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Educational Equity - General

A License for Bias: Sex Discrimination, Schools, and Title IX Beyond the "Gender Wars": A Conversation About Girls, Boys, and Education
AAUW Educational Foundation

Codes & Contradictions: Gender, Identity and Schooling
Jeanne D. Weiler

Failing at Fairness: How America's Schools Cheat Girls
Myra & David Sadker

Gender Gaps: Where Schools Still Fail Our Children
AAUW Educational Foundation

Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School
Barrie Thorne

Girls in the Middle: Working to Succeed in School Growing Smart: What's Working for Girls in School How Schools Shortchange Girls: The AAUW Report
AAUW Educational Foundation

Invisible Again: The Impact of Changes in Federal Funding on Vocational Programs for Women and Girls
National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education

Jossey-Bass Reader on Gender in Education
Susan M. Bailey

SchoolGirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem and the Confidence Gap
Peggy Orenstein

Separated by Sex: A Critical Look at Single-Sex Education for Girls Shortchanging Girls, Shortchanging America
AAUW Educational Foundation

Title IX at Thirty: Report Card on Gender Equity
National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education

Voices of a Generation: Teenage Girls on Sex, School, and Self
AAUW Educational Foundation

What About the Boys? What the Current Debates Tell Us and Don't Tell Us About Boys in School
Michael Kimmel

Work Left Undone: Choices and Compromises of Talented Females
Sally Morgan Reis

Educational Equity -Gender, Race and Class

Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education
Sonia Nieto

Race, Class, and Power in School Restructuring
Pauline Lipman

Race in the Schoolyard: Negotiating the Color Line in Classrooms and Communities
Amanda E. Lewis

ˇSí, Se Puede! Yes, We Can: Latinas in School
AAUW Educational Foundation

Urban Girls
Bonnie J. Ross Leadbetter & Niobe Way

Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
Annette Lareau

Educational Equity - Science, Math, Engineering and Technology

Fair Play
ChildrenNOW

Math & Science for Girls: Convening the Experts, Reforming the Classroom, Finding the Right Equation
National Coalition of Girls' Schools

Tech-Savvy: Educating Girls in the New Computer Age The Third Shift: Women Learning Online Under the Microscope: A Decade of Gender Equity Projects in the Sciences
AAUW Educational Foundation

Gender and Development

Beyond Appearance: A New Look at Adolescent Girls
Eds. Norine G. Johnson, Michael C. Roberts & Judith Worrell

Growing a Girl: Seven Strategies for Raising a Strong Spirited Daughter
Dr. Barbara Mackoff

Lost Boys
James Garbarino, Ph.D.

Meeting at the Crossroads: Women's Psychology and Girls' Development
Lyn Mikel Brown & Carol Gilligan

Mother Daughter Revolution
Elizabeth DeBold, Marie Wilson & Idelisse Malave

Odd Girl Out
Rachel Simmons

Real Boys
William Pollack

Reviving Ophelia
Mary Pipher

The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
Joan Jacobs Brumberg

The Difference: Growing Up Female in America
Judy Mann

Things will be Different for my Daughter
Mindy Brigham and Sandy Stryker

101 Books for Girls to Grow On
Shireen Dodson

Sexual Harassment in Schools

Classrooms and Courtrooms: Facing Sexual Harassment in K-12 Schools
Nan Stein

Flirting or Hurting
Nan Stein & Lisa Sjostrom

Gender Violence, Gender Justice
Nan Stein and Dominic Cappello

Harassment-Free Hallways: How to Stop Sexual Harassment in Schools (online) Hostile Hallways: Bullying, Teasing, and Sexual Harassment in Schools (2001) Hostile Hallways: The AAUW Survey on Sexual Harassment in America's Schools (1993)
AAUW Educational Foundation

Righting the Wrongs: A Legal Guide to Understanding, Addressing, and Preventing Sexual Harassment in Schools
National Women's Law Center

LGBT

LGBT People of Color
Asian American Sexualities: Dimensions of the Gay and Lesbian Experience
Ed. Russell Leong

