In 2018, IGSF opened a new lending library to offer students, faculty, and staff renewed access to feminist research and fiction sourced from our private Institute collection, the McGill Book Fair, L’Euguelionne feminist bookstore, and private donations by students and faculty.
Each month we feature a different book from the lending library and advertise it via our diverse social media platforms. We invite faculty, staff, and students to submit reviews of their favourite texts for circulation on our newsletter and social media, and to highlight foundational works of feminist literature, along with newly published anthologies of gay and lesbian writers. We hope this will instigate dialogue around these works.
Each book in the library includes a comment card in the back to further encourage critical reflection and conversation between readers. The library is, thus, a vital addition to IGSF’s mission to stimulate, support and disseminate research in gender, sexuality, and feminist studies. Creative and scholarly books that touch on these subjects can often prove expensive for students, so the library offers much-needed access to research materials. The specific focus on gender, sexuality and feminism means that we offer books not always available at the McGill library, especially those by local authours. We are applying for the grant so we have a budget to purchase new releases for the library, and sure it is up-to-date and interesting for students.
If you have any book donations for our collection, please send a message to info.igsf [at] mcgill.ca.
IGSF Library Catalogue
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Adams, Annmarie | L'Architecture au feminin: une profession a definir |
| Art/iculation magazine (Spring 2017) | |
| Atkinson, Michael | Deconstructing Men & Masculinities |
| Auerbach, Nina | Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth |
| Baldwin, James | Giovanni's Room |
| Barber, Stephen (ed.) | Regarding Sedgwick: Essays on Queer Culture and Critical Theory |
| Bell Hooks | Killing Rage: Ending Racism |
| Bell Hooks | From Margin to Center |
| Butler, Octavia | Clay's Ark |
| Butler, Octavia | Mind of My Mind |
| Benstock, Shari | Feminist Issues in Literary Scholarship |
| Bitton-Jackson, Livia | Madonna or Courtesan? The Jewish Woman in Christian Literature |
| Bonvillain, Nancy | Women and Men: Cultural Constructs of Gender |
| Boone, Joseph (ed.) | Engendering Men: The Question of Male Feminist Critique |
| Bourget, Eithne (trans.) | A Extract from Manifesto of Quebec Women/Un extrait du Manifeste des Femmes Quebec |
| Bratwaithe, Wendy | Motion in Poetry |
| Bridenthal, Renate (ed.) | Becoming Visible: Women in European History |
| Brod, Harry (ed.) | The Making of Masculinities: The New Men's Studies |
| Burman, Jenny | Transnational Yearnings |
| Cameron, Deborah (ed.) | Language and Sexuality |
| Case, Sue-Ellen | Feminism and Theatre |
| Casgrain, Therese | A Woman in a Man's World |
| Clark, Anna (ed.) | Desire: A History of European Sexuality |
| Clark, Anna (ed.) | A History of Sexuality in Europe: A Sourcebook and Reader |
| Chesler, Phyllis | Women & Madness |
| Chodorow, Nancy | The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender |
| Chunn, Dorothy (ed.) | Law as a Gendering Practice |
| Cook, Matt (ed.) | A Gay History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Men Since the Middle Ages |
| Cornillon, Susan Koppelman (ed.) | Images of Women in Fiction: Feminist Perspectives |
| Cvetkovich, Ann | Depression, A Public Feeling |
| Daly, Mary | Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism |
| Davidson, Michael | The World, The Flesh and Myself |
| Delorme, Wendy | Insurrections en territoire sexuel |
| Demczuk, Irene | Des droits a reconnaitre: Les lesbiennes face a la discrimination |
| Dinnerstein, Dorothy | The Mermaid and The Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements and Human Malaise |
| Dua, Enakshi (ed.) | Scratching the Surface: Canadian Anti-Racist Feminist Thought |
| Duberman, Martin | Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey |
| duBois, Page | Centaurs & Amazons: Women and the Pre-History of the Great Chain of Being |
