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    For each category, books are listed in alphabetical order by author's last name.

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  1. Gage, Matilda Josyln, Woman, Church, and State, Arno Press, (originally published in 1893) (gage1.wps)

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    Abortion, Medicine, Politics, Economics, and Law

  2. Brundage, James, Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1987 (medevl1.wps)

  3. Graber, Mark A., Rethinking Abortion: Equal Choice, the Constitution, and Reproductive Politics, Princeton University Press, 1996 (rethink.wps)

  4. Ferber, Marianne and Julie Nelson, eds., Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics, U. of Chicago, 1993 (econ2.wps)

  5. Hoff , Joan, Law, Gender, & Injustice: A Legal History of U.S. Women, New York University Press, 1991 (injust.wps)

    *** Mohr, James The History of Abortion in America This link takes you off-site. I read the book (a library copy before I got my computer. It's excellent. I seem to recall that it was published in the mid-1970s.)

  6. Petchesky, Rosalind Pollack, Abortion and Woman's Choice: The State, Sexuality & Reproductive Freedom, Northeastern University Press, 1990 (choice2.wps)

  7. Riddle, John M., Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, Harvard University Press, 1992 (contra1.wps)

  8. Weisberg, D. Kelly,ed., Feminist Legal Theory: Foundations, Temple University Press, 1993 (law1.wps)

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    Biography and Autobiography

  9. Alic, Margaret, Hypatia's Heritage: A History of Women in Science from Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century, Beacon Press, 1986 (hypatia2.wps)

  10. Chen, Constance M., The Sex Side of Life: Mary Ware Dennett's Pioneering Battle for Birth Control and Sex Education, The New Press, NY, 1996 (dennett.wps)

  11. Dzieska, Maria, Hypatia of Alexandria, Harvard University Press, 1995 (hypatia.wps)

  12. Jacobs, Harriet A., Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, Harvard University Press, 1987 (jacobs.wps)

  13. Sasson, Jean P., Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia, Morrow, 1992 (princess.wps)

  14. Solinger, Rickie, The Abortionist: A Woman Against the Law, The Free Press 1994

  15. Underhill, Lois Beachy, The Woman Who Ran for President: The Many Lives of Victoria Woodhull, Bridge Works Publishing Company, Bridgehampton, NY, 1995 (woodhull.wps)

  16. Willard, Charity Cannon, Christine de Pizan: Her Life and Works, A Biography , New York, Persea Press, 1984

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    Feminist Polemics, Feminist Theory, and Classics by Feminist Foremothers

  17. Agrippa, Henricus Cornelius, Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex , 1529, reprinted University of Chicago Press, 1996

  18. Anger, Jane, Her Protection for Women,, Richard Lone, and Thomas Orwin, 1589

  19. Astell, Mary, Some Reflections Upon Marriage , [NY, Source Book Press, 1970] originally written 1700

  20. Castro, Ginette, American Feminism: Contemporary History Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Paris, 1990

  21. Dhuoda, Handbook for William: A Carolingian Woman's Counsel for Her Son , ninth century, reprinted U. of Nebraska Press, 1991

  22. Eisenstein, Zillah, The Radical Future of Liberal Feminism , Longman, 1981 (more notes to come, eventually)

  23. Ferguson, Moria, editor, First Feminists: British Women Writers 1578 - 1799, Indiana University Press, 1985 (ferguson.wps)

  24. Fonte, Moderata (Modesta Pozzo), The Worth of Women , 1600, reprinted by University of Chicago Press, 1996

  25. Henderson, Katherine Usher and Barbara F. McManus, Half Humankind: Contexts and Texts of the Controversy about Women in England,1540-1640, Urbana, Ill, University of Illinois Press, 1985

  26. King, Margaret L. and Albert Rabil, Jr., Her Immaculate Hand, Pegasus Paperbooks, Binghampton, NY 1992 (imaculate.wps)

  27. Makin, Bathsua, An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen , 1673

  28. Millett, Kate, Sexual Politics , Doubleday and Co., 1970

  29. Rossi, Alice S., The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir, Northeastern University Press, 1988 (rossi.wps)

  30. Sowernam, Ester, Ester Hath Hang'd Haman , Nicholas Bourne, 1617

  31. Speght, Rachel, A Mouzell for Melastomus , 1617

  32. Spender, Dale, Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them, Pandora, 1982 (spender.wps)

  33. Whelehan, Imelda, Modern Feminist Thought, New York University Press, 1995 (mod-fem.wps)

  34. Wilson, Katharina M., Medieval Women Writers, U. of Georgia Press, 1984 (wilson1.wps)

  35. Wilson, Katharina M. and Frank J. Warnke, eds., Women Writers of the Seventeenth Century, U. of Georgia Press, 1989 (wilson3.wps)

