WRC Library

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ENVIRONMENT/HERBS

 

Pulse of the Forest – James P. Jackson

The Recycler’s Handbook – The Earthworks Group

The Green Consumer Supermarket Guide – Joel Makower

Stolen Harvest – Vandana Shiva

Secrets of the Chinese Herbalists – Richard Lucas

The Herb Book – John Lust

Modern Encyclopedia of Herbs – Joseph M. Kadans

Healing with Herbs – Henrietta Diers Rau

Nature’s Healing Arts: From Folk Medicine to Modern Drugs – Lonnelle Aikman

 

 

HEALTH

 

Getting Clear – Anne Kent Rush

Exploring the Inner World – Tolbert McCarroll

The Woman in the Body – Emily Martin

A Woman’s Guide to Sexual Health – Mary Jane Minkin & Carol V. Wright

Our Bodies, Ourselves – The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective

Everything You Need to Know about Eating Disorders – Rachel Kubersky

Anorexia Nervosa – R.L. Palmer

Fat is a Feminist Issue – Susie Orbach

Safe Sex in the Age of AIDS – Institute for the Adv Study of Human Sexuality

The Women’s Guide to Fighting Heart Disease – Richard H. Helfant

How to Prevent Breast Cancer – Ross Pelton, Taffy Clarke Pelton & Vinton Vint

The Breast Cancer Handbook – Joan Swirsky & Barbara Balaban

Baby and Child Emergency First Aid Handbook – Mitchell J. Einzig

How not to get Pregnant – Sherman J. Silber

Bestfeeding: Getting Breastfeeding Right for You – Mary Renfrew

Pregnant and Lovin’ It – Lindsay Curtis

 

 

VIOLENCE/RAPE

 

Trauma and Recovery – Judith Herman

Lucky – Alice Sebold

Rape: Victims of Crisis – Ann Wolbert Burgess

Against our Will: Men, Women and Rape – Susan Brownmiller

License to Rape – David Finkelhor

A Woman Like You: The Face of Domestic Violence – Vera Anderson

Shattered Dreams – Charlotte Fedders & Laura Elliott

Men Who Hate Women & the Women Who Love Them – Susan Forward

Sexual Abuse/Sacred Wound – Stephanie Mines

No Visible Wounds – Mary Susan Miller

Getting Free: A Handbook for Women in Abusive Relationships – Ginny NiCarthy

Wife Beating: The Silent Crisis – Roger Langley & Richard Levy

Scream Quietly or the Neighbors Will Hear – Erin Pizzey

 

 

MULTICULTURAL

 

Survival Kit for Multicultural Living – Ellen Summerfield

The Politics of Women’s Education: Perspectives from Asia, Africa & Latin America –

Jill Ker Conway & Susan C. Bourque

Democratization and Women’s Grassroots Movements – Jill M. Bystydzienski

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books – Azar Nafisi

The Jewish Woman in America – Charlotte Baum, Paula Hyman & Sonya Michel

Latinas! Women of Achievement – Diane Telgen & Jim Kamp

Women in Latin America

Women and Social Change in Latin America – Elizabeth Jelin

I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in GuatemalaRigoberta Menchu

Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice & Communities of Color – Robert D. Bullard

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color – Cherrie Moraga &

          Gloria Anzaldua

But Some of Us Are Brave – Gloria T. Hull

Killing Rage – Bell Hooks

I Saw the Sky Catch Fire – T. Obinkaram Echewa

Double Stitch – Bell-Scott, et al.

Women of Color Health Data Book – National Institute of Health

African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920 –

Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

Black Foremothers – Dorothy Sterling

 

 

BIOGRAPHIES

 

A to Z of American Women in the Visual Arts – Carol Kort & Liz Sonneborn

Nike is a Goddess: The History of Women in Sports – Lissa Smith

And Then She Said: Quotations by Women for Every Occasion – J.D. Zahniser

Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions – Gloria Steinem

The Life and Death of Petra Kelly – Sara Parkin

Eleanor Roosevelt – Blanche Wiesen Cook

Mrs. Wheeler Goes to Washington – Elizabeth Wheeler Colman

The Abortionist: A Woman Against the Law – Rickie Solinger

Raising the Bar: The Story of Clif Bar Inc. – Gary Erickson

 

 

SELF-HELP

 

Sacrificing Our Selves for Love: Why Women Compromise Health and Self-Esteem and

          How to Stop – Jane Wegscheider Hyman

When I Say No, I Feel Guilty – Manuel J. Smith

The Naked Roommate: And 107 Other Issues You Might Run into in College – Harlan

          Cohen

The Woman’s Hands-On Home Repair Guide – Lyn Herrick

Street Smarts: A Personal Safety Guide for Women – Louise Rafkin

 

 

MEN’S STUDIES/GENDER RELATIONS

 

Iron John – Robert Bly

Fire in the Belly – Sam Keen

Men Freeing Men: Exploding the Myth of the Traditional Male – Francis Baumli

The Liberated Man – Warren Farrell

The Kitchen Sink Papers: My Life as a House Husband – Mike McGrady

Gender and Communication – Judy Cornelia Pearson

You Just Don’t Understand: Women & Men in Conversation – Deborah Tannen

 

