NIU Women’s Studies
Library Resource List
Economic & Legal Issues:


Backhouse, Constance and Leah Cohen. Sexual Harassment on the Job: How to Avoid the Working Woman’s Nightmare. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Baxandall, Rosalyn, et al, eds. America’s Working Women: A Documentary History-1600 to the Present. New York: Random House, 1976.

Berch, Bettina. The Endless Days: The Political Economy of Women and Work. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.

Berger, Margaret A. Litigation on Behalf of Women: A Review for the Ford Foundation. New York: Ford Foundation, 1980.

Bérubé, Michael and Cary Nelson, eds. Higher Education Under Fire: Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities. New York, NY: Routledge, 1995.

Bessmer, Sue. The Laws of Rape. New York: Praeger, 1976.

Bird, Caroline. Born Female: The High Cost of Keeping Women Down. New York: Pocket Books, 1971.

Bird, Caroline. Enterprising Women. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1976.

Blaxall, Martha and Barbara Reagon, eds. Women and the Workplace: The Implications of Occupational Segregation. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1976.

Bonavoglia, Angela, ed. The Choices We Made: 25 Women and Men Speak Out about Abortion. New York: Random House, 1991.

Boneparth, Ellen, ed. Women, Power, and Policy. New York: Pergamon, 1982.

Brownlee, W. Elliot and Mary M. Brownlee. Women in the American Economy: A Documentary History, 1675 to 1929. New Haven: Yale UP, 1976.

Burgess, Susan R. Contest for Constitutional Authority: The Abortion and War Powers Debates. Lawrence: UP of Kansas, 1992.

Chafe, William H. The American Woman: Her Changing Social, Economic, and Political Role, 1920-1970. London: Oxford UP, 1972.

Costello, Cynthia B., et al., eds. The American Woman 1999-2000. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998.

Counihan, Carole and Penny Van Esterik, eds. Food and Culture: A Reader. New York, NY: Routledge, 1997.

Craig, Barbara Hinkson and David M. O’Brien. Abortion and America Politics. Chatham: Chatham House, 1993.

Deckard, Barbara Sinclair. The Women’s Movement: Political, Socio-Economic, and Psychological Issues. 3rd ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1983.

Dworkin, Ronald. Taking Rights Seriously. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1977.

Ford Foundation. The Common Good: Social Welfare and the American Future. New York: Ford Foundation, 1989.

Henrici, Jane, ed. Doing Without: Women and Work after Welfare Reform. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2006.

Heyzer, Noeleen, et al, eds. A Commitment to the World’s Women: Perspectives on Development for Beijing and Beyond. New York, NY: UNIFEM, 1995.

Hoff, Joan. Law, Gender, and Injustice: A Legal History of U.S. Women. New York, NY: New York University Press, 1991.

Ingraham, Chrys. White Weddings: Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture. New York, NY: Routledge, 1999.

Joekes, Susan. Women in the World Economy: An INSTRAW Study. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Kardam, Nuket. Bringing in Women: Women’s Issues in International Development Programs. Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 1991.

Lindgren, J. Ralph and Nadine Taub. The Law of Sex Discrimination (with Instructor’s Manual). 1st & 2nd eds. St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Company, 1988.

MacKinnon, Catharine A. Sexual Harassment of Working Women. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1979.

Moyer, Imogene L., ed. The Changing Roles of Women in the Criminal Justice System: Offenders, Victims and Professionals. 2nd ed. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, Inc., 1992.

Nicholas, Susan Cary, et al. Rights and Wrongs: Women’s Struggle for Legal Equality. Old Westbury, NY: Feminist Press, 1979.

Raymond, Janice. Women as Wombs: Reproductive Technologies and the Battle Over Women’s Freedom. New York, NY: HarperSan Francisco, 1993.

Ross, Susan C. The Rights of Women: The Basic ACLU Guide to a Woman’s Rights. New York, NY: Avon Press, 1973.

Rothenberg, Paula S. Race, Class, and Gender In the United States (with Instructor’s Resource Manual by Kelly S. Mayhew). 6th ed. New York, NY: Worth Publishers, 2004.

Sapiro, Virginia. Women in American Society. 5th ed. St. Louis, MO: McGraw-Hill, 2003.

Schwichtenberg, Cathy. The Madonna Connection: Representational Politics, Subcultural Identities, and Cultural Theory. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1993.

Shilling, Diana. Redress for Success: Using the Law to Enforce Your Rights as a Woman. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1985.

Sidel, Ruth. Women and Children Last: The Plight of Poor Women in Affluent America. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1987.

Smith, Ralph. The Subtle Revolution: Women at Work. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute, 1979.

Solinger, Rickie. Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, & Welfare in the United States. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 2001.

Stetson, Dorothy McBride. Women’s Rights in the U.S.A.: Policy Debates & Gender Roles. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, 1991.

Stimpson, Catherine et al, eds. Women and the American City. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1981.

Tauris, Carol and Carole Wade. The Longest War: Sex Differences in Perspective. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984.

Veblen, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions. New York, NY: Mentor Book, 1953.

Wellesley Editorial Committee, ed. Women and National Development: The Complexities of Change. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1977.

Winston, Sandra. The Entrepreneurial Woman. New York, NY: Newsweek Books, 1979.

Wrigley, Julia, ed. Education and Gender Equality. Washington, D.C.: Falmer, 1992.