Women's Studies

WMST Library

The Women’s Studies Office in Peck 3407 has a small but growing library of materials that are available to faculty and students.  Below is a list of our catalog organized by subject matter. If you’re curious to see if we have a book that you would like to borrow, please come in and browse! New DVDs/Books are highlighted in red.

(We’ll add new materials every year depending upon the availability of funds, and we also are delighted to take donations of feminist books, DVDs and CDS.  We are particularly grateful to HBO films for their donations.)

DVDs by Subject: Social/Political Justice, Beauty/Gender in Media, Gender Identity & Gender Roles, Rape Culture, Feminism, Influential Women Leaders

Books by Subject: General and/or Introductory Text, Feminist Theory and Philosophy, LGBTQ, Religion, Abortion, Advice, Body & Sexuality, Violence Against Women, In America, Race & Cross-Cultural, Novels, Literature & Women, Biographies & Diaries, History, Youth & Education, Politics & Social Change, Economy & the Working Class, Women in Art, Psychology, Magazines & Journals

DVDs, listed by general subject matter

Social/Political Justice

• The Mosque in Morgantown
• Saving Face
• For Neda
• Triangle: Remembering the Fire
• Half the Sky
• Women, War, & Peace
• Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights
• Brooklyn 
• Masangeles
• The Iron Lady
• Dolores
• Iron-Jawed Angels
• War Zone

Beauty/Gender in Media

• Generation M: Misogyny in Media & Culture
• Miss Representation
• America the Beautiful
• What A Girl Wants
• Absolutely Safe
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Cover Girl Culture: Awakening the Media Generation

Gender Identity & Gender Roles

• The Codes of Gender
• On the Basis of Sex
• Maiden

Sexuality/LGBTQIA+

• Moonlight
• En la Puta Vida 
• Call Me by Your Name
• Pariah
• In the Family
• Precious
• How to Lose Your Virginity

Rape Culture

• It Was Rape
• The Invisible War
• American Beauty

Feminism

• Feminism: Controversies, Challenges, Actions
• Feminist: Stories from Women’s Liberation
• Lady Bird
• Thelma and Louise
• The Grace Lee Project
• Americanah

Influential Women Leaders

• Makers: Women Who Make America
• Gloria: In Her Own Words
• A Single Woman
• Compañeras
• He named me Malala
• She Makes Comics: The Untold Story of Women in Comics

Books, listed by general subject matter

General and/or introductory text

• The Feminine Mystique by B. Friedan
• The Woman Movement by A. L. McCrimmon (1915)
• Issues in Feminism: A First Course in Women’s Studies by S. Ruth
• An Introduction to Women’s Studies: Gender in a Transnational World (1st and 2nd edition) by I. Grewal and C. Kaplan
• Women’s Voices Feminist Visions by S. Lee
• Feminism Frontiers 5th and 6th Edition and III by L. Richardson, V. Taylor, N. Whittier
• Women’s Realities, Women’s Choices: An Introduction to Wemen's and Gender Studies by S. Chinn et al. 
• Women: A Feminist Perspective by J. Freeman
• Gender Basics: Feminist Perspectives on Women and Men by A. Minas
• Gender 10/11 Annual Edition by B. Hutchison
• Feminist Studies, Volume 24, Number 1
• Reading Women’s Lives: An Introduction to Women Studies by R. Champagne
• Thinking About Women: Sociological Perspectives on Sex and Gender (8th edition) by M. Anderson and D. Hysock
• The Law of Sex Discrimination by B. Wolfson, J. Ralph Lindgren, N. Taub, B. A. Wolfson, and C. M. Palumbo
• The Female Eunuch by G. Greer
• The Guy’s Guide to Feminism by M. Kaufman & M. Kimmel
• Introduction to Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies by I. Grewal and C. Kaplan
• Women: Images and Realities (5th edition) by S. Kelly, G. Parameswaran, and N. Schniedewind
• Women's Voices, Feminist Visons: Classice and Contemporary Readings (3rd edition) by S. M. Shaw and J. Lee
• The Gendered Society (6th edition) by M. Kimmel

