This
list is a small sample of suggested reading from my
personal library. Links from titles and
covers will bring
you
to Amazon.com. DHW Reviews are links to pages
of my comments, review, discussion, etc.
Links from authors and publishers lead to their respective web sites. This list
includes texts about sexuality, being sex-positive, being a woman,
sociology,
anthropology, philosophy, personal improvement, deviance and
letter writing. I have a number of books on loan right now, so
I don't have the information to add them.
The List - By
Title • By
Author • By Category
13th Gen: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?
(America's 13th Generation Born 1961-1981)
Authors: Neil Howe & Bill Strauss
Publisher: Vintage
Books
ISBN 0-679-74365-0
Design
Museum: 20th C
Design
Author: Catherine McDermott
Publisher:
Carlton Books Ltd.
ISBN 1858687101
52
Saturday Nights
Author: Joan Elizabeth Lloyd
Publisher: Warner
Books
ISBN 0-7394-0820-8
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show
Business
Author: Neil Postman
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN 0-14-009438-5
Ardent Spirits: The
Rise and Fall of Prohibition
Author: John Kobler
Publisher: G.P.
Putnam's Sons
© 1973 Bawdy Ballads and Lusty
Lyrics
Edited by: John Henry Johnson
Publisher:
Maxwel Droke
©1935 Between Us: A Legacy
of Lesbian Love Letters
Edited by: Kay Turner
Publisher: Chronicle
Books
ISBN 0-8118-1442-4
 Bitch: In Praise of
Difficult Women
Author: Elizabeth
Wurtzel
Publisher: Double
Day
ISBN 0-385-48400-3
The
Book of Vices: A Collection of Classic Immoral Tales
Edited by: Robert J. Hutchinson
Publisher: Riverhead Books
ISBN 1-57322-006-X
The
Boundaries of Her Body: The Troubling History of Women's Rights
in America
Author: Debran Rowland, Esq.
Publisher: Sphinx Publishing
ISBN 1-5724-8368-7
Chicken Soup for the
Soul (Series)
Written & Compiled by Jack Canfield and Mark
Victor Hansen
Publisher: Health
Communications Inc.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: 101 Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle
the Spirit
ISBN 1-55874-262-X
A 2nd Helping of Chicken
Soup for the Soul
ISBN 1-55874-331-6
A
3rd
Helping of Chicken
Soup for the Soul
ISBN 1-55874-379-0
A
4th Helping of Chicken
Soup for the Soul
ISBN 1-55874-459-2
Chicken
Soup for the Women's Soul
ISBN 1-55874-415-0
Chicken
Soup for the Writer's Soul
ISBN 1-55874-769-9
Chicken
Soup for the Women's Soul At Work
ISBN 1-55874-424-X
Chicken
Soup for the Soul Cookbook
ISBN 1-55874-354-5
Comtemporary
American Monologues for Women
Editor: Todd London
Publisher: Theatre
Communications Group
ISBN 1-55936-133-6
The Dangerous Sex: The
Myth of Feminine Evil
Author: Hoffman R.
Hays
Publisher: G.P.
Putnam's Sons
First Edition ©1964 (Frequently cited - hard to find)
Darlinghissima: Letters
to a Friend
Author: Janet Flanner
Edited by: Natalia Danesi Murray
Publisher: Random House
ISBN 0-394-52954-5
Dear Juliette: Letters
if May Sarton to Juliette Huxley
Edited by: Susan Sherman
Publisher: W. W. Norton and Company
ISBN 0-393-04733-4
Dickinson:
The Anxiety of Gender
Author: Vivian R. Pollak
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN 0-8014-9370-6
Eccentric
Lives, Pecurliar Notions: True Tales of Flat-Earthers, Head
Drillers, Ufologists, Frantic Lovers, Welsh Druids, Finders
of Lost Tribes, & Other Obsessed Individuals
Author: John Michell
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers,
Inc.
ISBN 1-57912-228-0
Erotica
Author: Bernhardt J. Hurwood
Publisher:
Paperback Library
©1965
Erotica
Universalis
Author: Gilles
Neret
Publisher: Benedikt Taschen
ISBN 3-828-8963-6
The
Erotic Life of theAmerican Wife
Author: Natalie Gittelson
Publisher: Delacorte Press
©1972
Extraordinary Popular
Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Author: Charles
Mackay, LL. D.
