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Women and Gender Studies

 

Resource Center and Library

Here, the Women's and Gender Studies Program has assembled a list of books, journals and other media resources that are available for those interested in issues that relate to Women's Studies. Please note, the materials available in the Resource Center/Library are for in-house use only. Please feel free to stop in between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday-Friday to use the books, journals and media resources. The Resource Center/Library is a bright, sunny space, equipped with computers, study areas, couches and a small kitchen. We welcome students across campus to come in and relax!

BOOKS ORGANIZED BY CATEGORIES
History Pedagogy Sociology
International Perpective Philosophy Sociology of Gender
Auto/Biography International Perspective Philosophy & Spirituality Violence Against Women
Critical Race Theory International Perspectives Politics W.S. Curriculum
Feminism & Generations International Pespective Reference W.S. Text
Feminist Studies Law Reserve Readings Women and Science
Fiction Literary Criticism Sexuality Women and the Law
Health Literature

 

TitleAuthorPublishersYear
"Pretty Good for a Woman" The Enigmas of Evelyn ScottCallard, D.A.W.W. Norton & Company1985
"Pretty Good for a Woman": The Enigmas of Evelyn ScottCallard, D.A.WW Norton and Co.1985
"The Cause": A Short History of the Women's Movement in Great BritainStrachey, RayKennikat Press, Inc.1969
(Inter)views: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Rhetoric and LiteracyOlson, Gary A. and Irene Gale, eds.Southern Illinois University Press1991
199 World Survey on the Role of Women in Development:Globalization, Gender and WorkUnited NationsUnited Nations1999
1994 Women in Business Yellow Pages Women in Business, Inc.1994
1994 Women in Business Yellow Pages-Metro Chicago and Springfield   
1999 World Bank AtlasWorld Development IndicatorsThe World Bank1999
A Breakdown in Relations: Women, Food Security and TradeMies, MariaIsis International1996
A Cure for DreamsGibbons, KayeVintage Books1991
A Feminist Perspective in the Academy: The Difference it Makes.Langland, Elizabeth and Walter GoveU of Chicago Press1983
A Fine Old Conflict.Mitford, JessicaRandom House, Inc.1977
A Group Called Women: Sisterhood and Symbolism in the Feminist MovementCassell, JoanThe Feminist Press1986
A Heritage of Her OwnCott, Nancy F., and Elizabeth H. PleckSimon and Schuster1979
A History of Gender in America: Essays, Documents, and ArticlesHoffert, Sylvia D.Prentice Hall2003
A History of Racial Ethic Women in Modern America: Changing WomenAnderson, KarenOxford University Press1996
A History of Their Own: Women in Europe Pre-History to the Present vol 1Anderson, Bonnie S. and Judith P. ZunsesHarper and Row1988
A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern World: Women Resistance and RevolutionRowbotham, SheilaVintage Books1972
A Hot-Eyed ModerateRule, JaneNaiad Press1985
A Matter of Life and Death: Health, Illness and Medicine in McLean County, 1830-1995Beier, Lucinda McCrayMcLean County Historical Society1996
A Matter of Simple Justice: The Report of The Presiden'ts Task Force on Women's Rights and Responsibilities U.S. Government Printing Office1970
A New England Childhood: Outlined from MemoryLarcom, LucyNortheastern University Press1924
A New Labor Movement for the New CenturyMantsios,Gregory (ed)Monthly Review Press1998
A New Look at the Silenced MajorityAmundsen, KristenPrentice Hall1977
A Perfect SpyLeCarre, JohnKnopf1986
A Question of ChoiceWeddington, SarahGrosset/Putnam1992
A Sleeping LifeRendell, RuthBantam Books1986
