Books Available in the Bookstore (Spring 2011)

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.
  • Saba Mahmood. Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject Princeton University Press, 2005.
  • Holly Wardlow. Wayward Women: Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society. Univ. of CA press, 2006.
  • 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)

  • Susan McKinnon. Neo-liberal Genetics: The Myths and Moral Tales of Evolutionary Psychology. Prickly Paradigm Press, 2006.
  • McKinnon and Silverman, eds., Complexities: Beyond Nature and Nuture. Chicago, 2005.
  • Mcpherson, Tara. Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South. Duke University Press, 2003.
  • Enloe, Cynthia. Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics. London: Pandora, 1989.
  • Enloe, Cynthia. 2000. Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.
  • Mohanty, Chandra. Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. Duke, 2003.
  • Robertson, Jennifer, ed. Same-sex cultures and Sexualities: an Anthropological Reader. Blackwell,  2005.