Along with this great selection of books, we have compiled some self-guided reading lists that provide a comprehensive introduction to gender and feminist studies. All the books referenced in these syllabi are available in the Women's Leadership Library. Click here to download the reading list.
Author |
Title |
Category |
Call Number |
Madsen, Axel |
Hearts and Minds: The Common Journey of Simone de Beuvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre |
Autobiography & Biography |
BIO M5 |
Quinn, Susan |
Marie Curie: A Life |
Autobiography & Biography |
BIO Q5 |
Chicago, Judy |
Through the Flower: my struggle as a woman artist |
Autobiography & Biography |
BIO C8 |
Shulman, Alix Kates |
Red Emma Speaks: an Emma Goldman Reader |
Autobiography & Biography |
BIO S15 |
Goldman, Emma |
Living My Life |
Autobiography & Biography |
BIO G5a |
ed. Walker, Alice |
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader |
Autobiography & Biography |
BIO W |
Ireland, Patricia |
What Women Want: A Journey to Personal and Political Power |
Autobiography & Biography |
BIO I10 |
Mandela, Winnie |
Part of My Soul Went With Him |
Autobiography & Biography |
BIO M10 |
Morgan, Robin |
Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicles of a Feminist |
Autobiography & Biography |
BIO M35 |
Bacon, Margaret Hope |
Valiant Friend: The Life of Lucretia Mott |
Autobiography & Biography |
BIO B4 |
Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer |
American Women Artists |
Autobiography & Biography |
BIO R |
Sanger, Margaret |
Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography |
Autobiography & Biography |
BIO S10 |
Seagraves, Anne |
High-Spirited Women of the West |
Autobiography & Biography |
BIO S |
Nagel, Gunther |
Iron Will: The Life and Letters of Jane Stanford |
Autobiography & Biography |
BIO N5 |
Banner, Lois W |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
Autobiography & Biography |
BIO B |
Stein, Gertrude |
The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas |
Autobiography & Biography |
BIO S25 |
Bennett, Joan |
Virginia Woolf: Her Art as a Novelist |
Autobiography & Biography |
BIO B10 |
Beilenson, Evelyn L and Ann Tenenbaum |
Wit and Wisdom of Famous American Women |
Autobiography & Biography |
BIO B |
Balser, Diane |
Sisterhood and Solidarity: Feminism and Labor in Modern Times |
History |
HIS B |
Friedan, Betty |
The Second Stage |
History |
HIS F |
Friedan, Betty |
It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women’s Movement |
History |
HIS F |
Firestone, S |
The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution |
History |
History F |
Lerner, Gerda |
The Female Experience: An American Documentary |
History |
HIS L10 |
Ehrenreich, Barbara and Deirdre English |
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers |
History |
HIS E15 |
Ehrenreich, Barbara and Deirdre English |
For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts’ Advice to Women |
History |
HIS E10 |
Ehrenreich, Barbara and Deirdre English |
Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness |
History |
HIS E5 |
Brownmiller, Susan |
In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution |
History |
HIS B |
Bright, Susie |
The Sexual State of the Union |
History |
HIS B |
Showalter, Elaine |
The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture 1830-1980 |
History |
HIS S |
Robinson, Jo Ann Gibson |
The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It |
History Autobiography & Biography |
HIS R BIO R |
Richardson, Laurel and Verta Taylor |
Feminst Frontiers III |
Nonfiction |
NF R |
Papachristou, Judith |
Women Together: A History in Documents of the Women’s Movement in the United States |
History |
HIS P5 |
Klagsbruin, Francine ed. |
The First Ms. Reader |
History |
HIS F |
Hole, Judith and Ellen Levine |
Rebirth of Feminism |
History |
HIS H15 |
Bell, Susan Groag and Karen M Offen, eds |
Women, the Family, and Freedom: The Debate in Documents Volume 1: 1750-1880 |
History |
HIS B |
Bell, Susan Groag and Karen M Offen, eds |
Women, the Family, and Freedom: The Debate in Documents Volume 2: 1880-1950 |
History |
HIS B |
