33 Women & Gender Studies
The American LGBTQ Rights Movement: An Introduction
Kyle Morgan and Meg Rodriguez (Humboldt State University)
2020
Licence: CC BY-SA
A peer-reviewed chronological survey of the LGBTQ fight for equal rights from the turn of the 20th century to the early 21st century. Illustrated with historical photographs, the book beautifully reveals the heroic people and key events that shaped the American LGBTQ rights movement. The book includes personal narratives to capture the lived experience from each era, as well as details of essential organizations, texts, and court cases that defined LGBTQ activism and advocacy.
Format: PDF
Suggested for: WGST 470
Badass Womxn in the Pacific Northwest
University of Washington Bothell
2019
Licence: CC BY-NC
This zine is a collection of biographies and portraits of badass womxn in the Pacific Northwest. Undergraduate students collaborated to create this resource that fuses multilingual poetry, art, and writing to celebrate and honor some of the strongest people you might not have heard of. It was created in an interdisciplinary gender, women & sexuality studies classroom.
Format: Online
Suggested for: WGST 460
Between Violence, Vulnerability, Resilience and Resistance
Rand El Zein
2021
Licence: CC BY-SA
How are the structures of power and the notion of agency among Syrian women during the recent Syrian conflict connected? To explore this matter, Rand El Zein investigates gender politics around displacement, conflict, the body, and the nation. In doing so, she outstandingly reconciles critical media theory as myriad and productive with the theoretical concepts on subjectivity, power, performativity, neoliberalism, and humanitarian governance. The book examines how the Arab television news discursively represented the experiences of Syrian women during the conflict in relation to the four main concepts: violence, vulnerability, resilience, and resistance.
Format: PDF
Suggested for: WGST 422
Changing Gender Norms in Islam Between Reason and Revelation
Bakhshizadeh Marziyeh
2018
Licence: CC BY-SA
Women‘s movements in Islamic countries have had a long and arduous journey in their quest for the realization of human rights and genuine equality. The author examines whether discriminatory laws against women do in fact originate from Islam and, ultimately, if there is any interpretation of Islam compatible with gender equality. She investigates women’s rights in Iran since the 1979 Revolution from the perspectives of the main currents of Islamic thought, fundamentalists, reformists, and seculars, using a sociological explanation.
Format: PDF
Contemporary Families: An Equity Lens
Elizabeth B. Pearce
2020
Licence: CC BY
Created with students, approaches contemporary families from an equity lens, this book asks two questions relevant to the Difference, Power, and Discrimination outcomes at Linn-Benton Community College and Oregon State University: “What do families need?” and “How do society and institution