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Selected Bibliography of Women Studies Scholarship
Compiled by Marty S. Knepper, English, MorningsideCollege
May 2007 (July 15 version)
InterdisciplinaryWebsites
[U of Minnesota WS bibliographies on resources from various disciplines]
[U of Wisconsin WS bibliographies on resources on various topics—e.g.,ecofeminism, gender and creative writing, the glass ceiling, Jewish womenin America, feminist aesthetics, females in picture books, women novelists,feminist perspectives on ethics of care, women in science, health, andtechnology]
[U of Maryland WS bibliographies on resources from various disciplines]
[National Women’s Studies Association website with teaching resources]
[Midwest Women’s Studies Association website]
[Discussions on WS organized by topic]
[WS resources in English and German]
[Annotated collection of over 200 email lists on women’s issues and gender studies]
Academia
Berry, Theodorea Regina, and Nathalie Mizelle. From Oppression to Grace:Women of Color and Their Dilemmas within the Academy.Stylus, 2006.
Bracken, Susan J., Jeanie K. Allen, and Diane R. Dean, eds. The Balancing Act:Gendered Perspectives in Faculty Roles and Work Lives. Stylus, 2006.
Eisenmann, Linda. Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945-1965.Johns Hopkins UP, 2006.
Peril, Lynn. College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-Eds, Then and Now.Norton, 2006.
Robbins, Alexandra. Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities. Reprint. Hyperion, 2005.
Art
Chadwick, Whitney. Women, Art, and Society. 4th ed. Thames and Hudson, 2007.
Ganz, Nicholas, Nancy MacDonald, and Swoon. Graffiti Women: Street Art fromFive Continents.Abrams, 2006.
Heartney, Eleanor, Helaine Posner, and Nancy Prince Thal. After the Revolution:WomenWho Transformed Contemporary Art. Prestel, 2007.
Solle, Dorothee. Great Women of the Bible in Art and Literature. Fortress, 2006.
Wasserman, Krystyna, Johanna Drucker, and Audrey Niffenegger. The Book in Art:Artists’ Books from the NationalMuseum of Women in the Arts.PrincetonArchitectural P, 2006.
Business and Economics
Abramowitz, Mimi, and Sandra Morgan. Taxes Are a Woman’s Issue: ReframingThe Debate. Feminist P, 2007.
Bravo, Ellen. Taking on the Big Boys: Or Why Feminism is Good for Families,Business, and the Nation. Feminist P, 2007.
Bennetts, Leslie. The Feminist Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too Much?Voice,2007.
Ehrenreich, Barbara, and Arlie Russell Hochschild, eds. Global Woman: Nannies,Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy. Owl Books, 2004.
Frankel, Lois P.See Jane Lead: 99 Ways for Women to Take Charge at Work. Business Plus, 2007.
Pearle, Liz. Money, a Memoir: Women, Emotions, and Cash. Reprint. Picador,2006.
Stone, Pamela.Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home. U ofCalifornia P, 2007.
Thistle, Susan. From Marriage to the Market: The Transformation of Women’s Lives and Work. U of California P, 2006.
Education/Teaching
Gender and Education journal
[Includes multi-disciplinary, international articles on education]
Dixson, Adrienne D., and Celia K. Rousseau. Critical Race Theory in Education: AllGod’s Children Got a Song.Routledge, 2006.
DeBare, Ilana. Where Girls Came First. Tarcher, 2005.
Evans-Waters, Venus E. Teaching Black Girls: Resiliency in Urban Classrooms. PeterLang, 2005.
Johnson, Susan K, and James Kendrick. Teaching and Counseling Gifted Girls.Prufrock P, 2005.
Jones, Stephanie. Girls, Social Class, and Literacy: What Teachers Can Do toMake a Difference. Heineman, 2006.
Feminist Movement/Theory
[Virginia Tech’s Feminist Theory website]
[University of Iowa’s French Feminism website]
Baumgardner, Jennifer. Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism. Farrar,Straus, and Giroux, 2004.
Berger, Melody, ed. We Don’t Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the NextGeneration of Feminists. Seal P, 2006.
Breines, Winifred. The Trouble between Us: An Uneasy History of White and BlackWomen in the Feminist Movement. Oxford UP, 2006.
Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.Routledge,2006.
Chesler, Phyllis.The Death of Feminism: What’s Next in the Struggle for Women’sFreedom.Palgrave, 2006.
Cobble, Dorothy Sue. The Other Women’s Movement: Workplace Justice andSocial Rights in Modern America. Princeton UP, 2004.
Friedman, Estelle R. Feminism, Sexuality, and Politics: Essays by Estelle R. Friedman.U of North Carolina P, 2006.
Gutierrez-Jones, Carl Scott. Critical Race Narratives: A Study of Race, Rhetoric, andInjury. Routledge, 2006.
Labaton, Vivien, and Dawn Lundy Martin. The Fire This Time: Young Activistsand the New Feminism. Anchor/Random, 2004.
McDonald, Katrina Bell. Embracing Sisterhood: Class, Identity, and ContemporaryBlack Women. Rowman and Littlefield, 2006.
Halley, Janet. Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism.Princeton UP, 2006.
Stiehm, Judith Hicks. Champions for Peace: Women Winners of the Noble PeacePrize. Rowman and Littlefield, 2006.
Valenti, Jessica. Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why FeminismMatters. Seal P, 2007.
Girls
See Jane Hit:Why Girls are Growing More Violent and What We Can Do About It.Reprint. Penguin, 2007.
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls.Vintage, 1998.
Hamkins, SuEllen, and Renee Schultz. The Mother-Daughter Project: How Mothersand Daughters Can Band Together, Beat the Odds, and Thrive ThroughAdolescence. Hudson Street P, 2007.
Lamb, Sharon, and Lyn Mikel Brown. Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughtersfrom Marketer’s Schemes. St. Martin’s 2007.
Levy, Barrie.In Love and In Danger: A Teen’s Guide to Breaking Free of AbusiveRelationships. Seal P, 2006.
Lewis, Maureen, and Marlaine E. Lockheed. Inexcusable Absence: Why 60 Million Girls Still Aren’t in School and What to Do About It.Center for GlobalDevelopment, 2007.
Martin, Courtney E. Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcyof Hating Your Body. Free P, 2007.
O’Malley, Kathleen. Childhood Interrupted: Growing Up under the Cruel Regime of theSisters of Mercy. Virago, 2006.
Health/Nursing
Berger, Michele Tracy. Workable Sisterhood: The Political Journey of StigmatizedWomen with HIV/AIDS. Princeton UP, 2006.
Coward, Ramond T., et al. Rural Women’s Health: Mental, Behavioral, and PhysicalHealth Issues. Springer, 2005.
Davidson, Michele R., Marcia L. London, and Patricia Ladewig. Olds’ MaternalNewborn Nursing and Women’s Health across the Lifespan. Prentice, 2007.
Malka, Susan Gelfand. Daring to Care: American Nursing and Second-Wave Feminism. U of Illinois P, 2007.
Mortimer, B., ed. New Directions in the History of Nursing. Routledge, 2005.
History--American
Berkin, Carol. Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’sIndependence. Reprint. Vintage, 2006.
Collins, Gail. America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, andHeroines. Harper, 2007.
Grunwald, Lisa, and Stephanie J. Adler. Women’s Letters: America from theRevolutionary War to the Present. Dial, 2005.
King, Wilma. The Essence of Liberty: Free Beach Women During the Slave Era.U of Missouri P, 2006.
Marshall, Megan. The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited AmericanRomanticism. Reprint.. Mariner Books, 2006.
Roberts, Cokie. Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation. Harper,2005.Rowland, Debran. Boundaries of Her Body:A Troubling History of Women’s Rightsin America. Sphinx, 2004.
Triece, Mary. On the Picket Line: Strategies of Working-Class Women during theDepression. U of Illinois P, 2007.
Zeitz, Joshua. Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women whoMade America Modern. Rpt. ed. Three Rivers P, 2007.
History—European
[Website on Women and Gender in the ancient world, including bibliography]
Betcherman, Lita-Rose. Court Lady and Country Wife: Two Noble Sisters inSeventeenth- Century England. Harpercollins, 2005.
Marcus, Sharon.Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in VictorianEngland. Princeton UP, 2007.
Stearns, Peter. Gender in World History. Routledge, 2006.
