Bookstore Staples
Feminization of Power, Toni Carabillo and Judith Meuli.
Biographies of women in government.
Revolution from Within, Gloria Steinem. An autographical
work by the feminist leader.
Woman of Valor, Ellen Chesler. A portrait of birth control
pioneer Margaret Sanger.
Capitol Games, Timothy Phelps and Winternitz. Behind-the-scenes
analysis of the Thomas-Hill hearings.
How the Make the World a Better Place for Women. Donna
Jackson. Jackson outlines dozen of simple ways to take feminist
action.
Women's History Books:
Black Women in America,ed. Darlene Clark Hine (Brooklyn,
NY. Carlson Publishing Co, 1993). A two-volume encyclopedia of
the history of black women in America.
Black Women in White America,ed. Gerda Lerner (New York:
Random House, 1992).
Century of Struggle,Eleanor Flexner (Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 1975). An inspiring book about the "first wave"
of the women's movement in the United States, including the suffrage
struggle, women's education, labor, and property rights.
The Concise History of Woman Suffrage: Selections
from the Classic Work of Stanton, Anthony, Gage, and
Harper,ed. Mari Buhle and Paul Buhle (Urbana, IL: University
of Illinois Press,1978).
The Feminist Papers Alice S. Rossi, ed. (New York: Bantam
Books, 1973). A collection of original essays and speeches on
women's rights.
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work,
and Family from Slavery to the Present,Jacqueline Jones (New
York: Basic Books, 1985).
Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings By and about Asian
American Women,ed. Asian Women United of California (Boston:
Beacon Press, 1989).
Moving the Mountain, Flora Davis (New York: Simon and
Schuster,1991). A gripping account of the modern feminist movement,
includinga recap of events from 1920 to 1960.
Survival in the Doldrums: The American Women's Rights Movement,
1945 to the 1960s, Leila Rupp and Verta Taylor (Columbus,
OH: Ohio State University Press, 1990).
Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History,
Second Edition, ed. Vicki L. Ruiz and Ellen Carol DuBois (New
York: Routledge, 1994).
Women, Work and Protest. A Century of U.S. Women's Labor
History, ed. Ruth Milkman (New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul,1985).
Against the Tide: Pro-Feminist Men in the United States,
1776-1990: A Documentary History,ed. Michael S. Kimmel and
Thomas Mosmiller (Boston: Beacon Press, 1992).
Feminist Theory:
A Gathering of Spirit: A Collection by North American Indian
Women, Beth Brandt (Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1984).
The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan (New York: Dell,
1963). The classic book that helped launch the modern feminist
movement.
The Grounding of Modern Feminism, Nancy F. Cott (New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1987).
The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir (New York: Knopf,
1952, Vintage, 1974).
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of
Color , ed. Gloria Anzaldua and Cherrie Moraga (Latham, NY:
Kitchen Table Women of Color Press, 1984).
Women in Western Political Thought, Susan Moller Okin
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992).
Contemporary Women's Issues:
Abortion and Woman's Choice, Rosalind Pollack Petchesky
(Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1990).
Against Our Will, Susan Brownmiller (New York: Bantam
Books,1975).
Backlash, Susan Faludi (New York: Doubleday, 1991). Makes
a strong case for the backlash women face today as a result of
the success of the women's movement.
Battered Wives, Del Martin (New York: Pocket Books, 1983).
For Her Own Good: 150 Years of Experts' Advice to Women,
Barbara Ehrenreich and Diedre English (New York: Doubleday,1989).
From Margin to Mainstream: American Women in Politics Since
1960, Susan Hartmann (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1989).
How and Why Women Will Elect the Next President, Eleanor
Smeal (New York: Harper and Row, 1984). Describes the evolution
of the gender gap as an electoral phenomenon and a political strategy.
Real Rape, Susan Estrich (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 1987).
Sexual Harassment of Working Women, Catherine MacKinnon
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1979).
Women Working: Theories and Facts in Perspective, Second
Edition, ed. Ann Helton Stromberg and Shirley Harkess (Mountain
View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1988).
