GENDER STUDIES

 Primary Texts & overview materials*

• Aristotle (384-322BC), excerpts on the nature of women

• John Locke, "Of Adam's Title to Sovereignty by the Subjection of Eve," Two Treatises of Government (1698)

• Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)

• Seneca Falls Declaration (1848)

• Susan B. Anthony, Speech After Being Convicted Of Voting in Presidential Election (1872)

• Sojourner Truth, "Ain't I A Woman?" (1851)

• Bradwell v. Illinois, 1873

• Simone de Beauvoir "Woman as Other,"  The Second Sex (1949)

• Betty Friedan, "The Problem that Has No Name," The Feminine Mystique (1963)

• National Organization for Women, Statement of Purpose (1966)

• Jo Freeman, "The Women's Liberation Movement: Its Origin, Structures and Ideals" (1971)

• Gloria Steinem, "Women's Liberation Aims to Free Men, Too" (1971)

• Roe v. Wade (1973)

• Bowers v. Hardwick (1986)

• Patricia Hill Collins, "Defining Black Feminist Thought" (1990)

• Linda Kerber, "Separate Spheres, Female Worlds, Women's Place," Toward an Intellectual History of Women: Essays (1997)

• "The Next Wave of Female Activism," Talk of the Nation, National Public Radio, 2004 (audio program)

• Distinguishing between "sex" and "gender," American Heritage Book of English Usage

*Please email suggested additions to this list.