New Books in Women's Studies

Happy almost-New Year! Here are links to the most recent new books list for Women's Studies at the WSU Libraries.

From the Women's Studies LibGuide: http://libguides.wsulibs.wsu.edu/content.php?pid=87466&sid=838124
*Tip* You will also find older new book lists on this LibGuide page.

The list is also available from WSU WorldCat: http://washingtonstate.worldcat.org/profiles/eacarlson/lists/2187021

If you have Women's Studies titles to recommend, please let me know. I'm always glad to receive suggestions.

New Books in Women's Studies

Here is a list of the new books in Women's Studies that arrived in the WSU Libraries between January and May of 2008. If you are curious about a title, click on the link to see more details about the book.

• Agosín, Marjorie. Tapestries of Hope, Threads of Love The Arpillera Movement in Chile, 1974-1994. Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, 1996.
• Bell, Rudolph M., and Virginia Yans-McLaughlin. Women on Their Own: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Being Single. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2008.
• Bender, Karen E., and Nina de Gramont. CHOICE: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood, & Abortion. San Francisco,CA: MacAdam/Cage, 2007.
• Bennett, James T. The Politics of American Feminism: Gender Conflict in Contemporary Society. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2007.
• Bernau, Anke. Virgins: A Cultural History. London: Granta, 2007.
• Bourke, Joanna. Rape: Sex, Violence, History. [Emeryville, CA]: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007.
• Browne, Kingsley. Co-Ed Combat: The New Evidence That Women Shouldn't Fight the Nation's Wars. New York: Sentinel, 2007.
• Chambers, Clare. Sex, Culture, and Justice: The Limits of Choice. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008.
• Cheu, Hoi F. Cinematic howling: women's films, women's film theories. Vancouver, Toronto: UBC Press, 2007.
• Chirwa, Vera Mlangazuwa. Fearless Fighter: An Autobiography. London: Zed Books, 2007.
• Clements, Jonathan. Wu: The Chinese Empress Who Schemed, Seduced and Murdered Her Way to Become a Living God. Stroud: Sutton, 2007.
• Davis, Kathy. The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminism Travels Across Borders. Next wave. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007.
• Ettorre, Elizabeth. Revisioning Women and Drug Use: Gender, Power and the Body. Basingstoke [England]: Palgrave, 2007.
• Ferguson, Michaele L., and Lori Jo Marso. W Stands for Women: How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.
• Hyman, Paula, and Dalia Ofer. Jewish Women A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Jerusalem: Shalvi Pub, 2006.
• Kremer, Monique. How Welfare States Care: Culture, Gender and Parenting in Europe. Changing welfare states. [Amsterdam]: Amsterdam University Press, 2007.
• Lewis, Patricia, and Ruth Simpson. Gendering Emotions in Organizations. Management, work and organisation. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
• Lloyd, Moya. Judith Butler: From Norms to Politics. Cambridge: Polity, 2007.
• Mamo, Laura. Queering Reproduction: Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007.
• McCloskey, Joanne. Living Through the Generations: Continuity and Change in Navajo Women's Lives. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007.
• Moon, Seungsook. Militarized Modernity and Gendered Citizenship in South Korea. Politics, history, and culture. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.
• Oliver, Kelly. Women As Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex, and the Media. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.
• Pillay, Venitha. Academic Mothers. Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, U.K.: Trentham Books, 2007.
• Pinker, Susan. The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women and the Real Gender Gap. New York: Scribner, 2008.
• Schöpp-Schilling, Hanna-Beate, and C. Flinterman. The Circle of Empowerment: Twenty-Five Years of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. Mariam K. Chamberlain series on social and economic justice. New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2007.
• Song, Sarah. Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism. Contemporary political theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
• Squires, Judith. The New Politics of Gender Equality. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
• Tasker, Yvonne, and Diane Negra. Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture. Console-ing passions. Durham, [N.C.]: Duke University Press, 2007.
• West, Robin. Marriage, Sexuality, and Gender. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2007.

Women's History Month Databases

Alexander Street Press, who make some of the prettiest online resources around, provide free access to some fantastic Women's Studies databases during March. WSU will have access to the following until March 31st of 2007:

• British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
  
• North American Women's Letters and Diaries
  
• Women and Social Movements

Questions? Contact Erica.

Thanks, Alexander Street Press!

New Books in Women's Studies at WSU Libraries

All books on this list are in the Holland and Terrell Libraries' collection. If you are curious about a title, please click on it to see further details and information on availability.

Ali, Kecia. Sexual ethics and Islam: feminist reflections on Qur'an, hadith, and jurisprudence.
HQ32 .A45 2006

Brown, Mary. Boom: marketing to the ultimate power consumer--the baby boomer woman.
HC79.C6 B76 2006

Carpenter, R. Charli. Innocent women and children: gender, norms and the protection of civilians.
KZ6515 .C37 2006

Derrida, Jacques. Geneses, genealogies, genres, and genius: the secrets of the archive.
PQ2663.I9 Z62713 2006

Eaton, Gale. Well-dressed role models: the portrayal of women in biographies for children.
CT21 .E2155 2006

Ferrell, Robyn. Copula: sexual technologies, reproductive powers.
HQ1075 .F474 2006

Fonda, Jane. Jane Fonda's words of politics and passion.
PN2287.F56 A3 2006

Franklin, Diana Britt. The good-bye door: the incredible true story of America's first female serial killer to die in the chair.
HV6534.C5 F73 2006

Grown, Caren; Braunstein, Elissa & Malhotra, Anju. Trading women's health and rights?: trade liberalization and reproductive health in developing economies.
HF2580.9 .T735 2006

Harrison, Charles. Painting the difference: sex and spectator in modern art.
ND1460.S44 H37 2005

Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Nagy. The cult of thinness.
BF697.5.B63 H47 2007

Hunt, Krista & Rygiel, Kim. (En)gendering the war on terror: war stories and camouflaged politics.
HV6432 .E64 2006

Incite! Women of Color Against Violence. Color of violence: the Incite! Anthology.
HV6250.4.W65 C627 2006

Jeffrey, Leslie Ann. Sex workers in the Maritimes talk back.
HQ149.M4 J44 2006

Korn, Fadumo. Geboren im groben Regen or, Born in the big rains: a memoir of Somalia and survival.
GN484 .K6613 2006

Nolin, Catherine. Transnational ruptures: gender and forced migration.
HV640 .N65 2006

Ribane, Nakedi. Beauty: a black perspective.
GT497.S6 R53 2006

Riverbend. Baghdad burning II: more girl blog from Iraq.
DS79.76 R587 2006

Simons, Margaret A. The philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: critical essays.
B2430.B344 P45 2006

Simonsen, Jane E. Making home work: domesticity and Native American assimilation.
NX180.S6 S572 2006

Skalli, Loubna H. Through a local prism: gender, globalization, and identity in Moroccan women's magazines.
HN782.Z9 M34 2006

Skidmore, Colleen Marie. This wild spirit: women in the Rocky Mountains of Canada.
F1090 .T47 2006

Speed, Shannon, et al. Dissident women: gender and cultural politics in Chiapas.
F1435.3.W55 D57 2006

Staples, David E. No place like home: organizing home-based labor in the era of structural adjustment.
HD2333 .S82 2006

Stearns, Peter N. Gender in world history. 2nd ed.
HQ1075 .S73 2006

Stiehm, Judith. Champions for peace: women winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.
JZ5540 .S74 2006

Wadud, Amina. Inside the gender Jihad : women's reform in Islam.
BL458 .W33 2006