The logo of The Scholar & Feminist Online
The logo of The Scholar & Feminist Online

Recommended Reading

Alexander, Meena. Fault Lines: A Memoir. New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1993.

Alexander, Meena. Illiterate Heart. Evanston, Ill: Triquarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2002.

Alexander, Meena. The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial Experience. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1996.

Allison, Dorothy. Bastard Out of Carolina. New York: Plume, 1993.

Allison, Dorothy. Skin: Talking About Sex, Class & Literature. Ithaca, N.Y.: Firebrand Books, 1994.

Allison, Dorothy. Two Or Three Things I Know For Sure. New York: Dutton, 1995.

Basu, Amrita and Patricia Jeffery, eds. Appropriating Gender: Women’s Activism and Politicized Religion in South Asia. New York: Routledge, 1998.

Basu, Amrita, Ali Mirsepassi, and Frederick Weaver, eds. Localizing Knowledge in a Globalizing World: Recasting the Area Studies Debate. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2003.

Bernstein, Alison and Jacklyn Cock. Melting Pots & Rainbow Nations: Conversations About Difference in the United States and South Africa. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

Bernstein, Alison and Virginia B. Smith. The Impersonal Campus. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1979.

Bernstein, Elizabeth and Laurie Schaffner, eds. Regulating Sex: the Politics of Intimacy and Identity. New York: Routledge, 2005.

Bernstein, Elizabeth. “The Meaning of the Purchase: Desire, Demand, and the Commerce of Sex,” Ethnography Vol. 2, no. 3: 375-406 (2001).

Bernstein, Elizabeth. “What’s Wrong with Prostitution? What’s Right with Sex-Work? Comparing Markets in Female Sexual Labor,” Hastings Women’s Law Journal, Vol. 10, no. 1: 91-119 (1999).

Brooks, Siobhan. “Exotic Dancing and Unionizing: The Challenges of Feminist and Antiracist Organizing at the Lusty Lady Theater.” In Feminism and Antiracism : International Struggles for Justice, edited by France Winddance Twine and Kathleen M. Blee, 56-71. New York: New York University Press, 2001.

Brooks, Siobhan. “A Blackgirl Taking Control of Her Sexuality.” In Sex & Single Girls: Straight and Queer Women on Sexuality, edited by Lee Damsky, 310-320. Seattle: Seal Press, 2000.

Brooks, Siobhan. “Black Feminism in Everyday Life: Race, Mental Illness, Poverty, and Motherhood.” In Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism, edited by Daisy Hern‡ndez and Bushra Rehman, 99-119. New York: Seal Press, 2002.

Calman, Leslie. Toward Empowerment: Women and Movement Politics in India. Boulder: Westview Press, 1992.

Calman, Leslie. Protest in Democratic India: Authority’s Response to Challenge. Boulder: Westview Press, 1985.

Chakravarti, Uma and Kumkum Sangari, eds. From Myths to Markets: Essays on Gender. New Delhi: Manohar Publishers and Distributors, 1999.

Cvetkovich, Ann. An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures. Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2003.

Cvetkovich, Ann and Douglas Kellner, eds. Articulating the Global and the Local: Globalization and Cultural Studies. Boulder: Westview Press, 1997.

Cvetkovich, Ann. Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1992.

Eisenstein, Hester and Alice Jardine, eds. The Future of Difference. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1980.

F.A.C.T. [Feminist Anticensorship Task Force]. “Caught Looking: Feminism, Pornography, and Censorship.” Seattle: The Real Comet Press, 1988.

Feinberg, Leslie. Stone Butch Blues. Ithaca, N.Y.: Firebrand Books, 1993.

Feinberg, Leslie. Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998.

Feinberg, Leslie.Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.

Gould, Jane S. Juggling: A Memoir of Work, Family, and Feminism. New York, NY: Feminist Press, 1997.

Gould, Jane S. “Women’s Centers as Agents of Change.” In Educating the Majority: Women Challenge Tradition in Higher Education, edited by Carol S. Pearson, Judith G. Touchton, Donna L. Shavlik, 219-229. New York: MacMillan Publishing, 1989.

Hollibaugh, Amber. My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000.

Kaplan, Temma. Taking Back the Streets: Women, Youth, and Direct Democracy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

Kaplan, Temma. “Uncommon Women and the Common Good: Women and Environmental Protest.” In Women Resist Globalization: Mobilizing for Livelihood and Rights, edited by Sheila Rowbotham and Stephanie Linkogle, 28-45. New York: ZED Books, 2002.

Khan, Surina. Calculated Compassion: How the Ex-Gay Movement Serves the Right’s Attack on Democracy. Annapolis, MD: Equal Partners in Faith, 1998.

Kim, Elaine, Margo Machida, and Sharon Mizota. Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003.

Kim, Elaine. Invasian: Asian Sisters Represent. San Francisco: S.F. Study Center, 2003.

Pratt, Minnie Bruce. Crime Against Nature. Ithaca, N.Y.: Firebrand Books, 1990.

Pratt, Minnie Bruce. Rebellion: Essays, 1980-1991. Ithaca, N.Y.: Firebrand Books, 1991.

Pratt, Minnie Bruce. S/HE. Ithaca, N.Y.: Firebrand Books, 1995.

Ransby, Barbara. Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

Ransby, Barbara. “Afrocentrism, Cultural Nationalism and the Problem with Essentialist Definitions of Race, Gender and Sexuality.” In Dispatches from the Ebony Tower: Intellectuals Confront the African-American Experience, edited by Manning Marable, 216-224. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.

Sangari, Kumkum. Politics of the Possible: Essays on Gender, History, Narrative, Colonial English. New Delhi: Tulika, 1999.

Sangari, Kumkum and Sudesh Vaid, eds. Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History. New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1989.

Vance, Carole S., ed. Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.

Wattleton, Faye. Life on the Line. New York: Ballantine Books, 1996.

Wilson, Elizabeth. What is to be Done about Violence Against Women? London: Penguin, 1983.

Read More from This Issue