Publisher: Noonday
My copy is the paperback 19th printing from 1972
(Reprint ISBN 0471133124)
Extraordinary
Sex Now
Author: Dr. Sandra R. Scantling
Publisher: Doubleday
ISBN 0767905911
The Female Advantage:
Women's Ways of Leadership
Author: Sally Helgesen
Publisher: Currency Paperback
ISBN 0-385-41911-2
From Dawn to Decadence:
1500 to the Present
Author: Jacques
Barzun
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN 0-06-017586-9
Girl, Interrupted
Author: Susanna
Kaysen
Publisher: Vintage Books
ISBN 0-679-74604-8
Grace
Beats Karma
Author: Neal
Cassady
Publisher: Blast Books
ISBN 0922233071
Group Sex: An Eyewitness
Report on the American Way of Swinging
Author: Gilbert
D. Bartell, Ph.D.
Publisher: Signet/New American Library
© October 1971 First Printing
The Group Sex Tapes
Authors: Herbert F. Margolis
& Paul M. Rubenstien
Publisher: Paperback Library
© 1972 First Printing
Hard
Core: Power, Pleasure and the "Frenzy of the Visible"
Author: Linda
Williams
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN 0-520-06652-9
History Laid Bare: Love,
Sex, and Perversity from the Ancient Etruscans to Warran G. Harding
Author: Richard Zacks
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN 0-06-016953-2
A
History of Orgies
Author: Burgo
Partridge
Publisher: Bonanza Books (mine is a 1960 hardcover copy)
(Reprint ISBN 1853754919 Prion Books 2002)
A History of Sexual
Customs
Translated from Eine Weitgeshichte der Sexualität by Alexander Mayce
Author: Richard Lewinsohn
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
(A Hardcover by Studio ISBN 0091850177 is available)
The Hite Report: A Nationwide
Study of Female Sexuality
Author: Shere Hite
Publisher: Macmillan
(Reprint ISBN 1583225692)
How
to Win Friends and Influence People
Author: Dale Carnegie
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
My copy is a 1964 edition ISBN 0-671-35500-7
In Our Time: Memoir
of a Revolution
(Advance Uncorrected Galley Proof)
Author: Susan Brownmiller
Publisher: The
Dial
Press
ISBN 0-385-31486-8
In The Garden of Desire:
The Intimate World of Women's Sexual Fantasies
Authors: Wendy Maltz & Suzie Boss
Publisher: Broadway Press
ISBN 0-553-06770-2
The Intimate Circle:
The Sexual Dynamics of Family Life
Authors: Miriam & Otto Ehrenberg, PhDs
Publisher: Fireside
ISBN 0-671-62854-2
It Was On Fire
When I Lay Down On It
Author: Robert Fulghum
Publisher: Ivy Books
ISBN 0-8041-0582-0
The Janus Report on
Sexual Behavior
Authors: Samuel
S. Janus, PhD and Cynthia L. Janus,
MD
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
ISBN 0-471-52540-5
(This is the ISBN for the Hardcover)
Lesbian & Bisexual Identities:
Constructing Communities, Constructing Selves
Author: Kristin G. Esterberg
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN 1-56639-510-0
A Lesser Life: The Myth
of Women's Liberation in America
Author: Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Publisher: Warner Books
ISBN 0-446-38511-5
The Letters of Vita
Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf
Edited by: Louise DeSalvo and Mitchell Leaska
Publisher: Clies
Press
ISBN 1-57344-136-8
Long Trail Guide
Managing Editor: Sylvia Plumb
Publisher: The Green Mountain Club
ISBN 1-888021-01-2
I highly recommend purchasing this directly from The
Green Mountain Club
The Maimie Papers
Historical Editor: Ruth Rosen
Textual Editor: Sue Davidson
Publisher: The Feminist Press
ISBN 0-912670-48-7 (This is an older version than currently available)
Marriage and its Alternatives
Author: Lucile Duberman
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
© 1974
Masters & Johnson
on Sex and Human Loving
Authors: William
H. Masters, Virginia E. Johnson,
Robert C. Kolodny
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (now
Time Warner Books)
ISBN 0-316-54998-3
Mechina Ex Dea: Feminist
Perspectives on Technology
Edited By: Joan Rothschild
Publisher: Pergamon Press
ISBN 0-08-029404-9
Moutain Summers: Tales
of Hiking and Exploration in the White Mountains from 1878 to
1886 as Seen Through the Eyes of Women
Edited By: Peter Rowan and June Hammond Rowan
Publisher: Gulfside Press
ISBN 0-9648801-0-5
This text is on loan from a friend's library
My Mother Myself:
The Daughter's Search for Identity
Author:
Nancy Friday
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN 0-440-06006-0
