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Building my first holiday tree. I call her “Women’s Studies Master’s Degree.”
Since several people have asked for a list of these books, I’ve created one. I’ve also included the names of the articles I read for each class I took.
This is what a Women’s Studies Master’s Degree looks like:
Foundations for Scholarly Inquiry in Women’s Studies
Books:
Rethinking Women’s and Gender Studies, edited by Catherine M. Orr, Ann Braithwaite, and Diane Lichtenstein.
Transforming Scholarship: Why Women’s and Gender Studies Students Are Changing Themselves and the World by Michele Tracy Berger and Cheryl Radeloff.
Women’s Studies for the Future: Foundations, Interrogations, Politcs, edited by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Agatha Beins
The Politics of Women’s Studies: Testimony from Thirty Founding Mothers, edited by Florence How
They Say / I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein
The Imaginative Argument: A Practical Manifesto for Writers by Frank Cioffi
Articles:
“Feminism and Racism: A Report on the 1981 National Women’s Studies Association Conference” – Sandoval
“Women’s Studies: Cultivating Accountability as a Practice of Solidarity” – Russo
“Reflections on a Feminist Career” – Naples
“Continuity and Change in Women’s Studies Programs: One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward” – Elenes
“Outsiders Within” – Froines
“Do Women’s + Feminist + Men’s + Lesbian and Gay + Queer Studies = Gender Studies?” – Auslander
“The Women in Women’s Studies” – Yee
“Women’s Studies and the Discourse of Vocationalism: Some New Perspectives” – Dever
“Practice” from Transforming Feminist Practice – Fernandes
“Spirituality” from Transforming Feminist Practice – Fernandes
“The Past in Our Present: Theorizing the Activist Project of Women’s Studies” – Zimmerman
“Finding an Original Subject” - Gerard
US Women of Colors
Books:
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America by Melissa V. Harris-Perry
Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self (Studies in Feminist Philosophy) by Linda Alcoff
A Voice from the South by Anna Julia Cooper
Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity by Chandra Mohanty
Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America by Evelyn Nakano Glenn
The Maid’s Daughter: Living Inside and Outside the American Dream by Mary Romero
Articles:
· Morgan, Jennifer. “Some Could Suckle Over Their Shoulder”
· Abraham, Yvette. “Images of Sara Bartman”
· McClintock, Ann. “Myth of Empty Lands"
· McClintock, Ann. “Massa and Maids”
· Winant, Howard and Michael Omi. “Racial Formation"
Hunter, Tera. “Washing Amazons and Organized Protest”
Owens, Irma Watkins. “On To Harlem,” “Politics and the Struggle for Autonomy,” “Panama Silver Meets Jim Crow”
Roediger, David. “Irish-American Workers and White Racial Formation”
Walter, Bronwen. “Outside the Pale”
Anzaldua, Gloria. “How To Tame a Wild Tongue” AND “Mestiza Consciousness”
Higginbotham, Evelyn. “The Metalanguage of Race”
Phillips-Maparyan, Layla. “Introduction to The Womanist Reader”
Collins, Patricia Hill. “The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought”
Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (chapter excerpts)
Lorde, Audre. “Age, Race, Class, Sex: Women Redefining Difference”
Ong, Aihwa. “Cultural Citizenship as Subject-Making: Immigrants Negotiate Racial and Cultural Boundaries in the United States”
Brown-Glaude, Winnifred. “Intersectionality and the Politics of Embodiment”
Parker, Kathleen. “Disparaging Michelle Obama.”
