Web Resources
Activist Pages
- About-FaceAbout-Face means a reversal of direction, attitude, or point of view. We equip women & girls with tools to understand & resist harmful media messages that affect their self-esteem & body image.
- Center for Reproductive RightsThe Center seeks to fundamentally transform the landscape of reproductive health and rights worldwide, and have already strengthened laws and policies in more than 50 countries.
- Feminist Majority NetworkThe Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF), which was founded in 1987, is a cutting edge organization dedicated to women's equality, reproductive health, and non-violence. In all spheres, FMF utilizes research and action to empower women economically, socially, and politically. Our organization believes that feminists - both women and men, girls and boys - are the majority, but this majority must be empowered.
- Bitch MediaBitch Media is a nonprofit, independent, feminist media organization dedicated to providing and encouraging an engaged, thoughtful feminist response to mainstream media and popular culture.
- FeministingFeministing is an online community run by and for young feminists. For over a decade, we’ve been offering sharp, uncompromising feminist analysis of everything from pop culture to politics and inspiring young people to make real-world feminist change, online and off.
Library Materials & Open Source Journals
I'm not making trouble, I'm making progress
I'm Not Making Trouble. PBS Newshour Productions. 2018
Abortion: Stories Women Tell
“Abortion: Stories Women Tell.” Films Media Group, 2017.
Redefining What's Sexy in an Era of Sexting, Snapchat and Porn
Redefining What's Sexy In An Era of Sexting, Snapchat and Porn. Films Media Group, 2016.
Why the Major Abortion Case in Front of the Supreme Court Matters
Why the Major Abortion Case in Front of US Supreme Court Matters. Films Media Group, 2016.
Muslim Beauty Pageant and Me
Muslim Beauty Pageant and Me. Films Media Group, 2015.
Power and the World's Women
Power and the World's Women. Films Media Group, 2015.
Women in Politics: Makers: Women Who Make America
Women in Politics: Makers: Women Who Make America (Volume 2).
The Longest War: Women and Power (3 Part Series)
The Longest War: Women & Power—Parts 1-3. Films Media Group, 2014.
- JOURNAL - Women's StudiesLast 18 months is not available in full text. Journal runs between 12/01/1972 and the present.
- Scholar and Feminist OnlineS&F Online, a triannual, multimedia, peer-reviewed, online-only journal of feminist theories and women’s movements, provides public access to the Barnard Center for Research on Women’s most innovative programming by providing written transcripts, audio and visual recordings, and links to relevant intellectual and social action networks.
- JStor This link opens in a new window Subject Areas: General, Social Sciences, Humanities. Includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work.
Girl Rising (2013). 1 DVD, 103 minutes. Call number: 371.08352 G525 DVD
She's Beautiful When She's Angry (2016). 1 DVD, 92 minutes. Call Number: 305.4200904 SH554 DVD (Truax)
A girl & a Gun (2013). 1 DVD, 76 minutes. Call number: 363.330973 G525 DVD (Truax)
Killing Us Softly 4 (2011). 1 DVD, 45 minutes. Call Number: 659.1042 K48 DVD (Truax and Truax Storage)
Speed Sisters (2016). 1 DVD. 82 minutes. Call Number: 796.72092 SP742 DVD (Truax)
Makers: Women Who Make America (2013). 1 DVD. 180 minutes. Call number: 305.40973 M235 DVD
Lioness (2009). 1 DVD. 83 minutes. Call Number: 956.70443092 L763 DVD
All the Single Ladies by
A nuanced investigation into the sexual, economic, and emotional lives of women in America, this “singularly triumphant work” (Los Angeles Times) by Rebecca Traister “the most brilliant voice on feminism in the country” (Anne Lamott) is “sure to be vigorously discussed” (Booklist, starred review). In 2009, the award-winning journalist Rebecca Traister started All the Single Ladies—a book she thought would be a work of contemporary journalism—about the twenty-first century phenomenon of the American single woman. It was the year the proportion of American women who were married dropped below fifty per¢ and the median age of first marriages, which had remained between twenty and twenty-two years old for nearly a century (1890–1980), had risen dramatically to twenty-seven. But over the course of her vast research and more than a hundred interviews with academics and social scientists and prominent single women, Traister discovered a startling truth: the phenomenon of the single woman in America is not a new one. And historically, when women were given options beyond early heterosexual marriage, the results were massive social change—temperance, abolition, secondary education, and more. Today, only twenty percent of Americans are wed by age twenty-nine, compared to nearly sixty percent in 1960. The Population Reference Bureau calls it a “dramatic reversal.” All the Single Ladies is a remarkable portrait of contemporary American life and how we got here, through the lens of the single American woman. Covering class, race, sexual orientation, and filled with vivid anecdotes from fascinating contemporary and historical figures, All the Single Ladies is destined to be a classic work of social history and journalism. Exhaustively researched, brilliantly balanced, and told with Traister’s signature wit and insight, this book should be shelved alongside Gail Collins’s When Everything Changed.
