• Regional Focus
• Gender in the Humanities & Social Sciences
• Women and Diversity
• Violence Against Women
• Women in Conflict Zones
• Women's Health

Regional Focus

• Brand, Laurie: Women, The State, and Political Liberalization: Middle Eastern and North African Experiences, Columbia University Press, 1998, 320 pages, ISBN: 023111267X
  
  
• Cheung, Fanny M.: Engendering Hong Kong Society: A Gender Perspective of Women's Status, The Chinese University Press, 330 pages, ISBN: 4622017363
  
  
• Farnsworth-Alvear, Ann: Dulcinea in the Factory: Myths, Morals, Men and Women in Columbia's Industrial Experiment, 1905-1960, Duke University Press, 2000, 328 pages, ISBN: 0822324970
  
  
• Fisher, Jo: Out of the Shadows: Women, Resistance and Politics in South America, Monthly Review Press, 1993, ISBN: 0853458731
  
  
• French, John: The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Workers, Duke University Press, 1998, 384 pages, ISBN: 0822320002
  
  
• Gwendolyn Mikell: African Feminism: The Politics of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997, 392 pages, ISBN: 081221580X
  
  
• Jaquette, Jane S. and Wolchik, Sharon: Women and Democracy: Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998, 272 pages, ISBN: 0801858380
  
  
• Jeffrey, Patricia and Basu, Amrita: Appropriating Gender: Women's Activism and Politicized Religion in South Asia, Routledge Press, 1998, 276 pages, ISBN: 0415918669
  
  
• Lee, Ching Kwan: Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women, University of California Press, 1998, 221 pages, ISBN: 0520211278
  
  
• Maley, William: Fundamentalism Reborn? Afghanistan and the Taliban, New York University Press, 1998, 288 pages, ISBN: 0814755860
  
  
• Mohanty, Chandra: Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism, Indiana Press, 1991, 338 pages, ISBN: 0253206324
  
  
• Pollitt, Katha: Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics and Culture, Modern Library Press, 2001, 288 pages, ISBN: 0679783431
  
  
• UNICEF: Women in Transition - Regional Monitoring Report, UNICEF International Child Development Center, 1999, ISBN: 8885401430
  

  A unique source of information on the social side of the transistion taking place in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Online copy: http://www.unicef-icdc.org/monee

  
  
• Weber, Renate & Watson, Nicole (chief eds.): Women 2000, International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, 2000, ISBN: 3854590025
  

  An investigation into the status of women's rights in Central and South-Eastern Europe. Online Copy: http://www.ihf-hr.org/reports/women/Woman_2000.pdf

  
  
• Yang, Mayfair Mei-Hui: Spaces of Their Own: Women's Public Sphere in Transnational China, University of Minnesota Press, 336 pages, ISBN: 0816631468
  
  

Gender in the Humanties and Social Sciences

• Afkhami, Mahnaz (ed.): Faith and Freedom: Women's Human Rights in the Muslim World, Syracuse University Press, 1995, 244 pages, ISBN: 0815626681
  

  This book, written primarily by women who live in the Muslim world, is the first detailed study to emphasize Muslim women's rights as human rights. The contributors focus on ways and means of empowering Muslim women to participate in the general socialization process as well as in implementing and evaluating public policy.

  
  
• Ahmed, Leila: Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate, Yale University Press, 1993, ISBN: 03000055838
  

  This book offers a history of the Islamic discourse on women and gender, locating the current debate within its historical framework. It is comprehensive, ranging from the ancient world to the present day, and considers the relationship of Middle Eastern women to education, culture, imperialism, social change, modernization and feminism.

  
  
• Antic, Milica G.: Women in Parliament, Znanstveno in publicisticno sredisce-Ljubljana, 1998, 246 pages, ISBN: 9616014900
  

  The book deals with the question of the presence of women in representative democracies, and is divided into three parts. The first part discusses the theoretical dilemmas emerging in connection with the issues of democracy, representation and women. The second part deals with three systemic factors which influence the representation of women in parliament. The third part examines the factors affecting the representation of women in the Sloven Parliament.