International and Cross-Cultural Studies
Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa. Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives.U of Pennsylvania P, 2007.
Ali, Ayaam Hirsi. The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Womenand Islam. Free P, 2006.
Danticat, Edwidge, Patricia Tumang, and Jenesha de Rivera. Homelands: Women’sJourneys across Race, Place, and Time. Seal Press, 2006.
Goldman, Paula, ed. Imagining Ourselves: Global Voices from a New Generation ofWomen. New World Library, 2006.
Gruenbaum, Ellen. The Female Circumcision Controversy: An AnthropologicalPerspective. Johns Hopkins UP, 2000.
Husain, Sarah, ed.Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women in War, Faith and Sexuality.Seal P, 2006.
Keddie, Nikki R. Women in the Middle East: Past and Present.Princeton UP, 2006.Lock, Margaret. Encounters with Aging: Mythology of Menopause in Japan andNorth America. U of California P, 1995.
Parrott, Andrea, and Nina Cummings. Forsaken Females: The Global Brutalizationof Women. Rowman and Littlefield, 2006.
Prasso, Sheridan. Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, and Our FantasiesOf the Exotic Orient. New ed. Public Affairs, 2006.
Stearns, Jill. Gender and International Relations: Issues, Debates, Future Directions.2nd ed. Polity, 2006.
Waldud, Amina. Inside the Gender Jihad: Women’s Reform in Islam. Oneworld, 2006.
Waller, Marguerite, and Sylvia Marcos, eds. Dialogue and Difference: FeminismsChallenge Globalization. Palgrave, 2005.
Wing, Adrien Katherine, ed. Critical Race Feminism. New York UP, 2003.
Law
American Bar Association. ABA Guide for Women: What Every Woman Needsto Know about the Law and Marriage, Health, Care, Divorce, Discrimination, Retirement, and More. Random, 2004.
Kamir, Orit. Framed: Women in Law and Film. Duke UP, 2006.
Literature
[University of California—Santa Barbara index to resources in thehumanities, including WS]
Bryan, Patricia L., and Thomas Wolf. Midnight Assassin: A Murder inAmerica’s Heartland. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2005.[On the real case on which Susan Glaspell based “Trifles.”]
Ferriss, Suzanne, and Mallory Young, eds. Chick Lit: The New Woman’sFiction. Routledge, 2006.
Gould, Joan. Spinning Straw into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal about theTransformations in a Woman’s Life. Random, 2006.
Galperin, William H. Historical Austen.U of Pennsylvania P, 2005.
Gubar, Susan. Rooms of Our Own. U of Illinois P, 2006.
Showalter, Elaine. FacultyTowers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents.U of Pennsylvania P, 2005.
Mathematics
Case, Bettye Anne, and Anne M. Leggett.Complexities: Women in Mathematics.Princeton UP, 2005.
Kenschaft, Patricia Clark. Change is Possible: Stories of Women andMinorities in Mathematics. American Mathematical Society, 2005.
Memoirs
Barnes, Kim, and Claire Davis. Kiss Tomorrow Hello: Notes from the Midlife Underground by Twenty-Five Women over Forty. Doubleday, 2006.
Cole, Joni B., and Rebecca Joffrey. This Day in the Life: Diaries from Womenacross America. Three Rivers P, 2005.
Fessler, Ann.The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women WhoSurrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade.Penguin, 2006.
Klass, Perri, and Sheila Soloman Klass. Every Mother is a Daughter: TheNeverending Quest for Success, Inner Peace,and a Really Clean Kitchen.Ballantine, 2006.
Krasnow, Iris. I am My Mother’s Daughter: Making Peace with Mom—Before It’sToo Late. Perseus, 2006.
Mazer, Gwen. Wise Talk, Wild Woman.Council Oaks Books, 2007.
O’Beirne, Kathy. Don’t Ever Tell: Kathy’s Story: A True Tale of a ChildhoodDestroyed by Neglect and Fear. Mainstream, 2006.
O’Malley, Kathleen. Childhood Interrupted. Virago, 2006.
Rooney, Ellen, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory.Cambridge UP, 2006.
Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood. Pantheon, 2003. [Graphic novel]
Stephens, Autumn, ed. The Secret Lives of Lawfully Wedded Wives: 27 Women Writerson Love, Infidelity, Sex Roles, Race, Kids, and More.New World Library, 2006.