| Early, Frances (ed.) | Athena's Daughter: Television's New Women Warriors |
| Ehrenreich, Barbara | Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness |
| Faludi, Susan | Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women |
| Felski, Rita | Beyond Feminist Aesthetics: Feminist Literature and Social Change |
| Gay, Roxane | Bad Feminist |
| Gilbert, Sandra (ed.) | No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century (Volume 2: Sex Changes) |
| Gillett, Margaret (ed.) | A Fair Shake: Autobiographical Essays by McGill Women |
| Greene, Gayle (ed.) | Making a Difference: Feminist Literary Criticism |
| Haggerty, George | Professions of Desire: Lesbian and Gay Studies in Literature |
| Halberstam, Judith | Female Masculinity |
| Harding, G. Sophie (ed.) | Our Words, Our Revolutions: Di/Verse Voices of Black Women, First Nations Women, and Women of Colour in Canada |
| Hartman, Saidiya | Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Heilbrun, Carolyn | Writing a Woman's Life |
| Hesse, M.G. | Women in Canadian Literature |
| Irigaray, Luce | Ce sexe qui n'en est pas un |
| Kandasamy, Meena | Ms Militancy |
| Kaur, Rupi | The Sun and Her Flowers |
| Labrosse, Celine | Pour une langue francaise non sexiste |
| Lasvergnas, Isabelle (ed.) | Encrages Feministes |
| Lorde, Audre | A Burst of Light and Other Essays |
| Maggio, Rosalie | The Dictionary of Bias-Free Usage: A Guide to Nondiscriminatory Language |
| Malson, Micheline (ed.) | Feminist Theory in Practice and Process |
| Massaquoi, Notisha | Theorizing Empowerment: Canadian Perspectives on Black Feminist Thought |
| Maynard, Robyn | Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present |
| Mohammed, Patricia (ed.) | Gender in Caribbean Development |
| Monteith, Moira | Women's Writing: A Challenge to Theory |
| Moi, Toril | Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory |
| Ms. Magazine (Nov/Dec 1996) | |
| Mukhopadhyay, Maitrayee | Gender Justice, Citizenship & Development |
| Nadeau, Roxane | Les garcons au vent |
| Nelson, Charmaine | The Color of Stone: Sculpting the Black Female Subject in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Oikawa, Mona (ed.) | Outrage: Dykes and Bis Resist Homophobia |
| Paglia, Camille | Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson |
| Paglia, Camille | Sex, Art, and American Culture |
| Panuto, Anna Maria | Eclectic Memories: A Collection of Poems |
| Parker, Dorothy | Complete Stories |
| Parker, Dorothy | Complete Poems |
| Pierson, Ruth Roach (ed.) | Canadian Women's Issues (Volume 1, Strong Voices) |
| Pratt, Annis | Archetypal Patterns in Women's Fiction |
| Randall, Margaret | Narrative of Power: Essays for an Endangered Century |
| Reis, Elizabeth (ed.) | American Sexual Histories |
| Robinson, Lillian | In the Canon's Mouth: Dispatches from the Culture Wars |
| Ruth, Elizabeth | Bent on Writing Contemporary Queer Tales |
| Ruthven, K.K. | Feminist Literary Studies, An Introduction |
| Serano, Julia | Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity |
| Sherwin, Susan | The Politics of Women's Health: Exploring Agency and Autonomy |
| Showalter, Elaine | A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing |
| Showalter, Elaine (ed.) | The New Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women, Literature & Theory |
| Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake | As We Have Always Done |
| Spacks, Patricia Meyer | The Female Imagination |
| Stearns, Peter | Be A Man! Males in Modern Society |
| Stella | Guide dope: travail du sexe, drogues, alcool et autres substances |
| Summers, Claude J. | The Gay and Lesbiasn Literary Heritage: A Reader's Companion to the Writers and Their Works, from Antiquity to the Present |
| Swindells, Julia (ed.) | What's Left? Women in Culture and the Labour Movement |
| Thain, Alanna | Bodies in Suspense: Time and Affect in Cinema |
| Todd, Janet | Feminist Literary History |
| Valverde, Mariana | Sex, Power and Pleasure |
| Warner, Maria | Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism |
| Weedon, Chris | Feminist Practice & Poststructuralist Theory |
| Wollenstonecraft, Mary | Maria or The Wrongs of Woman |
| Woolf, Virgina | A Room of One's Own |
| Woolf, Virgina | Books & Portraits |