The Other Summer Reading List

Summer break isn't just about lying around reading fat novels by the pool and drinking tequilatinis. No summer break is also when I can catch up on the non-fiction reading that piles up during the academic year. Below is my other summer reading list organized by category:

Girlhood:

• Risky Lessons: Sex Education and Social Inequality - Jessica Fields
• My Little Red Book - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
• Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality & Gendered Violence - Jody Miller
• Hopeful Girls, Troubled Boys: Race and Gender Disparity in Urban Education - Nancy Lopez

Motherhood:

• Do Men Mother?: Fathering, Care and Domestic Responsibility - Andrea Doucet
• The Maternal Is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood and Social Change - Shari McDonald Strong & Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
• Mothers and Illicit Drugs: Transcending the Myths - Susan C. Boyd
• Drug Misuse and Motherhood - Hilary Klee, Marcia Jackson & Suzan Lewis
• Consuming Motherhood - Janelle Taylor, Linda Layne & Danielle Wozniak
• Gender Vertigo: American Families in Transition - Barbara J. Riseman

Women's Health:

• Literary Anatomies: Women's Bodies and Health in Literature - Delese Wear & Lois Lacivita Nixon
• Into Our Own Hands: The Women's Health Movement in the United States, 1969-1990 - Sandra Morgan
• Abortion & Life - Jennifer Baumgarden
• Pushed: The Painful Truth about Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care - Jennifer Block
• Revisioning Women and Drug Use: Gender, Power and the Body - Elizabeth Ettorre

After putting the two lists together I got so excited that I had to start early. So summer break may be 3 weeks away but I'm currently reading one book from each list.