Stephanie Coontz

The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap. (See, especially, Chapter Three, " My Mother Was A Saint ": Individualism, Gender Myths, and the Problem of Love") Basic Books [1992]

Paulo Friere

Pedagogy of the Oppressed. A Continuum Book [1973]

Education For Critical Consciousness. A Continuum Book [1973]

Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed. A Continuum Book [1994]

Sherrye Henry

The Deep Divide: Why American Women Resist Equality. Macmillan Company [1994]

Patricia Ireland

What Women Want. A Dutton Book [1996]

Daphne Patai

Heterophobia: Sexual Harrassment and The Future of Feminism. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. [1998]

Suzanne Pharr

Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism. Chardon Press [1997]

Anne Wilson Schaef

When Society Becomes An Addict. Harper & Row [1987]

Carol Tarvis

The Mismeasure of Woman: Why women are not the better sex, the inferior sex, or the opposite sex. Simon and Schuster [1992]

Shari L. Thurer

The Myths of Motherhood: How Culture Reinvents The Good Mother. Houghton Mifflin Company [1994]

Diana Wells (Editor)

Getting There: The Movement Toward Gender Equality. Carroll & Graf Publishers [1994]

Georgia Witkin

The Truth About Women: Fighting the Fourteen Devastating Myths That Hold Women Back. Viking Press [1995]

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