Aburdene, P. & Naisbitt, J., Vallard. Pub., MEGATRENDS FOR WOMEN, An ouline of the ways women are transforming every sector of contemporary life, as CEO's, athletes and political and spiritual leaders, overturning the male-dominated status quo, reintegrating female values and perspectives and recasting social, political and economic trends. 388 pages
Allen and Wolkowitz, HOMEWORKING: MYTHS AND REALITIES, Macmillan, 1987--A feminist examination of women who work out of their homes. Explores why women choose to work at home, how they benefit from it, and disuccses the drawbacks. 225 pages
Barber and Watson, SISTERHOOD BETRAYED, St. Martin's Press, New York 1991- Women in the workplace and a discussion of the "Eve Complex" 200 pages
Brock, David, THE REAL ANITA HILL: THE UNTOLD STORY, Free Press, Purports to tell the "real" story behind the woman who nearly brought down then-aspiring Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and brought sexual harassment to the forefront of the national agenda. Contends that Hill was never really sexually harassed. 452 pages
Iglitzin, Lynne and Ross, Ruth, WOMEN IN THE WORLD:1975-1985 THE WOMEN'S DECADE, Santa Barbara, ABC-CLIO, 1986--focuses on 1975-1985; provides facts, statistics, graphs and personal observations and asks if the worldwide gain in the status of women is real or only a misleading and exaggerated impression. 469 pages
Kilian, Pamela, BARBARA BUSH: A BIOGRAPHY, St. Martin's Pub.,1992-- A friendly portrait of the former first lady tracing both her public and private life, from her protected and very happy childhood to marriage to George Bush, the years in Houston, in China, and the move to the White House. 245 pages
Leighton, Scott, THE SEARCH FOR MANHOOD: A GUIDE FOR TODAY'S MEN & WOMEN, R & E Publishers, California, 1992--A humorous and illuminating excursion into contemporary male vs. female issues by a counselor who assists both men and women in life planning. Mr. Leighton served as an Equal Employment Opporotunity Officer. 120 pages
McCorvey, Norma, I AM ROE: MY LIFE, ROE VS. WADE, AND FREEDOM OF CHOICE, HarperCollins, The courageous story of Norma McCorvey, a.k.a. Jane Roe, who in 1973 was a poor working woman from Louisiana who couldn't face the psychological pain of carrying an unplanned pregnancy to term, and whose court case to end that pregnancy finally brought the Supreme Court decision which guaranteed freedom of choice for all American women. 216 pages
Mclaughlin, Steven D., THE CHANGING LIVES OF AMERICAN WOMEN, Univ. of NC Press, 1988--An account of demographic changes in the behavior of women, based on a series of reports commissioned by Cosmopolitan magazine in 1984, focusing on education, marital and childbearing. 250 pages
Pendleton, Clarence, COMPARABLE WORTH: ISSUE FOR THE 80S, Volumes I and II Commission on Civil Rights, 1985-- Statements of professors, business and political leaders, provide background for the researcher writing on the topic of comparable worth. 134 pages
Sweeney, Patricia E., BIOGRAPHIES OF AMERICAN WOMEN: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, Santa Barbara, ABC-CLIO, 1990--An annotated bibliography contains 1,391 entries covering biographies of American women that are at least 50 pages long and written in English. Books from the 1800s through 1990 are included. Includes an appendix listing women by profession or category. 257 pages
Sweeney, Patricia E., BIOGRAPHIES OF BRITISH WOMEN: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, Santa Barbara, ABC-CLIO, 1993--An annotated bibliography contains 2,014 entries covering biographies of American women that are at least 50 pages long and written in English. Books from the 1600s through 1992 are included. Includes an appendix listing women by profession or category. 366 pages
Thomas, David, NOT GUILTY: THE CASE IN DEFENSE OF MEN, Morrow Pub. New York, 1993, A contrarian vioce in the gender debate, seeks to establish a voice for what he terms the "overlooked male." The author reexamines the implications of the male stereotype by attempting to marshal statistics to prove males are the unempowered gender. 255 pages
Urofsky, Melvin I., A CONFLICT OF RIGHTS: THE SUPREME COURT AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, Scribners, 1991--An account of the 1988 case of Johnson v. Transportation Agency, Santa Clara County, a landmark decision that meant employers could voluntarily adopt hiring and promotion goals to benefit women and minorities. 270 pages
Wortman, Marlene Stein, WOMEN IN AMERCAN LAW, New York, Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc., 1985--Examination of the gradual process by which women have sought to acquire the same legal rights as men. 350 pages
Young, Hugo, THE IRON LADY: A BIOGRAPHY OF MARGARET THATCHER, Farrar,Straus & Giroux, 1989--A definitive account of the most famous and important British leader since Churchill, and the only prime minister whose name has become synonymous with a political philosophy. 590 pages