Last updated:
November 2008
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UAA WOMEN'S STUDIES
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Oldies but Goodies
"Behind a Mask: Or, A Woman's Power" (1866) by Louisa May Alcott
Fettered for Life (1874) by Lillie Devereux Blake
The Awakening (1899) by Kate Chopin
Any short story collection of Sui Sin Far [Edith Eaton] (1865-1914)
Ruth Hall (1855) by Fanny Fern
Herland (1909-1916) Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"Three Hundred Years Hence" (1836) by Mary Grifith
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston
Imitation of Life (1933) by Fannie Hurst
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) by Harriet Jacobs
The House of Mirth (1905) by Edith Wharton
American Indian Stories (1900-1901) by Zitkala-Sa [Gertrud Simmons
Bonnin]
Literature more recently
Dawn (1987) Book one of the xenogenesis series by Octavia Butler
So Far From God (1993) by Ana Casitllo
The Virgin Suicides (1993) by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Cancer Journals (1980) by Audre Lorde
The Bell Jar (1967) by Sylvia Plath
The Joy Luck Club (1989) by Amy Tan
Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage, and Survival
(1993) by Velma Wallis
Feminist Anthologies, Biographies, Issue-focused Research Anthologies
Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings (1992) Ed. Miriam Schneir
Feminism In Our Time: The Essential Writings, World War II to the Present
(1994) Ed. Miriam Schneir
Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women's Liberation Movement (2000)
Ed. Rosalyn Baxandall And Linda Gordon
Body Consciousness
Woman and Intimate Geography (1999) Natalie Angier
The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls (1997)
by Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Adiós, Barbie: Young Women Write About Body Image and Identity
(1998) Ed. Ophira Edut.
Breasts: Our Most Public Private Parts (1998) by Meema Spadola
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women (1991)
by Naomi Wolf
Feminism - Definitions and Discussions
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence (Live Girls Series) (2002)
by Betty Dodson
Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (2000) by bell hooks
Listen Up: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation (2001) Ed.
by Barbara Findlen
The Fire this Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism (2004)
Ed. by Vivien Labaton and Dawn Lundy Martin
Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future (2000) by Amy
Richards and Jennifer Baumgardner
To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism (1995)
Ed. by Rebecca Walker
Anti-feminism
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (2005)
by Ariel Levy Feminist Fantasies (2003) by Phyllis Schlafly with
a foreword by Ann Coulter
Feminism and Classism
Don't Call Us Out of Name: The Untold Lives of Women and Girls in Poverty
(1995) by Lisa Dodson
Nickel and Dimed: On (not) Getting by in America (2001) by Barbara
Ehrenreich
Feminism and Men
Traps: African American Men on Gender and Sexuality (2001) Ed.
by Rudolph P. Byrd and Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Men Doing Feminism (1998) Edited by Tom Digby
Against the Tide: Profeminist Men in the United States, 1776-1990
(1992) Ed. by Michael Kimmel and Thomas E. Mosmiller
Feminism with Men: Bridging the Gender Gap (2004) by Steven P.
Schacht and Doris W. Ewing
Feminism and Race/Racism
La Frontera/Borderlands (1999) and This Bridge We Call Home: Radical
Visions for Transformation (2002) by Gloria Anzaludúa
Feminism and "race" (2001) Ed. by Kum-Kum Bhavnani
Bone Black: Memories of a Girlhood (1993) by bell hooks
African Women and Feminism: Reflecting on the Politics of Sisterhood
(2003) Ed. by Oyeronke Oyewumi
Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self (2001)
by Rebecca Walker
3 Asian American Writers Speak out on Feminism (2003) by Mitsuye
Yamada, Merle Woo, Nellie Wong
Various
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community
(1993) by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis
Are Men Necessary?: When Sexes Collide (2005) by Maureen Dowd
Tough Girls: Women Warriors and Wonder Women (1999) by Sherrie
Inness
Dirty Looks: Women, Pornography, Power (1993) Ed. by Pamela Church
Gibson and Roma Gibson
Ecofeminism: Woman, Culture, Nature (1995) Ed. by Karen Warren