WHM Reading List 2023
Moya Bailey, Misogynoir Transformed
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, As We Have Always Done
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson & Robyn Menard, Rehearsals for Living
Grace Lee Boggs, Living for Change
Susan Burch, Committed: Remembering Native Kinship In and Beyond Institutions
Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought
Angela Davis, Women, Race, and Class
Georgiann Davis, Contesting Intersex
Sylvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation
Lucie Felding. Trans Sex
Deborah Gray White, Ar’n’t I A Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned. Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals
Sarah Haley, No Mercy Here
Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother
Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beuatiful Experiments
Laura Hirshbein, American Melancholy
bell hooks, Salvation
Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'Til We Free Us
Katty Kay & Claire Shipman, The Confidence Code
Billy Jean King, All In
Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer: A Memoir
Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin
Ruby Kuar, Homebody
Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
Tressie McMillan Cottom, THICK and Other Essays
Tiya Miles, Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
Chanel Miller, Know My Name
Anne Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi
Toni Morrison, The Source of Self Regard
Z. Niccolazo & Amanda Tachine, Weaving An Otherwise
Michelle Obama, Becoming
Annelise Orleck, Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty
Miriam Petty, Stealing the Show: African American Performers and Audiences in 1930's Hollywood
Beth Richie, Arrested Justice
Andrea J. Ritchie, Practicing New Worlds
Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body
Joan Ryan, Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters
Sarah Schulman. Israel/Palestine and the Queer International
Neena Schwartz, A Lab of My Own
Robin Solinger. The Abortionist: A Woman Against the Law
Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
C. Riley Snorton, Black on Both Sides
Amanda Tachine, Native Presence and Sovereignty in College
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Editor. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Ava Thompson Greenwell, Ladies Leading: The Women Who Control Television News
Rebecca Traister, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger
Kathi Weeks, “Abolition of the family: the most infamous feminist proposal"
Alice Wong, Year of the Tiger, An Activist's Life
Patricia Williams, The Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law Professor
He Yin Zin, The Birth of Chinese Feminism: essential texts in transnational theory
List Suggestions Generously Provided By:
Kelly Benkert (Leadership & Community Engagement), Sarah Brown (WC/OIDI), Ruth Curry (Civic Engagement), Kamaria Excel (CARE), Jessica Galanos (Equity), Joanna Gaines (Legal Studies), Jasmine Gurneau (NAIA/OIDI), Leslie Harris (History), Missy Isaacson (Medill), Soo La Kim (SPS), Michelle Manno (OIDI), Kate Masur (History), Mary Patillo (African American Studies/ Black Studies), Pam Silas (CNAIR), Charla Wilson (University Library), Paola Zamperini (Asian Languages & Cultures)