Research on Girls and Women's Lives

Apter, Terri. Altered Loves: Mothers and Daughters During Adolescence. New York: St. Martin's, 1990.

Bell-Scott, Patricia, Beverly Guy-Sheftalle, Jacqueline Jones Royster, Janent Sims-Wood,
Miriam DeCosta-Willis, and Lucille P. Fultz. Double Stitch: Black Women Write about Mothers and Daughters. New York: HarperPerennial, 1991.

Belenky, Mary Field, Blythe Clinchy McVicker, Nancy Rule Goldberger, and Jill Mattuck Tarule. Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice and Mind. New York: Basic Books, 1986.

Bordo, Susan. Unbearalbe Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993.

Brown, Lyn Mikel and Carol Gilligan. Meeting at the Crossroads: Women's Psychology and Girls Development. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992.

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

Caplan, Paula. Don't Blame Mother: Mending the Mother-Daughter Relationship. New York: Harper Colins, 1989.

Chapkis, Wendy. Beauty Secrets: Women and the Politics of Appearance. Boston: South End Press, 1986.

Cooke, Kaz. Real gorgeous: the Truth About Beauty and Body. New York: WW Norton and Company, 1996.

Deak, JoAnn. Girls will be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters.

DeBold, Elizabeth, Marie Wilson, and Idelisse Malave. Mother Daughter Revolution. New York. NY: Bantam Books, 1994.

Douglas, Susan J. Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media. New York: Times Books, Random House, 1994.

Fine, Michelle. Disruptive Voices: The Possibilities of Feminist Research. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992.

Fine, Michelle, and Lois Weis, eds. Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race, and Gender in United States Schools. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1993.

Gilligan, Carol. In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1982.

Gilligan, Carol, Amy Sullivan, and Jill McLean Taylor. Between Voice and Silence: Women And Girls, Race and Relationship. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1991.

Holland, Dorothy, and Margaret Eisenhart. Educated in Romance: Women, Achievement and College Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Jack, Dana Crowley. Silencing the Self : Women and Depression. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1991.

Kelly, Joe. Daughters & Dads: How to inspire, understand, and support your daughter when she’s growing up so fast.

Mann, Judy. The Difference Discovering the Hidden Ways We Silence Girls: Finding the Alternatives That Can Give Them a Voice. New York: Warner Books, 1994.

Orenstein, Peggy, and The American Association of University Women. School Girls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap. New York: Doubleday, 1994.

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

Rich, Adrienne. Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution. New York: Norton, 1986.

Sadker, Myra and David Sadker. Failing at Fairness: How America's Schools Cheat Girls. New York, N.Y.: Schribners, 1994.

Sewell, Marilyn, ed. Cries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women's Spirituality. Boston: Beacon Press, 1991.

Steinam, Gloria, Revolution From Within: A Book of Self-Esteem. Boston: Little, Brown, 1992.

General Interest

The Boston Women's Health Book Collective. The New Our Bodies Our Selves. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992.

Carlip, Hillary. Girl Power: Young Women Speak Out! Personal Writings from Teenage Girls. New York: Warner Books, 1995.

Chesler, Phyllis. Letters to a Young Feminist. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1997.

Dodson, Shireen. The Mother Daughter Book Club: How Ten Busy Mothers and Daughters Came Together To Talk, Laugh and Learn through Their Love of Reading. New York: HarperPrennial, 1997.

Findlen, Barbara, ed. Listen Up: Voices From the Next Feminist Generation. Seattle, WA: Seal Press, 1995.

Hooks, bell. Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center. Boston: South End Press, 1984.

Kaufman, Elizabeth, and Thalia Zepatos. Women for a Change: A Grassroots Guide to Activism and Politics. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1995.

McPhee, Carol and Ann Fitsgerald, eds. Feminist Quotations: Voices of Rebels, Reformers, and Visionaries. New York: Thomas Y Crowell, 1979.

Odean, Kathleen. Great Books for Girls. New York, N.Y. Ballentine Books, 1997.

Pharr, Suzanne. Homophobia: A Weapon in Sexism. Inverness, California: Chardon Press, 1988.

Girls in Sports

Cahn, Susan K. Coming on Strong: Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Women's Sports. New York: Free Press, 1994.

Cohen, Greta. Women in Sport: Issues and Controversies. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1993.

Festle, Mary Jo. Playing Nice: Politics and Apologies in Women's Sports. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.

Nelson, Mariah Burton. Are We Winning Yet? How Women are Changing Sports and Sports are Changing Women. New York: Random House, 1991. (Also by this author: The Stronger Women Get the More men Love Football: Sexism and the American Culture of Sports. New York: Avon Books 1994. And: Embracing Victory: Life Lessons in Competition and Compassion. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1998.)

Sandoz, Joli. A Whole Other Ballgame: Women's Literature on Women's Sport. New York: Strause and Giroux, 1997.

Tarvis, Carol. The Mismeasurement of Woman: Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1992.

Thorne, Barry. Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1993.

Strong Stories of Women and Girls Lives

Allende, Isabel. The Stories of Eva Luna. New York: Bantam Books, 1992. (Also by this author, Paula, The House of Spirits, Eva Luna.)

Allison, Dorothy. Bastard out of Carolina. New York Dutton, 1992.

Alvarez, Julia. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. New York: Plume, 1992.

Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. New York: Bantam Classics, 1983.

Anzaldua, Gloria. Making Face, Making Soul: Creative and Critical Perspectives of Women of Color. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Foundation Books, 1990.

Atwood, Margaret. Cat's Eye. New York: Bantam Books, 1989.

Barry, Linda. The Good Times are Killing Me. New York: Harper Collins, 1991.

Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. New York: New American Library/Dutton, 1960.

Cameron, Anne. Daughters of Copper Woman. Vancouver, British Columbia: Press Gang Publishers, 1981.

Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. New York: Avon Books, 1972.

Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street. New York: Vantage, 1991.

Dorris, Michael. Yellow Raft in Blue Water. New York: Warner Books, 1988.

Flagg, Fannie. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café. New York: McGraw Hill, 1988.

Frank, Anne. The Diary of Anne Frank: the Critical Edition. Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation Staff, comp. and trans. Arnold Pomerans. New York: Doubleday, 1989. (This is the version that Anne wrote, not the version sanitized and approved by her father and a priest.)

Gibbons, Kaye. Ellen Foster. New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 1990.

Kincaid, Jamaica. Annie John. New York: New American Library, 1983.

Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal Dreams. New York: Harper Perennial, 1990.

Kingston, Maxine Hong. Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. New York: Vintage Books, 1977.

McCullers, Carson. Member of the Wedding. New York: Bantam, 1985.

Marshall, Paule. Brown Girl, Brownstones. New York: Feminist Press, 1981.

Moraga, Cherrie and Gloria Anzaldua, eds. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. Latham, N.Y.: Kitchen Table/Women of Color Press, 1984.

Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye. New York: Pocket Books, 1984. Also by this author, Sula. New York: NAL-Dutton, 1987.

Neale Hurston, Zora. Their Eyes Were Watching God. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1978.

Payne, Karen, ed. Between Ourselves: Letters Between Mother and Daughters. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983.

Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar. New York: Bantam Books, 1971.

Saxton, Marsha. With Wings: An Anthology of Literature by and about Women with Disabilities. New York: The Feminist Press, 1987.

Schoenfielder, Lisa, and Bard Wieser, eds. Shadow on a Tightrope: Writings by Women on Fat Oppression. San Francisco: Aunt Lute, 1983.

Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club. New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 1991.

Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. New York Pocket Books, 1988.

Winterson, Jeanette. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987.