Feminist Theory and Philosophy

• Feminist Theory: A Reader (2nd edition) by W. Kolmar and K. Bartkowksi
• Feminist Theory in Process and Practice edited by M. Malson, J. F. O'Barr, S. Westphal, and M. Wyer
• Pure Lust: Elemental Feminist Philosophy by M. Daly
• Inessential Woman: Problems of Exclusion in Feminist Thought by E. Spelman
• Philosophy of Women by M. Broidy Mahowald
• Theorizing Patriarchy by S. Walby
• Feminist Frontiers (3rd, 5th, and 6th editions) by L. Richardson, V. Taylor, and N. Whittier
• The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory by M. Frye
• Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny by S. Banet-Weiser
• Fathers on Film by K. Barnett
• Theorizing Feminism: Parallel Trends in the Humanities and Social Sciences edited by A. C. Herrmann and A. J. Stewart
• Intersectional Chicana Feminisms: Sitios y Lengua by A. Hurtado
• Decolonizing Universalism: A Transnational Feminist Ethic by S. Khader
• Seeing Like a Feminist by N. Menon
• The Essential Difference editied by N. Schor and E. Weed
• What is Patriarchy? by K. Bhasin
• Gender Ineqality: Feminist Theories and Politics (2nd edition) by J. Lorber
• Issues in Feminism: An Introduction to Women's Studies (5th edition) by S. Ruth
• Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction (2nd edition) by R. Tong

LGBTQ

• Feminism is Queer: The Intimate Connection Between Queer and Feminist Theory by M. Marinucci
• Transgender 101: A Simple Guide to a Complex Culture by N. M. Teich
• We Are Everywhere: Writing by and about Lesbian Parents edited by H. Alpert
• That Furious Lesbian: The Story of Mercedes de Acosta by R. A. Schanke
• Lesbian Ethics: Towards New Values by S. Hoagland
• Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation by K. Bornstein & S. Bergman 
• Transfeminist Perspectives: In and Beyond Transgender and Gender Studies by A. Enke
• Introducion to Transgender Studies by A. Haefele-Thomas and T. C. S. Stryker
• Is This Homosexual My Neighbor? Another Christian View by L. Scanzoni and V. Ramey Mellenkott
• The Lesbian in Literature: A Bibliography (2nd edition) by G. Damon, J. Watson, and R. Jordan

Religion

• Beyond God the Father by M. Daly
• Feminist Theory and Christian Theology: Cartographies of Grace by S. Jones
• Sexism and God-Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology by R. Radford Ruether
• From Housewife to Heretic by S. Johnson
• Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology by L. Pojman and M. Rea
• The View from Olympus by D.H. Lloyd
• Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Moral Issues by S. Satris
• Gifted by Otherness: Gay and Lesbian Christrians in the Church by L. W. Countryman and M. R. Ritley

Abortion

• A Woman’s Guide to Safe Abortion by M. Corsaro & C. Korzeniowsky
• 1 in 3: These are Our Stories by Various Authors
• The Voices of Women: Abortion, In Their Own Words by Various Authors
• Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood by M. Goodwin
• Revolutionizing Women's Healthcare by H. Dudley-Shotwell

Advice

• The Modern Woman’s Guide to Life by E. Chapman, K. Kriberney, and M. Kassner
• For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women by B. Ehrenrech 
• Mr. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia by E. Troth
• Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Promise of Happiness by S. Ahmed
• Living a Feminist Life by S. Ahmed
• The Measure of Out Success: A Letter to my Children and Yours by M. Wright Edleman
• Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters  by J. Valenti

Body & Sexuality

• Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book by and for Women by Boston Women’s Health
• The New Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book by and for Women by Boston Women’s Health
• The Female Body: Figures, Styles, Speculations edited by L. Goldstein
• When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies: Freeing Yourself from Food and Weight Obsession by J. R. Hirschmann and C. H. Munter
• Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body by S. Bordo
• The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness by K. Chermin
• Hearth & Home: Images of Women in the Mass Media by G. Tuchman, J. Benet, and A. Kaplan Daniels
• Food Matters by H. Bauer
• PMS: Premenstrual Syndrome and You by N. H. Lauersen and E. Stukane
• Pornography: Men Possessing Women by A. Dworkin
• Guide to Getting It On by P. Joannides
• Sex Roles and Personal Awareness by B. Forisha-Kovach
• Healing Mind, Healthy Woman: Using the Mind-Body Connection to Manage Stress and Take Control of Your Life by A. D. Domar and H. Dreher
• Feminism and Science  by E. F. Keller and H. E. Longino
• The Vagina Monologues by E. Ensler
• Gender: An Ethnomethodological Approach  by S. J. Kessler and W. McKenna