Gornick, Vivian and Barbara K Moran, eds |
Woman in Sexist Society: Studies in Power and Powerlessness |
History |
HIS G |
Gordon, Linda |
Pitied but not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare |
History |
HIS G |
Stone, Elizabeth |
Women and the Cuban Revolution |
History |
HIS S |
Solomon, Barbara Miller |
In the Company of Educated Women |
History |
HIS S |
Harris, Anne Southerland and Nochlin, Linda |
Women Artists: 1550-1950 |
History |
HIS H |
Weatherford, Doris |
American Women’s History: An A-Z |
History |
HIS W |
Wilson, Harriet E. |
Our NIG; or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black |
History |
HIS W |
Wollstonecraft, Mary |
Vindication of the Rights of Woman |
History |
HIS W |
Wollstonecraft, Mary |
MARIA or The Wrongs of Woman |
History |
HIS W |
Yalom, Marilyn |
Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women’s Memory |
History |
HIS W |
Barreca, Regina |
Perfect Husbands (& Other Fairy Tales): Demystifying Marriage, Men and Romance |
Sex and Sexuality |
SEX B |
Berube, Allan |
Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two |
Sex and Sexuality |
SEX B |
Dworkin, Andrea |
Intercourse |
Sex and Sexuality |
SEX D |
Grahn, Judy |
Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds |
Sex and Sexuality |
SEX G |
Greer, Germaine |
The Female Eunich |
Sex and Sexuality |
SEX G |
Cahil, Susan |
Women & Fiction: Short Stories By and About Women |
Fiction |
FIC C |
Carter, Angela |
The Second Virago Book of Fairy Tales |
Fiction |
FIC C |
Cather, Willa |
O Pioneers!: A Classic Novel of the American Prairie |
Fiction |
FIC C |
Cather, Willa |
Five Stories |
Fiction |
FIC C |
Colette |
Cheri and the Last of Cheri |
Fiction |
FIC C |
Colette |
Journey For Myself |
Fiction |
FIC C |
Lessing, Doris |
The Golden Notebook |
Fiction |
FIC L |
Kincaid, Jamaica |
Lucy |
Fiction |
FIC K |
Jagger, Alison M. and Struhl, Paula Rothenberg |
Feminist Frameworks: Alternative Theoretical Accounts of the Relations Between Women and Men |
Fiction |
FIC J |
French, Marilyn |
Her Mother’s Daugher |
Fiction |
FIC F |
Emecheta, Buchi |
The Bride Price |
Fiction |
FIC E |
Emecheta, Buchi |
The Joys of Motherhood |
Fiction |
FIC E |
Eliot, George |
The Mill on the Floss |
Fiction |
FIC E |
McRobbie, Angela & McCabe, Trisha |
Feminism for Girls: An Adventure Story |
Fiction |
FIC M |
Nin, Anais |
The Novel of the Future |
Fiction |
FIC N |
Ragan, Kathleen |
Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sistsers |
Fiction |
FIC R |
Shange, Ntozake |
Three Pieces |
Fiction |
FIC S |
Stein, Gertrude |
Tender Buttons |
Fiction |
FIC S |
Woolf, Virginia |
Three Guineas |
Fiction |
FIC W |
Woolf, Virginia |
A Room of One’s Own |
Fiction |
FIC W |
Woolf, Virginia |
To the Lighthouse |
Fiction |
FIC W |
Buck, Claire |
Guide to Women’s Literature Throughout the World |
Fiction |
FIC B |
Gilbert, Sandra M. & Gubar, Susan |
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Tradition in English (volume 1) |
Fiction |
FIC G |
Gilbert, Sandra M. & Gubar, Susan |
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Tradition in English (volume 2) |
Fiction |
FIC G |
Gilbert, Sandra M. & Gubar, Susan |
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Tradition in English (volume 3) |
Fiction |
FIC G |
Allen, Paula Gunn |
The Sacrred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions |
Women of Color |
WOM A |
Moraga, Cherrie & Anzaldua, Gloria |
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women of Color |
Women of Color |
WOM M |
Brettell, Caroline B. & Sargent, Carolyn F. |
Gender in Cross-Culural Perspective (2nd edition) |
Women of Color |
WOM B |
Carras, Mary C. |
Indira Gandhi in the Crucible of Leadership |
Women of Color |
WOM C |
Croll, Elisabeth |
Chinese Women Since Mao |
Women of Color |
WOM C |
Davis, Angela Y. |
Women, Race and Class |
Women of Color |
WOM D |
Delamotte, Eugenia & Meeker, Natania & O’Barr, Jean |
A Global Anthology of Women’s Resistance From 60 B.C.E. to Present |
Women of Color |
WOM D |
Dubois, Ellen Carol & Ruiz, Vickie L. |
Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader In U.S. Women’s History |