  
  
• Arsic, Branka: Reason and Madness: Some Aspects of Descartes' Meditation on First Philosophy, Stubovi kulture - Belgrade, 1997, 261 pages
  

  A feminist reading of Cartesian thought.

  
  
• Baer, Judith: Our Lives before the Law, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1999, 272 pages, ISBN: 0691019452
  

  Baer describes the legal system as having a strong male bias. She argues that feminist scholarship over-corrected this bias. She constructs a new feminist interpretation of the conventional legal theory of equality, rights and responsibility through an analysis of contemporary legal issues.

  
  
• Barnett, Hilaire: Introduction to Feminist Jurisprudence, Cavendish Publishing Ltd, London, 1988, 362 pages, ISBN: 1859412378
  

  The book aims to provide an overview of this diverse and fast developing academic discipline. It contains the description of the evolution and scope of feminist jurisprudence, gender inequalities, feminist critique of the conventional jurisprudence as well as differing approaches within feminist jurisprudence.

  
  
• Black, Jan Knippers: Development in Theory and Practice: Paradigms and Paradoxes, Westview Press, 1999, 224 pages, ISBN: 0813334462
  
  
• Blagoevic, Marina (ed.): Towards a Visible Women's History: The Women's Movement in Belgrade during the 90s, Women's Studies Center in Belgrade - Belgrade, 1998, 367 pages
  

  This anthology of texts by various authors (who themselves took part in the movement) on the Women's movement and organization in Belgrade is structured in the following segments: the roots, political and pacifist groups, groups against violence, groups for feminist education, groups for helping marginal women, law groups, new directions, feminist creative works, feminist research.

  
  
• Bojadzievska, Maja: The Androgyne, or the Utopia of the Perfect Sex: A Mythocritical Essay, Sigmapress, Skopje, 1999, 216 pages, ISBN: 989360332 (Language of original publication: Macedonian)
  

  A study of the androgyne in the context of different cultures.

  
  
• Borkowska, Grazyna: Cudzoziemki. Studia o polskiej prozie kobiecej, Istytut Badan Literackich - Warsaw, 1996
  

  A study of Polish fiction by women, including those authors who became very popular and those who have been excluded from the cannon. Borkowska analyses not only the most interesting novels by women but also describes how women writers dealt with their position as women in a dependent country.

  
  
• Borovnik, Silvija: Do Women Write Differently?, Zalozba Mihelè - Ljubljana, 1996, 277 pages, ISBN: 9612011532
  

  One of the first books to thoroughly discuss Slovenian women's literature. It is about Slovenian women as writers and as characters in fiction. Borovnik starts by thinking about what women's literature is and how it is treated and understood in Slovenia.

  
  
• Braidotti, Rosi: Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory, Columbia University Press, 1994, 325 Pages, ISBN: 0231082355
  

  Issues of sexual difference, the body, feminist philosophy, postmodernism and female subjectivity.

  
  
• Buckley, Mary (ed.): Post-Soviet Women: From the Baltic to Central Asia, Cambridge University Press, 1997, 320 Pages, ISBN: 0521565308
  

  This volume considers the position of women in the post-Soviet states of the former USSR. It is divided into two main parts: the first focuses on the economy, society and politics of the Russian Federation; the second gives insights into social, political, economic and military developments in the other republics of the former Soviet Union. The book pays special attention to women's own perceptions of their lives.

  
  
• Butler, Judith & Scott, Joan W. (eds.):Feminists Theorize the Political, Routledge, 1992, 432 Pages, ISBN: 0415902746
  

  An influential collection of essays edited by two leading scholars.

  
  
• Copjec, Joan: Read my Desire: Lacan against the Historicists, MIT Press, 1995, 288 Pages, ISBN: 0262032198
  

  Copjec conjures a dialogue between Jacques Lacan, champion for psychoanalysis and Michael Foucault, champion for historicism, with the object of Lacan winning this time; usually the historicists smite the psychoanalysts with the charge of historical indifference and walk away unanswered. She makes a case for the superiority of Lacan's explanation of historical process, its generative principles, and its complex functionings.

