HUM 150-American Women's Studies: Topic Resources

In juxtaposing and analysing a wide range of texts which despite their significance are rarely discussed together, Feminist Moments provides a fascinating historical narrative of feminist thought.

Profiles of both famous and lesser-known feminists will be featured alongside descriptions of how their actions affected the overall feminist cause, and unique portraits (artist's renderings) of the feminists themselves.

This collection of essays employs innovative approaches to study both the causes that have united American women and the conflicts that have divided them.

An anthology of ten essays that looks at the problems of inequality and oppression from new angles and promotes intersectionality as an interpretive tool to better understand the ways in which race, gender, and other dimensions of difference shape our lives.

Illuminates our understanding of how young children develop gender identities.

Provides an overview of 37 terms, theories and concepts frequently used in gender studies. Each entry provides a critical definition of the concept, examining the background to the idea, its usage and the major figures associated with the term.

Gives a clearly written explanation of the biological and cultural underpinnings of gender.

Gender development is examined from infancy through adolescence, integrating biological, socialization, and cognitive perspectives.

Reveals how feminists of the ‘60s and ‘70s applied the lessons of the new left and civil rights movements to generate a women's health movement.

Explores the legal, political, religious, social, ethical, and medical dimensions of the power struggles over contraception, abortion, adoption, and related issues.

Presents 40 years of Ruth Milkman's essential writings, tracing the parallel evolutions of her ideas and the field she helped define.

Locates the origins of anti-pornography sentiment in the turbulent social and cultural history of the late 1960s and 1970s.

The anthology assembles a varied group of leading feminist voices on a variety of topics in digital humanities, including ubiquitous computing, game studies, new materialisms, and cultural phenomena like hashtag activism, hacktivism, and campaigns against online misogyny.

Brings together writings from feminist critics that chart the current terrain of feminized pop cultural production.

A broad introduction to the ways in which gender, in all its facets, engages with media.

A cross-cultural examination of the ways in which women have worked inside and outside mainstream media organizations since the 1970s.

Examines the complex interrelationship of women, violence, and media presentations.

Deals with a range of gender-based violence issues that make news headlines daily.

Bringing together feminist, literary, and legal frameworks, this book provides provocative readings of what happens when women's testimony is discredited.

A fundamental reference collection that covers the role of women in North American religious life

examines the central role of women in American religious history, focusing on their Efforts to achieve greater recognition and equal rights, their recent admission to religious leadership, and the emergence of feminist theology.

A comprehensive overview of women's political activism, comparing formal and informal channels of power from official institutions of state to grassroots mobilizations and Internet campaigns.

For nearly 150 years, American women did not have the right to vote. On August 18, 1920, they won that right, when the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified at last. To achieve that victory, some of the fiercest, most passionate women in history marched, protested, and sometimes even broke the law—for more than eight decades.

A groundbreaking collection of profiles of African American women leaders in the twentieth-century fight for civil rights.