Women of Color |
WOM D |
Erdrich, Louise |
Tracks |
Women of Color |
WOM E |
Frankenberg, Ruth |
The Social Construction of White Women, Whiteness Race Matters |
Women of Color |
WOM F |
Raheja, Gloria Goodwin & Gold, Grodzins, Ann |
Listen to the Heron’s Words: Reimagining Gender and Kinship in Norh India |
Women of Color |
WOM R |
Hafkin, Nancy & Bay, Edna G. |
Women in Africa: Studies in Social and Economic Change |
Women of Color |
WOM H |
Honig, Emily & Hershatter, Gail |
Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980’s |
Women of Color |
WOM H |
Hooks, Bell |
Feminist Theory From Margin to Center |
Women of Color |
WOM H |
Hooks, Bell |
Ain’t I A Woman: Black women and feminism |
Women of Color |
WOM H |
Hurtado, Aida |
The Color of Privilege: Three Blasphemies on Race and Feminism |
Women of Color |
WOM H |
Lebra, Joyce & Paulson, Joy & Powers, Elizabeth |
Women in Changing Japan |
Women of Color |
WOM H |
Lute, Aunt |
Our Feet Walk the Sky |
Women of Color |
WOM L |
Mernissi, Fatima |
Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in a Modern Muslim Society |
Women of Color |
WOM M |
Morgan, Robin |
The International Women’s Movement Anthology: Sisterhood is Global |
Women of Color |
WOM M |
Nakano, Mei |
Japanese American Women: Three Generations 1890-1990 |
Women of Color |
WOM N |
Noble, Jeanne |
Beautiful, Also, Are the Souls of My Black Sisters: A History of the Black Woman in America |
Women of Color |
WOM N |
Opposing Viewpoints |
Race Relations |
Women of Color |
WOM O |
Gomez, Alma & Moraga, Cherrie & Romo-Carmona, Mariana |
Cuentos: Stories by Latinas |
Women of Color |
WOM G |
Rothenberg, Paula S. |
Race, Class, and Gender In the US (third ed) |
Women of Color |
WOM R |
Sanghatana, Stree Shakti |
We Were Making History: Women and the Telangana Uprising |
Women of Color |
WOM S |
Schipper, Mineke |
Unheard Words: Women and Literature in Africa, the Arab World, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America |
Women of Color |
WOM S |
Shostak, Marjorie |
NISA: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman |
Women of Color |
WOM S |
Sinclair, April |
Coffee Will Make You Black |
Women of Color |
WOM S |
Solinger, Rickie |
Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe V. Wade |
Women of Color |
WOM S |
Adams, Carol J. |
The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC A |
ACT UP |
Women, AIDS & Activism |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC A |
Washington, Mary Helen |
Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women 1860-1960 |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC W |
Ward, Martha C. |
A World Full of Women |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC W |
Walker, Alice |
In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC W |
Walker, Alice |
The Color Purple |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC W |
Thompson, Becky W. |
A Hunger So Wide And So Deep: A Multiracial View of Women’s Eating Problems |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC T |
Tanaka, Yukiko & Hanson, Elizabeth |
This Kind of Woman: Ten Stories by Japanese Women Writers 1960-1976 |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC T |
Bonavoglia, Angela |
The Choices We Made: 25 Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC B |
Berry, Wendell |
Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC B |
Berger, John |
Ways of Seeing |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC B |
Benokraitis, Nijole V. & Feagin, Joe R. |
Modern Sexism: Blatant, Subtle, and Covert Discrimination |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC B |
Belenky, Mary Field & Clinchy, Blythe McVicker & Goldberger, Nancy Rule & Tarule, Jill Mattuck |
Women’s Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice and Mind |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC B |
Women’s Liberation Movement |
Liberation Now! |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC W |
Allen, Pamela |
Free Space: A Perspective on the Small Group in Women’s Liberation |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC A |