Violence Against Women

• The Battered Woman Syndrome by L. E. A. Walker
• Reweaving the Web of Life: Feminism and Nonviolence by P. McCallister
• Illinois Domestic Violence Act
• Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power & A World Without Rape by J. Friedman and J. Valenti
• Economies of Violence: Transnational Feminism, Postsocialism, and the Politics of Sex Trafficking by J. Suchland
• Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny by K. Manne
• Gender, Crime, and Criminal Justice by S. Walklate
• Facts About Female Genital Mutilation by K. Woods and M. Clouse

In America

• Women in the American Economy by M. M. Brownlee and W. E. Brownlee
• Women in American Society: An Introduction to Women's Studies by V. Sapiro
• The American Woman 1990-91: A Status Report by S. Rix
• Women in America by B. Haber
• Women and the American Experience (3rd edition) by N. Woloch
• American Women of Science by E. Yost
• A History of U.S. Feminisms by R. Dicker
• Unsung Heroines: Single Mothers and the American Dream by R. Sidel
• Telling Memories Among Southern Women: Domestic Workers and Their Employers in the Segregated South by S. Tucker

Race & Cross-Cultural

• Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought by B. Guy-Sheftall
• Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment by P. Hill Collins
• Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia by Y. F. Niemann, C. G. Gonzalez, A. P. Harris, and G. Gutiérrez y Muhs
• But Some of Us Are Brave: All th Women are White, All the Blacks are Men: Black Women Studies by G. Hull, P. Scott, B. Smith
• When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America by P. Giddings
• Letter, Memories Among Southern Women: Domestic Workers and Their Employers in the Segregated South by S. Tucker
• Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, Vol. 1, Number 2 by Duke University Press
• Women’s Lives: Multicultural Perspectives (3rd edition) by G. Kirk and M. Okazawa-Rey
• Women in Third World Development by S. E. Charlton
• Self, Sex, and Gender in Cross-Cultural Fieldwork by L. T. Whitehead and M. E. Conaway
• Many Sisters: Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective by C. J. Matthiasson
• The State of Women in the World Atlas by J. Seager
• The Penguin Atlas of Women in the World by J. Seager
• Women, the Family, and Peasant Revolution in China by K. A. Johnson
• Women Across Cultures: a Global Perspective by S. M. Burn
• Distant View of Minaret by A. Rifaat
• Separated by the Border: A Birth Mother, a Foster Mother, and a Migrant Child's 3,000-Mile Journey by G. Thomas
• Gendered Journeys: Women, Migration and Feminist Psychology, 2015 Edition, edited by O. Espín and A. Dottolo
• Gender, Global Health, and Violence: Feminist Perspectives on Peace and Disease: Feminist Studies on Peace, Justice and Violence edited by T. Vaittinen and C. C. Confortini
• Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader (Post-Contemporary Interventions) edited by P. Zevella, G. F. Arredondo, A. Hurtado, N. Klahn, and O. Najera-Ramirez
• Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios (Latin America Otherwise) by The Latina Feminist Group
• Brave. Black. First.: 50+ African American Women Who Changed the World by C. Hudson
• Chicanas Movidas edited by M. Blackwell, D. Espinoza, and M. Cotera
• Chicana Motherwork Anthology by C. Caballero
• This is How We Survive: Revolutionary Mothering, War, and Exile in the 21st Century by M. Williams
• Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines edited by A. P. Grumbs, M. Williams, and C. Martens
• The Great Goddess of Egypt by B. Lesko
• Critical Race Feminism (2nd edition) edited by A. K. Wing
• The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World (2nd edition) by N. El Saadawi
• Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women's Equality in African American Communities by J. B. Cole and B. Guy-Sheftall
• Women: Images and Realities: A Multicultural Anthology (4th edition) by A. Kesselman, L. D. McNair, and N. Schniedewind

