Books Available in the Bookstore (Spring 2006)

Multiple copies of these books are also available on reserve in the library. See Course Reserve List for listing of books on reserve by week.

See Class Schedule for listings of specific required and supplementary readings from these books, as well as articles and excerpts on reserve in folders in the library.

Books with substantial assigned readings:

  • Lancaster and di Leonardo, (Eds.), The Gender/Sexuality Reader, New York: Routledge, 1997.
  • Lancaster, Roger. The Trouble with Nature: Sex in Science and Popular culture. California, 2003.
  • Thorne, Barrie. Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School. Routledge, 1993.
  • Weston, Kath. Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
  • Robertson, Jennifer. Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
  • Hall, Kira and Mary Bucholtz. Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self. New York: Routledge, 1995.
  • Lee, Ching Kwan. Gender and the South China Miracle: 2 worlds of factory women. California, 1998.

Recommended Books (only a portion assigned, only a few copies available)

  • Ortner, Sherry: Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.
  • McKinnon and Silverman, eds., Complexities: Beyond Nature and Nuture. Chicago, 2005.
  • Robertson, Jennifer, ed. Same-sex cultures and Sexualities: an Anthropological Reader. Blackwell, 2005.
  • Lewin, Ellen and William Leap. Out in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthropology. Illinois, 2002.
  • Mohanty, Chandra. Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. Duke, 2003.
  • Enloe, Cynthia. Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics. London: Pandora, 1989.
  • Aloula, Malek. 1986. The Colonial Harem. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.