  
  
• Crompton, Rosemary: Changing Forms of Employment: Organizations, Skills and Gender, Routledge Press, 1995, ISBN: 0415133718
  
  
• Dojcinovic-Nesic, Biljiana: Gynocriticism: Gender and the Study of Women's Writing, Knjizevno drustvo "Sveti Sava" , Women's Studies Center of Belgrade, 1993, 197 pages, ISBN: 8682309017
  

  The book is a discussion of feminist literary criticism, esp. gynocriticism.

  
  
• Edwards, Richard: Contested Terrain: The Transformation of the Workplace in the Twentieth Century, Basic Books, 1980, 272 pages, ISBN: 0465014135
  
  
• Einhorn, Barbara: Cinderella Goes to Market. Citizenship, Gender and Women's Movements in East Central Europe, Verso, 1995, ISBN: 0860914100
  

  The book introduces its readers to the very different lived experience of women in former state socialist countries. It also explores the difficulties in communication which still exist between East and West, even after the end of the Cold War.

  
  
• Eleczka, Kazimierz: Feminizm. Ideologie i koncepcje spoleczne wspólczesnego feminizmu, Wydawnictwo Ksiaznica - Katowice,1999, ISBN: 8371323107
  

  The book is a kind of 'summary' of feminst thought, an attempt to systematise different types of feminism, different claims of feminism etc. It refers to the most famous feminist texts in Poland and abroad.

  
  
• Fábri, Anna: "Towards the Beautiful Forbidden Landscape": A History of Hungarian Women Writers Between Two Turns of the Century (1795-1905), Kortárs Kiadó - Budapest,1996, 252 pages, ISBN: 9638464461
  

  Fábri investigates women's relation to reading practices, periodicals, criticism, editing, education and women's movements of the 19th century. She also reviews contemporary debates about women. The volume is complete with an appendix including literary women's social status, origin, religion, marital status, and family connections to men of letters, and also a chronology of their activity.

  
  
• Frischmidt, M., Magyari-Vincze, E. & Zentai, V. (eds.): Women and Men in East European Transition, Editura Fundatiei Pentru Studii Europene, Cluj-Napoca, 1997
  
  
• Gábor, Halmai (ed.): From the Concept of Elimination of Discrimination Towards the Concept of Affirmative Action, Indok, 1998
  

  A collection including chapters written by Csilla Kollonay and Judit Sandor on the issues of discrimination based on sex and gender.

  
  
• Gal, Susan & Kligman, Gail (eds.): Reproducing Gender: Politics, Publics and Everyday Life After Socialism, Princeton University Press, 2000
  

  Collaborative project in which authors from different countries, most of them from the region, address form gendered point of view some of the main aspects of transition. Essays are based on primary research, and they introduce new concepts and ideas in description and analyses of social changes in the region.

  
  
• Gal, Susan & Kligman, Gail: The Politics of Gender After Socialism: A Comparative-Historical Essay, Princeton University Press, 2000
  

  An analysis of transition which demonstrates the gendered nature of social transformation. It covers the most diverse aspects of social existence, from reproductive rights to the basic questions of political and economic system.

  
  
• Grosz, Elizabeth: Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism, Indiana Iniversity Press, 1994, ISBN: 0253208629
  

  Through a study of different philosophical conceptualizations of the body, Grosz tries to introduce a notion of corporeality which avoids "not only dualism but also the very problematic of dualism that makes alternatives to it and criticisms of it possible."

  
  
• Gunew, Sneja & Yeatman, Anna (eds.): Feminism and the Politics of Difference, Westview Press, 1993, ISBN: 0813320623
  

  Essays on feminist theory and feminist criticism.

  
  
• Jalusiè, Vlasta: Until the Women Meddle..., KRT-Ljubljana, 1992, 160 pages, ISBN: 867347048X
  

  What happens to a revolution if women "meddle" in it? is the main question posed by the author. Is "feminist politics" possible and what are "women's" politics, as an institution already existing in modern countries?

  
  
• Harvey, Elizabeth D. & Okruhlik, Kathleen (eds.): Women and Reason, University of Michigan Press, 1992, ISBN: 0472102206
  

  A collection of essays on feminist theory and rationalism.

  
  
• Kamuf, Peggy: Fictions of Feminine Desire, University of Nebraska Press, 1982
  

  A fascinating study of desire in literature.