My War: A Love
Story in Letters and Drawings
Author:
Tracy Sugarman
Publisher: Random House
ISBN 0-375-50513-X
The Nympho and Other
Maniacs
Author: Irving
Wallace
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
(Reprint ISBN 0671207962)
Open
Marriage
Author: Nena & George
O'Neill
Publisher: M. Evans & Company (mine is original 1972 hardcover copy)
(Reprint ISBN 087131438X M. Evans & Company)
The Other Side: Perspectives
on Deviance
Author: Howard S. Becker
Publisher: Macmillan
©1964
Out
of My Later Years
Author: Albert Einstein
My copy is a first edition ©1950 by the Philosophical Library
Reprints Available: Gramercy ISBN 0517093804
Pink
Samurai: Love Marriage & Sex
in Contemporary Japan
Author: Nicholas Bornoff
Publisher: Pocket Books
ISBN 0-671-74266-3
Plaisir
D'Amour
Author: Anee-Marie Villefranche
Publisher:
Carroll & Graf
Publishers
© 1982
Playing
Around: Women and Extramarital Sex
Author: Linda Wolfe
Publisher: William Morrow & Company, Inc
Note: The original ISBN was 0-688-00290-0 but that has since been assigned to
another book. This text is now available from BackInPrint.com
My copy is the original ©1975 Linda Wolfe
PoMoSexuals: Challenging
Assumptions about Gender & Sexuality
Edited by: Carol Queen & Lawrence Schimel
Publisher: Clies Press
ISBN 1-57344-074-4
Presidential
Wives: An Anecdotal History
Author: Paul F. Boller, Jr.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN 0-19-503763-4
Private Pages: Diaries
of American Women 1830s - 1970s
Edited by: Penelope Franklin
Publisher: Ballentine Books
ISBN 0685137961
Prozac Nation: Young
and Depressed in America - A Memoir
Author: Elizabeth
Wurtzel
Publisher: Houghton
Mifflin
ISBN 0-395-68093-X
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Essays and Lectures
Notes & Selections by Joel Porte
Publisher: Library of America
ISBN 0940450151
Real Live Nude
Girl: Chronicles of a Sex-Positive Culture
Author: Carol Queen
Publisher: Clies Press
ISBN 1-57344-166-X
Sex
& Subterfuge: Women Writers to 1850
Author: Eva Figes
Publisher: Persea Books
ISBN 0-89255-129-1
Sex, Art, and
American Culture
Author: Camille Paglia
Publisher: Vintage Books
ISBN 0-679-74101-1
Sexual Behavior
in the Human Female
Authors: Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy,
Clyde E. Martin, Paul H. Gebhard
Publisher: Pocket Books
2nd Printing April 1966
Sexual Ecstasy
and the Divine
Author: Yasmine Galnorn
Publisher: The Crossing Press
ISBN 1-58091-113-7
Sexual Personae:
Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
Author: Camille Paglia
Publisher: Vintage Books
ISBN 0-679-73579-8
The Shaw-Terry Letters
Edited by: Christopher St. John
Publisher: G.P.
Putnam's Sons
©1931
Story of O
Author: Pauline Réage
Translated from French by Sabine d'Estrée
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN 0-345-30111-0
Strong Women
Stay Young
Author: Mirian E. Nelson, Ph. D.
Publisher: Bantam Trade Paperback
ISBN 0-553-38077-X
Surpassing
the Love of Men
Author: Lillian Faderman
Publisher: Perennial
ISBN 0-688-13330-4
The Te of Piglet
Author: Benjamin Hoff
Publisher: Dutton
ISBN 0-525-93496-0
The Tao of
Pooh
Author: Benjamin Hoff
Publisher: Viking Press
ISBN 0140067477
Currently On Loan
They
Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Mis-Leading Attributions
Authors: Paul F. Boller, John George
Publisher: Oxford
University Press
ISBN 0195055411
Truth & Beauty
Author: Ann
Patchett
Publisher: Harper
Collins
ISBN 0-06-057214-0
Uh-Oh: Some
Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door
Author: Robert Fulghum
Publisher: Villard Books
ISBN 0-679-40103-2
Vamps & Tramps
Author: Camille Paglia
Publisher: Vintage Books
ISBN 0-679-75120-3
Where
the Girls Are
Author: Susan
J. Douglas
Publisher: Random
House
ISBN 0-06-057214-0
The Whole Lesbian
Sex Book: A Passionate Guide for All of Us
Author: Felice Newman
Publisher: Clies Press
ISBN 1-57344-088-4
Wild
Women in the White House
Author: Autumn Stephens
Publisher: Conari Press
ISBN 1-57324-069-9
Woman
to Woman: Letters to Mothers, Sisters, Daughters & Friends
Anthology by Michelle Lovric
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 0-8362-6836-9
Zen
and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Author: Robert M. Pirsig
Publisher: Perennial Classics
ISBN 0-06-095832-4
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