For Women’s History Month, the staff at The Fortune Society collaborated to create a community guide for celebrating and honoring Women’s history. The guide includes events, policy actions, resources, book recommendations, and a Women’s History Spotify playlist.
Recognizing that Women’s history is a part of American history—and American history is year-round—we will continuously update this list throughout the year.
Listen to The Fortune Society’s Women’s History Spotify playlist, with songs selected by staff members. Artists include Beyonce, Ariana Grande, Lizzo, Dolly Parton and more.
Inside This Place, Not Of It: Narratives From Women’s Prisons edited by Ayelet Waldman and Robin Levi
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own by Kate Bolick
Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women by Cari Lynn and Susan Burton
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence and America’s Prison Nation by Beth Richie
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
In My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Circe by Madeline Miller
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
View a Town Hall Webinar for an in-depth conversation on the intersecting challenges of health and housing facing women, trans women and LGBTQIA+ individuals as they return from incarceration, and how we can support their healing through reentry. Watch now!
On the Basis of Sex directed by Mimi Leder
Suffragette directed by Sarah Gavron
What Happened, Miss Simone? directed by Liz Garbus
Anita directed by Freida Lee Mock
Bend It Like Beckham directed by Gurinder Chadha
RBG directed by Julie Cohen and Betsy West
A League of Their Own directed by Penny Marshall
Little Women directed by Greta Gerwig
He Named Me Malala
Battle of the Sexes directed by Jonathon Dayton and Valerie Faris
Queen of Katwe directed by Mira Nair