  
  
• Lerner, Gerda: The Creation of Patriarchy, Oxford University Press, 1986, 318 pages, ISBN: 0195051858
  
  
• Lisowska, Ewa & Maslyk-Musial, Ewa: Polish Women in the Business World, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University - Lublin, 1997, 176 pages, ISBN: 83-227-1077-1
  

  The book focuses on the issues facing women entrepreneurs and psychological barriers to women's entrepreneurship.

  
  
• Miroiu, Mihaela: Convenio: on nature, women and ethics, Editura Alternative - Bucharest, 1996, 206 pages, ISBN: 9739216145
  

  The book argues for a cultural re-evaluation of women's experiences which could widen the area comprising moral subjects and facilitate a transition to ecoethics.

  
  
• Moghissi, Haideh: Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Limits of Postmodern Analysis, Zed Books, 1999, 128 Pages, ISBN: 1856495892
  

  A major critique of Islamic fundamentalism, Moghissi claims that, regardless of the sophisticated argument of postmodernists and their suspicion of power, postmodernism, as an intellectual and political movement, has put itself in the service of the power and the status quo.

  
  
• Nikolchina, Miglena: Meaning and Matricide: Reading Woolf via Kristeva, 1997, Sofia University Press - Sofia, 174 pages, ISBN: 9540711150
  

  Kristeva's conceptualization of "matricide" as a phantasmatic moment in the subject's becoming is introduced as the dark lining to the "anxiety of authorship" which Gilbert and Gubar's monumental gynocritical work set against Harold Bloom's "anxiety of influence."

  
  
• Oakley, Ann & Mitchell, Juliet (eds.): Who's Afraid of Feminism?: Seeing through the Backlash, The New Press, 1997, ISBN: 0140253611
  

  An useful anthology of original essays on feminism in the 1990s, edited by two leading feminist scholars. It offers a mix of academic research, political advocacy, and personal essays and touches on subjects as varied as homophobia, fashion, pro-natalist policy, the intellectual canon, the media, and sexism in the academy.

  
  
• Ofer, Dalia & Weitzman, Lenore J. (eds.): Women in the Holocaust, Yale University Press, 1998, 402 Pages, ISBN: 0300073542
  

  The book provides an excellent overview of the topic, featuring twenty-one chapters by different contributors, many of whom summarize findings from their own monographs and research projects. It includes the testimony of survivors alongside scholarly analyses.

  
  
• Papic, Zarana: Gender and Culture: Body and Knowledge in Social Anthropology, Biblioteka XX vek - Belgrade, 1997, 368 pages, ISBN: 8681493310
  

  The book has six main parts: Anthropology of gender, Nature/Culture, Opposition of Nature/Culture, Opposition of the Two Cultural Conventions, Sex/Gender Difference and Models of Knowledge, and Practice of Sex/Gender, as well as an extensive bibliography.

  
  
• Peto, Andrea: Women`s Stories: History of Hungarian Women in Politics. 1945-1951, Seneca - Budapest, 1998, 183 pages, ISBN: 9638038993
  

  The book covers the dissolution of the Hungarian women's associations after 1945. It explores the gender politics of the different political parties and the foundation of the mass communist women's organization. It also analyses the constructions of emotions in this period.

  
  
• Peterson, V. Spike & Sisson-Runyan, Anne: : Global Gender Issues-Dilemmas in World Politics, Westview Press, 1999, ISBN: 0813313104
  

  A highly readable textbook that describes both women's roles in world politics and the impact of world politics on women's roles.

  
  
• Peterson, V. Spike (ed.): Gendered States: Feminist (Re)Visions of International Relations Theory, Lynne Rienner, 1992, ISBN: 1555873286
  

  The book deals with psychological aspects of international relations, social aspects of international relations, women and peace, and sex roles.

  
  
• Phillips, Anne: Feminism & Politics, Oxford University Press, 1998, 500 pages, ISBN: 0198782055
  
  
• Popovic-Persic, Nada: Literature as Seduction, Prosveta - Belgrade, 1988,187 pages, ISBN: 8607003704
  

  Twelve essays on topics ranging from the concept of "ecriture", French feminist theory, witches, to the readings of poetry. The titles of some essays are: "Search for Identity"; "Body or the Politics of Gaze"; "Writing - Becoming Other", etc.

