethnographer whose current research empirically focuses on contemporary experiences of servitude and engages theories of freedom and morals to analyze the constitution of migrant workers as &#8220;unfree&#8221; laborers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/books\/paperback\/9780691144436\/the-qualities-of-a-citizen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>The Qualities of a Citizen<\/i><i>: Women, Immigration, and Citizenship, 1870-1965<\/i><\/a>\u00a0(Princeton University Press, 2009) by Martha Gardner<\/p>\n<p>This book provides a stunning account of the moral control of women in United States immigration law and enforcement. It shows how women&#8217;s construction as citizens was premised on their dependence on men.<\/p>\n<p>Women, for instance, had a hard time immigrating to this country independent of male sponsorship. If they did, they were turned away from the border. Only women stating their intended occupation to be &#8220;domestic work&#8221; were allowed to enter without a male sponsor. It&#8217;s a very good historical account of the ideology of female domesticity manifesting in U.S. immigration laws.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"clear: both;\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/ReadingList_InStoryE-3422.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"252\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cf\/sll\/faculty_display.cfm?Person_ID=1080665\"><strong>Kelsey Rubin-Detlev<\/strong><\/a>, assistant professor of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/sll\/\">Slavic languages and literatures<\/a>. Rubin-Detlev investigates the Enlightenment in Russia and Western Europe, and especially Catherine the Great.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/cavalry-maiden-journals-of-a-russian-officer-in-the-napoleonic-wars\/oclc\/570334284\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars<\/i><\/a>\u00a0(Indiana University Press, 1988) by Nadezhda Durova, translated by Mary Fleming Zirin<\/p>\n<p>My students call her the Russian Mulan. Nadezhda Durova disguised herself as a man to achieve her dream of freedom and fight to defend her homeland against Napoleon. 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