A Sounding of Women: Autobiographies from Unexpected PlacesWard, Martha C.Allyn & Bacon1998
A Vindication of the Rights of WomenWollstonecraft, MaryW.W. Norton & Co., Inc.1967
A Woman Doctor's Civil War: Esther Hill Hawk's DiarySchwartz, Gerald, ed.U of South Carolina1989
A Woman of the PeopleCapps, BenjaminU O New Mexico Press1966
A Woman’s WorthWilliamson, MarianneRandom House1993
A Woman's Legacy: Belva DavisORAL HISOTRY COLLECTION (with CD)Legacy Foundation2003
A Woman's Legacy: Bernice HemphillORAL HISTORY COLLECTION (with CD)Legacy Foundation1998
A Woman's Legacy: Marian Cleeves DiamondORAL HISTORY COLLECTION (with CD)Legacy Foundation2000
A Woman's Legacy: Mary LanigarORAL HISTORY COLLECTION (with CD)Legacy Foundation1999
A Woman's Legacy: Sandra Day O'ConnorORAL HISTORY COLLECTION (with CD)Legacy Foundation2001
A Woman's Place: 1910-1975Adam, RuthPersephone Books2000
A Women's Thesaurus: An Index of Language and Locate Information by and about WomenCapek, Mary EllenHarper and Row Publishers1989
A World Full of WomenWard, Martha C.Allyn & Bacon1999
Abigail Adams: An American WomanAkers, CharlesLittle, Brown and Company1980
Abortion and the Polotics of MotherhoodLunker, KristinUniversity of California Press1984
Abortion and Woman's ChoicePetchesky, Rosalind PollackNortheastern Univeristy Press1984
About Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Fiction, Poetry, and EssaysBerg, Stephen and S. J. Marks, eds.Fawcett1973
Adam's Eve: A Handbook for the Social Revolution ECOA and the Story of Adam and EveHall, Jon C. and Barbara D. HallAuthorHouse2006
Adrienne Rich's PoetryGelpi,Barbara Charlesworth, ed.W.W. Norton and Company, Inc1975
African American Autobiography: A Collection of Critical EssaysAndrews, William L. (ed.)Prentice Hall1993
African American Autobiography: A Collection of Critical EssaysAndrews, William L. ed.Prentice Hall1993
After DeloresSchulman,SarahPeguin Books1988
After the FireRule, JaneThe Naiad Press1990
After the Second Sex:Conversations with Simone deBeauviorSchwarzer,AlicePantheon Books1984
Against our Will: Men, Women and RapeBrownmiller, SusanBantam Books1975
Against the SeasonRule, JaneNaiad Press1988
Agrarian Women: Wives and Mothers In Rural Nebraska, 1880-1940Fink, DeborahUniv. Of North Carolina1992
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and FeminismHooks, BellSouth End Press1981
Algeria: Report of Eminent PanelUnited Nations 1998
All Contraries Confounded: The lyrical Fiction of VirginiaWoolf, Djuna Barnes, and Marguerite DurasKaivola, KarenU of Iowa Press1991
All the Women are White, All the Men are Black, but Some of Us are BraveHull, Gloria T., Patricia Bell Scott and Barbara Smith (eds.)The Feminist Press1982
Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a ChildDavis, LauraHarper Perennial1991
American Girl: Scenes from a Small Town ChildhoodCantwell, MaryPenguin Books1992
American Voice, The: Anthology of FictionSmock, FrederickKentucky Foundation for Women1999
American Voice, The: Anthology of FictionSmock, Frederick ed.The Kentucky Foundation for Women1999
American Voice, The: New Voice from Latin America & SpainAgosi, Margorie (Guest editor)Kentucky Foundation for Women1997
American Women in the Twentieth Century: The Festival of LifeDaniel, Robert L.Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers1987
American Women Writers: Diverse Voices in Prose Since 1845Barrett,Eileen and Mary Cullinan, eds.St. Martin's Press1992
American Women's Autobiography: Fea(s)ts of MemoryCulley, Margo ed.The University of Wisconsin1992
An Emergency of GreenForrest,Katherine V.The Naiad Press1987
An Introduction to Women's Studies: Gender in a Transitional World (2nd ed) (3 copies)Grewal,Inderpal and Caren, Kaplan, eds.McGraw Hill2006