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    Herstory

  36. Barber, Elizabeth Wayland, Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times, W. W. Norton & Co., 1994

  37. Barstow, Anne Llewellyn, Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts, Pandora, 1994 (wichcrz.wps)

    *** Judith A. Bellafaire The Woman's Army Corp: A Commemoration of World War II Service

  38. Berkin, Carol Ruth and Mary Beth Norton, Women of America: A History, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979 (berkin.wps)

  39. Buhle, Mari Jo and Paul Buhle, eds., The Concise History of Woman Suffrage: Selections from the Classic Work of Stanton, Anthony, Gage, and Harper, University of Illinois, 1978 (sufrag.wps)

    Carabillo, Toni, Judith Meuli, and June Bundy Csida, Feminist Chronicles 1953 - 1993 : A History of the Second Wave of the Women's Rights Movement, Women's Graphics, 1993
    (This complete text of the book takes you off this site. Don't forget to come back now!)

  40. Ehrenreich, Barbara and Deirdre English, For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Expert's Advice to Women, Anchor Books, 1989 (originally published in 1978) (owngood.wps)

  41. Flexner Eleanor, Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States, 1959, reprinted 1996 Belknap, Harvard

  42. French, Marilyn, The War Against Women, Summit Books, 1992 (warwmn.wps)

  43. Lerner, Gerda, The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-seventy, Oxford University Press, 1993 (lerner2.wps)

  44. Lerner, Gerda, The Creation of Partriarchy, 1986 (lerner1.wps)

  45. Mansbridge, Jane J., Why We Lost the ERA University of Chicago Press 1986

  46. Melich, Tanya, The Republican War Against Women, Bantan- Double Day, 1995 (repwar.wps)

  47. Riley, Glenda, Divorce: An American Tradition , Oxford University Press, 1991

  48. Starkey, Marion L.,The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials, Anchor Books, 1949 (devilmas.wps)

  49. Taylor, John M., The Witchcraft Delusion, Random House, 1995 (taylor.wps)

  50. Wagner, Sally Roesch, A Time of Protest, Suffragists Challenge the Republic: 1870-1877 Sky Carrier Press, 1988

  51. Wagner, Sally Roesch, The Untold Story of the Iroquois Influence on Early Feminists, Sky Carrier Press, 1996

  52. Williams Selma R. and Pamela Williams Adelman, Riding the Nightmare: Women & Witchcraft from the Old World to Colonial Salem, Harper Perennial, 1992 (nitemare.wps)

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    Literary Commentary

  53. Okin, Susan Moller, Women in Western Political Thought, Princeton University Press, 1979 (okin.wps)

  54. Rogers, Katherine M., The Troublesome Helpmate: A History of Misogyny in Literature, U. of Washington Press, 1966 (rogers1.wps)

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    Miscellaneous and Multifaceted

  55. 1791 Declaration of the Rights of Women by Olympia de Gouges (French)

  56. 1848 Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (seneca3.wps)

  57. 1876 Declaration of Rights (1876.wps)

  58. 1989 Declaration of Interdependence (1989intr.wps)

  59. A Women's Creed: written at the 1994 Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) Global Strategies Meeting. This link takes you away from Sunshine for Women. Use your "back" key to return here.

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    Religion, Philosophy, Theology, and the History of Religion

  60. Armstrong, Karen, A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Alfred A. Knopf, 1994 (histgod.wps)

  61. Benko, Stephen, Pagan Rome and the Early Christians, Midland Books, University of Indiana Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana, 1984 (pagan2.wps)

  62. Brown, Joanne Carlson and Carole R. Bohn, eds., Christianity, Patriarchy, and Abuse: A Feminist Critique, Pilgrim Press, 1989 (abuse.wps)

  63. Cady, Susan, Marian Ronan and Hal Taussig, Sophia, Harper and Row; 1986 Contributed by Karen Vaughan at KarenSVaughan@juno.com (sophia.wps)

  64. Carmody, Denise Lardner, Biblical Women: Contemporary Reflections on Scriptural Texts, Crossroads, 1992 (bibwoman.wps)

  65. Christ, Carol P. and Judith Plaskow, Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion, Harper Collins, 1979 (wspirit.wps)

  66. Clark, Gillian, Women in Late Antiquity: Pagan and Christian Lifestyles, Oxford University Press, 1994 (antqty1.wps)

  67. Cooper-White, Pamela, Cry of Tamar: Violence Against Women and the Church's Response Augsburg-Fortress Press, 1995 (tamar.wps)