Walker, Rebecca. Baby Love. Riverhead, 2007.
Men
Walker, Rebecca, ed. What Makes a Man: 22 Writers Imagine the Future. Riverhead,2005.
Motherhood
Antler, Joyce. You Never Call! You Never Write! A History of the Jewish Mother.Oxford UP, 2007.
Blades, Joan, and Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner. A Motherhood Manifesto: What AmericanMoms Want—and What to Do About It. Nation Books, 2006.
Davis, Susan, and Gina Hyans, eds. Searching for Mary Poppins: Women Write about the Intense Relationship between Mothers and Nannies. Hudson Street P, 2006.
Edelman, Hope. Motherless Mothers: How Mother Loss Shapes the Parents WeBecome. Harpercollins, 2006.
Gerson, Jill. HopeSprings Maternal: Homeless Mothers Talk about Making Sense ofAdversity. Gordian Knot, 2006.
Moses, Kate, and Camille Peri. Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write about Children,Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and themselves. Reprint. Harper, 2005.
Sidel, Ruth. Unsung Heroines: Single Mothers and the American Dream. U ofCalifornia P, 2006.
Warner, Judith. Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety. Riverhead, 2006.
Music
[Extensive bibliography of books and articles on feminism and music,including music pedagogy and ethnomusicology]
Pendle, Karin. Women and Music: A Research and Information Guide. Routledge,2005.
Kimball, Carol. Women Composers: A Heritage of Song—High Voice.Hal Leonard, 2005.
Mythology
Barnes, Craig. In Search of the Lost Feminine: Decoding the Myths that RadicallyReshaped Civilization. Fulcrum, 2006. [A lawyer makes a case for how the feminine principle has been discredited]
Nursing
Ettinger, Laura E. Nurse-Mid-Wifery: The Birth of a New American Profession.OhioState UP, 2006.
Philosophy
Cornell, Drucilla. Ethical Feminism.Sage, 2007.
Marshall, Jill. Humanity, Freedom, and Feminism. Ashgate, 2005.
Nye, Andrea. Feminism and Modern Philosophy. Routledge, 2004.
Potter, Elizabeth. Feminism and Philosophy of Science. Routledge, 2006.
Spector, Jessica, ed. Prostitution and Pornography: Philosophical Debate About the Sex
Industry. Stanford UP, 2006.
Psychology
[Annotated bibliography on gender roles]
Boothby, Richard. Sex on the Couch: What Freud Still Has to Teach Us about Sex andGender. Routledge, 2005.
Crisler, Joan C., Carla Golden, and Patricia D. Rozee. Lectures on the Psychology ofWomen. McGraw, 2007.
Ellison, Katherine. The Mommy Brain: How Motherhood Makes Us Smarter.Perseus, 2006.
Hyde, Janet Shibley. Half the Human Experience: The Psychology of Women. Houghton, 2006.
Lips, Hilary M. A New Psychology of Women: Gender, Culture, and Ethnicity. 3rd ed.2005.
Matlin, Margaret. The Psychology of Women. 6th ed. Wadsworth, 2007.
Trimberger, E. Kay. The New Single Woman.Beacon P, 2006.
Political Science
Baumgardner, Jennifer. Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism. Farrar,Straus, and Giroux, 2004.
Berger, Melody, ed. We Don’t Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the NextGeneration of Feminists. Seal P, 2006.
Canny, Kathleen. Gender History in Practice: Historical Perspectives on Bodies, Class,and Citizenship. Cornell UP, 2006.
Dwis, Ana-ain. Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform: Between a Rock and aHard Place. SUNY P, 2006.
Ellison, Sheila, ed. If Women Ruled the World We Want to Live. New World Library,2004.
Flanders, Laura, ed. W Effect: Bush’s War on Women. Feminist P, 2004.
Rymph, Catherine E. Republican Women: Feminism and Conservatism from Suffragethrough the Rise of the New Right. U of North Carolina P, 2006.
Page, Cristina. How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics,and the War on Sex. Basic Books, 2007.
Wilson, Marie C. Closing the Leadership Gay: Why Women Can and Must Help Runthe World. Penguin, 2006.
