Reading List 2026

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Linda Dynel, Leaving Dorian: A Memoir of Hope, (2014)

Linda Dynel, Finding Krissy: A Memoir of Survival, (2022)

Susan G.S. McGee, 20 Reasons Why She Stays: A Guide For Those Who Want to Help Battered Women, (2005) – This paper can be viewed and downloaded at: www.stopviolence.com/domviol/whytheystay.htm

Lundy Bancroft, Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men (2002)

Jackson Katz, The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help (2006)

Michael Kimmel, Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men, Understanding the Critical Years Between 16 and 26 (2008)

Jody Raphael, Saving Bernice: Battered Women, Welfare and Poverty (2000)

Michael P. Johnson, A Typology of Domestic Violence, (2008)

Robbin S. Ogle & Susan Jacobs, Self-Defense and Battered Women Who Kill (2002)

Evan Stark, Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life (2002)

C.J. Pascoe, Dude, You’re A Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality In High School (2012)

Jody Raphael, Listening to Olivia: Violence, Poverty & Prostitution (2004)

Michael Kimmel, Angry White Men (2013)

Natalie J. Sokoloff, Domestic Violence at the Margins (2005)

Michelle Kaminsky, Reflections of a Domestic Violence Prosecutor: Suggestions for Reform (2011)

Gavin DeBecker, The Gift of Fear (1997)

Erin Pizzey, Scream Quietly or the Neighbors Will Hear (1974)

Del Martin, Battered Wives (1976)

Jackson Katz, Leading Men: Presidential Campaigns & The Politics of Manhood (2013)

Jackson Katz, Man Enough: Trump, Clinton & The Politics of Presidential Masculinity (2016)

Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010)

Sarah Herman, Feminism in 100 Quotes (2018)

Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist (2014)

Kayleen Schaefer, Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution & Triumph of Modern Female Friendship (2018)

Sow & Friedman, Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close (2020)

Maya Angelou, Phenomenal Woman, (1978)

Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism, (2020)

Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises, (2019)

Marina Picasso, Picasso, My Grandfather, (2001)

Frederick Joseph, The Black Friend, (2020)

Andrea Dworkin, Last Days at Hot Slit, (2005)

Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties, (2017)

Belenky, et al, Women’s Ways of Knowing, (1997)

Miriam Schneir, Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings, (1986)

Miriam Schneir, Feminism In Our Time: The Essential Historical Writings, WWII to Present, (1994)

Nancy A. Walker, A Very Serious thing: Women’s Humor and American Culture, (1988)

Nancy Walker & Zita Dresner, Redressing the Balance: American Women’s Literary Humor from Colonial Times to the 1980s, (1988)

Michel Foucault, The History of sexuality: An Introduction, Volume I, (1978)

David M. Halperin, Saint Foucault, (1995)

Kevin P. Murphy, Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, & The Politics of Progressive Era Reform, (2008)

Margot Canaday, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America, (2009)

Gabriel N. Rosenberg, The 4-H Harvest: Sexuality and The State in Rural America, (2016)

Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting and Women, (2018)

**Please also see my blog posts under Domestic Violence and “Think About It” Thursdays