Selected Readings suggested by Women's Studies Faculty
Journals and Magazines
Bridges
Feminist Economics
Feminist Issues
Gender & Society
Journal of Family History
Journal of Feminist Studies
Journal of Social History
Ms.
Psychology of Women Quarterly
Signs
Women’s Review of Books
Women’s Studies in Communication
Women’s Studies International Forum
Books
Angier, Natalie. 1999. Woman: An Intimate Geography. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
Baumgardner, Jennifer and Amy Richards. 2000. Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future. Farrar Straus & Giroux.
Beauvoir, Simone de. 1949. The Second Sex. New York: Random House.
Belenky, Mary Field. 1985. Women’s Way of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind. New York: Basic Books.
Bem, Sandra L. 1993. The Lenses of Gender: Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequality. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Boston Women’s Health Collective. 1992. The New Our Bodies, Ourselves. New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc.
Brenna, Shawn and Julie Winklepleck. Resourceful Women. Washington, D.C.: Visible Ink.
Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs. 1989. Man Cannot Speak for Her: A Critical Study of Early Feminist Rhetoric. New York: Praeger.
Collins, Patricia Hill. 1990. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. New York: Routledge.
Dellasega, Cheryl. 2002. Surviving Ophelia: Mothers Share Their Wisdom in Navigating the Tumultuous Teenage Years . New York: Ballantine Books.
Donovan, Josephine. 1985. Feminist Theory: The Intellectual Traditions of American Feminism. New York: Continuum.
Eagleton, Mary. 1996. Working with Feminist Criticism. Oxford: Blackwell.
Faludi, Susan. 1991. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc.
Ferguson, Kathy E. 1980. Self, Society, and Womankind. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Ferguson, Kathy E. 1993. The Man Question: Visions of Subjectivity in Feminist Theory. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Findlen, Barbara. 2001. Listen Up: Voices From the Next Feminist Generation (2 nd ed.). New York: Seal Press.
Foss, Karen A. and Sonja K. Foss. 1991. Women Speak: The Eloquence of Women’s Lives. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press.
Friedan, Betty. 1963. The Feminine Mystique. New York: W.W. Norton and Co.
Gilligan, Carol. 1982. In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Goldberger, Nancy, Blithe Clinchy, Mary Belensky, and Jill Mattuck Tarule. 1996. Knowledge, Difference and Power: Essays Inspired by Women’s Ways of Knowing. New York: Basic Books.
Greer, Germaine. 1971. The Female Eunuch. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Hanauer, Cathi. 2003. The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage . City: Perennial.
Heilbrun, Carolyn. 1995. The Education of a Woman: The Life of Gloria Steinam. New York: Ballantine Books.
hooks, bell. 1984. Feminist Theory from Margin to Center. Boston: South End Press.
Hornbacher, Marya. 1998. Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia. New York: Harper Flamingo.
Kamen, Paula. 2002. Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution. New York: Broadway Books.
Lorber, Judith. 1998. Gender Inequalities: Feminist Theories and Politics. Los Angeles: Roxbury.
Lorber, Judith. 1994. Paradoxes of Gender. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Lorde, Audre. 1984. Sister Outsider. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press.
McCorduck, P. and N. Ramsey. 1996. The Futures of Women: Scenarios for the 21 st Century. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
Mernissi, Fatima. 1991. The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women’s Rights in Islam. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
Mohanty, Chandra Talpade, et al. 1991. Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Morgan, Robin, ed. 1970. Sisterhood is Powerful. New York: Vintage Books.
Morgana, Cherrie, and Gloria Anzalda, eds. 1983. This Bridge Called My Back. New York: Kitchen Table.
Muscio, Inga. 2002. Cunt: A Declaration of Independence. Seal Press.
Norton, Mary Beth, ed. 1955. The AHA Guide to Historical Literature. New York: Oxford University Press.
Pipher, Mary. 1994. Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls. New York: Ballantine Books.
Price, Janet and Margrit Shildrick. 1999. Feminist Theory and the Body: A Reader. New York: Routledge.
Rosaldo, Michelle Zimbalist and Louise Lamphere, ed. 1974. Woman, Culture and Society. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Shandler, Sara. 1999. Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search for Self. New York: Harper Perrenial Library.
Spender, Dale. 1980. Man Made Language. Boston: Pandora.
Steinam, Gloria. 1994. Moving Beyond Words. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Steinam, Gloria. 1995. Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions. New York: Henry Holt.
Steinam, Gloria. 1993. Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem. New York: Little, Brown and Company.
Tannen, Deborah. 1990. You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation. New York: Ballantine Books.
Tavris, Carol. 1992. The Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex. New York: Touchstone.
Tong, Rosemarie. 1989. Feminist Thought: A Comprehensive Introduction. Boulder: Westview Press.
VanGelder, Lindsy and Pamela Robin Brandt. 1997. The Girls Next Door: Into the Heart of Lesbian America. New York: Simon and Schuster Books.
Wolf, Naomi. 1991. The Beauty Myth. New York: William Morrow and Co.
Wolf, Naomi. 1994. Fire with Fire: The New Female Power and How to Use It. New York: Anchor.
Wolf, Naomi. 1998. Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood. Connecticut: Fawcett Books.
Wood, J.T. 1997. Gendered Lives: Communication, Gender, and Culture (2 nd ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.