Past Book Discussions
May Book Circle
Bitch: On the Female of the Species by Lucy Cooke Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
April Book Circle
The House is Black Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
March Book Circle
Women in White Coats by Olivia Campbell Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
December Book Circle: The Pain Gap
How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women by Anushay Hossain Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
October Book Circle
Feminist Solidarity for our Health Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
April Book Circle
Afterland by Mai Der Vang Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
March Book Circle
The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel Read More
Zoom
February Book Circle
The Empathy Exams by Women's History Month Speaker Leslie Jamison Read More
Zoom
November Book Circle
The Selected Works of Audre Lorde, edited by Roxane Gay Read More
Murray-Herrick 207
October Book Circle
Missing and Murdered podcast by Connie Walker Read More
LIB 108
September Book Circle
The Carrying by Ada Limón Read More
TBD
May Book Circle: Unbowed
by Wangari Muta Maathai Read More
Email the LDCW for zoom information
April Book Circle: Trace
by Lauret Savoy Read More
Email the LDCW for zoom information
March Book Circle: Weather
by Jenny Offill Read More
Email the LDCW for zoom information
February Book Circle: Braiding Sweetgrass
by Women's History Month Speaker Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer Read More
Email the LDCW for zoom information
November Book Circle
Original Local: Indigenous Foods, Stories, and Recipes from the Upper Midwest by Heid E. Erdrich Read More
Contact the LDCW for zoom information.
October Book Circle
Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz and Ledger by Jane Hirshfield Read More
Contact the LDCW for zoom information
September Book Circle
This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein Read More
For zoom address, please contact Christine !
August Book Circle
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza Read More
Email Christine for zoom information.
July Book Circle
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Read More
zoom (address coming soon!)
June Book Circle
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
April Book Circle via Zoom
Too Much and Not the Mood by Durga Chew-Bose Read More
Zoom
March Book Circle: Canceled
The Latehomecomer by Kao Kalia Yang Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEc 103)
February Book Circle
How We Fight White Supremacy: Excerpt by 2020 Women's History Month Speaker Tarana Burke Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
January Book Circle
The White Card: A Play Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
December Book Circle
Essay Selections Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
November Book Circle
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
October Book Circle
"Make Your Home Among Strangers" by Jennine Capo Crucet Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
September Book Circle
Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
August Book Circle
West with the Night by Beryl Markham Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
July Book Circle
Blanche on the Lam by Barbara Neely Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
June Book Circle
Daughter of Ireland by Juilene Osborne-McKnight Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
May Book Circle
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
April Book Circle
Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
March Book Circle
The Map of Salt and Stars by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
February Book Circle
No Horizon is So Far (2009) by Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
February Book Circle (Bonus)
No Horizon is So Far (2009) by Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
CANCELED: January Book Circle
Due to dangerously cold temperatures, January Book Circle will be rescheduled for another date. Stay tuned for more details! Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
November Book Circle
Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War (2014) by Helen Thorpe Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
October Book Circle
Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
September Book Circle
Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise & Reign of the Unruly Woman (2017) by Anne Helen Petersen Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
August Book Circle & Potluck| A Living Label: An Inspirational Memoir & Guide
Written by Bukola Oriola (2016) Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
July Book Circle
The Meaning of Freedom and Other Difficult Dialogues (2012) by Angela Davis Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
June Book Circle | Animal’s People: A Novel
Written by Indra Sinha (2007) Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
May Book Circle | Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case that Changed Sexual Harassment Law
Written by Clara Bingham (2002) Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
April Book Circle | Women and Economics
Written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1898) Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
March Book Club | Mean Spirit
Written by Linda Hogan (1991) Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
February Book Circle | It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
Written by Lynsey Addario (2015) Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
January Book Circle | Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale
Written by Rachel Lloyd (2011) Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
November Book Club | Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?: A Story About Women and Economics
Written by Katrine Marcal (2015) Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
October Book Club | Homegoing
Written by Yaa Gyasi (2016) Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
September Book Club | A Room of One's Own
Written by Virginia Woolf (1929) Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
August Book Club
“My Life in France” Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women, OEC 103
August Book Club | My Life in France
Written by Julia Child and Alex Prud’homme (2007) Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
July Book Club | Lab Girl
Written by Hope Jahren (2016) Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
June Book Club | Yes Please
Written by Amy Poehler (2015) Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
May Book Club | All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
Written by Rebecca Traister (2016) Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
April Book Club | Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
Written by Charlotte Gordon (2016) Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
March Book Club | Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
Written by Charlotte Gordon (2016) Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
February Book Club | I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood
Written by Malala Yousafzai (Author), Christina Lamb (Contributor) (2015) Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
January Book Club | All About Love: New Visions
Written by bell hooks (2001) Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
November Book Club | We Should All Be Feminists
Written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2015) Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
October Book Club | My Life on the Road
Written by Gloria Steinem (2015) Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
September Book Club | Station Eleven
Written by Emily St. John Mandel Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
September Book Club | Station Eleven
Written by Emily St. John Mandel (2014) Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
August Book Club | Nemesis: A Miss Marple Mystery
Written by Agatha Christie (1971) Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
July Book Club | Esther
Written by Rebecca Kanner (2015) Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
June Book Club | The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
Written by Myra MacPherson (2014) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
The June book club will be facilitated by Dr. Nancy Zingale and Dr. Young-ok An.
May Book Club | The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist
Written by Dorothy Day (2009) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
The May book club will be facilitated by Dr. Anne Klejment, of history, and Dr. Young-ok An.
April Book Club | Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout
Written by Lauren Redniss (2010) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
The April book club will be facilitate by Michele Burlew, M.S., President of Episystems, Inc., statistical programming consultant. and Dr. Young-ok An, Professor of English and Director of the LDCW.