Critical Essays: Gay and Lesbian Writers of Color

Ed. Emmanuel Nelson

One More River to Cross: Black & Gay in America
Keith Boykin

Same Sex, Different Cultures: Exploring Gay and Lesbian Lives
Gilbert Herdt

The Sacred Hoop
Paula Gunn Allen

The Very Inside: An Anthology of Writing by Asian and Pacific Islander Lesbian and Bisexual Women
Sharon Lim-Hing

Sister Outsider
Audre Lorde

Loving in the War Years
Cherie Moraga

Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology
Ed. Barbara Smith

The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender and Freedom
Ed. Barbara Smith

Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About
Carmen Trujillo

Virtual Equality
Urvashi Vaid

LGB Issues

Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out
Ed. Loraine Hutchins & Lani Kaahumanu

Bisexuality: A Critical Reader
Ed. Merl Storr

Bisexual Politics: Theories, Queries, and Visions
(Haworth Gay and Lesbian Studies)

Ed. Naomi Tucker

Closer to Home: Bisexuality & Feminism
Ed. Elizabeth Reba Weise

Dual Attraction: Understanding Bisexuality
Martin Weinberg, Colin Williams & Douglas Pryor

Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation
Eli Clare & Suzanne Pharr

Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism
Suzanne Pharr

The New Lesbian Studies: Into the Twenty-First Century
Ed. Bonnie Zimmerman & Toni McNaron

This Is What Lesbian Looks Like: Dyke Activists Take on the 21st Century
Ed. Kris Kleindienst

Queer Theory

Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex”
Judith Butler

A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory
Nikki Sullivan

Fear of a Queer Planet
Michael Warner

Feminism Meets Queer Theory
(Books from Differences)

Ed. Elizabeth Weed & Naomi Schor

A Genealogy of Queer Theory
(American Subjects Series)
William B. Turner

Gender Trouble
Judith Butler

“Queers Read This” (1990)
Anonymous Queers

Queer Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader
Ed. Robert Corber & Stephen Valocchi

Queer Theories
Donald Hall

Queer Theory: An Introduction
Annamarie Jagose

LGBT Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault

Intimate Betrayal: Domestic Violence in Lesbian Relationships
Ellyn Kaschak

Men Who Beat the Men Who Love Them: Battered Gay Men and Domestic Violence
David Island & Patrick Letellier

Naming the Violence: Speaking Out About Lesbian Battering**out of print
Kerry Lobel

No More Secrets: Violence in Lesbian Relationships
Janice Ristock

Same-Sex Domestic Violence: Strategies for Change
Beth Leventhal & Sandra Lundy

Violence in Gay & Lesbian Domestic Partnerships
Claire Rezetti & Charles Harvey Miley

Violent Betrayal: Partner Abuse in Lesbian Relationships
Claire Rezetti

Woman-to-Woman Sexual Violence: Does She Call It Rape?
(The Northern Series on Gender, Crime, and the Law)
Lori Girshick

Gender

As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl
John Colapinto

Boys Like Her: Transfictions
Ed. Ivan Coyote, Zoe Eakle, Lyndell Montgomery, Anna Camilleri,

Taste This
Female Masculinity

Judith Halberstam

Gender Diversity: Crosscultural Variations
Serena Nanda

Genderqueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary
Ed. Joan Nestle

Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us
Kate Bornstein

Gender Shock: Exploding the Myth of Male and Female
Phyllis Burke

Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People
Viviane Namaste

Lessons from the Intersexed
Suzanne Kessler

My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely
Kate Bornstein

Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men
Anne Fausto-Sterling

Pomosexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality
Ed. Carol Queen & Lawrence Schimel

Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender
Riki Wilchins

Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism
Pat Califia

Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
Anne Fausto-Sterling

Transgender Nation
Gordene Olga MacKenzie

Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman
Leslie Feinberg

Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink & Blue
Leslie Feinberg

True Selves : Understanding Transsexualism – For Families, Friends, Coworkers, and Helping Professionals
Mildred Brown & Chloe Ann Rounsley

 



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