Women's & Gender Studies Resources: New Women's & Gender Studies Resources

Traces the complex history of feminism across the globe, presenting its many identities, heated debates, racism, discussion of religious belief and values, commitment to social change, and the struggles of women around the world for gender justice. Authors approach past understandings and today's evolving sense of what feminism or womanism or gender justice are from multiple viewpoints.

Examines how U.S. women of color feminists' coalitional politics provides an indispensable resource to contemporary political theory, feminist studies, and intersectional social justice activism.

This is a feminist theory reader for college and graduate school level students

This book challenges the belief that the Muslim world is unrelentingly antifeminist. The author challenges assumptions about inevitable civilizational antagonism between the "West" and the "Muslim world" and of a lag in the emergence of feminism in the latter.

The book explains how Indigenous peoples organize their economies for good living, by developing relationships among people and the natural world.

Answers women's questions about their reproductive anatomy, with topics including menstruation, postpartum health, libido, acne, orgasms, and discharges.

#Metoo's explosion on social media in October 2017 toppled the likes of Harvey Weinstein, Charlie Rose, Matt Lauer . But not all feminists agreed. A conflict emerged among feminist supporters and detractors about where to put the emphasis: Danger vs pleasure. Coercion vs choice.

A philosophical exploration of female submission, using insights from feminist thinkers--especially Simone de Beauvoir--to reveal the complexities of women's reality and lived experience.

This timely, yet enduring, volume strikes a balance between highlighting the most important developments for women as voters and candidates in the 2020 elections and providing a more long term, in-depth analysis of the ways in which gender has helped shape the contours and outcomes of electoral politics in the United States.

Today, about one-half of all adults are unmarried. Many of them are in other kinds of significant relationships, yet the law offers them few protections. Although a few states have created nonmarital relationship statuses, they fall far short of the kind of comprehensive structures needed to recognize and protect.