Archives and Resources for Feminist Research

Alarcón, Norma. "The theoretical subject(s) of this bridge called my back and Anglo-American feminism. In Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture and Ideology, edited by Héctor Calderón and Ramon David Salvidar, 28-42. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991.

Anzaldúa, Gloria. “La Conciencia de La Mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness.” In Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 99–120. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1987.

Arvin, Maile, Eve Tuck, and Angie Morrill. “Decolonizing Feminism: Challenging Connections between Settler Colonialism and Heteropatriarchy.” Feminist Formations 25, no. 1 (2013): 8–34. doi.org/doi.org/10.1353/ff.2013.0006.

Bhattacharya, Tithi, ed. Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression. London: Pluto Press, 2017. 

Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York and London: Routledge, 1990.

———. “Against Proper Objects.” Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 6, no. 2-3 (1994): 1–26.

———. “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory” (1988). In The Art of Art History, edited by Donald Preziosi, 356–66. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Combahee River Collective. “A Black Feminist Statement (1977).” Off Our Backs 9, no. 6 (June 1979): 6–8.

Crenshaw, Kimberlé. “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine,

Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics.” University of Chicago Legal Forum 1989, no. 1, Article 8, 139-167.

http://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/uclf/vol1989/iss1/8.

Dalla Costa, Mariarosa, and Selma James. The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community. Bristol: Falling Wall Press, 1975.

Davis, Angela Y. Women, Race and Class. New York: Vintage, 1983. 

De Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex. London: Jonathan Cape, 1956.

D’Eaubonne, Françoise, ed. Le Feminisme ou la Mort (Feminism or Death) (1974). London and New York: Verso, 2022. 

Echols, Alice. Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975. London and Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989.

Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Chico, CA: AK Press, 2004.

Firestone, Shulamith. The Dialectics of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution (1970). New York: Verso, 2015.

Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality: Volume 1: An Introduction. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978.

Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique (1963). New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013.

Cavallero, Luci, Verónica Gago, and Tithi Bhattacharya. A Feminist Reading of Debt. Translated by Liz Mason-Deese. London: Pluto Press, 2021. 

Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie. “Integrating Disability: Transforming Feminist Theory.” NWSA: National Women’s Studies Association Journal 14, no. 3 (2002): 1–32.

Halberstam, J. Female Masculinity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998.

———. The Queer Art of Failure. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011.

Haraway, Donna. “A Cyborg Manifesto” (excerpt) (1991). In Burn It Down!: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution, edited by Breanne Fahs, 393-395. London and New York: Verso, 2020.  

Hedva, Johanna. “Sick Woman Theory” (2015). Topical Cream, April 2022. https://www.topicalcream.org/features/sick-woman-theory/.

hooks, bell. “Theory as Liberatory Practice.” Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 4, Issue 1 (1991): 1-12.

Lear, Martha Weinman. “The Second Feminist Wave: What Do These Women Want?” The New York Times, March 10, 1968, 97, 323, 345, 348, 350, 351, 353, 355, 357. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/03/10/90032407.html?zoom=15.07.

Lorde, Audre. “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House (1984).” In Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, 110–13. Berkeley, CA: Crossing Press, 2007.

McRuer, Robert. “Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence (2006).” In The Disability Studies Reader, edited by Lennard J. Davis, 193–203. New York and London: Routledge, 2017.

Mill, John Stewart. On the Subjection of Women (1869). Mineola, NY: Dover, 1997.

Millett, Kate. Sexual Politics (1969). New York: Avon, 1971.

Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. Feminism without Borders : Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.

Moraga, Cherríe. “From a Long Line of Vendidas: Chicanas and Feminism.” In Feminist Studies/Critical Studies: Language, Discourse, Society, edited by Teresa de Lauretis, 173-90. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1986. 

Moraga, Cherríe, and Gloria Anzaldúa, eds. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. New York: State University of New York Press, 1983.

Muaddi Darraj, Susan. “‘It’s Not an Oxymoron: The Search for an Arab Feminism.’” In Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism, edited by Daisy Hernández and Bushra Rehman, 295-311. New York: Seal Press, 2002.

Muñoz, José Esteban. Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.

———. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity. New York: New York University Press, 2009.

New York Radical Women. Notes from the First Year. New York: New York Radical Women, 1968.

Radicalesbians. “The Woman-Identified Woman (1970)” In Burn It Down!: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution, edited by Breanne Fahs, 41-46. London and New York: Verso, 2020. https://idn.duke.edu/ark:/87924/r3gx1t.

Rich, Adrienne. “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 5, no. 4 (1980): 631–60.

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Epistemology of the Closet. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

Spillers, Hortense J. “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book.” Diacritics 17, no. 2 (1987): 64–81.
Spivak, Gayatri. “Can the Subaltern Speak?” In Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, edited by Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg, 271–313. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988.

Stryker, Susan. “My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 1, no. 3 (1994): 227–54.

———. “Transgender Feminism: Queering the Woman Question.” In Third Wave Feminism: A Critical Exploration, edited by Des Stacy Gillis, Gillian Howie, and Rebecca Munford, 59-70. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Stryker, Susan, and Stephen Whittle. The Transgender Studies Reader. New York: Routledge, 2006.

Taylor, Verta, and Leila J. Rupp. “Women’s Culture and Lesbian Feminist Activism: A Reconsideration of Cultural Feminism.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 19, no. 1 (1993): 32–61.

Tickner, Lisa. “Feminism, Art History and Sexual Difference.” Genders 3 (1988): 92–128.

Truth, Sojourner. “Ain’t I a Woman? (1851)” In Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings, edited by Miriam Schneir, 93-95. New York: Vintage  Books, 1972.

Weeks, Kathi. The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011.

Wollstonecraft, Mary A. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Other Subjects. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1792.