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The Women’s Studies Office in Peck 3407 has a small but growing library of materials that are available to faculty and students. Below is a list of our catalog organized by subject matter. If you’re curious to see if we have a book that you would like to borrow, please come in and browse! New DVDs/Books are highlighted in red.

(We’ll add new materials every year depending upon the availability of funds, and we also are delighted to take donations of feminist books, DVDs and CDS. We are particularly grateful to HBO films for their donations.)

DVDs by Subject: Social/Political Justice, Beauty/Gender in Media, Gender Identity & Gender Roles, Rape Culture, Feminism, Influential Women Leaders

Books by Subject: General and/or Introductory Text, Feminist Theory and Philosophy, LGBTQ, Religion, Abortion, Advice, Body & Sexuality, Violence Against Women, In America, Race & Cross-Cultural, Novels, Literature & Women, Biographies & Diaries, History, Youth & Education, Politics & Social Change, Economy & the Working Class, Women in Art, Psychology, Magazines & Journals

DVDs, listed by general subject matter

Social/Political Justice

Beauty/Gender in Media

Gender Identity & Gender Roles

Sexuality/LGBTQIA+

Moonlight

Rape Culture

Feminism

Influential Women Leaders

Books, listed by general subject matter

General and/or introductory text

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
The Woman Movement by McCrimmon (1915)
Issues in Feminism: a first course in women’s studies by Sheila Ruth
An Introduction to Women’s Studies (1st and 2nd editions) by by Inderpal Gerwal and Caren Kaplan
Women’s Voices Feminist Visions by Shaw Lee
Feminist Frontiers 5th and 6th Edition and III by Richardson, Taylor, Whittier
Women’s Realities, Women’s Choices by Hunter College
Women: A Feminist Perspective by Freeman
Gender Basics: Feminist Perspectives on Women and Men by Anne Minas
Gender 10/11 Annual Edition
Feminist Studies, Volume 24, Number 1
Reading Women’s Lives: An Introduction to Women Studies
Women’s Studies by Perspectives, edited by Renae Bredin
The Law of Sex Discrimination by Lindgren and Taub
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
The Guy’s Guide to Feminism by Michael Kaufman & Michael Kimmel

Feminist Theory and Philosophy

Feminist Theory Second Edition by Kolmar Bartkowksi
Feminist Theory in Process and Practice by Maison
Pure Lust: Elemental Feminist Philosophy by Mary Daly
Essential Woman: Problems of Exclusion in Feminist Thought by E. Spelman
Philosophy of Women by Mahowald
Theorizing Patriarchy by Sylvia Walby
The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory by Marilyn Frye

LGBTQ

Feminism is Queer by Mimi Marinucci
Transgender 101 by Teich
We Are Everywhere: Writing by and about Lesbian Parents by Harriet Alpert
That Furious Lesbian: The Story of Mercedes de Acosta by Schanke
Lesbian Ethics by S. Hoagland
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation by Kate Bornstein & S. Bergman
Feminism is Queer: the Intimate Connection between Queer and Feminist Theory by Mimi Marinucci
Transfeminist Perspectives: in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies by Anne Enke

Religion

Beyond God the Father by Mary Daly
Feminist Theory and Christian Theology by Serene Jones
Sexism and God-Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology by Ruether
From Housewife to Heretic by Sonja Johnson
Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology by Pojman
The View from Olympus by D.H. Lloyd
Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Moral Issues by Satris

Abortion

A Woman’s Guide to Safe Abortion by Maria Corsaro & Carole Korzeniowsky
1 in 3: These are our Stories by various authors
The Voices of Women: Abortion, In their own Words

Advice

The Modern Woman’s Guide to Life by Chapman, Kassner, Kriberney
For Her Own Good by Ehrenrech & English
Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia by Emily Troth
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Body & Sexuality

