Gender and Education Resources

Books
Journals
Organizations
Websites
Reports and Toolkits
Foundations

 

 

 

 

Books:

Davis, J.E. & Brown, M.C. (2000). Black sons to mothers: Compliments, critiques, and challenges for cultural workers in education. New York: Peter Lang.

Ginsberg, A., Shapiro, J. & Brown, S. (2004). Gender in urban education: Strategies for student achievement. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Guerrilla Girls (1998). The Guerrilla Girls' Bedside Companion to the history of western art. New York: Penguin Books.

Guerilla Girls (2003). Bitches, bimbos, and ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls' illustrated guide to female stereotypes. New York: Penguin Books.

Jones, A. (Ed.). (2003). The feminism and visual culture reader. London & New York: Routledge.

Leadbeater, B. R., & Way, N. (1996). Urban girls: Resisting stereotypes, creating identity. New York: New York University Press.

Lopez, N. (2003). Hopeful girls, troubled boys: Race and gender disparity in urban education. New York: Routledge.

Lutrtrell, W. (2003). Pregnant bodies, fertile minds: Gender, race, and the schooling of pregnant teens. New York: Routledge.

Maher, F. & Ward, J.V. (2002). Gender and Teaching. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates.

Orenstein, P. (1994). School girls: Young women, self-esteem, and the confidence gap. New York. Bantam Doubleday Dell.

Sadker, M., & Sadker, D. (1994). Failing at fairness: How America's schools cheat girls. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

Shapiro, J. P., Sewell, T.E. & DuCette, J.P.(1995). Reframing diversity in education. Lancaster: Technomic Publishing.

Stein, N. & Sjostrom, L. (1994). Flirting or hurting? A teachers's guide to student-on-student sexual harassment in schools (Grades 6-12). Washington, DC: National Education Association.

Weiss, L. & Fine, M. (Eds.). (1993). Beyond silenced voices: Class, race and gender in United States schools. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Weiss, L. & Fine, M. (Eds.). (2000). Construction sites: Evacuating race, class and gender among urban youth. New York: Teachers College Press.

Women's Studies Quarterly "Keeping Gender on the Chalkboard" 28 (3&4)

 

Journals:

Feminist Studies, College Park, MD: Feminist Studies, inc.

Feminist Teacher, Bloomington, IN: Feminist Teacher Editorial Collective.

Rethinking Schools

Signs, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

WEEA Digest

Women's Studies Quarterly, Old Westbury, NY: Feminist Press.

Organizations:

American Association of University Women, Washington, DC

National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education

Research for Action, Philadelphia, PA

The SEED Project, Wellesely, MA

Women and Philanthropy, Washington, DC

Center for Women's Policy Studies ("Summit on Girls and Violence"; Teen Women's Leadership Development Institute), Washington, DC

The Alice Paul Leadership Program, Mount Laurel, New Jersey

 

Websites:

Gender Equity in Schools is a resource for gender-inclusive teacher education materials and information. Among the resources on this site are: information about curricular bias, teaching tips, classroom activities, and an equity quiz.

The Gender Equity Handbook is an online resource developed by 45 classroom teachers and educators specifically for classroom teachers. The handbook is the result of a collaborative project between Rhode Island Commission on Women and Rhode Island College. The 400 page handbook includes information on gender issues in education, online resources, and educational standards to promote equity.

Myra Sadker Advocates for Gender Equity is a non-profit organization advocating for equity in and out of schools. The main goal is to eliminate gender bias in education and beyond. Sadkar, who died in 1995, pioneered much of the research on gender bias in schools. The website has articles, books, and links to a variety of resources related to issues of equity.

The Picturing Women Project examines the ways that female identities have been constructed using four thematic frames: Figuring, Fashioning, Portraiting, and Telling. The exhibition (Jan. - May 2004) curated by Susan Shifron will have a companion book entitled "picturing women" (2006) featuring essays from scholars across the disciplines.

Wellesley Center for Women is a partnership between the Center for Research on Women and the Stone Center for Developmental Services. Together these research centers provide the world's largest women's research center. WCW is focused on looking at the world from women's perspective in order to improve circumstances for all citizens. Their website offers information on current research projects, publications, news and events for women.

Women in World History Curriculum is a website that provides interactive lessons, historical essays, and biographies of women. Women identified as 'today's heroes' is a new aspect of this site. This resource is the result of a project to provided information and perspective on women worldwide.

 

Reports and Tool Kits:

Ms. Foundation for Women (New York City), Healthy Girls/Healthy Women Report and Evaluation Tool Kit

The Three Guineas Foundation

Valentine Foundation (Philadelphia), "A Conversation with Girls"

 

Foundations:

The Caroline and Sigmund Schott Foundation (MA)

Council on Foundations (VA)

The Ford Foundation (NY)

Michigan Women's Foundation (MI)

The Ms. Foundation for Women (NY)

The Nellie Mae Foundation (NY)

The Philadelphia Foundation (PA)

The Valentine Foundation (PA)

Women and Philanthropy (DC)

Women's Funding Network (CA)

We wish to thank Alice E. Ginsberg, Shirley Brown, and Susan Shifrin for their help in compiling this list.

 

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