This bibliography is intended to highlight sources of critical feminist analysis on a range of important population, environment, development and related issues. While the following selected list of books and articles represents just a sample of the literature on these subjects, we hope that this list will provide a good jumping off point for further research. We update these lists several times a year, so take a look every now and then to find the most recent additions.
The bibliography contains listings on the following topics:
Azirpe, Lourdes, M. Priscilla Stone, and David C. Major. 1994. Population and the Environment: Rethinking the Debate.Boulder: Westview Press.
Bandarage, Asoka. 1997. Women, Population and Global Crisis: A political and economic analysis. London; Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Zed Books.
Corner House Briefing Papers. Briefing 20. The Malthus Factor: Poverty, Politics and Population in Capitalist Development. Dorset, UK: The Corner House. Available at www.icaap.org/Cornerhouse
Correa, Sonia in collaboration with Rebecca Reichman. 1994. Population and Reproductive Rights: Feminist Perspectives from the South. London; Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Zed Books; New Delhi: Kali for Women in association with DAWN.
Duggan, Lynne, Laurie Nisonoff, Nalini Visvanathan, and Nan Wiegersma. 1997. The Women, Gender and Development Reader. London: Zed Books.
Ginsburg, Faye D. and Rayna Rapp, eds. 1995. Conceiving the New World Order: the Global Politics of Reproduction. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Hartmann, Betsy. 1995. Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control and Contraceptive Choice. Boston: South End Press.
Inter Pares. 1995. In the Name of Development: Exploring Population, Poverty, and Development. Ottawa, Canada: Inter Pares.
Ravindran, TK Sundari. 1993. Women and the Politics of Population and Development in India. Reproductive Health Matters, 1:1. May.
Ross, Eric B. 1998. The Malthus Factor. London: Zed Books.
Sen, Gita, Adrienne Germaine and Lincoln C. Chen eds. 1994. Population Policies Reconsidered: Health, Empowerment and Rights. Boston: Harvard University Press.
Silliman, Jael and Ynestra King, eds. 1999. Dangerous Intersections: Feminist Perspectives on Population, Environment, and Development. Cambridge, MA: South End Press.
Greenhalgh, Susan and Jiali Li. 1995. Engendering Reproductive Policy and Practice in Peasant China: For a Feminist Demography of Reproduction. Signs: Journal of Women and Culture in Society, 20:3. Spring.
Greenhalgh, Susan, Zhu Chuzhu, and Li Nan. 1994. Restraining Population Growth in Three Chinese Villages, 1988-1993. Population and Development Review, 20:3.
Greenhalgh, Susan. 1994. Controlling Births and Bodies in Village China. American Ethnologist, 21:1.
Johansson, Sten, and Ola Nygren. 1991. The Missing Girls of China: A New Demographic Account. Population and Development Review, 17:1.
Johnson, D. Gale. 1994. Effects of Institutions and Policies on Rural Population Growth with Application to China. Population and Development Review, 20:3.
Johnson, Kay. 1983. Women the Family and the Peasant Revolution in China. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Johnson, Kay. 1993. Chinese Orphanages: Saving China’s Abandoned Girls. Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, 30.
Johnson, Kay. 1998. Infant Abandonment and Adoption in China. Population and Development Review, 24:3.
Sen, Amartya. 1994. Population: Delusion and Reality. The New York Review of Books, September 22.
Yi, Zeng, Tu Ping, Gu Boachang, Xu Yi, Li Bohoa and Li Yongping. 1993. Causes and Implications of the Recent Increase in the Reported Sex Ratio at Birth in China. Population and Development Review, 19:2.
Jeffery, Patricia and Roger Jeffery. 1997. Population, Gender, and Politics: Demographic Change in Rural North India. Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press.
Gordon, Linda. 1990. Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: Birth Control in America. New York: Penguin Books.
Petchesky, Rosalind P. and Karen Judd eds. 1998. Negotiating Reproductive Rights: Women’s Perspectives Across Cultures. London; Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Zed Books
Roberts, Dorothy. 1997. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty. New York: Pantheon Books.
Sen, Gita and Rachel C. Snow. 1994. Power and Decision: The Social Control of Reproduction. Boston: Harvard University Press.
Asian and Pacific Islanders for Reproductive Health. 1995. The Health and Well-Being of Asian and Pacific Islander American Women. Oakland, CA: Asian and Pacific Islanders for Reproductive Health.
Baehr, Ninia. 1990. Abortion Without Apology: A Radical History for the 1990s. Boston: South End Press.
Cohen, Sherrill and Nadine Traub, eds. 1989. Reproductive Laws for the 1990s. Clifton, NJ: Humana Press.
Davis, Susan E., ed. 1988. Women Under Attack: —Victories, Backlash, and the Fight for Reproductive Freedom. Boston: South End Press.
Faux, Marian. 1990. Crusaders: Voices from the Abortion Front. New York: Carol Publishing Group.