“Why We, as Women of Color, Join the Call for Divestment from Israel” (web link): http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/07/women_of_color_delegation_to_occupied_palestine.html
Puar, Jasbir. “I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess: Intersectionality, Assemblage, and Affective Politics) click on weblink for article: http://eipcp.net/transversal/0811/puar/en
Cohen, Cathy. "Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics
Cooper, Anna J. Colored Women as Wage Earners
Candelario, Ginetta. Black Behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops (excerpts from book)
Art & Activism
Books:
The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s, History and Impact, edited by Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard
The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle by T.V. Reed
The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context by Grant Kester
The Visual Culture Reader, 2nd edition, edited by Nicholas Mirzoeff
Articles:
“Vantage Points and Image-Worlds” by Ron Burnett
“Considering Activist Art in the Age of Occupations” by Carla Acevedo-Yates http://artpulsemagazine.com/considering-activist-art-in-the-age-of-occupations
“How Art Propels Occupy Wall Street” by Michele Elam http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/01/opinion/elam-occupy-art/index.html
Essays from “Feminist Art and Social Change,” a comparative perspectives symposium in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Pieces from “Feminist Zines,” a comparative perspectives symposium in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Features from ARTPULSE magazine’s summer 2012 issue themed “Art and Feminism”:
o “Once More with Feeling. Feminist Art and Pop Culture Now” by Maria Buszek
o “Interview with Martha Rosler” by Paco Berragán
o “Pro-Sex Feminist Art in the Age of the War on Women. Artists Using Pornography as Source” by Anne Swartz
o “Tales of Motherhood” by Jennie Klein
o “Prying Religion, Sexuality, Self-Identity and Forensics. A Conversation with Angela Strassheim” by Stephen Knudsen
o “Putting the Words Back into the F-Word. An Interview with Audrey Chan and Elana Mann” by Micol Hebron
o You can access the articles through the following link (http://artpulsemagazine.com/)
·“Collaborative Systems: Redefining Public Art” by Sharon Daniel, 55-88
“Mapping the Collective” by Sara Diamond, 199-229
“Growing the Size of Black Women’: Feminist Activism in Havana Hip Hop” by Ronni Armstead
“Music, Citizenship, and Violence in Postdictatorship Brazil” by Frederick Moehn
Listen to the first two segments of the “Music Heals” Studio 360 podcast: “Art as Medicine” and “Art Therapy in Action,” which can be found here: http://www.studio360.org/2012/may/18/
Essays by Lucy Lippard: “In an Image,” “Marking the Spot,” “Death by Geography,” and “Places with a Present”
Feminist/Womanist Pedagogies
Books:
Feminist Pedagogy: Looking Back to Move Forward Eds. Robbin Crabtree, David Sapp, and Adela Licona, 2009.
No Angel in the Classroom by Berenice Malka Fisher, 2001.
Social Justice Pedagogy Across the Curriculum: The Practice of Freedom Eds. Thandeka K. Chapman and Nikola Hobbel, 2010.
Teaching transformation: transcultural classroom dialogues by AnaLouise Keating, 2010.
Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness: A Guide for Anyone Who Teaches Anything Deborah Schoeberlein and Suki Sheth, 2009.
Articles:
“Engaged Pedagogy” from Teaching to Transgress – hooks
“Womanist Experience of Caring: Understanding the Pedagogy of Exemplary Black Women Teachers” – Beauboeuf-Lafontant
“Epistemic Privilege” – Macdonald
“Pedagogy of Coalition” – Sasaki
“Time Out” – hooks
“Teaching with Love” – hooks
“Spirituality in Education AND Spiritual Matters in the Classroom” – hooks
“Spirituality in Higher Education: Overcoming the Divide” -Zajonc
“Buddha in the Classroom: Toward a Critical Spiritual Pedagogy” – Adarkar and Keiser
“Talking Race and Racism” – hooks
“What Happens When White People Change” – hooks
“Embodied Learning: The Body as an Epistemological Site” – Gustafson
“Lesbian Instructor Comes Out: The Personal is Pedagogy” – Wright
“Feminist Reflections on the Pedagogical Relevance of Identity” – Macdonald and Sanchez
“Environments of Resistance” – Bell et al.
“Who’s Schooling Who? Black Women and the Bridging of the Everyday into Academe, or Why We Started ‘The Womanist’” – Phillips-Maparyan and McCaskill
Qualitative Research Methods
Books:
Bagele Chilisa, Indigenous Research Methodologies, Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2012.
John W. Creswell, Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing among Five Traditions, 3rd ed. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2007.
Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber and Patricia Lina Leavy, eds. Feminist Research Practice: A Primer. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2007.
Patricia Leavy, Essentials of Transdisciplinary Research: Using Problem-Centered Methodologies. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press, 2011.
Joseph A. Maxwell, Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach, 3rd edition. Thousand Oaks: Sage: 2013.
Feminist / Womanist Theories
Books:
Allison, Dorothy. Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand, 1994.