  
  
• Randall, Vicky & Waylen, Georgina (eds.): .: Gender, Politics and the State, Routledge, 1998, ISBN: 041516401X
  

  The first three essays focus primarily on conceptual and theoretical issues. The remaining six provide analyses of more concrete issues of state policy and participation in differing national political contexts: abortion politics in Ireland; the local politics of prostitution in Britain; the impact on women's political participation of economic change in China, Latin America and political change in Russia.

  
  
• Reinharz, Shulamit: Feminist Methods in Social Research, 1992, Oxford University Press, ISBN: 019507386X
  
  
• Ribbens, J. & Edwards, R. (eds.): Feminist Dilemmas in Qualitative Research: Public Knowledge and Private Lives, Sage, 1998
  

  How can researchers produce work relevant to the traditions and requirements of public academic knowledge while still remaining faithful to the experiences and accounts of research participants based in private settings? This edited collection explores this key dilemma from a feminist perspective, and examines the interplay between theory, epistemology and the detailed practice of research. It does this across the whole research process: access, data collection and analysis, and writing up research, and considers ways of achieving high standards of reflexivity and openness in the strategic choices made during research.

  
  
• Schor, Naomi & Weed, Elizabeth (eds.): The Essential Difference, Indiana University Press, 1994, ISBN: 025335093X
  

  Essays on feminist theory of sex differences.

  
  
• Scott, Joan: Feminism and History, Oxford University Press, 1999, 611 pages, ISBN: 0198751699
  
  
• Scott, Joan W.: Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man, Harvard University Press,1997, 256 Pages, ISBN: 0674639316
  

  The need both to accept and to refuse sexual difference in politics was the constitutive condition of the long struggle by women to gain the right of citizenship. In this book, remarkable in both its findings and its methodology, the award-winning historian Joan Wallach Scott reads feminist history in terms of this paradox of sexual difference.

  
  
• Scott, Joan W., Kaplan, Cora & Keates, Debra (eds.): Transitions, Environments, Translations - Feminism in International Politics, Routledge Press, 1997, ISBN: 0415915414
  

  Explores the varied meanings of feminism in different political, cultural and historical contexts. Scholars from Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, South Africa, China, Iran, India, Indonesia, Ethiopia and the US provide documentation of different political and cultural initiatives, and they explore the terms by which successful collaborations might be made.

  
  
• Steans, Jill: Gender and International Relations: An Introduction, Rutgers University Press, 1998, 232 pages, ISBN: 0813525136
  
  
• Sylvester, Christine: Feminist Theory and International Relations Theory in a Postmodern Era, 1994, 280 pages, ISBN: 0521459842
  
  
• Whitford, Margaret & Lennon, Kathleen (eds.): Knowing the Difference: Feminist Perspectives in Epistemology, Routledge Press, 1994, ISBN: 04150891
  

  The collection discusses issues of objectivity, feminist theory and theory of knowledge.

  
  
• Uspenskaya, Valentina (ed.): Women in the Social History of Russia, Tver State University - Tver, 1997, 115 pages
  

  A collection of essays on women's history in Russia.

  
  
• Yuval-Davis, Nira: Gender and Nation, Sage Publications, 1997, 157 Pages, ISBN: 0803986637
  

  The book offers a comprehensive treatment of key issues which relate to gender, nation, and nationalism. It is an insightful and highly readable theoretical work which incorporates the most recent literature on these issues.

  
  
• Zherebkina, Irina: Passion: The Female Body and Female Sexuality in Russia), Idea Press - Moskow, 2000, 425 Pages
  

  Is transgression of the patriarchial discourse possible by means of women's writing? On the basis of Russian women's writing (Nina Berberova, Lubov Blok, Lila Brik, Lidia Ginsburg, Nadezhda Mandelshtam, Elsa Triole, Marina Tsvetaeva, etc.) the book explores the politics of women's identity as politics of desire in Russia from the end of 19th century to the 1980s.