UWM Libraries Research and Course Guides: WGS 700: Feminist Issues and Scholarship: Find Books

Recommended Titles

Squee from the Margins: Fandom and Race by Rukmini Pande
Call Number: eBook
The Fan Fiction Studies Reader by Karen Hellekson (Editor); Kristina Busse (Editor)
Call Number: ebook
Framing Fan Fiction: literary and social practices in fan fiction communities by Kristina Busse
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Written by the Body: gender expansiveness and indigenous non-cis masculinities by Lisa Tatonetti
Call Number: eBook
Early chapters especially deal with Indigeneity in the archives, counter-reading the archives of colonizers. Broadly, the author explores the concept of the "somatic archive" as it relates to indigenous knowledge.
Indigenous Notions of Ownership and Libraries, Archives and Museums by Camille Callison (Editor); Loriene Roy (Editor); Gretchen Alice LeCheminant (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood and Race from Slavery to Civil Rights by Robin Bernstein
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Reading Children's Literature: : a critical introduction by Carrie Hintz; Eric Tribunella
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--This book offers a variety of theoretical approaches to reading/analyzing literature critically.
Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Sport : Queer Inquiries by Vikki Krane (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
Offers theoretical approaches and background information
Women, Sport, and Culture by Susan Birrell (Editor); Cheryl L. Cole (Editor)
Call Number: GV709 .W577 1994
Older, but the chapter "Resisting the canon : feminist cultural studies, sport, and technologies of the body" may offer some theory inspiration. There are a number of chapters that address gender and women's rugby,
Built to win : the female athlete as cultural icon by Leslie Heywood; Shari L. Dworkin (Contribution by)
Call Number: GV709.18.U6 H49 2003
broadly about gender and media representation in sports. Chapters on body panic, masculinity and women in sports
The Unfinished Queer Agenda after Marriage Equality by Angela Jones (Editor); Joseph Nicholas DeFilippis (Editor); Michael Yarbrough (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
Drawing from this source material, the book argues that any queer agenda should be informed by an understanding that the issues facing queer and trans people come from the combined influence of neo-liberal capitalism, global white supremacy, and heterosexism.
Outskirts: queer experiences on the fringe by D'Lane R. Compton (Editor); Amy L. Stone (Editor)
Publication Date: 2024-04-30
-Chapters relevant to queer homelessness crisis
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Mothers and Medicine: A Social History of Infant Feeding, 1890–1950 by Rima D. Apple
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780299114831
May offer useful historical context about the medicalization of motherhood and infant feeding, may offer theoretical inspiration
The ethics and politics of breastfeeding : power, pleasure, poetics by Robyn Lee
Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race by Ellen Samuels
Call Number: eBook
Explores the history of the American trend of identifying and classifying human bodies by race, gender, and disability.

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This image shows the order in which some sample call numbers would appear: L 19. M322, LA 23. M38, LA 2340. M371, LA 2340. M38