Gender Studies Books


Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America Best Price: $16.00 Honoring over 420 years of signal achievements by American Women If the purpose of "Her...	Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex Best Price: $23.09 My initial reaction to reading Bodies that Matter by Judith Butler is that she writes from a...	Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown (Public Anthropology, 9) Best Price: $18.47 Laughter Out of Place is a wonderful ethnography in a number of ways. It captures an incredible...	Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams Best Price: $2.31 I am very happy to have read "Dearest Friend". It makes me sad that this kind of...	When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies: Freeing Yourself from Food and Weight Obsession Best Price: $5.49 This book truly changed my life by asking the simple question, "Who says?" Who says...



My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely Best Price: $23.00 Kate Bornstein's writing is a pleasure to read! My Gender Workbook is a great way to start...	The Courage to Be Yourself: A Woman's Guide to Emotional Strength and Self-Esteem Best Price: $7.99 Very informative. The Courage to be Yourself makes you delve into yourself and gives great...	City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London (Women in Culture and Society Series) Best Price: $17.00 Excellent read! This book has everything that we should know about the late Victorian era,...	Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary (Philip E. Lilienthal Books) Best Price: $17.00 In this powerful, compassionate work, one of anthropology's most distinguished ethnographers...	Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835 (Indians of the Southeast) Best Price: $10.98 Thea Perdue adds an excellent addition to the Indians of the Southeast series by giving a new...



Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia Best Price: $15.50 And schizophrenic. Parts of the book are interesting. Parts of the book that should be...	Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo Best Price: $10.99 I read this book when it was first published and it changed my life, the way i looked at art and...	Plain and Simple: A Woman's Journey to the Amish Best Price: $2.09 I received this wonderful book as a surprise gift. Knowing very, very little about the Amish...	Transformations: Women, Gender, and Psychology with Sex & Gender Online Workbook Best Price: $82.25 In this groundbreaking First Edition, Mary Crawford presents a framework for understanding how...	Gender and the Politics of History Best Price: $20.44 Joan Scott's "Gender and the Politics of History" is one of the landmark books in the...

Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought Best Price: $12.00 I first read this book in a Women's Studies class at the University of Washington. It was one...	Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It Best Price: $10.00 My partner of more than half a decade and I, want to have children, but he is also facing the...	It's A Guy Thing : An Owner's Manual for Women Best Price: $6.99 Seriously. An "OWNER'S" manual? OWNER. Right. Here in America, men do not OWN their...	Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women Best Price: $17.88 "Why So Slow" is the most useful book I've ever read on gender issues. It is packed...	It's A Guy Thing : An Owner's Manual for Women Best Price: $6.99 Seriously. An "OWNER'S" manual? OWNER. Right. Here in America, men do not OWN their...

Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women Best Price: $17.88 "Why So Slow" is the most useful book I've ever read on gender issues. It is packed...	Civilized Assertiveness for Women: Communication with Backbone...not Bite Best Price: $11.44 Focuses too much on outdated gender issues. As a professional woman nearing 30, I'm not fighting...	This Is Who I Am: Our Beauty in All Shapes and Sizes Best Price: $16.06 Being a semi retired photographer and a former medical tech. I say Ms. Olson hit the nail on the...	The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private Best Price: $7.89 With all the focus on the female body it was nice to see a writer focusing on the male for a...	Storming Caesar's Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty Best Price: $7.87 A very through, informative foray into the world of political activism from a single mother's...

The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy Best Price: $30.00 A lot of books in the field give lip service to the idea that gender, sexuality, race, and class...	Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories Best Price: $18.37 This book gives intimate details of the events most important to the women involved-- family...	The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) Best Price: $10.12 Unbelievable history of the vibrator. Who knew??? It is fascinating and well written. For men...	Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (Gender and American Culture) Best Price: $20.45 The influence of sex on gender is often mistakenly emphasized to the extent where sex and gender...	Psychology: A Journey of Discovery, 3e Best Price: $65.59 This COMPLETE textbook includes not only the paperback copy textbook new, but also contains the...

Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics Best Price: $6.48 Flinders is very articulate and captures well the lives of these women mystics. She balances...	Becoming a Visible Man Best Price: $15.00 This is an easy, fun, and interesting read. The book rekindled my sensitivity and respect for...	We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese Best Price: $5.93 It has been SO LONG since I've read a book that I could not put down, and that I didn't end up...	Princess Sultana's Circle (Princess Trilogy) Best Price: $3.96 The bravery of this woman is brilliant. I have read only two of the three books. She has...	The Transgender Reader Best Price: $31.54 It's huge (essential research for papers) but insanely expensive! (I guess if ya can afford SRS,...

The Politics of Women's Bodies: Sexuality, Appearance, and Behavior Best Price: $26.59 For nearly three decades, feminist scholars have examined how the female body and ideas about...	Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands Best Price: $24.75 Brooks examines the creation of a widespread system of intercultural slavery between Native...	Becoming Visible: Women in European History Best Price: $50.77 This book is a wonderful introduction to the role of women throughout European history. Women...	The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage Best Price: $2.89 I apologize in advance that this review will not be very helpful to anyone, but all I can say is...	From Russia with Tough Love: Pavel's Kettlebell Workout for a Femme Fatale Best Price: $21.82 After buying my GoFit 10# kettlebell package, I decided I needed more information about...

The Life of Christina of Markyate (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $8.84 Popular belief holds that during the Middle Ages sex was avoided like the plague --another...	The Lost Daughters of China Best Price: $2.59 This was an interesting book for those that might be planning to adopt from China. It talks...	The Book of the City of Ladies Best Price: $7.03 i read this book at a point when i wanted to graduate with honors at my university and had to...	Diversity and Society: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Best Price: $34.00 Derived from the Fourth Edition of Joseph F. Healey’s best-selling text Race,...	Sex Matters for Women: A Complete Guide to Taking Care of Your Sexual Self Best Price: $12.05 This is a well written, candid book written by two certified sex therapists and a clinical...

Sex & Gender Best Price: $71.28 This is a comprehensive introduction to sex and gender theories, research, and issues, focusing...	Gender Diversity: Crosscultural Variations Best Price: $10.49 this was a very readable book about the idea of gender and how it's not as black and white as...	Women in Ministry: Four Views Best Price: $13.59 This is a Good Book but it is basically from a functionally egalitarian perspective. Even the...	Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) Best Price: $38.98 Ulrich Beck argues that industrial society that used to be known as the distribution of goods...	The WAR AGAINST BOYS: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men Best Price: $3.50 A brilliant investigation into the destructive effects of academic theory and the pathological...

The Nice Gi Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused and Start Standing Up for Yourself Best Price: $12.47 This book was very helpful to me. Being too nice is not really a good thing.	The Way We Really Are: Coming To Terms With America's Changing Families Best Price: $6.35 Initially, Ms. Coontz builds a pretty impressive case for her point of view, backing it up with...	When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down Best Price: $6.85 I recently went to a hip-hop symposium where Joan Morgan and a few other activists were...	The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women: A Portable Mentor Best Price: $5.00 12 Secrets fills a big need for creatively-bent women to hear how other creative women become...

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