  68. Daly, Mary, The Church and the Second Sex, (daly1.wps)

  69. Fiorenza, Elisabeth Schussler, In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins, Crossroads, 1992 (originally published in 1983) (sf1.wps)

  70. Fiorenza, Elisabeth Schussler, Jesus; Miriam's Child, Sophia's Prophet: Critical Issues in Feminist Christology, Continuum, 1995 (sf4.wps)

  71. Gilman, Charolette Perkins, 1923, His Religion and Hers, reprinted by Hyperion Press, Inc, Westport, Conn. in 1993 (gilman.wps)

  72. Hoffman, R. Joseph, Porphyry's Against the Christians: The Literary Remains, Prometheus Books, 1994 (porphyry.wps)

  73. Imbens, Annie and Ineke Jonker, Christianity and Incest, Fortress Press 1992 (incest.wps)

  74. Kraemer, Ross Shepard, Her Share of the Blessings: Women's Religions Among the Pagans, Jews, and Christians in the Greco-Roman World (blessing.wps)

    *** Kramer, Heinrich and James Sprenger, Malleus Malificarum (Witches Hammer), (oringinally published in 1484) (mall.wps) - This link takes you off my site so use the BACK key to return here.

  75. MacHaffie, Barbara, Her Story: Women in Christian Tradition, Fortress Press, 1986 (mchafe1.wps)

    *** Phyllis Mack Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-century England, University of California Press, 1992, a review by Rhoda Gilman

  76. Miles, Margaret R, Carnal Knowing: Female Nakedness and Religous Meaning in the Christian West, Burns and Oates, 1989 (carnal.wps)

  77. Pagels, Elaine, Adam, Eve, and the Serpent, Vintage Books, 1988 (serpent.wps)

  78. Pagels, Elaine, The Gnostic Gospel, Vintage Books, 1979 (gnostic.wps)

  79. Ranke-Heinemann, Uta, Eunuchs for the Knigdom of Heaven: Women, Sexuality, and the Catholic Church, Doubleday, 1990 (eunuchs.wps)

  80. Rinck, Margaret J., Christian Men Who Hate Women: Healing Hurting Relationships, Zondervan Publishing House, 1990 (xtian2.wps)

  81. Ruether, Rosemary Radford, Sexism and God-Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology, Beacon Press, 1983 (rrr1.wps)

  82. Russell, Letty M., ed., Feminist Interpretation of the Bible, Westminister Press, 1985 (russell1.wps)

  83. Russell, Letty, The Liberating Word: A Guide to the Nonsexist Interpretation of the Bible, Westminister Press, 1975 (russell2.wps)

  84. Schaberg, Jane, The Illegitimacy of Jesus: A Feminist Theological Interpretation of the Infancy Narratives, Crossroads 1990

  85. Selvidge, Marla J., Notorious Voices: Feminist Biblical Interpretation 1500 -1920, Continuum 1996 (notor.wps)

  86. Stanton, Elizabeth Cady and the Revising Committee, The Woman's Bible, Coalition on Women and Religion, Seattle, 1992, originally published in 1892 and 1895

  87. Torjesen, Karen Jo, When Women Where Priests: Women's leadership in the Early Church and the Scandal of the Subordination in the Rise of Christianity , Harper, 1993 (wmnprst.wps)

  88. Wilken, Robert L., The Christians as the Roman's Saw Them, Yale University Press, 1984 (xtian1.wps)

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    Sociology, Psychology, Sex, Sexuality, and Sexual Harassment

  89. Cline, Sally, Women, Celibacy, and Passion, Andre Deutsch 1993 (celibacy.wps)

  90. Evans, Patricia, 1993, Verbal Abuse Survivors Speak Out: On Relationship and Recovery, Bob Adams Inc (v_abuse.wps)

  91. Jeffreys, Shiela, Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution, NYU Press, 1990 (climax.wps)

  92. Graham, Dee L. R., Loving to Survive_: Sexual Terror, Men's Violence, and Women's Lives, New York University Press, 1994 (stokholm.wps)

  93. Hofeller, Kathleen, Battered Women, Shattered Lives , R & E Research Associates, 1983

  94. Little, Celia Morris, Bearing Witness: Sexual Harassment and Beyond: Everywoman's Story, Brown, 1994 (harrass.wps)

  95. Radford, Jill and Diana E.H. Russell, Femicide: The Politics of Woman Killing, Twayne Publishers, NY 1992

    *** Elaine Stedman, A Woman's Worth (1996)

  96. Valentis, Mary and Anne Devane, Female Rage: Unlocking Its Secrets, Claiming Its Power, Carol Southern Books, 1994

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