POS 205: Gender and Politics

This is a small selection of available resources--if you have trouble locating others, please see a librarian for assistance. 

Betty Friedan

Books

• Betty Friedan: Her Life
• The feminine mystique

Articles

• A strange stirring the Feminine mystique and American women at the dawn of the 1960s
• “The Happy Housewife Heroine” and “The Sexual Sell”: Legacies of Betty Friedan's Critique of the Image of Women

Sylvia Rivera

Books

• Loud and Proud: LGBTQ+ : speeches that empower and inspire
• Are All the Women Still White? Rethinking Race, Expanding Feminisms
• Critical dialogues in Latinx studies : a reader

Articles

• "Still at the back of the bus": Sylvia Rivera's struggle
• Open Normativities: Gender, Disability, and Collective Political Change

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez

Books

• Diversifying Power: Why We Need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy

Articles

• “Experience Doesn’t Pay the Bills” Exploring the Identity-Populism Nexus in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Political Activism
• Establishment Women vs. “The Squad”: Styles of Women’s Political Representation in the U.S. Congress
• English translation of above article
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Cardi B Jump through Hoops: Disrupting Respectability Politics When You Are from the Bronx and Wear Hoops

Eleanor Roosevelt

Books

• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Courage in a dangerous world : the political writings of Eleanor Roosevelt
• A world made new : Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Junctures in women's leadership : social movements
• No ordinary time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : the home front in World War II

Sojourner Truth

Books

• Glorying in tribulation : the lifework of Sojourner Truth
• Narrative Of Sojourner Truth

(also titled and in physical format): 

• Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a bondswoman of olden time : with a history of her labors and correspondence drawn from her "Book of Life"
• Ripples of hope: great American civil rights speeches

Articles

Many items are available in 'Women and Social Movements' Database.  

• Sojourner Truth: Slave, Prophet, Legend

Sonia Sotomayor

Books

• My beloved world
• Being Brown : Sonia Sotomayor and the Latino Question

Articles

• Confirmed: Sonia Sotomayor and Latino Political Incorporation
• Sotomayor's empathy moves the court a step closer to equitable adjudication
• A conversation with Justice Sonia Sotomayor