And Say Hi to Joyce: The Life and Chronicles of a Lesbian CoupleMurdoch, Joyce and Deb PriceDoubleday Press1995
Androgyny: Toward a New Theory of SexualitySinger, JuneDoubleday1977
Annual Editions: Women's Studies 1999-2000Ojea, Patricia and Barbara Quigley, eds.Dushkin/McGraw-Hill1999
Anorexia Nervosa and Recovery: A Hunger for MeaningWay, KarenHaworth Press1993
Another Hat, A SequelLee, Dorothy E.iUniverse, Inc.2003
Another Voice: Feminist Perspectives on Social Life and Social LifeMillman, Marcia and Rosabeth Moss Kantes, eds.Double Day1975
Any Woman's BluesJong, EricaHarper & Row1991
Arab Women: A Profile of Diversity and ChangeToubia, Nahid, et. alThe Population Council1994
Arguing with the Crocodile: Gender and class in BangladeshWhite, Sarah CZed Books1992
Asian American Women and MenEspiritu,Yen LeSAGE Press1997
Asian American Women: Issues, Concerns, and Responsive Human and Civil Rights AdvocacyFoo, Lora JoFord Foundation2002
Asphodel H.DSpoo, Robert, ed.Duke Press1992
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American WomenFaludi, Susan (2)Crown Publishers, Inc.1991
Bagatelle GuinevereRothman, Felice and Nancy Bogen, ed.The Twickenham Press1995
Barred: Women, Writing, and Political DetentionHarlow, BarbaraWesleyan University Press1992
Battered WivesMartin, DelSimon & Schulster1979
Beauty SecretsChapkis, WendySouth End Press1986
Beginning to Heal: A First Book for Survivors of Child Sexual AbuseBass, Ellen and Thornton, Louise (eds.)Harper Perennial1993
Beginning to See the LightWillis, EllenWesleyan University Press1992
Bell Jar, ThePlath, SylviaHarper & Row1971
Bertha Alyce:Mother exPosedBlock, GayUniversity of New Mexico Press2003
Best Lesbian Erotica 1996Lewis, Heather and Tristan TaorminoCleis Press1996
Best Practices: For Gender Integration in Organizations and Programs from the Interaction CommunityHamerschlag Kari, and Annemarie ReerinkInterActionMarch 1996
Between Mothers and Daughters: Studies Across a GenerationKoppelman, Susan.The Feminist Press1985
Between the Slogans of Communism and the Laws of IslamTokhtakhadjaeva, MarfuaShirkat Gah1992
Between Women: Biographers, Novelists, Critics, Teachers and artists Write about their Work on WomenAscher, Carol and Louise DeSalvo and Sara Ruddick., eds.Routledge1993
Beyond Intellectual Sexism: A New Woman, A New RealityRoberts, Joan L.David McKay Company, Inc.1976
Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race, and GenderFine, Michelle and Weis, Lois (eds)State University of New York Press1993
Bisexuality in the Ancient WorldCantarella, EvaYale UP1992
Bitches and Sad Ladies: An Anthology of Fiction by and About WomenRotter, Pat ed. (2 copies)Dell1976
BittersweetBarr, NevadaSpinsters1984
Black Woman Writing Autobiography: A Tradition Within a TraditionBraxton, Joanne M.Temple University Press1989
Blood at the Root: Motherhood, Sexuality and Male DominanceFerguson, AnnPandora Press1989
Blood RelationsKnight, Chris.Yale UP1991
Blood, Bread, and Poetry(selected prose) --2 copiesRich, AdrienneW. W. Norton1994
Blue Star The story of Corabelle Fellows, Teacher at Dakota Missions, 1884-1888Duncan, KunigundeMinnesota Historical Society Press1990
Bobe Mayse: A Tale of Washington SquareBogen, NancyThe Twickenham Press1993
Bodily HarmAtwood, MargaretSimon & Schuster1989
Body/Polotics, Women and the Discourses of ScienceJacobus, Mary, Evelyn Fox Keller and Sally ShuttleworthRoutledge1990
Boots of Leather, Slippers of GoldKennedy, Elizabeth L. & Madeline D. Davis.Routledge1993
Born FemaleBird, CarolinePocket1975
Born FemaleBird, CarolineDavid McKay Company, Inc.1968
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