The Women's Center Library

The Women's Center has a library of books on a wide range of topics which are available to anyone visiting the Center. Fiction books are available for checkout. Links to book descriptions will be forthcoming. Movies are available for checkout or can be watched on our large-screen television.

 

Movies

13 Going on 30
A Raisin in the Sun
Bend It Like Beckham
Big Love: Season 1 - Part 1
Big Love: Season 2 - Part 1
Big Love: Season 2 - Part 2
Boys Don’t Cry
Boys on the Side
Cabaret
Calendar Girls
Central Station
Chicken Run
Chocolat
Contact
Dead Man Walking
Elizabeth
Emma
Enough
Erin Brockovich
Eulogy
Evening
Fahrenheit 9/11
Far From Heaven
Fast Food Nation
Frida (Two copies)
Friends with Money
Georgia Rule
The Girl from Paris
Girl, Interrupted
Girl with a Pearl Earring
The Good Girl
Good Night and Good Luck
Gorillas in the Mist
Head On
Hot Buttons: How Wedge Issues Spin Elections
The Hours
Innocent Voices
Iron Jawed Angels
Jesus Camp
The Joy Luck Club
Juno
Kissing Jessica Stein
The L Word: Season 1 - Part 1
The L Word: Season 1 - Part 2
The L Word: Season 2
A League of Their Own
Little Miss Sunshine
Little Voice
Lucia Lucia
Maria Full of Grace
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Mean Girls
Memoirs of Geisha
Million Dollar Baby
Mississippi Masala
Mona Lisa Smile (Two copies)
Monsoon Wedding
Monster
Mystic Pizza
Nell
North Country
Osama
Philadelphia Story
The Piano
Pretty in Pink
Prom Night
Rabbit Proof Fence
Real Women Have Curves
Respiro
The Savages
Sense and Sensibility
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
Swimming
Swimming Pool
Thelma & Louise
Thirteen
Transamerica
Tristan + Isolde
Unconstitutional
Vera Drake
Volver (Two copies)
White Oleander

 

Fiction

Allison, Dorothy: Bastard Out of Carolina
Alvarez, Julia: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Alvarez, Julia: In the Time of the Butterflies
Angelou, Maya: Celebrations
Angelou, Maya: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Memoir)
Bradley, Marion: The Mists of Avalon
Brandon, Mary: Lady Audley's Secret
Brownmiller, Susan: In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution
Beauvoir, Simone de: A Very Easy Death
Butler, Octavia: Kindred
Cather, Willa: Alexander's Bridge
Chopin, Kate: Awakening
Chopin, Kate: The Awakening and Selected Stories
Cleage, Pearl: What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
Domingue, Ronlyn: The Mercy of Thin Air
Edwards, Kim: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Esquivel, Laura: Like Water For Chocolate
Feinberg, Leslie: Stone Butch Blues: A Novel
Flagg, Fanie: Fried Green Tomatoes
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women (ed. by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar)
Gilman, Charlotte: The Yellow Wall Paper
Hidier, Tanuja: Born Confused
Hurston, Zora Neale: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Le Guin, Ursula K: The Left Hand of Darkness
Jewett, Sarah Orne: The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Fiction
Kidd, Sue Monk: The Secret Life of Bees
Kingsolver, Barbara: The Poisonwood Bible
Lamb, Wally: She's Come Undone
Long, John: Madame Butterfly
Mason, Bobbie Ann: In Country
Noran, Marsha: Four Plays
Morrison, Toni: Beloved
Morrison, Toni: The Bluest Eye
Morrison, Toni: Jazz
Morrison, Toni: Paradise
Morrison, Toni: The Song of Solomon
Morrison, Toni: Sula
Morrison, Toni: Tar Baby
Niffenegger, Audrey: The Time Traveler's Wife
Picoult, Jodi: My Sister's Keeper
Plath, Sylvia: The Bell Jar
Russ, Joanna: The Female Man
Sanchez, Sonia: Homegirls and Hand Grenades
Smiley, Jane: A Thousand Acres
Tan, Amy: The Joy Luck Club
Walker, Alex : The Color Purple
Walker, Alice: Revolutionary Petunias
Wells, Rebecca: Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood
Woolf, Virginia: To The Lighthouse

 

