Reading Suggestions
- Understanding Diversity and Gender in Universities
- Science: Sex and Gender
- Instituting Gender
- Working Lives: Renegotiating Public and Private
Understanding Diversity and Gender in Universities
Abdulhadi, Rabab. “ ‘National Security’ and the ‘War on Terror’: Imagining Freedom, Justice, and Peace in the Age of Empire.”
Abdulhadi, Rabab. 2003. “Where is Home? Fragmented Lives, Border Crossings, and the Politics of Exile.” Radical History Review. 86 (Spring 2003): 89-101.
Antonio, Anthony Lising. “Racial Diversity in the Student Body: A Compelling Need for Retaining Faculty of Color.” Plenary Paper for the Keeping Our Faculties III Symposium. November 2004.
Bunch, Charlotte. “Transforming Human Rights from a Feminist Perspective.” Chapter in Women’s Rights, Human Rights: International Feminist Perspectives. 1995. New York, NY: Routledge Press.
Basu, Amritsa. “Introduction.” Chapter in The Challenge of Local Feminism: Women’s Movements in Global Perspective. 1995. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Darder, Antonia and Rodolfo D. Torres. “Does 'Race' Matter? Transatlantic Perspectives on Racism after 'Race Relations,” After Race: Racism After Multiculturalism. New York: NYU Press, 2004. pp. 25-46.
Dillard, Angela D. “Towards A Politics of Assimilation: Multicultural Conservatism and the Assault on the Civil Rights Establishment,” Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner Now: Multicultural Conservatism in America. New York; NYU Press, 2001), pp. 56-98
Feldman, Shelley. “Feminist Interruptions: The Silence of East Bengal in the Story of Partition.” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. 1(2).
Freeman, Carla. 2001 "Is Local:Global as Feminine:Masculine? Rethinking the Gender of Globalization." Signs 26, 4: 1007-1037.
Grewal, Inderpal and Caren Kaplan. “Introducing Women’s Studies: Gender in a Transnational World.” Chapter in An Introduction to Women’s Studies: Gender in a Transnational World. 2002. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Companies.
Hogan & Hartson, L.L.P., “Affirmative Action in Higher Education After Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger.” Prepared for the American Council on Education. September 2003.
Killenbeck, Mark R. “Affirmative Action and Diversity: The Beginning of the End? Or the End of the Beginning?” Educational Testing Service. March 2004.
Mason, Mary Ann and Marc Goulden. “Do Babies Matter? The Effect of Family Formation on the Life-Long Careers of Women.” 2002.
Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. 2002 "'Under Western Eyes' Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles." Signs 28, 2: 499-535.
Nixon, Rob. “An Everybody Claim Dem Democratic: Multiculturalism and the New South Africa,” Homelands, Harlem, and Hollywood: South African Culture and the World Beyond. New York: Routledge, 1994. pp. 193-211.
Rich, Adrienne. “Notes Toward a Politics of Location.” Chapter in Feminist Postcolonial Theory: A Reader. 2003. New York, NY: Routledge Press.
Summers, Lawrence H. Remarks at NBER Conference on Diversifying the Science & Engineering Workforce. Cambridge, Mass. January 14, 2005
Trower, Cathy A. and Jared L. Bleak. (2004). Study of New Scholars. Gender: Statistical Report [Universities]. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2004.
Trower, Cathy A. and Jared L. Bleak. (2004). Study of New Scholars. Race: Statistical Report [Universities]. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2004.
Urry, Meg. “Diminished By Discrimination We Scarcely See.” Washington Post: Sunday, February 6, 2005; Page B04.
Yale Women Faculty Forum. “Faculty Development and Mentoring at Yale.” March 2005.
Science: Sex and Gender
Baserga, Susan J. “The Early Years of Coeducation at the Yale University School of Medicine.” In The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 1980.
Brainard, Suzanne G. and Linda Carlin. “A Six-Year Longitudinal Study of Undergraduate Women in Engineering and Science.” In Journal of Engineering Education, October 1988.
Eisenhart, Margaret A. and Elizabeth Finkel. “Women (Still) Need Not Apply.” In Women’s Science: Learning and Succeeding from the Margins. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
Fausto-Sterling, Anne. “Dueling Dualisms,” “Sex Glands, Hormones, and Gender Chemistry,” “Do Sex Hormones Really Exist (Gender Becomes Chemical),” “The Rodent’s Tale,” and “Gender Systems: Toward a Theory of Human Sexuality.” In Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality. New York: Basic Books, 2000.
Moi, Toril. “What Is a Woman? Sex, Gender, and the Body in Feminist Theory.” In What is a Woman? And Other Essays. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pages. 1-10 and 112-120.
Schiebinger, Londa. “Meters of Equity.” In Has Feminism Changed Science? Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.
Wizemann, Theresa M. and Mary-Lou Pardue, eds. Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine. “Executive Summary.” In Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health. Washington D.C.: National Academy Press, 2001.
Yanagisako, Sylvia J. and Jane F. Collier. “The Mode of Reproduction in Anthropology.” In Theoretical Perspectives on Sexual Difference. Edited by Deborah Rhode. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.
Instituting Gender
Hartman, Mary S. (Ed.) "Introduction," "In Conversation with Lois Juliber," "In Conversation with Patricia Schroeder," and "In Conversation with Ruth Simmons." In Talking Leadership: Conversations with Powerful Women. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1999.
Mandel, Ruth. “Women’s Leadership in American Politics: The Legacy and the Promise.” In The American Woman 2001-2002: Getting to the Top. Edited by Cynthia B. Costello and Anne J. Stone. New York: W.W. Norton, 2001.
Martin, Carolyn Arthur. “Success and Its Failures.” In differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies. Guest Edited by Joan Scott. Bloomington: Indiana University, Fall 1997 Volume 9.
O’Barr, Jean Fox. “Assessing Curriculum Transformation Through Student Observations” and “Education Beyond the Walls: The Politics and Influence of Fundraising for Women’s Studies.” In Feminism in Action. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
Peloquin, Lisa. “Economics and Feminism; Scholarship and Responsibility.” Women’s Studies at Duke Newsletter,Spring 2001.
Working Lives: Renegotiating Public and Private
The recommended readings and resources for the current WFF Seminar Series on the topics of social security, healthcare, and child/dependent care can be found at http://www.yale.edu/wff/WorkLifeSeries/.