Our Bodies, Ourselves: A book by and for women by Boston Women’s Health
The Female Body by Goldstein
When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies: Freeing Yourself from Food and Weight Obsession by Hirschmann, Munter
Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body by Susan Bordo
The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness by Kim Chermin
Hearth & Home: Images of Women in the Mass Media by Tuchman, Daniels and Benet
Food Matters by Bauer
PMS: Premenstrual Syndrome and You by Lauersen, Stukane
Pornography: Men Possessing Women by Andrea Dworkin
Guide to Getting It On by Paul Joannides
Sexual Roles and Personal Awareness by Forisha

Violence Against Women

The Battered Woman Syndrome by Springer
Reweaving the Web of Life: Feminism and Nonviolence by Pam McCallister
Illinois Domestic Violence Act
Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power & A World Without Rape by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti

In America

Women in the American Economy by Brownlee & Brownlee
Women in American Society by Sapiro
The American Woman 1990-91: A Status Report
Women in America by Haber
Women and the American Experience by Woloch
American Women of Science by Lippincott
A History of U.S. Feminisms by Rory Dicker

Race & Cross-Cultural

Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought by Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
Presume Incompetent: The intersections of race and class for women in Academia
But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women Studies by Gloria Hull, Patricia Scott, Barbara Smith
When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America by Paula Giddings
Letter, Memories Among Southern Women by Susan Tucker
Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, Vol. 1, number 2
Women’s Lives: Multicultural Perspectives by Kirk, Okazawa-Rey
Women in Third World Development by Charlton
Self, Sex, and Gender in Cross-Cultural Fieldwork by Whitehead, Conaway
Many Sisters: Women in Cross-cultural Perspective by Matthasson
The State of Women in the World Atlas, Seager
The Penguin Atlas of Women in the World by Joni Seager
Women, the Family, and Peasant Revolution in China by Kay Ann Johnson
Women Across Cultures: a Global Perspective by Burn
Distant View of Minaret by Alifa Rifaat
Separated by the Border: A Birth Mother, a Foster Mother, and a Migrant Child's 3,000-Mile Journey by Gena Thomas
Gendered Journeys: Women, Migration and Feminist Psychology, 2015 Edition, edited by Oliva Espín and Andrea Dottolo
Gender, Global Health, and Violence: Feminist Perspectives on Peace and Disease: Feminist Studies on Peace, Justice and Violence edited by Tiina Vaittinen and Catia C. Confortini

Novels

A Book of Women Poets: From Antiquity to Now edited by Barnstone
The Mother/Child Papers by Ostriker
Last Flight by Amelia Earhart
The Accomplished Woman by Nancy Price
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
A Spy in the House of Love by Anais Nin
L’etcetera by Susan Sontag
A Nart Wollstonecraft Reader by Soloman, Berggren
Food & Loathing by Betty Lerner
Spin a Soft Black Song by Giovani, Martins
Are you there God? Its me Margaret by Judy Blume
The Bean Trees by Kingsolver
Among Women by Louse Bernikow
Women in Turmoil: Six Plays by Mercedes de Acosta
Possessing the Secret Joy by Alice Walker
You Cant Keep A Good Woman Down by Alice Walker
Letters to Marina by Dacia Marain

Literature & Women

Contemporary American Women Writers by Rainwater, Scheick
Writing in the Feminine: Feminism and Experimental Writing in Quebec by Gould
Women & Fiction by Susan Cahill
A Woman’s Place: Rhetoric and Reading for Composing Yourself and Your Prose by Morahan
Women’s Writing in the United States by Linda Wagner and Cathy Davidson

Biographies & Diaries

Mama PhD: Women write about motherhood and academic life edited by Elrena Evans and Caroline Grant
Bad Feminist Essays by Roxane Gay
Lillian Wald of Henry Street by Siegel
Kathinka Zitz-Halen and Female Civic Activism in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Germany by Stanley Zucker
Olympia Brown by Cote
The Interrupted Life: the Diaries of Etty Willesum 1941- 1943
Pioneer Women 1 by Stratton
Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey by Schlissel
Now Time by McClane
Ordinary Heroes by Peter Hay
The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
Rebel in Paradise by Richard Drinnon
I Myself Am a Woman by Ding Ling
Women on the Ice by Chipman
The Roman Years of Margaret Fuller by Deiss
The Wise Virgins by Brooks
As the Night the Day by Mary Coburn
Shattered Applause: the Live of Eva Le Gallienne
Memoirs of a Medieval Woman by Collis
Parrot Pie for Breakfast by Robinson
When You’re a Widow: a Prominent Journalist Tells Her Personal Experience by Clarissa Start
Greta Thumberg

