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Feminisms and Women's History

• All American Women: Lines that Divide, Ties that Bind. Ed. Johnetta B. Cole. MacMillan, Inc., 1986.
• American Empire: A Graphic Adaptation.
• Ammer, Christina. Unsung: A History of Women in American Music. Greenwood Press, 1980.
• Aronowitz, Nona Willis and Emma Bee Bernstein. Girl Drive: Criss-crossing America, Redefining Feminism. Seal Press, 2009.
• Bank, Mirra. Anonymous Was a Woman. St. Martin’s Press, 1979.
• Belenky, Mary Field; Blythe McVicker Clinchy; Nancy Rule Goldberger; and Jim Mattuck Tarule. Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind. Harper Collins Publishers, 1986.
• Bradford, Gamaliel. Elizabethan Women. Ed. Harold Ogden White. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1936.
• Braderman, Douglass, Weiss. The Women's Movement. Kinko’s Copies, Professor Publishing, 1991.
• The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order. Ed. Marcelle Karp and Debbie Stoller. Penguin Books, 1999.
• Butler, Matilda and William Paisley. Women and the Mass Media: Sourcebook for Research and Action. Human Sciences Press, 1980.
• Chadwick, Whitney. Women, Art, and Society. Thames & Hudson, Ltd., 1990.
• Chadwick, Whitney. Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement. Thames & Hudson, Ltd., 1985.
• Chafe, William H. The American Woman: Her Changing Social, Economic, and Political Role, 1920–1970. Oxford University Press, 1972.
• Chinoy, Helen Krich and Linda Walsh Jenkins. Women in American Theater. Crown Publishers, Inc., 1981.
• Cook, Alice and Gwyn Kirk. Greenham Women Everywhere: Dreams, Ideas, and Actions From the Women's Peace Movement. South End Press, 1983.
• Cott, Nancy F. The Grounding of Modern Feminism. Yale University Press, 1987.
• Daly, Mary. Beyond God the father toward a philosophy of Women's Liberation. With an original reintroduction. Boston, Mass: Beacon Press, 1985.
• The Decade of Women: A MS. History of the Seventies in Words and Pictures. Ed. Suzanne Levine and Harriet Lyons. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1980.
• Faludi, Susan. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women. Crown Publishers, Inc., 1991.
• The Female Gaze: Women as Viewers of Popular Culture. Ed. Lorraine Gamman and Margaret Marshment. The Real Comet Press, 1989.
• The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women's Liberation. Ed. Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Ann Snitow. Three Rivers Press, 1998.
• The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir. Ed. Alice S. Rossi. Northeastern University Press, 1988.
• Firestone, Shulamith. The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution. Bantam Books, 1970.
• Franco, Jennifer C. Marxism and Feminism: The Debate in France. Ed. James David Barber and Jean O’Barr.
• Ginzberg, Eli and associates. Educated American Women: Life Styles and Self-Portraits. Columbia University Press, 1966.
• Goddess, Rha and JLove Calderon. We Got Issues: A Young Woman's Guide to a Bold, Courageous, and Empowered Life. Inner Ocean Publishing, Inc., 2006.
• Goldman, Emma. The Traffic in Women and Other Essays on Feminism. Times Change Press, 1970.
• Grafton, David. The Sisters: The Lives and Times of the Fabulous Cushing Sisters. Random House, Inc., 1992.
• Greer, Germaine. The Female Eunuch. McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1971.
• Hahn, Emily. Once Upon a Pedestal. Signet Books, 1974.
• Hays, H. R. The Dangerous Sex: The Myth of Feminine Evil. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1964.
• Hooks, Bell. Feminist Theory from Margin to Center. South End Press, 1984.
• Joyce, Kathryn. Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement. Beacon Press, 2009.
• Kokopeli, Bruce and George Lakey. Leadership for Change Toward a Feminist Model. New Society Publishers, 1983.
• Korda, Michael. Male Chauvinism! How it Works. Random House, Inc., 1973.
• Liberal Learning and the Women's Studies Major: A Report to the Profession. Ed. National Women’s Studies Association. The Association of American Colleges, 1991.
• Macdonalds, Anne L. Feminine Ingenuity: How Women Inventors Changed America. Ballantine Books, 1992.
• McBryde, Linda. The Mass Market Woman. Crowded Hour Press, 1999.
• Men Speak Out: Views on Sex, Gender, and Power. Ed. Shira Tarrant. Routledge, 2008.
• Morgan, Elaine. The Descent of Woman. Stein and Day, Publishers, 1972.
• National Advisory Council on Women’s Educational Programs. Seven Years Later: Women's Studies Programs in 1976.
• National Institute of Education, The. The Effectiveness of Women's Studies Teaching.
• National Institute of Education, The. The Impact of Women's Studies on the Campus and the Disciplines.
• National Institute of Education, The. Re-entry Women Involved in Women's Studies.
• National Institute of Education, The. Women's Studies Graduates.
• National Institute of Education, The. Women's Studies in the Community College.
• Nickles, Elizabeth and Laura Ashcraft. The Coming Matriarchy: How Women Will Gain the Balance of Power. Seaview Books, 1981.
• On Being Female: An Anthology. Ed. Barbara Stanford. Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1974.
• O’Neill, Lois Decker. The Women's Book of World Records and Achievements. Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1979.
• Osborne, Martha Lee. Women in Western Thought. Random House, Inc., 1979.
• Peavy, Linda and Ursula Smith. Women Who Changed Things: Nine Lives that Made a Difference. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1983.
• Raymond, Janice G. A Passion for Friends: Toward a Philosophy of Female Affection. Beacon Press, 1986.
• Research #13: Angry Women. Ed. Andrea Juna and V. Vale. Re/Search Publications, 1991.
• Rowbotham, Sheila. Woman's Consciousness, Man's World. Penguin Books, 1973.
• Rowbotham, Sheila. Women, Resistance, and Revolution: A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern World. Random House, Inc., 1972.
• Sadker, Myra and David Sadker. Failing at Fairness: How America's Schools Cheat Girls. MacMillan Publishing Company, 1994.
• Sisterhood is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology. Ed. Robin Morgan. Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1984.
• Spender, Dale. Women of Ideas (and What Men Have Done to Them). Ark Paperbacks, 1983.
• Third World, Second Sex: Women's Struggles and National Liberation. Ed. Miranda Davies. Zed Books, Ltd., 1983.
• Tong, Rosemarie. Feminist Thought: A Comprehensive Introduction. Westview Press, 1989.
• Truman, Margaret. Women of Courage: From Revolutionary Times to the Present. William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1976.
• Unequal Sisters: A Multi-Cultural Reader in U.S. Women's History. Ed. Ellen Carol DuBois and Vickie L. Ruiz. Routledge, 1990.
• Weinrich, Susan. The Cult of True Sisterhood: Diversity and Difference in Wimmin's Organizations. Division III, 1990.
• Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Ed. Carol H. Poston. W. W. Norton  & Company, 1975.
• Woman in Sexist Society: Studies in Power and Powerlessness. Ed. Vivian Gornick and Barbara K. Moran. Basic Books, inc., Publishers, 1971.
• Women and Revolution: A Discussion of the Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism. Ed. Lydia Sargent. South End Press, 1981.
• The Women's Studies Service Learning Handbook: From the Classroom to the Community. Ed. Jerilyn Fisher and Elaine Reuben. The National Women’s Studies Association, 1981.
• Wynne, Patrice. The Womanspirit Sourcebook. Harper & Row, Publishers, 1988.
• Zinn, Howard; Mike Kononpacki; and Paul Buhle. A People's History of American Empire: A Graphic Adaptation.

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