NIU Women’s Studies
Library Resource List
The Arts:


Allen, Robert C. Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1991.

Case, Sue Ellen. Feminism and Theater. New York: Methuen, 1988.

Chadwick, Whitney. Women, Art, and Society, 3rd ed. New York: Thames & Hudson,
2002.

Curtin, Kaier. “We Can Always Call Them Bulgarians”: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Men on the American Stage. Boston: Alyson Publications, 1987.

Dolan, Jill. The Feminist Spectator as Critic. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1988.

Field, Joanna. On Not Being Able to Paint. Los Angeles: J.P. Tarcher, 1957.

Greenberg, Reese, et al, eds. Thinking About Exhibitions. New York, NY: Rutledge, 1996.

Hebdige, Dick. Cut-n-mix: Culture, Identity, and Caribbean Music. New York, NY: Routledge, 1994.

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

Levin, Amy K., ed. Defining Memory: Local Museums and the Construction of History in America’s Changing Communities. Lanham, MA: AltaMira Press, 2007.

Rennolds, Margaret B., ed. National Museum of Women in the Arts. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987.

Rubinstein, Charlotte. American Women Artists: From Early Indian Times to the Present. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall & Co., 1982.

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

Slatkin, Wendy. Women Artists in History: From Antiquity to the 20th Century. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1985.

Spacks, Patricia Meyer. The Adolescent Idea: Myths of Youth and the Adult Imagination. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1981.

Straub, Kristina. Sexual Suspects: Eighteenth-Century Players and Sexual Ideology. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992.

Swain, Sally. Oh My Goddess! New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1994.

Yow, Valerie Raliegh. The History of Hera: A Women’s Art Cooperative, 1974-1989. Wakefiled, RI: Hera Education Foundation, 1989.