NIU Women’s Studies
Library Resource List
Politics & Activism
:

Amundsen, Kirsten. A New Look at the Silenced Majority: Women and American Democracy. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1977.

Bannerji, Himani, et. al. Unsettling Relations: The University as a Site of Feminist Struggles. 1991. Boston, MA: South End, 1992.

Baxter, Sandra and Marjorie Lansing, eds. Women and Politics: The Visible Majority. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1983.

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

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

Bolen, Jean Shinoda. Urgent Message from Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World. Boston: Conari, 2005.

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

Brown, Lyn Mikel and Carol Gilligan. Meeting at the Crossroads: Women’s Psychology and Girls’ Development. New York, NY: Ballantine, 1992.

Buck, Marilyn, et al. Conspiracy of Voices. Madison: Women In Support of Political Prisoners, 1990.

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

Burkett, Elinor. The Right Women: A Journey through the Heart of Conservative America. New York: Touchstone, 1998.

Bystydzienski, Jill M. Women Transforming Politics. Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 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.

Darcy, R., Welsch, Susan, Clark, Janet. Women, Elections and Representation. New York: Longman, 1987.

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

Diamond, Jean, ed. Families, Politics and Public Policy. New York: Longman, 1983.

Duke, Lois Lovelace. Women in Politics. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 1996.

Faludi, Susan. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women. New York, NY: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1991.

Flammang, Janet A. Political Women: Current Roles in State and Local Government. Beverly Hills: SAGE Publications, 1984.

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

Gimlin, Hoyt, ed. The Women’s Movement: Agenda for the 1980’s. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Inc., 1981.

Glover, Jonathan. Ethics of New Reproductive Technologies: The Glover Report to the European Commission (Studies in biomedical policy). DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 1989.

Hardin, Garrett. Mandatory Motherhood: The True Meaning of “Right to Life”. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1974.

Harris, Harry. Prenatal Diagnosis and Selective Abortion. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1975.

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.

Hill, Marcia. Feminist Therapy as a Political Act. Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press, Inc., 1998.

hooks, bell. Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1990.

Iglitzin, Lynne B. and Ruth Ross, eds. Women in the World: A Comparative Study. Santa Barbara, CA: Clio Press, 1976.

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

Jancar, Barbara Wolfe. Women under Communism. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.

Kamen, Paula. Feminist Fatale: Voices from the "twentysomething" generation explore the future of the "Women's Movement." New York, NY: Donald I. Fine, 1991.

Kappeler, Susanne. The Pornography of Representation. Minneapolis, MN: U of Minnesota P, 1986.

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

Klein, Ethel. Gender Politics: From Consciousness to Mass Politics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984.

League of Women Voters of Illinois. Forty Years of Faith and Works: A Story of The League of Women Voters of Illinois- A nonpartisan organization to promote intelligent and active citizenship. Chicago, IL: League of Women Voters of Illinois, 1961.

LeVeness, Frank P. and Jane P. Sweeney, eds. Women Leaders in Contemporary U.S. Politics. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1987.

Levine, Phillippa. Prostitution, Race, and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire. New York, NY: Routledge, 2003.

Lips, Hilary M. Women, Men, and Power. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield, 1991.

Lorber, Judith. Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics. 2nd ed. Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Publishing Company, 2001.

Lovenducki, Joni. State Feminism and Political Representation. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Margolies-Mezvinksy, Marjorie. A Women’s Place…The Freshmen Women Who Changed the Face of Congress. New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 1994.

McGlen, Nancy E. and Karen O’Connor. Women, Politics and American Society. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998.

Moghadam, Valentine M. Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

Murray, Charles. Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980. USA: BasicBooks, 1984.

Norris, Pippa, ed. Women, Media and Politics. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Okin, Susan Moller. Women in Western Political Thought. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979.

Partnoy, Alicia, ed. You Can’t Drown the Fire: Latin American Women Writing in Exile. Pittsburg, PA: Cleis Press, 1988.

Pateman, Carole and Elizabeth Gross, eds. Feminist Challenges: Social and Political Theory. 1986. Boston, MA: Northeastern UP, 1987.

Poole, Keith T. and L. Harmon Zeigler. Women, Public Opinion and Politics. New York, NY: Longman, 1985.

Randall, Vicky. Women and Politics: An International Perspective. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Rendall, Jane. The Origins of Modern Feminism: Women in Britain, France and the United States, 1780-1860. Chicago, IL: Lyceum, 1985.

Roth, Benita. Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana, and White Feminist Movements in America's Second Wave. 2004. New York, NY: Cambridge UP, 2007.

Sapiro, Virginia. The Political Integration of Women: Roles, Socialization, and Politics. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1983.

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.

Smeal, Eleanor. Why and How Women Will Elect the Next President. New York, NY: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1984.

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.

Thomas, Sue and Clyde Wilcox, eds. Women and Elective Office: Past, Present, and Future. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Tinker, Irene, ed. Women in Washington: Advocates for Public Policy. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1983.

United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women: National Report of Ireland. Dublin, IR: Govt. of Ireland, 1994.

United States Commission on Civil Rights. Battered Women: Issues on Public Policy. Washington, D.C.: United States Commission on Civil Rights, 1978.

Weiler, Kathleen. Women Teaching for Change: Gender, Class and Power. New York, NY: Bergin & Garvey, 1988.

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

West, Guida and Rhode Lois Blumberg, eds. Women and Social Protest. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Whitaker, Lois Duke. Women in Politics: Outsiders or Insiders? 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1999.

Wilson, William Julius. The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Writings from the Women’s Liberation Movement. Liberation Now! New York, NY: Dell Publishing, 1971.

Wyckoff, Hogie. Solving Woman’s Problems: Through Awareness, Action & Contact. New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1977.