AAUW Educational Foundation |
Gaining A Foothold: Women’s Transitions Through Work and College |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC A |
Breitbart, Vicki |
The Day Care Book: The Why, What, and How of Community Day Care |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC B |
Capek, Mary Ellen S. |
A Women’s Thesaurus |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC C |
Carden, Maren Lockwood |
The New Feminist Movement |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC C |
Cassel, Joan |
A Group Called Women: Sisterhood and Symbolism in the Feminist Movement |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC C |
Chadwick, Whitney |
Women, Art and Society |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC C |
Cowan, Ruth Schwartz |
More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC C |
Mill, John Stuart |
The Subjection of Women |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC M |
Davies, Miranda |
Women Travel: Adventures, Advice, and Experience |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC D |
DuBois, Ellen Carol |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony: Correspondence, Writings, Speeches |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC D |
Dworkin, Andrea |
Woman Hating |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC D |
Eisenstein, Hester |
The Future of Difference |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC E |
Enloe, Cynthia |
Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC E |
Felman, Jyl Lynn |
Never a Dull Moment: Teaching and the Art of Performance |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC F |
Findlen, Barbara |
Listen Up: Voices From the Next Feminist Generation |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC F |
Jardine, Alice & Smith, Paul |
Men In Feminism |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC J |
Holland, Dorothy C. & Eisenhart, Margaret A. |
Education In Romance: Women, Achievement and College Culture |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC H |
Fout, John C. & Tantillo, Maura Shaw |
American Sexual Politics: Sex, Gender, and Race Since the Civil War |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC F |
French, Marilyn |
Beyond Power: On Women, Men and Morals |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC F |
Freedman, Estelle B. |
Maternal Justice: Miriam Van Waters and the Female Reform Tradition |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC F |
McAllister, Pam |
Reweaving the Web of Life: Feminism and Nonviolence |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC M |
Mahony, Rhona |
Kidding Ourselves: Breadwinning, Babies and Bargaining Power |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC M |
Maginnis, Patricia & Phelan, Lana Clark |
The Abortion Handbook |
Non-Fiction |
NFIC M |
Lederer, Laura |
Take Back the Night: Women on Pornography |
Non-Fiction |
NONF L |
Kleinfeld, Judith S. & Yerian, Suzanne |
Gender Tales: Tensions in the Schools |
Non-Fiction |
NONF K |
Rich, Adrienne |
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution |
Non-Fiction |
NONF R |
Read, Phyllis J. & Witlieb, Bernard L. |
The Book of Women’s Firsts |
Non-Fiction |
NONF R |
Commission on Human Rights |
Women’s Role in Contemporary Society |
Non-Fiction |
NONF C |
Morgan, Robin |
The Anatomy of Freedom: Feminism, Physics and Global Politics |
Non-Fiction |
NONF M |
Millett, Kate |
Sexual Politics |
Non-Fiction |
NONF M |
McCormick, Dale |
Against the Grain: A Carpentry Manual For Women |
Non-Fiction |
NONF M |
Richardson, Laurel & Taylor Verta |
Feminist Frontiers III |
Non-Fiction |
NONF R |
Reeves, Nancy |
Womankind: Beyond the Stereotype |
Non-Fiction |
NONF R |
Rowland, Robyn |
Women Who Do & Women Who Don’t: Join the Women’s Movement |
Non-Fiction |
NONF R |
Shepherd, Linda Jean |
Lifting the Veil: The Feminine Face of Science |
Non-Fiction |
NONF S |
Shockley, Ann Allen |
The Black and White of It |
Non-Fiction |
NONF S |
Spain, Daphne & Bianchi, Suznne M. |
Balancing Act: Motherhood, Marriage, and Employment Among American Women |
Non-Fiction |
NONF S |
Steinem, Gloria |
