Week of March 8, 2010
In the News: It’s Women’s History Month! This week: Newly-acquired books related to women and feminist studies.
Also In the News: FAU has a new President (a woman!) Mary Jane Saunders, PhD, was recently named as the University’s sixth president.
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Advice from the Top: What Minority Women Say about their Career Success
By Valencia Campbell. Praeger Publishers, 2009.
Call Number: HD6054.3 .C36 2009
African American Women Voters: Racializing Religiosity, Political Consciousness, and Progressive Political Action in U.S. Presidential Elections from 1964 through 2008.
By: Lisa Nikol Nealy. University Press of America, 2009.
Call Number: JK1924 .N43 2009
The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture and Social Change
By Angela McRobbie. Sage, 2009
Call Number: HQ1155 .M37 2009
Agnes Lake Hickok: Queen of the Circus, Wife of a Legend
By: Linda A. Fisher and Carrie Bowers. University of Oklahoma Press, 2009.
Call Number: CT275.H5955 F57 2009
The American Women’s Movement, 1945-2000: A Brief History with Documents
By Nancy MacLean. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2009.
Call Number: HQ1236.5.U6 M323 2009
The Birth of Feminism: Woman as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and England
By Sarah Gwyneth Ross. Harvard University Press, 2009.
Call Number: HQ1641 .R68 2009
Black Women in New South Literature and Culture
By Sherita L. Johnson. Routledge, 2009.
Call Number: PS261 .J55 2009
Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
By Elizabeth Gilbert. Viking, 2010.
Call Number: HQ834 .G48 2010
Controlling Representations: Depictions of Women in a Mainstream Newspaper, 1900-1950.
By Katherine H. Adams, Michael L. Keene, and Melanie McKay. Hampton Press, 2009.
Call Number: PN4888.W65 C66 2009
Disfigured: A Saudi Woman’s Story of Triumph over Violence
By Rania al-Baz. Olive Branch Press, 2009.
Call Number: HQ1730.Z75 A4413 2009
Equal: Women Reshape American Law
By Fred Strebeigh. W. W. Norton, 2009.
Call Number: KF4758 .S77 2009
Feminisms Redux: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism
Edited by Robyn Warhol-Down and Diane Price Herndl. Rutgers University Press, 2009
Call Number: PN98 .W64 F367 2009
Feminist Art and the Maternal
By Andrea Liss. University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
Call Number: Available online via NetLibrary
Gender and Elections: Shaping the Future of American Politics
Edited by Susan J. Carroll and Richard L. Fox. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Call Number: HQ1236.5.U6 G444 2010
Gender, Human Security, and the United Nations: Security Language as a Political Framework for Women
By Natalie Florea Hudson. Routledge, 2010.
Call Number: UA23 .H783 2010
Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism
By Nona Willis Aronowitz and Emma Bee Bernstein. Seal Press, 2009
Call Number: HQ1421 .A76 2009
The Help
By Kathryn Stockett. Amy Einhorn Books, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2009.
Call Number: PS3619.T636 H45 2009
The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade
By Sheila Jeffreys. Routledge, 2009
Call Number: HQ117 .J45 2009
Motherhood Misconceived: Representing the Maternal in U.S. Films
Edited by Heather Addison, Mary Kate Goodwin-Kelly, and Elaine Roth. State University of New York Press, 2009.
Call Number: HQ759 .M8745 2009
Not Becoming My Mother: And Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way
By Ruth Reichl. Penguin Press, 2009.
Call Number: TX649.R45 A3 2009
Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women’s Reproduction in America
By Jeanne Flavin. New York University Press, 2009.
Call Number: HQ1236.5.U6 F532 2009
Palestinian Women and Politics in Israel
By Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud. University Press of Florida, 2009.
Call Number: HQ1236.5.I75 D36 2009
Safe Motherhood in a Globalized World
Edited by Barbara Wejnert, Suzanne K. Steinmetz, Nirupama Prakash. Routledge, 2009.
Call Number: HQ759 .S2 2009
Sarah from Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar
By Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe. PublicAffairs, 2009.
Call Number: F910.7.P35 C66 2009
Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History
By Sam Canyon. University of Washington Press, 2009.
Call Number: HQ1769.T55 S35 2009
Still Brave: The Evolution of Black Women’s Studies
Edited by Stanlie M. James et al. Feminist Press, 2009
Call Number: E185.86 .S765 2009
The Suffering Will Not Be Televised: African American Women and Sentimental Political Storytelling
By Rebecca Ann Wanzo. State University of New York Press, 2009.
Call Number: E185.86 .W355 2009
Uncommon Women: Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women’s Writing
By Laura Laffrado. Ohio State University Press, 2009.
Call Number: PS152 .L34 2009
Voices Revealed: Arab Women Novelists, 1898-2000
By Shaaban Bouthaina. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009.
Call Number: PJ7577 .S448 2009
What Kind of Liberation?: Women and the Occupation of Iraq
By Nadje Sadig Al-Ali. University of California Press, 2009.
Call Number: HQ1735 .A66 2009
Women at the Top: What Women University and College Presidents Say about Effective Leadership
By Mimi Wolverton, Beverly L. Bower, and Adrienne E. Hyle. Stylus, 2009.
Call Number: LA2311 .W64 2009
Women in Engineering: Pioneers and Trailblazers
Edited by Margaret E. Layne. ASCE Press, 2009.
Call Number: TA157 .W674 2009
Women in Science: Then and Now
By Vivian Gornick. The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2009.
Call Number: Q130 .G67 2009
Women on the Line
By Miriam Glucksmann, a.k.a. Ruth Cavendish. Routledge, 2009.
Call Number: HD6073.A82 G73 2009
Women, Science, and Technology: A Reader in Feminist Science Studies
Edited by Mary Wyer, et al. Routledge, 2009.
Call Number: Q130 .W672 2008
Women, Water, and Memory: Recasting Lives in Palestine
By Nefissa Naguib. Brill, 2009.
Call Number: HQ1728.5 .N33 2009
Women’s Activism in South Africa: Working Across Divides
Edited by Hannah Britton, Jennifer Fish, and Sheila Meintjes. University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2009.
Call Number: HQ1236.5.S6 W654 2009
You’ve Come a Long Way, Maybe: Sarah, Michelle, Hillary, and the Shaping of the New American Woman
By Leslie Sanchez. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Call Number: HQ1236.5.U6 S267 2009