Office of the Gender and Woman's Studies Librarian

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Scales of Resistance: Indigenous Women's Transborder Activism

Author

Maylei Blackwell

Description

Based on more than 70 testimonials and 20 years of fieldwork with indigenous activists primarily from the Oaxaca region of Mexico and the Mexican diaspora in California.

Year

2023

Words like Water: Queer Mobilization and Social Change in China

Author

Caterina Fugazzola

Description

Examines the tongzhi movement and its use of narratives focused on communities and families.

Year

2023

Making Livable Worlds: Afro–Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice

Author

Hilda Lloréns

Description

Focuses on the aftermath of hurricanes Irma and María, which struck Puerto Rico in September 2017.

Year

2021

Networked Feminisms: Activist Assemblies and Digital Practices

Editor

Shana MacDonald, Brianna I. Wiens, Michelle MacArthur, and Milena Radzikowska

Description

Focuses on using digital tools for intersectional feminist organizing.

Year

2022

Engendering Revolution: Women, Unpaid Labor, and Maternalism in Bolivarian Venezuela

Author

Rachel Elfenbein

Description

Based on fieldwork and interviews with a focus on working-class women.

Year

2019

African Women and Their Networks of Support: Intervening Connections

Editor

Elene Cloete, Martha Ndakalako-Bannikov, and Mariah C. Stember

Description

Examines coalitions formed across country borders, within nation-states, in virtual spaces, through literature, and in private places.

Year

2021

Women Rising: In and beyond the Arab Spring

Editor

Rita Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad

Description

Covers 16 countries.

Year

2020

The Movement for Reproductive Justice: Empowering Women of Color through Social Activism

Author

Patricia Zavella

Description

Based on interviews with staff members and volunteers at 13 reproductive justice organizations across the United States.

Year

2020

Arab Women's Activism and Socio-political Transformation: Unfinished Gendered Revolutions

Editor

Sahar Khamis and Amel Mili

Description

Focuses on the political struggle for freedom, the social struggle against injustice, and the legal struggle for safeguards.

Year

2018

Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard around the World

Author

The Women's March Organizers and Condé Nast

Description

Photographic record of the January 21, 2017, women's marches around the world with essays from notable participants.

Year

2018