March Book Club | Her Honor: Rosalie Wahl and the Minnesota Women’s Movement
Written by Lori Sturdevant (2014) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
This months book club will be facilitate by Dr. George Woytanowitz, Dr. Angela High-Pippert, and Dr. Young-ok An
February Book Club Discussion | Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World
Written by Linda Hirshman (2015) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
January Book Club | Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography
Written by Laura Ingalls Wilder (2014) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
November Book Club | The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
Written by Louise Erdrich (2001) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
October Book Club | Ada’s Algorithm: How Lord Byron’s Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age
Written by James Essinger (2014) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
September Book Club | Their Eyes Were Watching God
Written by Zora Neale Hurston (1937) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women:(O’Shaughnessy Educational Center, Room 103) University of St. Thomas : Campus Maps : Saint Paul
August Book Club | My Year of Meats
Written by Ruth Ozeki (1998) Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
July Book Club | The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Written by Elizabeth Kolbert (2014) Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
June Book Club | Destroyer Angel
Written by Nevada Barr (2014) Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
May Book Club | Sacred Wilderness
Written by Susan Power (2014) Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
April Book Club | Flight Behavior
Written by Barbara Kingsolver (2012) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
March Book Club | Flight Behavior
Written by Barbara Kingsolver (2012) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
February Book Club | All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life
Written by Winona LaDuke (1999) Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
January Book Club | Wild
Written by Cheryl Strayed (2012) Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
November Book Club Discussion | Parable of the Sower
Written by Octavia E. Butler (1993) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
October Book Club | Harvest for Hope
Written by Jane Goodall (2005) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
September Book Club | Silent Spring
Written by Rachel Carson (1962) Read More
University of Saint Thomas, Saint Paul Campus
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
August Book Club | Forever Ours
Written by Janis Amatuzio, M.D. (2007) Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
July Book Club | Are You My Mother?
Written by Alison Bechdel (2012) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women (OEC 103)
June Book Club | We Need New Names
Written by NoViolet Bulawayo (2013) Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
May Book Club | My Beloved World
Written by Sonya Sotomyor (2013) Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
April Book Club | A Tale for the Time Being
Written by Ruth Ozeki (2013) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women
O'Shaughnessy Education Center, Room 103
March Book Club | Cairo: My City, Our Revolution
Written by Ahdaf Soueif (2011) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women
O'Shaughnessy Education Center, Room 103
February Book Club | My Prison, My Home
Written by Haleh Esfandiari (2009) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women
O'Shaughnessy Education Center, Room 103
This month we are hosting two book club discussions on Haleh's book, My Prison, My Home. The discussions offer more opportunity for readers to attend one or the other and both will be facilitated in the Luann Dummer Center for Women from noon-1 PM.
Feel free to bring your lunch and/or beverage to the discussion.
January Book Club | Between Two Worlds
Written by Roxana Saberi (2010) Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
November Book Club | In the Time of Butterflies
Written by Julia Alvarez (1994) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women
O'Shaughnessy Education Center, Room 103
October Book Club | Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard von Bingen
Written by Mary Sharratt (2012) Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
September Book Club | Three Strong Women:
Written by Marie NDiaye (2009) Read More
LDCW (OEC 103)
August Book Club | The Tale of Halcyon Crane
Written by Wendy Webb (2010) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women
O'Shaughnessy Education Center, Room 103
July Book Club | The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax
Written by Dorothy Gilman (1970) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women
O'Shaughnessy Education Center, Room 103
June Book Club | The Book of Killowen
Written by Erin Hart (2013) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women
O'Shaughnessy Education Center, Room 103
May Book Club | J is for Judgment
Written by Sue Grafton (1993) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women
O'Shaughnessy Education Center, Room 103
April Book Club | Shunning Sarah
Written by Julie Kramer (2012) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women
O'Shaughnessy Education Center, Room 103
March Book Club | The New Jim Crow
Written by Michelle Alexander (2010) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women
O'Shaughnessy Education Center, Room 103
February Book Club | Body Work
Written by Sara Paretsky (2010) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women
O'Shaughnessy Education Center, Room 103
January Book Club | Hardball
Written by Sara Paretsky (2009) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women
O'Shaughnessy Education Center, Room 103
November Book Club | City of Veils
Written by Zoë Ferraris (2010) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women
O'Shaughnessy Education Center, Room 103
October Book Club | The Murder at the Vicarage
Written by Agatha Christie (1930) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women
O'Shaughnessy Education Center, Room 103
September Book Club | The Mystery of the 99 Steps
Written by Carolyn Keene (1961) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women
O'Shaughnessy Education Center, Room 103
May Book Club | The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
Written by Louise Erdrich (2001) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women
O'Shaughnessy Education Center, Room 103
April Book Club | Joys of Motherhood
Written by Buchi Emecheta (1980) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women
O'Shaughnessy Education Center, Room 103
March Book Club | Tropic of Orange
Written by Karen Tei Yamashita (1997) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women
O'Shaughnessy Education Center, Room 103
January Book Club | Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Written by Sheryl WuDunn and Nicolas Kristof (2008) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women
O'Shaughnessy Education Center, Room 103
January Book Club | Jane Eyre
Written by Charlotte Brontë (1847) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women
O'Shaughnessy Education Center, Room 103
November Book Club | Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood
Written by Fatima Mernissi (1995) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women
O'Shaughnessy Education Center, Room 103
October Book Club | The God of Small Things
Written by Arundhati Roy (2008) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women
O'Shaughnessy Education Center, Room 103
September Book Club | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Written by J. K. Rowling (2007) Read More
Luann Dummer Center for Women
O'Shaughnessy Education Center, Room 103