 

MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS

 

My Mother, My Self – Nancy Friday

Between Mothers and Daughters – Susan Koppelman

Mother: Famous Writers Celebrate Motherhood – Claudia O’Keefe

Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties – Elizabeth Fishel

 

 

HISTORY

 

Amazon Odyssey – Grace Atkinson

Woman’s Evolution – Evelyn Reed

Significant Sisters – Margaret Forster

Miss Manners’ Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior – Judith Martin

Political Wives, Veiled Lives – Joyce Schuck

On the Verge of Revolt: Women in American Films of the Fifties – Brandon French

Personal Politics – Sara Evans

The Road to Equality: American Women since 1962 – William H. Chafe

Yours in Sisterhood – Amy Erdman Farrell

Letters to Ms. – Mary Thom

The Second Sex – Simone DeBeauvoir

The Feminine Mystique – Betty Friedan

 

 

POLITICS

 

The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory – Carol J. Adams

Sisterhood is Global – Robin Morgan

Speaking Out: Women, Poverty and Public Policy – Katherine A. Rhoades & Anne

          Statham

Persistent Inequalities: Women & World Development – Irene Tinker

Primary Colors – Anonymous

Liberty and Sexuality – David J. Garrow

The War on Choice – Gloria Feldt

 

 

SOCIAL SCIENCES (SOCIOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY)

 

Woman in Sexist Society – Vivian Gornick & Barbara Moran

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women – Susan Faludi

The War Against Women – Marilyn French

Who Stole Feminism? – Christina Hoff Sommers

Women and Sex Roles: A Social Psychological Perspective – Irene H. Frieze

Gender Roles: A Sociological Perspective – Linda L. Lindsey

The Gender Trap Book 3: Messages & Images – Carol Adams & Rae Laurikietis

A Way of Seeing – Margaret Mead & Rhoda Metraux

Flux – Peggy Orenstein

The Lenses of Gender: Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequality – Sandra Lipsitz

          Bem

Women’s Ways of Knowing – Mary Field Belenky

Goddesses in Every Woman: A New Psychology of Women – Jean Shinoda Bolen

Toward a New Psychology of Women – Jean Baker Miller

 

 

SEXUALITY, SPIRITUALITY, RELIGION

 

Awakening Your Sexuality – Stephanie Covington

Minding the Body – Patricia Foster

Women: Body and Culture – Signe Hammer

For Yourself: The Fulfillment of Female Sexuality – Lonnie Garfield Barbach

The Female Eunuch – Germaine Greer

Aphrodite’s Daughters – Jalaja Bonheim

Exploring the Inner World – Tolbert McCarroll

The Feminine Face of God – Sherry Anderson & Patricia Hopkins

Women, Gender, Religion: A Reader – Elizabeth A. Castelli

 

 

EDUCATION, CHILDREN

 

Women of Academe: Outsiders in the Sacred Grove – Nadya Aisenberg & Mona

          Harrington

Women in Educational Administration – Charol Shakeshaft

Failing at Fairness – Myra & David Sadker

Gender Play – Barrie Thorne

 

 

GAY/LESBIAN

 

The Invention of Heterosexuality – Jonathan Katz

Making History: The Struggle for Gay & Lesbian Equal Rights – Eric Marcus

Sita – Kate Millett

Conundrum – Jan Morris

Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence – Rosemary Curb

The Lesbian and Gay Parenting Handbook – April Martin

Love Makes a Family – Gigi Kaeser

 

 

NOVELS

 

Eleni – Nicholas Gage

The Mists of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley

Looking for Mr. Goodbar – Judith Rossner

Revelations – Sophy Burnham

Bastard out of Carolina – Dorothy Allison

Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend – Robert Waller

Crystal Woman – Lynn V. Andrews

The Bond Between Women: A Journey to Fierce Compassion – China Galland

When She Was Bad – Shana Alexander

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS

 

UW-System Guides: Feminist Collections, Feminist Periodicals, New Books (2005-2006)

Informational binders (3): Women & Leadership

 

 

JOURNALS/REFERENCE

 

Gender & Society

Journal of Women’s History

Women in Action

Woman’s Art Journal

Race, Gender & Class

Wisconsin Women’s Law Journal

Women: Gender & Visual Culture

The Womansource Catalog & Review

 

 

MEDIA

 

CDs:

Care – I am Powerful Action Kit

Isis Journey

Women for Women

Lis Harvey – Something on You

Irene Farrera – Soy de Ti

Eve Ensler – The Good Body

Pearl Django – Chasing Shadows

V-Day 2005 (4 discs)

 

Videos:

Legal But Out of Reach

The Body Image Project

Seneca Reflections

Redefining Liberation

Take Back the Night – 2001 & 2002

 

DVDs:

Boys Don’t Cry

North Country

If These Walls Could Talk

If These Walls Could Talk 2

Planned Parenthood – The Defenders: A History of the Birth Control Movement

In Wisconsin