Moving Beyond Words - Age, Race, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking Boundaries of Gender |
Non-Fiction |
NONF S |
Steinem, Gloria |
Revolution From Within: A Book of Self-Esteem |
Non-Fiction |
NONF S |
Valian, Virginia |
Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women |
Non-Fiction |
NONF V |
Webb, Jim & Houseman, Bart |
The Women’s Guide To Confident Home Repair |
Non-Fiction |
NONF W |
Wittels, Anne |
Ms.ery |
Non-Fiction |
NONF W |
Yalom, Marilyn |
Maternity, Mortality, and the Literature of Madness |
Non-Fiction |
NONF Y |
Zandy, Janet |
Calling Home: Working-Class Women’s Writings |
Non-Fiction |
NONF Z |
Paulsen, Kathryn & Kuhn, Ryan A. |
Woman’s Almanac: 12 How-To Handbooks in One |
Non-Fiction |
NONF P |
Christ, Carol P. & Plaskow, Judith |
Womenspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion |
Religion and Spirituality |
REL C |
Wong, Nellie |
Dreams in Harrison Railroad Park |
Poetry |
POE W |
Tennyson, Lord Alfred |
Selected Poems |
Poetry |
POE T |
Swann, Brian |
Native American Songs and Poems — An Anthology |
Poetry |
POE S |
Dodsworth, Martin |
William Shakespeare |
Poetry |
POE D |
Marsh, Jan |
Christina Rossetti |
Poetry |
POE M |
Rexroth, Kenneth & Chung, Ling |
Women Poets of China |
Poetry |
POE R |
Rattiner, Susan L. |
Great Poems by American Women |
Poetry |
POE R |
Causley, Charles |
Poetry Please! |
Poetry |
POE C |
Negri, Paul |
English Victorian Poetry — An Anthology |
Poetry |
POE N |
Millay, Edna St. Vincent |
Renascence and Other Poems |
Poetry |
POE M |
Lawrence, D.H. |
Snake and Other Poems |
Poetry |
POE L |
Keats, John |
Lyric Poems |
Poetry |
POE K |
American Poetry & Literacy Project |
Songs For The Open Road |
Poetry |
POE P |
Crane, Stephen |
War is Kind and Other Poems |
Poetry |
POE C |
Bowers, Faubion |
The Classic Tradition of Haiku — An Anthology |
Poetry |
POE B |
Blake, William |
Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience |
Poetry |
POE B |
Angelou, Maya |
Poems |
Poetry |
POE A |
Warner, Carolyn |
The Last Word: A Treasury of Women’s Quotes |
Religion & Spiritualism |
REL W |
Stibbs, Anne |
A Woman’s Place: Quotations About Women |
Religion & Spiritualism |
REL S |
Daly, Mary |
Gyn-Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism |
Religion & Spiritualism |
REL D |
Gilligan, Carol & Ward, Janie Victoria & Taylor, Jill McLean |
Mapping The Moral Domain |
Religion & Spiritualism |
REL G |
Pagels, Elaine |
The Gnostic Gospels |
Religion & Spiritualism |
REL P |
Ranke-Heinemann, Uta |
Eunichs For The Kingdom of Heaven: Women, Sexuality and the Catholic Church |
Religion & Spiritualism |
REL R |
Ruether, Rosemary Radford & Keller, Rosemary Skinner |
In Our Own Voices: Four Centuries of American Women’s Religious Writing |
Religion & Spiritualism |
REL R |
Spretnak, Charlene |
The Politics of Women’s Spirituality |
Religion & Spiritualism |
REL S |
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady |
The Original Feminist Attack on the Bible |
Religion & Spiritualism |
REL S |
Nin, Anais |
House of Incest |
Rape & Sexual Assult |
RAP N |
Joeres, Ruth-Ellen Boetcher & Laslett, Barbara |
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (Winter 1995, v 20, no. 2) |
||
Joeres, Ruth-Ellen Boetcher & Laslett, Barbara |
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (Autumn 1994, v 20, no. 1) |
||
Joeres, Ruth-Ellen Boetcher & Laslett, Barbara |
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (Winter 1994, v 19, no.2) |
||
Joeres, Ruth-Ellen Boetcher & Laslett, Barbara |
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (Spring 1993, v 18, no. 3) |
||
Joeres, Ruth-Ellen Boetcher & Laslett, Barbara |
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (Winter 1993, v 18, no. 2) |
||
Tanebaum, Leora |
Slut! Growing Up Female With a Bad Reputation |
Sex and Sexuality |
SEX T |
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs |
The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls |
Sex and Sexuality |
SEX B |
Haley, Alex |
The Autobiography of Malcolm X |
Non-Fiction |
NONF H |
Allison, Dorothy |
Bastard Out of Carolina |
Fiction |
FIC A |