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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+
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
  • Introduction to Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies
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
  • Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny by Sarah Banet-Weiser
  • Fathers on Film by Katie Barnett
  • Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
  • The Promise of Happiness
  • Living a Feminist Life
  • Transnational Feminism
  • Intersectional Chicana Feminisms: Sitios y Lengua
  • Decolonizing Universalism
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
  • Introducion to Transgender Studies
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
  • Policing the Womb
  • Revolutionizing Women's Healthcare
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
  • Healing Mind, Healthy Woman
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
  • Economies of Violence: Transnational Feminism, Postsocialism, and the Politics of Sex Trafficking
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
  • Unsung Heroines: Single Mothers and the American Dream
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
  • Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
  • Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios (Latin America Otherwise)
  • Brave. Black. First.
  • Chicanas Movidas
  • Chicana Motherwork Anthology
  • This is How We Survive: Revolutionary Mothering, War, and Exile in the 21st Century
  • Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines
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
  • Purple Hibiscus: A Novel by Chimamanda Ngosi Adichie
  • The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli
  • Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
  • In the Midst of Winder by Isabel Allende
  • In America by Susan Sontag
  • The Street
  • With the Fire on High
  • The Poet X
  • Clap When You Land
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
  • Salvage
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
  • Becoming
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
  • Developing Women Leaders in the Academy through Enhanced Communication Strategies (Communicating Gender)
  • Latin American Politics
  • The Women's Hour
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
  • Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism
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
  • Contemporary Women's Cinema
  • Amplify: Graphic Narratives of Feminist Resistance by Meg Braem and Norah Bowman
  • What If I Had Been the Hero?: Investigating Women's Cinema
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
  • Bust
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