Cultural Diversity
Challenging Racism and Sexism: Alternatives to Genetic Explanations, edited by Ethel Tobach and Betty Rosoff. A collection examining race and gender in an effort to uncover the underlying social causes of hatred based on difference.
The Cross-Cultural Study of Women: A Comprehensive Guide, edited by Margot I. Duley and Mary I. Edwards. A collection of lecture outlines, discussion questions, and annotated bibliographies on gender inequality around the world and in the college classroom.
Employment Issues
Women Have Always Worked: A Historical Overview, Alice Kessler-Harris. A history of women's work, including household labor, paid employment, social reform work, and the changing shape of the contemporary work force among diverse groups of women.
Family
Families in Flux, Amy Swerdlow, Renate Bridenthal, Joan Kelly, and Phyllis Vine. A study of the diversity of household forms and kinship ties throughout history as well as the different social, political, emotional, and economic functions of the family.
Feminist Thought and Scholarship
The Women's Studies Quarterly. The newsletter is published twice yearly, with each issue focusing on a specific topic.
Competition: A Feminist Taboo?, edited by Valerie Miner and Helen E. Longino with a foreword by Nell Irvin Painter. Discusses competition in daily life, including in the academic and corporate worlds, in athletics, in the family, and in cross-class and cross-cultural relationships.
On Peace, War, and Gender: A Challenge to Genetic Explanations, edited by Anne E. Hunter, with associate editors Catherine M. Flamenbaum and Suzanne R. Sunday. A collection of essays, statements, and poems that examine the use and misuse of scientific research in studies of gender and aggression, especially in the areas of war and peace.
Lesbian and Gay Studies
The New Lesbian Studies: Into the Twenty-First Century, edited and introduced by Bonnie Zimmerman and Toni A. H. McNaron, with a foreword by Margaret Cruikshank. A collection of essays exploring the history of lesbian studies as well as its current impact on conceptions of identity and community, teaching, academic disciplines, university practices, and the development of feminist and lesbian theories.
History
Health and Health Care
Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English. A sequel to Witches, Midwives, and Nurses, it follows the tradition of American sexism in medicine before and after the turn of the century.
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English. A pamphlet exploring two phases in the male takeover of health care: the suppression of witches in medieval Europe and the rise of the male medical profession in the United States.
International Development
With These Hands: Women Working on the Land, edited and with an introduction by Joan M. Jensen. A collection tracing the history of farm women in the U.S. through letters, songs, fiction, official documents, journal entries, poetry, and oral history.
Seeds 2: Supporting Women's Work Around the World, edited by Ann Leonard with an introduction by Martha Chen and afterwords by Mayra Buviniv, Misrak Elias, Rounaq Jahan, Caroline Moser, and Kathleen Staudt. Analyses of economically viable projects from women's initiatives in Ecuador, Ethiopia, India, Mozambique, Nepal, Sudan, Thailand, the U.S., and Zambia.
Law/Legal Issues
Rights and Wrongs: Women's Struggle for Legal Equality, 2nd ed., Susan Cary Nicholas, Alice M. Price, and Rachel Rubin. A guide to women and the law focusing on U.S. law and how it has affected women's constitutional rights, their position in marriage, their employment opportunities, and their control over their bodies.
Literature
History
The Feminist Press publishes considerable fiction, autobiographical and biographical sketches, short stories, poetry, novels, and many other materials about women's lives. Contact them for a complete list of publications.
Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the Present, edited by Susie Tharu and K. Lalita. A collection of 200 texts by Indian women in two volumes, including poetry, fiction, drama, and autobiography.
Science and Technology
The Women's Guide to the Wired World: A User-Friendly Handbook and Resource Directory, Shana Penn. This guide shows how to take full advantage of electronic communications and provides a directory of on-line resources of special interest and use to women.
Sexual Assault/Harassment
Get Smart! What You Should Know (But Won't Learn in Class) about Sexual Harassment and Sex Discrimination, 2nd ed., Montana Katz and Veronica Vieland. A guide for female students that contains statistics, case studies, practical solutions, and legal guidelines on discrimination, harassment, and date rape.
Women of Color
Curriculum Development
Women of Color and the Multicultural Curriculum: Transforming the College Classroom (with a Segment on Puerto Rican Studies), edited by Liza Fiol-Matta and Mariam K. Chamberlain. A guide to multicultural curricular change with an emphasis on women of color and including sections on already transformed undergraduate curriculums.
All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies, edited by Gloria T. Hull, Patricia Bell Scott, and Barbara Smith. A collection of materials for developing courses on black women.
