Women and Gender Studies own close to 1,200 books, housed in our Student Lounge/Resource Room. The books span from the 1960s to 2020 and cover a wide array of topics.
The publications below include essays, chapters, and books authored or edited by former and current WGS faculty, visiting scholars, and collaborators.
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Books, research, and editing by WGS faculty and notable lecturer faculty
Spent Behind the Wheel
Hua, Julietta and Ray, Kasturi "Spent Behind the Wheel"
Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
Kenney, Martha "Resilience and Social Justice in the COVID Era"
Article in Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
Transfeminist Perspectives In and Beyond Transgender and Gender Studies
Enke, A.F. "Transfeminist Perspectives In and Beyond Transgender and Gender Studies"
Mapping Multiculturalism
Angela Davis -- Gender, Class, and Multiculturalism: Rethinking "Race" Politics
M. Annette Jaimes (A.J.) Guerrero -- Academic Apartheid: American Indian Studies and "Multiculturalism"
Women's Studies for the Future: Foundations, Interrogations, Politics
Nan Alamilla Boyd: What Does Queer Studies Offer Women's Studies? The Problem and Promise of Instability
Citizen, Invert, Queer: Lesbianism and War in Early Twentieth-Century Britain
authored by Deborah Cohler
African Diaspora & Autobiographics: Skeins of Self and Skin
authored by Chinosole
Schooling the Generations in the Politics of Prison
edited by Chinosole
Feminism & 'Race'
Angela Davis -- Rape, Racism and the Myth of the Black Racist
Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire, and the Cultures of Travel
authored by Inderpal Grewal
An Introduction to Women's Studies: Gender in a Transnational World
co-authored by Inderpal Grewal
Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices
co-edited by Inderpal Grewal
Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms
authored by Inderpal Grewal
Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Politics of Patriarchy in Iran
authored by Minoo Moallem
Feminist Futures: Re-imagining Women, Culture and Development
Minoo Moallem -- The Representation of the Mostaz'af/ 'the Disempowered' in Revolutionary and Post-revolutionary Iran
Gender, War, and Militarism: Feminist Perspectives
Deborah Cohler -- Firemen Fetishes and Drag King Dreams: Queer Responses to September 11
Are Prisons Obsolete?
authored by Angela Davis
Blues, Legacies, and Black Feminism
authored by Angela Davis
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought
Angela Davis -- Reflections on the Black Woman's Role in the Community of Slaves
A Queer World: The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader
Nan Alamilla Boyd -- Bodies in Motion: Lesbian and Transsexual Histories
Reweaving the Web of Life: Feminism and Nonviolence
Sally Miller Gearhart -- The Future - If There Is One - Is Female
Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms, and the State
Minoo Moallem -- Transnationalism, Feminism, and Fundamentalism
co-edited by Minoo Moallem
Women's Studies on its Own: A Next Wave Reader in Institutional Change
Minoo Moallem -- "Women of Color in the U.S. : Pedagogical Reflections on the Politics of "the Name"