Novels

• A Book of Women Poets: From Antiquity to Now edited by A. Barnstone and W. Barnstone
• The Mother/Child Papers by A. Ostriker
• Last Flight by A. Earhart
• The Accomplished Woman: A Novel by N. Price
• The Awakening by K. Chopin
• A Spy in the House of Love by A. Nin
• L’etcetera: Stories by S. Sontag
• A Mary Wollstonecraft Reader edited by B. H. Solomon and P. S. Berggren
• Food & Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories by B. Lerner
• Are you there God? It's Me Margaret by J. Blume
• The Bean Trees: A Novel by B. Kingsolver
• Among Women by L. Bernikow
• Possessing the Secret Joy: A Novel by A. Walker
• You Can't Keep A Good Woman Down by A. Walker
• Letters to Marina by D. Maraini
• Purple Hibiscus: A Novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Story of My Teeth by V. Luiselli
• Island Beneath the Sea: A Novel by I. Allende
• In the Midst of Winter: A Novel by I. Allende
• In America: A Novel by S. Sontag
• The Street: A Novel by A. Petry
• With the Fire on High by E. Acevedo
• The Poet X by E. Acevedo
• Clap When You Land by E. Acevedo
• The Hate U Give by A. Thomas
• Other Women by L. Arther
• Bingo by R. M. Brown
• High Hearts by R. M. Brown
• Awakening by K.  Chopin
• Night Ship: A Voyage of Discovery by M. McClane
• The Mother Word: The Exploration of the Visual by M. McClane
• Filaree: A Novel of American Life by M. Noble
• Desert of the Heart by J. Rule
• Memory Board by J. Rule
• The Temple of My Familiar by A. Walker
• My Sweet Untracable You by S. Scoppettone
• Everything You Have is Mine by S. Scoppettone
• An Accomplished Woman: A Novel by N. Price
• Letters to Marina by D. Maraini
• Salvage by A. Duncan
• Americanah by C. Ngozi Adichie
• Last Summer at Bluefish Cove by J. Chambers

Literature & Women

• Contemporary American Women Writers: Narrative Strategies by C. Rainwater and W. Scheick
• Writing in the Feminine: Feminism and Experimental Writing in Quebec by K. L. Gould
• Women & Fiction by S. Cahill
• A Woman’s Place: Rhetoric and Reading for Composing Yourself and Your Prose by S. Morahan
• The Oxfortds Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States by L. Wagner and C. Davidson
• Women in Turmoil: Six Plays by M. de Acosta edited by R. A. Schanke
• Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature by D. Allison
• Maternal Conceptions: In Classical Literature and Philosophy by A. Sharrock and A. Keith

Biographies & Diaries

• Mama PhD: Women Write about Motherhood and Academic Life edited by E. Evans and C. Grant
• Bad Feminist: Essays by R. Gay
• Lillian Wald of Henry Street by B. Siegel
• Kathinka Zitz-Halen and Female Civic Activism in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Germany by S. Zucker
• Olympia Brown by C. Coté
• Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life the Diaries, 1941- 1943 and Letters From Westerbork by E. Hillesum
• Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey by C. Neumann Degler and L. Schlissel
• Now Time by M. McClane
• Ordinary Heroes by P. Hay
• The Vagina Monologues by E. Ensler
• Rebel in Paradise: A Biography of Emma Goldman by R. Drinnon
• I Myself Am a Woman by Ding Ling
• Women on the Ice by E. Chipman
• The Roman Years of Margaret Fuller: a Biography by J. J. Deiss
• Three Wise Virgins by G. Brooks
• As the Night the Day by M. Coburn
• Shattered Applause: The Life of Eva Le Gallienne by R. A. Schanke
• Memoirs of a Medieval Woman: The Life and Times of Margery Kempe by L. Collis
• Parrot Pie for Breakfast: An Anthology of Women Pioneers by J. Robinson
• When You’re a Widow: A Prominent Journalist Tells Her Personal Experience by C. Start
• No One is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
• Becoming by M. Obama
• Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by I. Quintero
• Black Women's Yoga History: Memoirs of Inner Peace by S. Y. Evans
• Herculine Barbin (Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite) translated by R. McDougall
• Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation edited by K. Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman

History

• Well-Tempered Women: Nineteenth-Century Temperance Rhetoric by C. Mattingly
• The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860 by S. Lebsock
• Hypatia’s Heritage: A History of Women in Science from Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century by M. Alic
• No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women by E. Freedman
• Rebirth of Feminism by J. Hole and E. Levine
• First Generation: in the Words of Twentieth-Century American Immigrants by J. Namias
• Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier by K. Stratton 
• First of All: Significant "Firsts" by American Women by J. McCullough

Youth & Education

• Listen Up: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation by B. Findlen
• Engaging Feminism: Students Speak Up and Speak Out edited by M. Wyer and J. Fox O'Barr
• The Feminist Classroom: Dynamics of Gender, Race, and Privlege by F. A. Maher and M. K. Thompson Tetreault
• Teacher and Texts: A Political Economy of Clas and Gender Relations in Education by M. W. Apple
• Spin a Soft Black Song: Poems for Children by N. Giovanni and G. Martins

