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WST 150 Women, Information, and Technology
Shenk, David (1997). Data smog: Surviving the information glut. New York: Harper Collins, 1997.
Cadigan, Pat (2002). Ultimate Cyberpunk I Books.
WST 150: Voices, visions, and values: A multimedia book.
WST 191 Women, Gender, Identity, and Ethnicity
Hernandez, Daisy & Rehman, Bushra (2002). Colonize this!: Young women of color on today’s feminism. Emeryville, CA: Seal Press.
Hooks, Bell (2000). Feminism is for everybody: Passionate politics. Cambridge, MA: South End Press.
Hunter College Women’s Studies Collective (2005). Women’s realities, women’s choices: An introduction to women’s studies. New York: Oxford University Press.
WST 200 Introduction to Women’s Studies
Kourany, Janet A., Sterba, James A., & Tong, Rosemarie (1998). Feminist philosophies: problems, theories, and applications. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Disch, Estelle (2005). Reconstructing gender: A multicultural anthropology. New York: McGraw-Hill Humanities.
WST 215 Making the “Real Men”: Masculinities in the United States
Beynon, John (2002). Masculinities and Culture. Berkshire UK: Open University Press.
Connell, R. W. (2001). The men and the boys. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Gardiner, Judith (2002). Masculinity studies and feminist theory. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.
WST 300w Feminist Theory
Fall 2005
Castillo, Ana (1994). Massacre of the dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma. New York: Plume Book.
Shah, Sonia ed. (1997). Dragon ladies: Asian American feminists. Boston: South End Press.
Tong, Rosemarie Putnam Feminist thought: A more comprehensive introduction. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Fall 2004
Butler, Judith (1990). Gender trouble. New York: Routledge.
DeBeauvoir, Simone (1952). Second Sex. New York: Knopf.
Theweleit, Klaus (1987). Male fantasies. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
WST 391 Women and the Outdoors
Anderson, Lorraine (1991). Sisters of the Earth. NY: Vintage.
Conlon, Faith, Emerick, Ingrid, & Goode, Jennie (1998). Gifts of the wild. Seattle WA: Adventura Books.
LaBastille, Anne (1984). Women and the wilderness. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books.
Leavengood, Betty (1999). Grand Canyon women: Lives shaped by landscape. Boulder, CO: Pruett Publishing Co.
Robertson, Janet (1990). The magnificent mountain women: Adventures in the Colorado Rockies. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
WST 392 Woman & the Body
Bordo, Susan (1993). Unbearable weight. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Price, Janet & Shildrick, Margrit (eds.) (1999). Feminist theory and the body: A reader. New York: Routledge.
WST 600 Feminist Theories
Spring 2005
Ali, Kamran (2002). Planning the family in Egypt: New bodies, new selves. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
Anzaldua, Gloria (2002). This bridge we call home. New York: Routledge.
Edelman, Lee (2004). Queer theory and death drive. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Hill-Collins, Patricia (2004). Black sexual politics: African-Americans, gender and new racism. New York: Routledge.
Hooks, bell (2000). From margin to center. Cambridge, MA: South End Press.
Joseph, Betty. (2004). Reading the East India Company, 1720-1840. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Mohanty, Chandra (2003) Feminism without borders: Decolonizing theory, practicing solidarity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Naples, Nancy (2003). Feminism and method: Ethnography, discourse, and activist research. New York: Routledge.
Spring 2003
Benhabib, Seyla (2002). The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Gamble, Sarah, ed. (2002). The Routledge Companion to Feminism and Postfeminism. NY: Routledge.
Kadi, Joanna (1994). Food For Our Grandmothers: Writings by Arab American and Arab-Canadian Feminists. Cambridge, MA: South End Press.
Kemp, Sandra and Judith Squires, Judith, eds. (1998). Feminisms. New York: Oxford University Press.
Lerner, Gerda, (2002). Fireweed: A Political Autobiography. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
Moghissi, Haideh (1999). Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Limits of Postmodern Analysis. London: Zed Books.
Price, Janet and Shildrick, Margrit eds. (1999). Feminist Theory and the Body: A Reader. New York: Routledge, 1999.
Tanesini, Alessandra (2002). An Introduction to Feminist Epistemologies. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.