Office of the Gender and Woman's Studies Librarian

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1. Adela Sloss-Vento: Writer, Political Activist, and Civil Rights Pioneer

Author: Arnoldo Carlos Vento
Publication date: 2017

2. America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice

Author: Treva B. Lindsey
Publication date: 2022

3. Amy Jacques Garvey: Selected Writings from the Negro World, 1923–1928

Author: Amy Jacques Garvey
Publication date: 2016

4. Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era

Editor: Dionne Espinoza, María Eugenia Cotera, and Maylei Blackwell
Publication date: 2018

5. Emancipation's Daughters: Reimagining Black Femininity and the National Body

Author: Riché Richardson
Publication date: 2021

6. Eunice Hunton Carter: A Lifelong Fight for Social Justice

Author: Marilyn S. Greenwald and Li Yun
Publication date: 2021

7. Feminism in Coalition: Thinking with US Women of Color Feminism

Author: Liza Taylor
Publication date: 2022

8. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics

Author: Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry, Minyon Moore, and Veronica Chambers
Publication date: 2018

9. Hazel Brannon Smith: The Female Crusading Scalawag

Author: Jeffery B. Howell
Publication date: 2017

10. Hope in the Struggle: A Memoir

Author: Josie R. Johnson, Arleta Little, and Carolyn Holbrook
Publication date: 2019

11. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

Editor: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Publication date: 2017

12. Katherine Dunham: Dance and the African Diaspora

Author: Joanna Dee Das
Publication date: 2017

13. LGBTQ Social Movements

Author: Lisa M. Stulberg
Publication date: 2018

14. Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement

Author: Janet Dewart Bell
Publication date: 2018

15. Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry

Author: Imani Perry
Publication date: 2018

16. Louise Thompson Patterson: A Life of Struggle for Justice

Author: Keith Gilyard
Publication date: 2017

17. Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century

Author: Barbara Ransby
Publication date: 2018

18. Maria Baldwin's Worlds: A Story of Black New England and the Fight for Racial Justice

Author: Kathleen Weiler
Publication date: 2019

19. Memory, Meaning, and Resistance: Reflecting on Oral History and Women at the Margins

Author: Fran Leeper Buss
Publication date: 2017

20. Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy

Author: Elizabeth Gillespie McRae
Publication date: 2018