History

Well-Tempered Women” Nineteenth-Century Temperance Rhetoric by Mattingly
The Free Women of Petersburg by Lebsock
Hypatia’s Heritage: A History of Women in Science from Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century by Alic
No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women by Estelle Freedman
Rebirth of Feminism by Judith Hole & Ellen Levine
First Generation: in the Words of Twentieth-Century American Immigrants by Namias
No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women by Estelle B. Freedman

Youth & Education

Listen Up: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation by Barbara Findlen
Engaging Feminism: Students Speak Up and Speak Out
The Feminist Classroom by Maher and Tetreault
Teacher and Texts by Michael W. Apple

Politics & Social Change

Women, Culture and Politics by Angela Davis
From Mouse to Mermaid: the Politics of Film, Gender and Culture by Elizabeth Bell, Haas, and Sells
Feminist Disability Studies by Kim Q. Hall
Sexism in Award Winning Picture Books by Suzanne Czaplinski
Skirting Tradition: Women in Politics Speak to the Next Generation by Lia Larson
Women and the Politics of Culture by Zak and Moots
Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Political Issues, 14th edition by Mckenna and Feingold
Confessional Politics: Women’s Sexual Self-Representations in Life Writing and Popular Media by Irene Gammel
Why ERA Failed by Mary Frances Barry
Women’s Liberation and the Socialist Revolution by Pathfinder Press
Social Politics, International Studies in Gender, State & Society, vol. 1.1
Feminism and Socialism with an introduction by Linda Jenness
The Social Mobility of Women: Beyond Male Mobility Models by Geoff Payne and Pamela Abbott
Women & Social Change in America by Joan Mandle
Women and Revolution: A Discussion of the Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism by Lydia Sargent

Economy & the Working Class

Professor Mommy: Finding Work-Family Balance in Academia by Rachel Connelly and Kristen Ghodsee
Born Female by Caroline Bird
Women’s Estate by Juliet Mitchell
Working Class Wives by Margery Spring Rice
Life as We Have Known It: by Co-operative Working Women by Davies
The Sisterhood of Man by Newland
Teachers, Gender and Careers by Sandra Acker
Working Women by Opposing Viewpoints
Women’s Work, Families and Health by Swanson-Kauffman
Circles of Care by Abel and Nelson
Women Working in the Sri Lanka Plantation Sector by Rachel Kurian
Unpaid Work in the Household by Luisella Goldschnidt-Clermont
Blacksmith, Baker, Roofing-sheet Maker by Marilyn Carr
Third World Second Sex by Miranda Davies
Occupation: Housewife by Lopata
Homemakers by Rae Andre
Stratification: Socioeconomic and Sexual Inequality
Help: a Handbook for Working Mothers by Greenleaf and Schaffler
Of Woman Born by Rich

Women in Art

From the Center: Feminist Essays on Women’s Art by Lucy Lippard
Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Contemporaries by Amarillo Art Center
Music in the Old Bones: Jezebel Through the Ages by Janet Howe Gaines

Psychology

Women & Madness by Phyllis Chesler
Aspects of the Feminine by CG Jung
Toward a New Psychology of Women by Jean Baker Miller
Understanding Women: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Approach by Luise Eichenbaum and Susie Orbach
The Psychology of Sex Offenders by Ellis and Brancale
Women and Sex Roles: a Social Psychological Perspective by Frieze, Parsons, Johnson, Ruble, Zellman
Males & Females by Corinne Hutt
Born to Win: Transactional Analysis with Gestalt Experiments by Muriel and Jongeward

Magazines & Journals

The National Women’s Studies Association Journal, Vol. 17(3), 18(1-3), 19(1)
Women of China
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