Library and Academic Services: Gender Studies for Health Professionals: Resources for SOSC-3003

Resources

Required and recommended course resources for
SOSC-3003: Gender Studies for Health Professionals

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Groundbreaking Readings

Crenshaw, Kimberle (1989) "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics," University of Chicago Legal Forum: Vol. 1989 , Article 8.
Speculum of the Other Woman. (2009). Times Higher Education, 1,913, 55–.
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Butterfly Politics by Catharine A. MacKinnon
Location: ebook
Publication Date: 2017
The minuscule motion of a butterfly's wings can trigger a tornado half a world away, according to chaos theory. Under the right conditions, small simple actions can produce large complex effects....
Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
Location: ebook
Publication Date: 1997
More than three decades later, the issues raised by Friedan still strike at the core of the challenges women face at home and in the workplace. As women continue to struggle for equality, to keep their hard-won gains, and to find fulfillment in careers, marriage, and family, The Feminine Mystique remains a profound consciousness-raising work.
Feminism Is for Everybody by Bell Hooks
Publication Date: 2014
What is feminism? In this short, accessible primer, bell hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. ...

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Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us by Kate Bornstein
Publication Date: 2016
Part coming-of-age story, part mind-altering manifesto on gender and sexuality, coming directly to you from the life experiences of a transgender woman, Gender Outlaw breaks all the rules and leaves the reader forever changed.

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Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
Location: ebook
Publication Date: 2011
One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Butler's Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category 'woman' ...
The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault
Publication Date: 1990
Michel Foucult offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us to direct the questions of what we are to what our sexuality is.

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Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Book Collective; Judy Norsigian
Location: RA 778 .N49 2011 (Located at NDC)
The name "Our Bodies, Ourselves" has become synonymous with women's health and protecting it. This updated edition contains vital new information on such issues as the HPV vaccine, changes in the healthcare system, cosmetic surgery, violence against women, healthcare activism in the twenty-first century, and much more.
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions by Gloria Steinem
Publication Date: 2012
This New York Times bestseller from the legendary feminist is as relevant today as when it was first published. Spanning two decades - the pieces in Gloria Steinem's diverse, stimulating, and often prescient first collection dares to ask how our world might change for the better if we each behaved "as if everyone mattered." ...

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The second sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Publication Date: 2015
When this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage and scandal. Never before had the case for female liberty been so forcefully and successfully argued. De Beauvoir's belief that 'One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman' switched on light bulbs in the heads of a generation ...

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Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality by Anne Fausto-Sterling
Publication Date: 2000
Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity biologically determined or a product of convention? In this book, the acclaimed author of Myths of Gender argues that even the most fundamental knowledge about sex is shaped by the culture ...

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Simians, Cyborgs, and Women by Donna Haraway
Publication Date: 1990
Simians, Cyborgs and Women is a powerful collection of ten essays written between 1978 and 1989. Although on the surface, simians, cyborgs and women may seem an odd threesome, Haraway describes their profound link as "creatures" which have had a great destabilizing place in Western evolutionary technology and biology. ...

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Additional readings:

Kosofsky Sedgwick, E. (2008). Epistemology of the closet. University of California Press. (Original work published 1990).
Kristeva, J. (1980). Powers of horror: An essay on abjection. Columbia University Press.
Greer, G. (2020). The female eunich. Fourth Estate. (Original work published 1970).
Dworkin, A. (1974). Woman hating: A radical look at sexuality. Dutton Books.

Gender Studies for Health Professionals

Resources

Required and recommended course resources for SOSC-3003: Gender Studies for Health Professionals

Groundbreaking Readings

Required and recommended course resources for
SOSC-3003: Gender Studies for Health Professionals