Anzaldúa, Gloria, ed. Making Face, Making Soul = Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color. San Francisco: Aunt Lute, 1990.
Lorde, Audre. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1982.
Maparyan, Layli. The Womanist Idea. New York: Routledge, 2012.
Trinh T. Minh-ha. Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.
Articles:
bell hooks, “Theory as Liberatory Practice”
Audre Lorde, “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” and “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action”
AnaLouise Keating, “Deep Listening”
Listen to before class: “Solid as a Rock,” a Radiolab podcast Rosemary Tong, Chapter 2, “Marxist and Socialist Feminism”
Anna NietoGomez, “Chicana Feminism”
·Patricia Hill Collins “What’s in a Name? Womanism, Black Feminism, and Beyond”
Nikol G Alexander-Floyd and Evelyn M. Simien, “Revisiting What’s in a Name? Exploring the Contours of Africana Womanist Thought”
Joan Scott, “Equality vs. Difference”
Chandra Mohanty, “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses”
Nancy Fraser and Linda J. Nicholson, “Social Criticism without Philosophy: An Encounter between Feminism and Postmoderinism”
Chela Sandoval, “Fredric Jameson: Postmodernism Is a Neocolonizing Global Force”
Judith Butler, “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory”
Judith Halberstam, “Drag Kings: Masculinity and Performance”
Lisa Duggan, “Making It Perfectly Queer”
Jane Bennett, “The Force of Things” and “Vitality and Self-Interest”
Karen Barad, “Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter”
Kimberlé Crenshaw, ““Intersectionality and Identity Politics: Learning from Violence against Women of Color”
Nira Yuval-Davis, “Intersectionality and Feminist Politics”
Jasbir Puar, “‘I Would Rather Be a Cyborg than a Goddess’: Becoming-Intersectional in Assemblage Theory”
Stuart Hall, “Cultural Identity and Diaspora.” In Identity: Community, Culture, Difference, ed. Jonathan Rutherford (London: Lawrence & Wishart), 222-237.
Minnie Bruce Pratt, “Identity: Skin, Blood, Heart”
Jo Carrillo, “And When You Leave, Take Your Pictures with You” and “Beyond the Cliffs of Abiquiu”
Paula Gunn Allen, “Laguna Ladies Luncheon” and “Pocahontas to her English Husband, John Rolfe”
Denise Duhamel, “Blue Beard’s One-Hundredth Wife” and “The Ugly Stepsister”
Feminist / Womanist/Indigenous Epistemologies
Books:
Patricia Hill Collins: Black Feminist Thought (2nd edition)
Gloria E. Anzaldúa: Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (2nd or 3rd edition)
Gregory Cajete: Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence
Elizabeth Loyd Mayer: Extraordinary Knowing: Science, Skepticism, and the Inexplicable
Powers of the Human Mind
Joanna Macy: Greening of the Self (a short electronic book available for the kindle or the nook)*
The Native Critics Collective: Reasoning Together
Shannon Sullivan and Nancy Tuana: Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance (REI)
Layli (Phillips) Maparyan: The Womanist Idea
Anna Lee Walters: Ghost Singer
Articles:
Paula Gunn Allen: “The Sacred Hoop;”
Anthony O. Balcomb: “Re-enchanting a Disenchanted Universe–Post Modern [sic] Projects in Theologies of Space;”
Scott: Anderson: “The Emerging Science of Subtle Energy;”
Mary Ballou: “Women and Spirit: Two Nonprofits in Psychology;”
Hèléne Cixous: “The Laugh of the Medusa;”
Arleen Dallery: “The Politics of Writing (the) Body: Ecriture Feminine;”
Cynthia B. Dillard: “The Substance of Things Hoped For, The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Examining an Endarkened Feminist Epistemology in Educational Research and Leadership;”
Owen J. Dwyer & John Paul Jones III: “White Socio-Spatial Epistemology;”
Marilyn Frye: “White Woman Feminist; 1983-1992;”
Frye: “On Being White…”;
