Women's and Gender Studies Subject Guide

In this dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies, and art, Lauren Elkin explores the ways in which feminist artists have taken up the challenge of their work and how they not only react against the patriarchy but redefine their own aesthetic aims.

The story of art as it's never been told before, from the Renaissance to the present day.

Just as punk created a space for bands such as the Slits and Poly Styrene to challenge 1970s norms of femininity, through a transgressive, strident new female-ness, it also provoked experimental feminist film makers to initiate a parallel, lens-based challenge to patriarchal modes of film making. In this book, Rachel Garfield breaks new ground in exploring the rebellious, feminist punk audio-visual culture of the 1970s, tracing its roots and its legacies.

Between Afrofuturism, fantasy and postcolonialism: the most comprehensive monograph to date on the fantastical worlds of Wangechi Mutu. Wangechi Mutu takes viewers on journeys of material, psychological and sociopolitical transformation.

This powerful and insightful work offers a bold celebration of the innovative, brilliant artists reclaiming the idea of 'women's work.

The Art of Being Dangerous offers many different images of women, some humorous, some challenging, some well-known, some forgotten, but all unique. In a dazzling variety of creative forms, artists and writers of diverse identities explore what it means to be a dangerous woman.

Women in Science Now examines solutions to this persistent gender gap, offering new perspectives on how to make science more equitable and inclusive for all.

In this book, the authors address the issues that encounter women of color in STEM in higher education.

Spanning the ancient period to the present day, this richly illustrated book seeks to redress the balance, with over 20 essays exploring how women have created space for themselves in science, technology, medicine, mathematics, theology and more.

A rich collection of primary sources on women in the history of science.

This book presents the stories of six intrepid women of science in eighteenth-century France whose lives and accomplishments--though celebrated in their lifetimes--have been largely written out of the history of their period.

Covering the first, second, and third waves of feminism, The History of U.S. Feminism provides historical context of all the major events and players since the late nineteenth century through today.

An empowering and intersectional history that centers the stories of African American women across 400+ years, showing how they are-and have always been-instrumental in shaping our country.

In They Called Us Exceptional, Gupta articulates the dissonance, shame, and isolation of being upheld as an American success story while privately navigating traumas the world says do not exist.

The dazzling story of the Greenwich Village feminists who blazed the trail for the movement's most radical ideas.

A closer look reveals young, educated Latino men are going beyond machismo to a deeper understanding of women's experiences and a commitment to ending gender oppression.

In this collection of essays, the author takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman of color while also taking readers on a ride through culture of the 2010s and commenting on the state of feminism.

Published in 1963, The Feminine Mystique gave a pitch-perfect description of "the problem that has no name": the insidious beliefs and institutions that undermined women's confidence in their intellectual capabilities and kept them in the home.

This volume discusses issues related to feminism. Through a balanced collection of articles from a variety of sources, this book explores the state of feminism in the 21st century.

The essential masterwork that has provoked and inspired generations of men and women. This unabridged edition reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English translation.

Southern Masculinity explores the contours of southern male identity from Reconstruction to the present.

In this essay -- adapted from her TEDx talk of the same name -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award-winning author of Americanah, offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness.

Women's Studies: The Basics is an accessible introduction into the ever expanding and increasingly relevant field of studies focused on women.

The story of the suffrage movement and the ongoing struggle for women's rights through the lens of one family's history.

The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies is a key reference work in contemporary scholarship situated at the intersection between Gender and Fat Studies, charting the connections and tensions between these two fields.

A generation-defining exposé of toxic beauty culture--from Botox and Instagram filters to lip flips and editing apps--and the realities of coming of age online.

A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal culture of disordered eating they've wrought.

A critical examination of the health disparities and collective resilience of Black women in the United States.

Two experts in mental health and sport lift the veil on the crisis in women's athletics.

Fueled by her years as an elite runner and advocate for women in sports, Lauren Fleshman offers her inspiring personal story and a rallying cry for reform of a sports landscape that is failing young female athletes.

At the turn of the twentieth century, as African Americans struggled against white social and political oppression, Black women devised novel approaches to the fight for full citizenship.

This Is How We Come Back Stronger provides an essential feminist perspective on how we might move forward--and reminds us that, despite it all, we are not alone.

Collecting the best of the underground blog Weird Sister, these unapologetic and insightful essays link contemporary feminism to literature and pop culture.

Women's Utopian and Dystopian Fiction explores the genres of utopian and dystopian recent fiction. It is about how this literature of both imagined perfection and disaster creates new worlds and critiques gender roles, traditions, and values.

"Shaping Memories" offers short essays by notable black women writers on pivotal moments that strongly influenced their careers.

Discusses the works of Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Emily Dickinson.

First published in 1985, Between Men challenged old ways of reading while articulating critical byways for two emerging disciplines. Sedgwick's landmark book remains a key analysis of homosocial desire in Western literature for any reader curious about the subject's claim to legitimacy.

Explores the interplay between artistic values and social, political, and moral concerns in writings by African American and Native American women.

Examines how twentieth-century women writers depict female bodily shame and trauma.

Sovereignty. Sugar. Revolution. These are the three axes this book uses to link the works of contemporary women artists from Haiti--a country excluded in contemporary Latin American and Caribbean literary studies--the Dominican Republic, and Cuba.

Pinks, Pansies, and Punks charts the construction of masculinity within American literary culture from the 1930s to the 1970s.

This book is a critical addition to the study of African and Caribbean women's literatures at a time when women from these regions are actively engaged in articulating the ways in which colonial and postcolonial violence impact women.