Non-fiction

Adams, Carol: Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
Allison, Dorothy: Our Bodies, Ourselves: A New Edition for a New Era
Angelou, Maya: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now (Memoir)
Angier, Natalie: Woman: An Intimate Geography
Arana, Marie: American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood
Austin, N. and Phelps, S: The Assertive Woman
Bancroft, Lundy: Why Does He Do That?
Bannerji, Himani: Unsettling Relations: The University as a Site for Unsettling Struggles
Baumgardner, J. and Richards, A: Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics
Baumgardner, J. and Richards, A: Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future
Baym, Nina: American Women Writers and the Work of History: 1790-1860
The Best Women's Travel Writing 2007: True Stories from Around the World (Ed. by Lucy McCauley)
Betz, Nancy: The Career Psychology of Women
Bevacqua, Maria: Rape on the Public Agenda
Bita, Lili: Sister of Darkness (Memoir)
Bogle, Kathleen: Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus
Bordo, S. and Heywood, L: Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body
Boston Women's Health Book Collective: The New Our Bodies, Oursleves: Updated and Expanded for the '90s
Boston Women's Health Book Collective: Our Bodies, Ourselves: For the New Century
Boston Women's Health Book Collective: Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth
Bridges, W.P. and Nelson, R.L: Legalizing Gender Inequality
Brumberg, Joan: The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
Cary, Lorene: Black Ice (Memoir)
Chang, Jung: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (memoir)
Collins, Patricia Hill: Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism (Ed. by Daisy Hernandez and Bushra Rehman)
Davidson, Robyn: Tracks
Davidson, Sue: You Can Be Free
Davidson, S. and NiCarthy, G: Getting Free
Davis, Angela: Women, Race and Class
Diamond, Jared: Why is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality
Dodson, Betty: Sex for One: The Joy of Selfloving
Douglas, Susan: Where the Girls Are: Growing up Female with the Mass Media
Dowd, Maureen: Are Men Necessary?
Early Embraces (Ed. by Lindsey Elder)
Edelman, Hope: Motherless Daughters
Edwards, M, Schiffman, J. and O'Toole, L: Gender Violence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Ensler, Eve: The Good Body
Estees, Clarissa: Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Feinberg, Leslie: Transgender Warriors
Feree, M. and Hess, B: Controversy and Coalition: The New Feminist Movement Across Four Decades of Change
Flinders, Carol Lee: The Root of This Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst
Ford, Linda: Iron Jawed Angels
France, A Love Story: Women Write About the French Experience (Ed. by Camille Cusumano)
Freedman, Estelle B: Essential Feminist Reader
Freedman, Estelle: No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women
Freeman, Jo: Women: A Feminist Perspective
Friedan, Betty: The Feminine Mystique
Gelles, Richard: Intimate Violence in Families
Gilbert, Elizabeth: Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Griest, S.E. and Morris, H: 100 Places Every Woman Should Go
Greenfield, Lauren: Thin
Gura, Trisha: Lying in Weight: The Hidden Epidemic of Eating Disorders in Adult Women
Hannam, June: Feminism
Harris, M. and Copeland, M.E: Healing the Trauma and Abuse
Hart, Lynda: Between the Body and the Flesh
Hayslip, Ly Li: Child of War, Woman of Peace
Hines, D. and Malley-Morrison, K: Family Violence in the United States
Hockschild, Arlie: The Second Shift
Hollies, Linda: Sister, Save Yourself: Direct Talk About DV
Holmstrom, Lynda: The Victim of Rape
hooks, bell: Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
hooks, bell: Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem
hooks, bell: Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
hooks, bell: Where We Stand: Class Matters
Hossain, Sara: Honour: Crimes, Paradigms, and Violence Against Women
Ione, Carole: Pride of Family: Four Generations of American Women of Color
Just Sex: Students Rewrite the Rules on Sex, Violence, Activism, and Equality (Ed. by J. Gold and S. Villari)
Juska, Jane: Unaccompianed Women: Late-Life Adventures in Love, Sex, and Real Estate
Katz, Jackson: The Macho Paradox
Kaysen, Susanna: Girl Interrupted
Kidd, S.M: The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from the Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine
Kingston, Maxine Hong: Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Kitzinger, Celia: Feminism and Psychology
Lauer, Teresa: The Truth About Rape
Laventhal, Andrea: The Hookup Handbook
Levy, Ariel: Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
Levy, Barrie: In Love and In Danger
MacKinnon, Catharine: Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law
Macavinta, Courtney: Respect: A Girl's Guide to Getting Respect
Maltz, Wendy: The Sexual Healing Journey
Mann, William: Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn
Marchalonis, Shirley: College Girls
Middlebrook, Diane Wood: Anne Sexton: A Biography
Miller, Alice: Thou Shalt Not Be Aware
Miller, Mary: No Visible Wounds
Miya-Jervis, Lisa: Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine
Munhall, Patricia: In Women's Experience
Muscio, Inga: Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
Nagel, Jill: Whores and Other Feminists
Napier, Augustus: The Family Crucible: The Intense Experience of Family Therapy
Niffeneggar, Audrey: Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
Northrup, Christine: Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom
O'Neal, J, Preston, J. and Talaga, M: Handbook of Clinical Psychopharmacology for Therapists
Oliver, J: Fat Politics: The Real Story Behind America's Obesity Epidemic
Outshoorn, J: The Politics of Prostitution: Women's Movements, Democratic States and the Globalisation of Sex Commerce
Pierce-Baker, Charlotte: Surviving the Silence
Pipher, Mary: Reviving Ophelia
Pleasures, Women Write Erotica (Ed. by Lonnie Barback)
Raine, Nancy: After Silence
Reddington, Frances: Sexual Assault
Reinicker, Melinda: Parables for Personal Growth
Richards, Amy: Opting In: Having a Child Without Losing Yourself
Richardson, Laurel: Feminist Fronteirs III
Rosen, Ruth: The World Split Open
Russell, Diana: Femicide in Global Perspective
Ryan, William: Blaming the Victim
Samalin, Nancy: Loving Your Child is Not Enough: Positive Discipline that Works
Schiff, Karenna: Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America
Scully, Diana: Understanding Sexual Violence
Seely, Megan: Fight Like a Girl: How to be a Fearless Feminist
Seward, Desmond: Eleanor of Aquitaine
Sexton, Anne: A Self-Portrait in Letters
Shields, Carol: Various Miracles
Siegel, Deborah: Sisterhood: Interrupted: From Radical Women to Girls Gone Wild
Silverman, Phyllis: Helping Women Cope With Greif
Sourcebook on Violence Against Women (Ed. by R.K. Bergen, J.L. Edelson and C.M. Renzetti)
Stains, Larry: What Women Want
Stein, Gertrude: Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein
Stepp, Laura Sessions: Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love, and Lose at Both
Stout, Karen: Confronting Sexism and Violence Against Women
Valenti: Jessica: Full Frontal Feminism
Valenti, Jessica: He's a Stud, She's a Slut and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know
Vincent, Isabel: Bodies and Souls: the Tragic Plight of Three Jewish Women Forced Into Prostitution in the Americas
Vincent, Norah: Self-Made Man
Violence Against Women (Ed. by R.K. Bergen, J.L. Edelson and C.M. Renzetti)
Walker, Alice: In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
Warshaw, Robin: I Never Called It Rape: The Ms. Report on Recognizing, Fighting and Surviving Date and Acquaintance Rape
Weller, Sheila: Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon
West, Carolyn: Violence in the Lives of Black Women
Whitman, Beth: Wanderlust and Lipstick: The Essential Guide for Women Traveling Solo
Wilchins, Riki: Queer Theory, Gender Theory: An Instant Primer
Williams, Mary Beth: The PTSD Workbook
Wolf, Naomi: The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
Wolf, Naomi: Fire with Fire
Woolf, Virginia: Room of One's Own
A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe (Ed. by F. Conlon, I. Emerick and C.H. de Tessan)
A Woman's World: True Life Stories of World Travel (Ed. by Marybeth Bond)
A Woman's Europe: True Stories (Ed. by Marybeth Bond)
Zepatos, Thalia: A Journey of One's Own, 3rd Edition: Uncommon Advice for the Independent Woman Traveler

 

Children's Books

Avi: The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Burnett, Frances: The Secret Garden
Dahl, Roald: Matilda
Girard, Linda: My Body is Private
Girard, Linda: Who is a Stranger and What Should I Do?
Keats, Ezra Jack: The Snowy Day
Spelman, Cornelia: Your Body Belongs to You

 

Audiotapes

The Good Body
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?