Elizabeth Grosz: “The In(ter)vention of Feminist Knowledges;”
Inés Hernández-Ávila: “Mediations of the Spirit: Native American Religious Traditions and the Ethics of Representation;”
Mary E. Hess: “White Religious Educators and Unlearning Racism;”
Lee Hester and Jim Cheney: “Truth and Native American Epistemology;’”
Aída Hurtado: “Theory in the Flesh: Toward an Endarkened Epistemology;”
Kristen Intemann: “25 Years of Feminist Empiricism and Standpoint Theory: Where Are We Now?”;
Ann Rosalind Jones: “Writing the Body: “Writing the Body: Toward an Understanding of Ecriture feminine;’”
Anthony Lioi: “The Best-Loved Bones: Spirit and History in Anzaldúa’s ‘Entering into the Serpent;’”
Genevieve Lloyd: “Reason as Attainment” and “Reason as Progress;”
Joanna Macy: “The Great Turning;”
Madigan, Johnson, & Linton: “The Language of Psychology: APA Style as Epistemology;”
Sylvia Marcos: “Mesoamerican Women’s Indigenous Spirituality Decolonizing Religious Beliefs;”
Uma Narayan: “The Project of Feminist Epistemology: Perspectives from a Nonwestern Feminist;”
Nancy Pineda-Madrid: “Notes Toward a Chicanafeminist Epistemology;”
Michelle Rowley: “Rethinking Interdisciplinarity: Meditations on the Sacred Possibilities of an Erotic Feminist Pedagogy;”
James J. Scheurich & Michelle D. Young: “Coloring Epistemologies: Are Our Research Epistemologies Racially Biased?;”
Linda Tuhiwai Smith: “Colonizing Knowledges;”
Shari Stone- Mediatore: “Challenging Academic Norms: An Epistemology for Feminist and Multicultural
Classrooms;”
Caroline New: “Realism, Deconstruction, and the Feminist Standpoint;”
Barbara Watts: “Aztlán as a Palimpsest: From Chicano Nationalism Toward Transnational Feminism in Anzaldúa’s Borderlands;”
Jeffrey J. Williams: “Donna Haraway’s Critters;”
Manulani Aluli Meyer: “Acultural
Assumptions of Empiricism: A Native Hawaiian Critique;”
Bruno Latour: “‘Do you believe in reality?’ —news from the trenches of the Science Wars.”
Black Feminist Thought
Books:
A Voice from the South by Anna Julia Cooper
Traps: African American men on Gender and Sexuality by Beverly Guy-Sheftall and Rudolph Byrd
Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism by Erik S. McDuffie
Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968–1980 by Kimberly Springer
Black Women and Politics in New York City by Julie Gallagher
Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice (pre order: publication date Oct. 21,2012) by Bell Hooks
SisterCitizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America by Melissa Harris-Perry
The Womanist Idea: Contemporary Sociological Perspectives by Layli Phillips Maparayan
Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol by Nell Irvin Painter
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billy Holiday by Angela Davis
Articles:
McCallum, Cecilia. “Women out of Place? A Micro-historical Perspective on the Black Feminist Movement in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.”
McFadden, Patricia. “Becoming Postcolonial: African Women Changing the Meaning of Citizenship.”
McFadden, Patricia. “Globalizing Resistance: Crafting and Strengthening African Feminist Solidarities
Mirza, Heidi Safia. “ ‘Race,’ Gender, and Educational Desire”
Beckett, Clare and Marie Macey. “Race, Gender and Sexuality: The Oppression of Multiculturalism.”
McFadden, Patricia. “ African Feminist Perspectives of Postcoloniality
Breaking Waves: Feminism as a Social Movement in the 20th Century
Books:
Hewitt Nancy, ed. No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2010.
BlackwellMaylei. ¡Chicana Power! Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011.
Fernandez, Maria, Faith Wilding, Michelle M. Wright, eds. Domain Errors: Cyberfeminist Practices! Brooklyn: Autonomedia, 2002.
