Comprehensive Reading List

Last updated: January 14, 2000

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Women and culture

Brooks, Ann. Postfeminisms : feminism, cultural theory, and cultural forms.

Tania Modleski. Feminism without women : culture and criticism in a "postfeminist" age

Olson, Gary, Elizabeth Hirsch, eds. Women writing culture.

hooks, bell. Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representation .

Walters, Suzanna Danuta. Material girls : making sense of feminist cultural theory.

Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own.

Feminist classics

Davis, Angela. Women, Race and Class.

de Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex.

Eisenstein, Zillah. The Radical Future of Liberal Feminism .

Firestone, Shulamith. The Dialectic of Sex.

Mill, John Stuart. "On The Subjection of Woman".

Mitchell, Juliet. Woman's Estate.

Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Feminist theory 

Ahmed, Sarah. Differences That Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism.

Bannerji, Himani. Thinking Through: Essays on Feminism, Marxism, and Anti-Racism.

Braidotti, Rosi. Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory.

Code, Lorraine. What Can She Know?

Collins, Patricia Hill. Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice.

Hartsock, Nancy. The Feminist Standpoint Revisited and Other Essays.

Mohanty, Chandra. "Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses", Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism.

Sandoval, Chela. "New Sciences: Cyborg Feminism and the Methodology of the Oppressed", The Cyborg Handbook.

Weedon, Chris. Feminism, Theory, and the Politics of Difference.

Area of specialization: feminist responses to technoculture

Adam, Alison. Artificial Knowing : gender and the thinking machine.

Balsamo, Anne. Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996. (body, technological interventions, cultural representation of women and technology)

Balsamo, Anne, "Feminism for the Incurably Informed"; Dibbell, Julian, "A Rape In Cyberspace"; and Springer, Claudia, "Sex, Memories, and Angry Women." In Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture.

Berner, Boel. Gendered Practices: Feminist Studies of Technology and Society.

Cassell, Justine, and Henry Jenkins, eds. From Barbie To Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games.

Eisenstein, Zillah. Global Obscenities: Patriarchy, Capitalism and the Lure of Cyberfantasy.

Franklin, Ursula. The Real World of Technology.

Grint, Keith and Rosalind Gill. The Gender-Technology Relation: Contemporary Theory and Research. Taylor and Francis, 1995.

Haraway, Donna. Modest_Witness@Second_Millenium.FemaleMan_Meets_ OncoMouse: Feminism and Technoscience. and "A Manifesto For Cyborgs." In Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature.

Harding, Sandra. "Postcolonial Feminist Science Studies: Resources, Challenges, Dialogues"; "Gender, Modernity, Knowledge: Postcolonial Standpoints". In Is Science Multicultural? Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1998.

Herring, Susan. "Posting in a Different Voice", Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated-Communication.

Horowitz, Roger, and Arwen Mohun, eds. His and Hers: Gender, Consumption, and Technology.

Hynes, Patricia, ed. Reconstructing Babylon: Essays on Women and Technology.

Loader, Brian, ed. Cyberspace Divide: Equality, Agency, and Policy in the Information Society.

Massey, Doreen. "Masculinity, Dualisms, and High Technology." In BodySpace: Destabilizing Geographies of Gender and Sexuality, ed. Nancy Duncan. New York: Routledge, 1996, pp.109-126.

Miller, Laura. "Women and Children First: Gender and the Settling of the Electronic Frontier", Resisting the Virtual Life.

Morritt, Hope. Chapters 1-2 from Women and computer based technologies : a feminist perspective.

Plant, Sadie. Zeroes and Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture. New York: Doubleday, 1997.

Spender, Dale. Nattering on the Net: women, power and cyberspace. Toronto: Garamond Press, 1995.

Stabile, Carol. Feminism and the Technological Fix.

Stewart Millar, Melanie. Cracking the Gender Code: Who Rules the Wired World?

Stone, Allucquere Rosanne. The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age.

Terry, Jennifer and Melodie Calvert. Processed Lives: Gender and Technology in Everyday Life. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Turkle, Sherry. Life on the screen: identity in the age of the Internet.

Wajcman, Judy. Feminism Confronts Technology.