Politics & Social Change

• Women, Culture and Politics by A. Davis
• From Mouse to Mermaid: the Politics of Film, Gender and Culture by E. Bell, edited by L. Haas, L. Sells and E. Bell
• Feminist Disability Studies edited by K. Q. Hall
• Sexism in Award Winning Picture Books by S. Czaplinski
• Skirting Tradition: Women in Politics Speak to the Next Generation by L. Larson
• Women and the Politics of Culture by M. Wender Zak, edited by P. A. Moots and M. Wender Zak
• Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Political Issues (14th edition) by G. Mckenna and S. Feingold
• Confessional Politics: Women’s Sexual Self-Representations in Life Writing and Popular Media by I. Gammel
• Why ERA Failed: Politics, Women's Rights, and the Emending Process of the Constitution by M. Frances Barry
• Women’s Liberation and the Socialist Revolution by N. Keig
• Social Politics, International Studies in Gender, State & Society (Vol. 1.1) edited by A. Kanjo-Mrčela, R. Mahon, J. Martínez-Franzoni, and S. M. Rai
• Feminism and Socialism Edited with an Introduction by L. Jenness by L. Jenness
• The Social Mobility of Women: Beyond Male Mobility Models by G. Payne and P. Abbott
• Women & Social Change in America by J. Mandle
• Women and Revolution: A Discussion of the Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism by L. Sargent
• Developing Women Leaders in the Academy through Enhanced Communication Strategies (Communicating Gender) edited by J. Cubbage et al. 
• Latin American Politics: An Introduction by D. Close
• The Women's Hour: The Great Fight to Win The Vote by E. Weiss

Economy & the Working Class

• Professor Mommy: Finding Work-Family Balance in Academia by R. Connelly and K. Ghodsee
• Born Female: The High Cost of Keeping Women Down by C. Bird
• Women’s Estate by J. Mitchell
• Working Class Wives Their Health and Conditions by M. Spring Rice
• Life as We Have Known It: by Co-operative Working Women by M. Llewelyn Davies
• The Sisterhood of Man by K. Newland
• Teachers, Gender and Careers by S. Acker
• Working Women (Opposing Viewpoints) by N. Berlatsky
• Women’s Work, Families and Health: The Balancing Act by K. M. Swanson-Kauffman
• Circles of Care: Work and Identity in Women's Lives by M. K. Nelson and E. Abel 
• Women Working in the Sri Lanka Plantation Sector by R. Kurian
• Unpaid Work in the Household: A Review of Economic Methods by L. Goldschnidt-Clermont
• Blacksmith, Baker, Roofing-Sheet Maker: Employment for Rural Women in Developing by M. Carr
• Third World Second Sex : Women's Struggles and National Liberation by M. Davies
• Occupation: Housewife by H. Znaniecki-Lopata
• Homemakers: The Forgotten Workers by R. Andre
• Stratification: Socioeconomic and Sexual Inequality by R. Lesser Blumberg
• Help: A Handbook for Working Mothers by B. Greenleaf
• Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by A. Rich
• Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism by M. Wright
• Women in the American Economy by M. M. Brownlee and W. E. Brownlee

Women in Art

• From the Center: Feminist Essays on Women’s Art by L. Lippard
• Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Contemporaries by Amarillo Art Center
• Music in the Old Bones: Jezebel Through the Ages by J. Howe Gaines
• Contemporary Women's Cinema by P. White
• Amplify: Graphic Narratives of Feminist Resistance by M. Braem and N. Bowman
• What If I Had Been the Hero? Investigating Women's Cinema by S. Thornham

Psychology

• Women & Madness by P. Chesler
• Aspects of the Feminine by C. G. Jung
• Toward a New Psychology of Women by J. Baker Miller
• Understanding Women: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Approach by L. Eichenbaum and S. Orbach
• The Psychology of Sex Offenders by A. Ellis and R. Brancale
• Women and Sex Roles: a Social Psychological Perspective by I. Hanson Frieze, D. N. Ruble, R. B. Johnson, G. Zellman, and J. E. Parsons
• Males andhttps://www.amazon.com/Males-Females-C-Hutt/dp/B0010ZATBO Females by C. Hutt
• Born to Win: Transactional Analysis with Gestalt Experiments by D. Jongeward and M. James

Magazines & Journals

• The National Women’s Studies Association Journal, Vol. 17(3), 18(1-3), 19(1) Published by John Hopkins University
• Women of China
• Bust edited by D. Stroller