Northern Illinois University

Women's Studies Program

NIU Women’s Studies Library Resource List

Health Issues, Sexuality, Body Image:

Alexander, Linda Lewis and Judith H. LaRosa. New Dimensions in Women’s Health. Boston: Jones and Bartlett, 1994.

Alyson, Sasha, ed. You Can Do Something About AIDS. Boston: The Stop AIDS Project, 1990.

Ariès, Philippe and Béjin, André. Western Sexuality. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1985.

Bart, Pauline B. and Eileen Geil Moran, eds. Violence Against Women: The Bloody Footprints. Newbury Park: SAGE Publications, 1993.

Beach, Frank A., ed. Human Sexuality in Four Perspectives. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1977.

Beemyn, Brett and Mickey Eliason, eds.  Queer Studies: A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Anthology.  New York, NY: New York University Press, 1996.

Bonavoglia, Angela, ed. The Choices We Made: 25 Women and Men Speak Out about Abortion. New York: Random House, 1991.

Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, The. Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book By and For Women. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1973.

Boston Women’s Health Book Collective. The New Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book By and For Women. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984.

Boston Women’s Health Book Collective. The New Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book By and For Women—Updated and Expanded for the 1990’s. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

Boston Women’s Health Book Collective. Our Bodies, Ourselves: A New Edition for a New Era. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.

Brown, Lyn Mikel and Carol Gilligan. Meeting at the Crossroads: Women’s Psychology and Girls’ Development. New York, NY: Ballantine, 1992.

Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls. New York: Vintage Books, 1997.

Bullough, Vern L. Sexual Variance: in Society and History. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1976.

Burgess, Susan R. Contest for Constitutional Authority: The Abortion and War Powers Debates. Lawrence: UP of Kansas, 1992.

Burn, Shawn Meghan.  Women Across Cultures: A Global Perspective.  2nd ed.  New York, NY: McGraw Hill, 2005.

Chesler, Phyllis. Women and Madness. Garden City: Doubleday, 1972.

Counihan, Carole and Penny Van Esterik, eds. Food and Culture: A Reader. New York, NY: Routledge, 1997.

Crose, Royda Ph.D. Why Women Live Longer than Men… and What Men Can Learn from Them. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997.

Dreifus, Claudia ed. Seizing Our Bodies: The Politics of Women’s Health. New York: Vintage Books, 1978.

Fein, Judith. Are You a Target? A Guide to Self-Protection, Personal Safety, and Rape Prevention. Belmont: Wadsworth, 1981.

Friedan, Betty. The Foundation of Age. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.

Gambrell, Don R. Estrogen Replacement Therapy. 2nd ed. Dallas, TX: EMIS, Inc., 1990.

Glover, Jonathan. Ethics of New Reproductive Technologies: The Glover Report to the European Commission (Studies in biomedical policy). DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 1989.

Hardin, Garrett. Mandatory Motherhood: The True Meaning of “Right to Life”. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1974.

Harris, Harry. Prenatal Diagnosis and Selective Abortion. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1975.

Heiman, Julie, et al. Becoming Orgasmic: A Sexual Growth Program for Women. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1976.

Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Nagy. The Cult of Thinness. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Hite, Shere.  The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study on Female Sexuality.  New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing, 1976.

Jacobus, Mary, Evelyn Fox Keller and Sally Shuttleworth, eds. Body/Politics: Women and the Discourses of Science. New York, NY: Routledge, 1990.

Kappeler, Susanne. The Pornography of Representation. Minneapolis, MN: U of Minnesota P, 1986.

Kern, Stephen. Anatomy and Destiny: A Cultural History of the Human Body. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1975.

Kirk, Gwyn, and Margo Okazawa-Rey.  Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives.  Mountain     View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1998.

Langone, John and Dolores de Nobrega Langone. Women Who Drink. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1980.

Leder, Drew. The Absent Body. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Levine, Phillippa. Prostitution, Race, and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire. New York, NY: Routledge, 2003.

Lopata, Helena Z. Occupation: Housewife. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Lorber, Judith, and Lisa Jean Moore.  Gendered Bodies: Feminist Perspectives.  Los Angeles, CA:  Roxbury Publishing Company, 2007.

Maine, Margo. Body Wars: Making Peace with Women’s Bodies. Carlsbad, CA: Gurze Books, 2000.

Mander, Anica Vesel and Anne Kent Rush. Feminism as a Therapy. New York, NY: Random House, 1974.

Martin, Emily. The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1987.

Martz, Sandra Haldeman, ed.  I Am Becoming the Woman I've Wanted.  Watsonville, CA: Papier-Mache Press, 1994.

Miller, Leslie. Women Who Eat: A New Generation on the Glory of Food. Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2003.

Newman, Leslie. Good Enough to Eat. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1986.

Pipher, Mary.  Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls.  New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1994.

Raymond, Janice. Women as Wombs: Reproductive Technologies and the Battle Over Women’s Freedom. New York, NY: HarperSan Francisco, 1993.

Schwichtenberg, Cathy. The Madonna Connection: Representational Politics, Subcultural Identities, and Cultural Theory. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1993.

Seager, Joni. The Penguin Atlas of Women in the World. 4th ed. New York, NY: Penguin, 2009.

Shephard, Bruce D., and Carroll A. Shephard.  The Complete Guide to Women's Health.  3rd rvsd. ed.  New York, NY: Plume, 1997.

Shuttle, Penelope and Peter Redgrove.  The Wise Wound: The Myths, Realities and Meanings of Menstruation.  Rvsd. ed.  New York, NY: Grove Press, 1986.

Smart, Carolyn and Barry Smart, eds. Women, Sexuality and Social Control. Boston, MA: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978.

Solinger, Rickie. Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, & Welfare in the United States. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 2001.

Thomas, Krista. Perception of Female Athletes: Comparative Analysis in Spain and the United States. Honors Project. Galesburg, IL: Knox College, 2000.

Thompson, Karen and Julie Andrzejewski. Why Can’t Sharon Kowalski Come Home? San Francisco, CA: Spinsters/Aunt Lute, 1988.

Thone, Ruth Raymond. Women and Aging: Celebrating Ourselves. New York, NY: Harrington Park Press, 1992.

Twin, Stephanie L. Out of the Bleachers: Writings on Women and Sport. Old Westbury, NY: Feminist Press, 1979.

United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women: National Report of Ireland. Dublin, IR: Govt. of Ireland, 1994.

Way, Karen. Anorexia Nervosa and Recovery: A Hunger for Meaning. New York, NY: Harrington Park Press, 1993.

Williams, Walter L. The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1986.

Winks, Cathy. The New Good Vibrations Guide to Sex. San Francisco, CA: Cleis Press, 1997.

Yalom, Marilyn.  A History of the Breast.  New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.