Resources - Books


Interested in learning more? We've compiled an introductory reading list, with all books available at the Hekman Library or your local bookstore.


Books by Calvin Professors

Who's Having This Baby?
Who's Having This Baby
Helen Sterk, et. al.
Drawing on a richly diverse collection of more than 130 interviews, this book brings to life the nagging question of just who is having this baby, anyway?
Great With Child
Debra Rienstra
Written during the months before and after the birth of the author's third child, Great with Child is an honest, funny, and passionate portrait of the everyday developments and profound transformations of motherhood.


Great With Child

Women and Twentieth Century Protestantism
Women and Twentieth Century Protestantism
Margaret Bendroth and Virginia Lieson Brereton, ed.
These smart, vigorous essays run the gamut of historical contexts to probe the meaning and impact of social change on women in the church.
Philosophy, Feminism, and Faith
Ruth Groenhout and Marya Bower, ed.
How can the seemingly separate lives of philosopher, feminist, and follower of a religious tradition come together in one person's life? How does feminism play out in religious or philosophical commitment? Wrestling with answers to these questions, women who balance philosophy, feminism, and faith write about their lives.

 

Philosophy, Feminism, and Faith

Faith and The Family
Faith, Tradition and the Family
Phyllis D. Airhart and Margaret Bendroth, ed.
This exploration offers readers fresh and broad ranges of ways to evaluate their own religious traditions when dealing with issues related to the future of the family.
IVP Women's Bible Commentary

For more resources, visit more extensive bibliographies of gender-related works by Calvin professors.

Other Books

Women and the Bible
God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality
by Phyllis Trible
After Eden : Facing the Challenge of Gender Reconciliation
by Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen, et. al.
Gender, Ethnicity, and Religion: Views from the Other Side
by Rosemary Radford Ruether, ed.
Swallow's Nest : a Feminine Reading of the Psalms
by Marchiene Vroon Rienstra
Feminism and Christianity

Backlash: the Undeclared War Against American Women
by Susan Faludi
Feminism and Christian Ethics
by Susan Frank Parsons
The Power of the Cross: Foundations for a Christian Feminist
by Sally B. Purvis
Feminist Theory and Christian Theology: Cartographies of Grace
by Serene Jones



Masculinity

My Brother's Keeper: What the Social Sciences Do & Don't Tell Us About Masculinity
by Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen
The Men and the Boys
by R.W. Connell
The Masculinities Reader
by Stephen M. Whitehead and Frank J. Barrett, editors