Northern Illinois University

Women's Studies Program

NIU Women’s Studies Library Resource List

Violence Against Women:

Backhouse, Constance and Leah Cohen. Sexual Harassment on the Job: How to Avoid the Working Woman’s Nightmare. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1981.

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

Benokraitis, Nijole V. and Joe R. Feagin. Modern Sexism: Blatant, Subtle and Covert Discrimation. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1995.

Benokraitis, Nijole V. Subtle Sexism: Current Practice and Prospects for Change. Thousand Oaks: SAGE, 1997.

Bessmer, Sue. The Laws of Rape. New York: Praeger, 1976.

Bryant, Marcella.  Ancient Child: Poetry About Incest.  Austin, TX: Plain View Press, 1989.

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

Gmelch, Sharon Bohn. Gender on Campus: Issues for College Women. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998.

Haskell, Molly. From Reverenece to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies. Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books, 1974.

Human Rights Watch. A Question of Security: Violence against Palestinian Women and Girls (vol. 18, no. 7E). New York, NY: Human Rights Watch, Nov. 2006.

Human Rights Watch. Swept Under the Rug: Abuses against Domestic Workers Around the World (vol. 18, no. 7C). New York, NY: Human Rights Watch, July 2006.

Johnson, Janet Elise.  Gender Violence in Russia: The Politics of Feminist Intervention.  Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2009.

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

MacKinnon, Catherine A. Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987.

MacKinnon, Catharine A. Sexual Harassment of Working Women. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1979.

Méndez-Negrete, Josi. Las hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed. San José, CA: Chusma House, 2002.

Millett, Kate. The Prostitution Papers: A Candid Dialogue. New York, NY: Avon Books, 1971.

Narasimhan, Sakuntala. Sati: Widow Burning in India. New York, NY: Anchor Books, 1990.

Richlin, Amy. The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1983.

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

Showalter, Elaine. The Feminine Malady: Women, Madness and the English Culture, 1830-1980. New York, NY: Penguin, 1987.

Spence-Diehl, Emily. Stalking: A Handbook for Victims. Holmes Beach, FL: Learning Publications, Inc., 1999.

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

United States Commission on Civil Rights. Battered Women: Issues on Public Policy. Washington, D.C.: United States Commission on Civil Rights, 1978.