Popular Culture/Media Studies
Betz, Phyllis M. Lesbian Detective Fiction: Woman as Author, Subject and Reader.McFarland, 2006.
Browder, Laura.Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in America. U of North Carolina P,2006.
Buszek, Maria Elena. Pin-up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, and Popular Culture. DukeUP, 2006.
Cho, Margaret, Lisa Jervis, and Andi Zeisler.Bitchfest: Ten Years of CulturalCriticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine. Farrar, 2006.
Fields, Jill. Intimate Affair: Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality. U of California P, 2007.
Johnson, Merri Lisa. Third Wave Feminism and Television: Jane Puts It in a BoxIB Tauris, 2007.
Klein, Allison.What Would Murphy Brown Do? How the Women of Prime Time Changed Our Lives.Seal P, 2006.
Kord, Susanne, and Elisabeth Krimmer. Hollywood Divas, Indie Queens, and TVHeroines: Contemporary Screen Images of Women. Rowman and Littlefield,2005.
Mayes-Alma, Ruthann. Females and Harry Potter.Rowman and Littlefield, 2006.
Mcandrews, Kristin M.Wrangling Women: Humor and Gender in the AmericanWest.U of Nevada P, 2006.
Mills, Eleanor, and Naomi Wolf. Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing andReporting by Women Journalists.Carroll and Graf, 2005.
Milne, Carly.Naked Ambition: Women Who Are Changing Pornography. Carrolland Graf, 2005.
Paul, Pamela. Pornified: How Pornography Is Damaging Our Lives, Our Relationships,and Our Families. Owl Books, 2006.
Rivers, Caryl. Selling Anxiety: How the News Media Scare Women. U of NewEngland P, 2007.
Ross, Karen, and Carolyn M. Byerly. Women and Media: A Critical Introduction.Blackwell, 2006.
Seligson. Susan. Stacked: A 32DDD Report from the Front. Bloomsbury USA, 2007.
Spanish
Fyrth, Jane, and Sally Alexander. Women’s Voices from the Spanish Civil War.Lawrence and Whishart, 2005.
Powers, Karen Vieira, and Lyman L. Johnson. Women in the Crucible of Conquest:The Gendered Genesis of Spanish American Society, 1500-1600. U of NewMexico P, 2005.
Shayne, Julie D. The Revolution Question: Feminisms in El Salvador, Chile, and Cuba.Rutgers UP, 2004.
Religious Studies
Bonavoglia, Angela. Good Catholic Girls: How Women Are Leading the Fight toChange the Church. Reprint. Regan, 2006
Creegan, Nicola Haggard, and Christine D. Pohl. Living in the Boundaries: Evangelical Women, Feminism, and the Theological Academy.Intervarsity, 2006.
Flinders, Carol. Enduring Lives: Portraits of Women and Faith in Action.Tarcher, 2006.
Gibson, Julie A. Daughters of the Diaspora Get Ready: A Prophetic Word forBlack Women. 2006. No pub.
Henderson, Katharine Rhodes. God’s Troublemakers: How Women of Faith AreChanging the World. Continuum, 2006.
Keller, Rosemary Skinner, Rosemary Radford Reuther, and Marie Cantian, eds.Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America. Indiana UP, 2006.
Kraemer, Ross Shepard. Women’s Religions in the Greco-Roman World: ASourcebook. Rev. ed. Oxford UP, 2004.
Morin, Karin M. Women, Religion, and Space: Global Perspectives on Genderand Faith. Syracuse UP, 2007.
Tedlock, Barbara. Women in the Shaman’s Body: Reclaiming the Femininein Religion and Medicine. Rept. ed. Bantam, 2005.
Turpin, JoAnne. Women in Church History: 21 Stories from 21 Centuries. SaintAntony Messenger P, 2007.
Science and Technology
Bystydzienski, Jill M., and Sharon R. Bird. Removing Barriers: Women in AcademicScience, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Indiana UP, 2006.
Newitz, Annalee, and Charlie Anders, eds. She’s Such a Geek: Women Writeabout Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff. Seal, 2006.
Parks, Katharine. Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins ofHuman Dissection.Zone Books, 2006.
Pritchad, Peggy. Successful Strategies for Women in Science: A Portable Mentor.Academic P, 2005.