----. 1988. Roe v. Wade: The Untold Story of the Landmark Supreme Court Decision that Made Abortion Legal. New York, New American Library.
Ferraro, Barbara and Patricia Hussey with Jane O’Reilly. 1990. No Turning Back: Two Nuns Battle with the Vatican over Women’s Right to Choose. New York: Poseidon Press.
Frankfort, Ellen and Frances Kissling. 1979. Rosie: the Investigation of a Wrongful Death. New York: Dial Press.
Fried, Marlene Gerber. 1990. From Abortion to Reproductive Freedom: Transforming a Movement. Boston, MA: South End Press.
Ginsburg, Faye D. 1989. Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in the American Community. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Harrison, Bevrerly Wildung. 1983. Our Right to Choose: Toward a New Ethic of Abortion. Boston: Beacon Press.
Joffe, Carole. 1995. Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortions Before and After Roe v. Wade. Boston: Beacon Press.
Kaplan, Laura. 1995. The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service. New York: Pantheon.
Kaufmann, K. 1997. The Abortion Resource Handbook. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Lader, Lawrence. 1991. RU-486: The Pill that Could End the Abortion Wars and Why American Women Don’t Have it. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
Luker, Kristin. 1984. Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Messer, Ellen and Kathryn E. May. 1988. Back Rooms: Voices from the Illegal Abortion Era. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Petchesky, Rosalind Pollack. 1990. Abortion and Woman’sChoice: The State, Sexuality, and Reproductive Freedom. Boston: Northeastern University Press.
Raymond, Janice et al. 1991. RU-486: Misconceptions, Myths and Morals. Cambridge, MA: Institute on Women and Technology.
Solinger, Rickie ed. 1998. Abortion wars : a half century of struggle, 1950-2000. Berkeley : University of California Press.
Inter Pares and Women’s Health Interaction. 1995. Uncommon Knowledge: A Critical Guide to Contraception and Reproductive Technologies. Ottawa, Canada: Inter Pares.
Mintzes, Barbara, Anita Hardon and Jannemieke Hanhart, eds. 1993. Norplant: Under Her Skin. Delft, The Netherlands Eburon.
Richter, Judith. 1993. Vaccine Against Pregnancy: Miracle or Menace? London; Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Zed Books.
Saheli. 1996. Womantalk: Contraception, Safety, and our Health. New Delhi, India: Saheli. www.main.org/saheli
Saheli. 1998. Enough is Enough: Injectable Contraceptive Net-En, A Chronicle of Health Hazards Foretold. New Delhi, India: Saheli. www.main.org /saheli
Sathyamala, Dr. C. 2000. An Epidemiological Review of the Injectable Contraceptive, Depo-Provera. Hadapsur, India: Medico Friend Circle.
Barrera, Mario. 1979. Race and Class in the Southwest: A Theory of Racial Inequality. London: University of Notre Dame Press.
Brugge, Doug. 1995. Pulling Up the Ladder: The Anti-Immigrant Backlash. The Public Eye, Summer. Somerville, MA: Political Research Associates. www.publiceye.org
Chang, Grace. 2000. Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy; Cambridge, MA: South End Press.
Hayter, Teresa. 2000. Free Movement: A Case Against Immigration Controls. Political Environments. Amherst, MA: Committee on Women, Population and the Environment. www.cwpe.org
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierette. 1994. Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of Immigration. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Horsman, Reginald. 1981. Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press.
Judd, Karen and Annanya Bhattacharjee. 1999. Immigration Primer. Port Chester, NY: ProChoice Resource Center, Inc. www.prochoiceresource.org/html/info/primer.htm
Loh, Penn. 1993. Border-patrol Ecology. San Francisco Bay Guardian. December 1.
Loh, Penn. 1995. Creating an Environment of Blame: Anti-Immigrant Forces Seek to Woo Environmentalists. Resist Newsletter, 5:10. Somerville, MA: RESIST.
National Council for Research on Women’s Issues Quarterly. 1995. The Feminization of Immigration. New York: National Council for Research on Women, 1:5.
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. 2000. Hands that Shape the World: Report on the Conditions of Immigrant Women in the U.S. Five Years after the Beijing Conference. Oakland, CA: National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. www.nnirr.org
Nationwide Women’s Program, American Friends Service Committee. 1996. Hear Our Voices: A Resource Directory of Immigrant and Refugee Women’s Projects. Philadelphia, PA: American Friends Service Committee.
Perea, Juan ed. 1997. Immigrants Out! New York and London: New York University Press.
Sassen, Saskia. 1988. The Mobility of Labor and Capital. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Nov/Dec 1995. The Immigration Backlash. NACLA Report on the Americas, 29:3.
Caldecott, Leonie and Stephane Leland eds. 1983. Reclaim the Earth. London: Women’s Press.
Carson, Rachel. 1962. Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Cockburn, Alexander. 1995. Win-Win Environmentalism. New Left Review.
<p>Crump, Andy. 1991. Dictionary of Environment and Development. London: Earthscan.
