Women’s Resource Center Materials

Abramowitz, Mimi. Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present. Boston: South End Press, 1988.

Baehr, Ninia. Abortion Without Apology: A Radical History for the 1990’s. Boston: South End Press, 1990.

Baumgardner, Jennifer and Amy Richards. Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.

Bem, Sandra L. The Lenses of Gender: Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequality. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.

Bergen, Raquel K., Jeffrey L. Edleson, and Claire M. Renzetti eds. Violence Against Women. Boston: Pearson, 2005.

Brownmiller, Susan. Femininity. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1984.

Brumberg, Joan J. The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls. New York: Vintage, 1997.

Burke, Timothy. Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women: Commodification, Consumption, & Cleanliness in Modern Zimbabwe. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.

Burr, Jeanne, ed. Sex Roles: Rights and Values in Conflict. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1979.

Chapkis, Wendy. Beauty Secrets: Women and the Politics of Appearance. Boston: South End Press, 1986.

Colman, Penny. Girls: A History of Growing Up Female in America. Scholastic, 2000.

de Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex. New York: Bantam Books, 1961.

Diamond, Jared. Why Is Sex Fun? New York: Basic Books, 1997.

Dujon, Diane and Ann Withorn, eds. For Crying Out Loud: Women’s Poverty in the United States . Boston: South End Press,1996.

Ehrenreich, Barbara. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2001.

Estés, Clarissa P. Women Who Run With the Wolves. New York: Ballantine Books, 1992.

Estés, Clarissa P. Women Who Run With the Wolves. New York: Ballantine Books, 1992.

Faludi, Susan. Backlash. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1991.

Faludi, Susan. Stiffed. New York: Perennial, 2000.

Fried, Marlene G., ed. From Abortion to Reproductive Freedom: Transforming a Movement. Boston: South End Press, 1990.

Silverglate, Harvey A. and Josh Gewolb. Fire’s Guide to Due Process and Fair Procedure on Campus. Philadelphia: Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, 2003.

Gross, Rita M. Feminism and Religion: An Introduction. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.

Heywood, Leslie and Jennifer Drake eds. Third Wave Agenda: Doing Feminism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.

hooks, bell. Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism. Boston: South End Press, 1981.
hooks, bell. Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics. Cambridge: South End Press, 2000.

Hurwitz, Jon and Mark Peffley, eds. Perception and Prejudice: Race and Politics in the United States . New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

Joseph, Gloria I. and Jill Lewis. Common Differences: Conflicts in Black and White Feminist Perspectives. Boston: South End Press, 1981.

Kidd, Sue M. The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman’s Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine. San Fancisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1996.

Lorber, Judith. Paradoxes of Gender. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.

Lorde, Audre. Sister Outsider. Berkeley: Crossing Press. 1984.

Moore, Michael. Stupid White Men and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation. New York: Regan Books, 2001.

Myers, Kristen A., Cynthia D. Anderson, and Barbara J. Risman eds. Feminist Foundations: Toward Transforming Sociology. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 1998.

National Network of Presbyterian College Women. Lifting Up Our Voices: Young Women Explore Life, Liberation, & Faith. Louisville: Women’s Ministries Program Area, National Ministries Division, 2002.

Patchett, Ann. Truth & Beauty. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 2004.

Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar. New York: Bantam, 1971.

Pipher, Mary. Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls. New York: The Berkley Publishing Group, 1994.

Schneir, Miriam. Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.

Shah, Sonia. ed. Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire. Boston: South End Press, 1997.

Simmons, Rachel. Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls. Orlando: Harcourt, Inc., 2002.

Sims, Margot. On the Necessity of Bestializing the Human Female. Boston: South End Press, 1982.

Smith, Bonnie G. ed. Global Feminisms Since 1945: Rewriting Histories. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Stallard, Karin, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Holly Sklar. Poverty in the American Dream: Women and Children First. Boston: South End Press, 1983.

Velazquez, Loreta J. The Woman in Battle: The Civil War Narrative of Loreta Velazquez, Cuban Woman and Confederate Soldier. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.

Walker, Alice. Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer’s Activism. New York: Ballantine Books, 1997.

Walker, Alice. In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens. Orlando: Harcourt, Inc., 1983.

Warren, Karen J. Ecofeminist Philosophy: A Western Prespective on What It Is and Why It Matters. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2000.

Weinbaum, Batya. Pictures of Patriarchy. South End Press, 1983

Williams, Neville. The Life and Times of Elizabeth I. Fraser, Antonia ed. New York: Doubleday and Company, 1972.