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The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir Woman in the Nineteenth Century by Margaret Fuller Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne by Wilda C. Gafney The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf What 5 Women’s History […]
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams Broken (in the best possible way) by Jenny Lawson Dear Life by Alice Munro The Round House by Louise Erdrich Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach What 5 Women’s History Books Do You Recommend? Let us know […]
Join us for a historic evening as we host the opening night of the Gal’s Guide Library, the first women’s history library in America where you can browse the books the stacks and check out a book. Browse our collection of over 1,600 women’s history books. Sign up for a library account and be the […]
Did you know that more American’s visit the library than go to the movie theater? Thanks to a new Gallup poll done in Dec 2019 there is data revealing that libraries are the most frequented leisure activity for American’s surpassing sporting events, live concerts, and museum trips. This is a wonderful confirmation to the team […]
Let’s Make History!!! We are starting an epic crowdfunder to open the first independent women’s history library in the United States! Can you believe there isn’t a women’s history library where you can browse the stacks and check out a book?! With your help, we can change that! Gal’s Guide has collected over 1,300 […]
Black Friday. Small Business Saturday. Cyber Monday. Giving Tuesday. What is Giving Tuesday? (from GivingTuesday.org) Giving Tuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world on December 3, 2019 and every day. It was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that […]
Want to be part of history? Want to help fulfill Gal’s Guide mission to build the first independent women’s history library? We are seeking 2-3 new Gal’s Guide board members at large. Our board of directors have a three-year term with Gal’s Guide and can be re-elected. There are two types of board members, members […]
We haven’t had an event in a while as we’ve been busy stocking a library, so let’s catch up with some books & baked goods! It’s Good Neighbor Day at the Noblesville Farmers Market on July 13 and Gal’s Guide will be raising money for our women’s history library by selling a variety of used […]
While there are several exceptional options for books written about and by women who are journalists these are the ones from our collections. Nonfiction Feel free to let us know what you think of our selections, or add your own in the comment section below!
You know us, we do women’s history all year long. That also means that we have a LOT of recommendations. So much that we used to have a library about it. Because of this, we’ve narrowed it down to our top 15 books. If you would like to look at our entire collection of books […]
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