Diamond, Irene and Gloria Orenstein eds. 1990. Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
Harrison, David. 1997. Turning a Blind Eye to a Plague of Pollution. Guardian Weekly, June 29.
Hynes, H. Patricia. 1996. A Patch of Eden: America’s Inner-City Gardeners. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Co.
Leach, Melissa and Robin Mearns eds. 1996. The Lie of the Land: Challenging Received Wisdom on the African Environment. Portsmouth, NH: The International African Institute in association with James Curry and Heinemann.
Medecins Sans Frontiers, eds. 1997. World in Crisis: The Politics of Survival at the End of the 20th Century. London: Routledge.
Political Ecology Group and Transnational Resource and Action Center. 1997. The Bromide Barons: Methyl Bromide, Corporate Power, and Environmental Justice. San Francisco: Political Ecology Group. www.igc.org/peg
Rodda, Annabel. 1991. Women and the Environment. London: Zed Books.
Seager, Joni. 1993. Earth Follies: Coming to Feminist Terms with the Global Environmental Crisis. New York: Routledge; London: Earthscan.
Seager, Joni. 1995. The New State of the Earth Atlas, 2nd Edition. London: Penguin; NY: Simon & Schuster.
Shiva, Vandana. 1989. Staying Alive: Women, Ecology & Development. London: Zed Books.
Shiva, Vandana. 1997. Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge. Boston: South End Press.
Abeleda, Randy, Nancy Folbre and the Center for Popular Economics. 1996. The War on the Poor: A Defense Manual. New York: The New Press.
Abramowitz, Mimi. 1988. Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present. Boston, MA: South End Press.
Gordon, Linda ed. 1990. Women, the State, and Welfare. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press.
Judd, Karen. 1999. Opposition Primer: Welfare Reform Update. Port Chester, NY: ProChoice Resource Center, Inc. www.prochoiceresource.org/html/info/primer.htm
Radical America. 1995. Attack on the Unwanted: Immigrants and Welfare Mothers as Social Outcasts. Somerville, MA: Radical America.
GENETIC ENGINEERING, FOOD, AND HUNGER
Barry, T. 1987. Roots of Rebellion: Land and Hunger in Central America. Boston: South End Press.
Corner House Briefing Papers. Briefing 10: Food? Health? Hope? Genetic Engineering and World Hunger, Briefing 16: If Cloning is the Answer, What was the Question?: Power and Decision-Making in the Geneticisation of Health.. Dorset, UK: The Corner House. Available at www.icaap.org/Corherhouse
The Ecologist. 1992. Whose Common Future? Reclaiming the Commons. The Ecologist, 22:3.
Garcia-Barrios, R. and L. Garcia-Barrios. 1990. Environmental and Technological Degradation in Peasant Agriculture: A Consequence of Development in Mexico. World Development, 18:11.
Juma, Calestous. 1989. The Gene Hunters. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Kneen, Brewster. 1999. Farmageddon: Food and the Culture of Biotechnology. Gabriola Is., B.C.: New Society Publishers.
Lappe, Frances Moore. 1986. World Hunger: Twelve Myths. New York: Grove Press.
Lappe;, Marc and Brit Bailey. 1999. Against the Grain: The Genetic Transformation of Agriculture. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press.
The Other Media. 1996. Meals Ready. New Delhi, India: The Other Media.
Rissler, Jane and Margaret Mellon. 1996. The Ecological Risks of Engineered Crops. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Ross, A. 1996. The Lonely Hour of Scarcity. Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, 7:3. September.
Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI). 1999. Traitor Tech: The Terminator’s Wider Implications. RAFI Communique, January/February. Osborne, Canada: RAFI
Vandermeer, John and Ivette Perfecto. 1995. Breakfast of Biodiversity: The Truth About Rain Forest Destruction. Oakland, CA: Food First.
Amnesty International. 1999. Not Part of My Sentence: Violations of the Human Rights of Women in Custody.
Burton-Rose, Daniel, Dan Pens and Paul Wright, eds. 1998. The Ceiling of America: An Inside Look at the U.S. Prison Industry. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press.
Davis, Mike. 1999. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. London, New York: Verso.
Donzinger, Stephen. 1996. The Real War on Crime. New York: Harper Perennial.
Faith, Karlene. 1993. Unruly Women: The Politics of Confinement and Resistance. Vancouver, B.C.: Press Gang Publishers.
Ritchie, Beth. 1996. Compelled to Crime: The Gender Entrapment of Battered Black Women. New York: Routledge.
Rosenblatt, Elihu ed. 1996. Criminal Injustice: Confronting the Prison Crisis. Boston: South End Press.
Russell, Katheryn. 1998. The Color of Crime: Racial Hoaxes, White Fear, Black Protectionism, Police Harassment, and Other Microaggressions. New York: New York University Press.
Turshen, Meredith and Twagiramariya, Clotilde. 1998. Women and Conflict in Africa. London: Zed Books.
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