Gender/Sexism Resources

Books

Backlash - The Undeclared War Against American Women
Susan Faludi - Crown Publishers Inc. - 1991.

Bridges of Power: Women's Multicultural Alliances
ed. Lisa Albrecht and Rose M. Brewer - New Society Publishers - 1990.

Encyclopedia of Feminism
Lisa Tuttle - Facts on File Publications - 1986.

The Feminine Mystique
Betty Friedan - Dell Book - 1963.

Gender and Diversity in the Workplace: Learning Activities and Exercises
Gary N. Powell - Sage Publications - 1994.

Goddesses in Everywoman: A New Psychology of Women
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. - Harper & Row - 1984.

Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings From the Women's Liberation Movement
Edited by Robin Morgan - Random House - 1970.

So Much to Be Done: Women Settlers on the Mining and Ranching Frontier Edited by Ruth B. Moynihan, Susan Armitage, and Christiane Fischer Dichamp - University of Nebraska Press - 1990.

When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America
Paula Giddings, William Morrow, 1984.

The Woman Source Catalog and Review: Tools for Connecting the Community of Women
Edited by Ilene Rosoff - Celestial Arts - 1995.

You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
Deborah Tannen - Ballantine - 1990.

Readings

“Night to His Day’: The Social Construction of Gender”
Judith Lorber

“Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame, and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity”
Michael S. Kimmel

“Which Outlaws? Or, ‘Who Was That Masked Man?”
Kate Bornstein

“The Construction of Difference”
Sandra Lipsitz Bem

“Fresh Lipstick: Rethinking Images of Women in Advertising”
Linda M. Scott

“Feminism: A Movement to End Sexist Oppression"
bell hooks

“Ain’t I a Woman?”
Sojourner Truth

“I’m Not Fat, I’m Latina”
Christy Haubegger

“The Body Politic”
Abra Fotune Chernick

“The Rape of Mr. Smith”
Anonymous

“Pornography and Men’s Consciousness”
Jackson Katz

“Why I Fight Back”
Whitney Walker

“Adopting the Principle of Pro-Feminism”
Ian Law

“Reviving Up for the Next Twenty-Five Years”
Gloria Steinem

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