Call Number: 306.81 T768 (Portage)ISBN: 9781476716565Publication Date: 2016-03-01
Lactivism by
Is breast really best? Breastfeeding is widely assumed to be the healthiest choice, yet growing evidence suggests that its benefits have been greatly exaggerated. New moms are pressured by doctors, health officials, and friends to avoid the bottle at all costs--often at the expense of their jobs, their pocketbooks, and their well-being. In Lactivism, political scientist Courtney Jung offers the most deeply researched and far-reaching critique of breastfeeding advocacy to date. Drawing on her own experience as a devoted mother who breastfed her two children and her expertise as a social scientist, Jung investigates the benefits of breastfeeding and asks why so many people across the political spectrum are passionately invested in promoting it, even as its health benefits have been persuasively challenged. What emerges is an eye-opening story about class and race in America, the big business of breastfeeding, and the fraught politics of contemporary motherhood.
Call Number: 305.40973 J95 (Truax)ISBN: 9780465039692Publication Date: 2015-11-24
My Own Words by
The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993--a witty, engaging, serious, and playful collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had a powerful and enduring influence on law, women's rights, and popular culture. My Own Words offers Justice Ginsburg on wide-ranging topics, including gender equality, the workways of the Supreme Court, being Jewish, law and lawyers in opera, and the value of looking beyond US shores when interpreting the US Constitution. Throughout her life Justice Ginsburg has been (and continues to be) a prolific writer and public speaker. This book's sampling is selected by Justice Ginsburg and her authorized biographers Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Williams. Justice Ginsburg has written an introduction to the book, and Hartnett and Williams introduce each chapter, giving biographical context and quotes gleaned from hundreds of interviews they have conducted. This is a fascinating glimpse into the life of one of America's most influential women.
Call Number: 347.732634 G493 (Truax)ISBN: 150114524XPublication Date: 2016-10-04
The Survivor Project by
"Me too. It happened to me too." More than one in five women and 5 percent of men are sexually assaulted while at college. Some survivors are coming forward; others are not. InWe Believe You, students from every kind of college and university—large and small, public and private, highly selective and less so—share experiences of trauma, healing, and everyday activism, representing a diversity of races, economic and family backgrounds, gender identities, immigration statuses, interests, capacities, and loves. Theirs is a bold, irrefutable sampling of voices and stories that should speak to all.
Call Number: 371.782 C592 (Portage)ISBN: 1627795332Publication Date: 2016-04-12
We Should All Be Feminists by
In this personal, eloquently-argued essay--adapted from her much-admired TEDx talk of the same name--Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award-winning author of Americanah, offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness. Drawing extensively on her own experiences and her deep understanding of the often masked realities of sexual politics, here is one remarkable author's exploration of what it means to be a woman now--and an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists.
Call Number: 305.42 AD235 (Fort)ISBN: 110191176XPublication Date: 2015-02-03
Wonder Women by
Fifty years after the Equal Pay Act, why are women still living in a man's world? Debora L. Spar never thought of herself as a feminist. Raised after the tumult of the 1960s, she presumed the gender war was over. As one of the youngest female professors to be tenured at Harvard Business School and a mother of three, she swore to young women that they could have it all. "We thought we could just glide into the new era of equality, with babies, board seats, and husbands in tow," she writes. "We were wrong." Now she is the president of Barnard College, arguably the most important all-women's college in the United States. And inWonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection—a fresh, wise, original book— she asks why, a half century after the publication of Betty Friedan'sThe Feminine Mystique, do women still feel stuck. In this groundbreaking and compulsively readable book, Spar explores how American women's lives have—and have not—changed over the past fifty years. Armed with reams of new research, she details how women struggled for power and instead got stuck in an endless quest for perfection. The challenges confronting women are more complex than ever, and they are challenges that come inherently and inevitably from being female. Spar is acutely aware that it's time to change course. Both deeply personal and statistically rich,Wonder Womenis Spar's story and the story of our culture. It is cultural history at its best, and a road map for the future.
Call Number: 305.42 SP736 (Truax)ISBN: 9780374298753Publication Date: 2013-09-17