Licona,Adela C. Zines in Third Space: Radical Cooperation and Borderlands Rhetoric. Albany: SUNY Press
Articles:
“Transational Feminist Rhetorics” – Queen
“Rhetoric of early Afro-American feminists” – Campbell
“Resisting National Breast Cancer Awareness Month” – Pezzullo
“Intertwining Folklore and Rhetoric: Cultural Performance, Acknowledgement, and Social Justice” – Garlough
“Mapping the Silences, or Remapping Rhetorical Territory” –Glenn
“The Rhetorical Situation” - Bitzer
Women in Early America
Books:
Mary Beth Norton, Separated by their Sex: Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World (Cornell UP, 2011)
Rachel Hope Cleves, Charity & Sylvia: A Same Sex Marriage in Early America (Oxford UP, 2014)
Jon F. Sensbach, Rebecca’s Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World (Harvard UP, 2005)
Catherine Kerrison, Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South (Cornell UP, 2006)
Jean Zimmerman, The Women of the House (Harcourt, 2006)
Susan Juster, Disorderly Women: Sexual Politics & Evangelicalism in Revolutionary New England (Cornell UP, 1994)
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife’s Tale (Vintage, 1991)
Jill Lepore Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin (Knopf, 2014)
Ava Chamberlain, The Notorious Elizabeth Tuttle: Marriage, Murder, and Madness in the Family of Jonathan Edwards (New York UP, 2012)
Anne Orthwood’s Bastard: Sex and Law in Early Virginia (Oxford, 2003)
Karin Wulf, Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000)
Laboring Women - Morgan
Articles:
“A Nation of Women” - Fur
“Conceptualizing the Intersectionality of Race, Class, and Gender in US Women’s History” – Ball
“Interracial Sex in the Chesapeake and the British Atlantic World” – Morgan
“The Dangerous Allure of Copper-Colloured Beauties” from Sexual Revolution by Godbeer
“A Complete Body of Divinity” – Godbeer
“Pregnant with the Seeds of All Sin” – Godbeer
“Under the Watch” –Godbeer
“Conceptualizing U.S. Women’s History through the History of Medicine” – Tannenbaum
“Southern Cross” – Heyrman
“A Cheerful & Comfortable Faith: Angelican Religious Practice in the Elite Households of Eighteenth-Century Virginia” – Winner
“The Diary of Mary Cooper” - Horne
Sociological Theory
Four Sociological Traditions – Randall Collins
Psychology of Women
Books:
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present – Gail Collins
Psychology of Women: Handbook of Issues and Theories by Denmark and Paludi
My Little Red Book – Nalebuff
Half the Sky – Kristof
Pink Ribbon Blues: How Breast Cancer Culture Undermines Women’s Health – Sulik
Articles:
“Killing Us Softly: Investigating Portrayals of Women and Men in Contemporary Magazine Advertisements” – Conley and Ramsey
“Gender and Language” – Crawford
“Experiencing Sexually Objectifying Environments: A Qualitative Study” – Moffitt and Szymanski
“Sex Differences in Social Development” – Geary
“Taking Science Seriously: Straight Thinking About Spatial Sex Differences” – Newcombe
“Sex, Math, and Science” – Spelke
“A Relational Perspective for Understanding Women’s Development” – Jordan
“The Importance of Female Choice: Evolutionary Perspectives on Constraints, Expressions, and Variations in Female Mating Strategies” – Frederick, Reynolds, & Fisher
“Evolutionary Psychology and Feminisms” – Buss & Schmitt
“Who Does She Think She Is? Women and Status” – Campbell
“In A Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development” – Gilligan
“The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help” – Katz
“Violence Against Girls” – Klein
“Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Girls and Women” – APA
“Why Women Still Can’t Have it All” – Slaughter
“The Continuing Technological Revolution: A Comparison of Three Regions’ Strategies for Creating Women-Inclusive Workplaces” – Vogt
“Women’s Spirit and Men’s Religion” - Ruth
Extra Texts for Research:
Promiscuities – Noami Wolfe
The Purity Myth – Jessica Valenti
The Essential Feminist Reader – Estelle Freedman
The Feminine Mystique – Betty Friedan
He’s a Stud, She’s a Slut – Jessica Valenti
Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution – Shiri Eisner
·Transformation Now: Toward a Post-Oppositional Politics of Change – AnaLouise Keating
Gender Trouble – Judith Butler
Girls Like Us – Rachel Lloyd
Epistemology of the Closet – Sedgwick
Interdisciplinary Views on Abortion – Martinez-Hernandez et al
Last year I created my “Women’s Studies Master’s Degree” book tree, and this year I created the perfect holiday gift for your feminist & bibliophile friends:
You can order it via my etsy shop.