On March 8, the Middlebury College Library celebrated 102 years of International Women’s Day. (And March is also Women’s History Month, so what the heck, let’s celebrate all month long.) The U.N. has a helpful timeline detailing the history of this day and the theme of International Women’s Day 2012: Empower Rural Women – End Hunger and Poverty.
Women’s Day 1914, Germany
The Library has endless ways to celebrate women, so today, we’ll name but a few. Please add your own comments below and add to the festivities.
Visit our Women’s and Gender Studies (WAGS) Research Guide
Search Women and Social Movements a research archive organized around the history of women in social movements in the US between 1600 and 2000.
Listen to Biophilia, by Björk, the Icelandic pop star, or anything by Björk, for that matter. Request her CDs at the Davis Library’s circulation desk.
Watch the first season of Xena, Warrior Princess, the French film Séraphine, about a self-taught, middle-age painter, or How to Be a Woman, a compilation of school classroom films of the 1940s-1980s including Let’s make a sandwich (1950) and Why study home economics (1955).
Stream an audio recording by Sofia Gubaidulina, the ground-breaking Russian/Tatar composer known for combining bongos, cymbals, tam-tams, among other percussion instruments.
Or simply browse Midcat for books, DVDs, and more, all about: Women.