SEX ED BAKESHOP

Bookshelf

Welcome to the Bakeshop’s bookshelf, where we’ve curated our favorite resources in the form of articles, books, videos, websites, and more.

This bookshelf is an evolving resource that improves when we share our knowledge. Please send us a note at info@sexedbakeshop.org if there’s anything we’ve missed that we should know about.

Body

  • Andrews, A. A Quick & Easy Guide to Sex & Disability
  • Bruess and Greenberg: Sex Education Theory and Practice
  • Duggan, Lisa. Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture (10th Anniversary Edition).
  • Febos, Melissa. Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
  • Fields, Jessica. Risky Lessons: Sex Education and Social Inequality (Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies).
  • Fleischmann, T. Time is the Thing a Body Moves Through: An Essay
  • Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction.

  • Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Vol. 3: The Care of the Self.

  • Gilbert, Tracie Q. Back and Sexy: A Framework of Racialized Sexuality
  • Gross, Rachel E. Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage.
  • Grossman, Miriam. You’re teaching my child what? : a physician exposes the lies of sex education. Washington. D.C.: Regnery Pub., 2009.

  • Gunter, Dr. Jen. The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism.
  • Hazard, Leah. Womb: The Inside Story of Where We all Began
  • Hooks, bell: Feminism is for Everybody
    Irvine, Janice M. Talk about sex : the battles over sex education in the United
States. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

    Klein, Marty Ph.D. America’s War on Sex: The Attack on Law, Lust and Liberty.
  • Lord, Alexandra M. Condom Nation: The U.S. Government’s Sex Education Campaign from World War I to the Internet.

  • Miller, Saiya and Liza Bley. Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf: A Sex Education Comic Book
    Moran, Jeffrey P. Teaching Sex: The Shaping of Adolescence in the 20th Century.

  • Richardson, Justin , M.D. and Mark A. Schuster, M.D., PH.D. Everything You NEVER Wanted Your Kids to Know about Sex (but were afraid they’d ask).
  • Seidman, Steven. The Social Construction of Sexuality.
  • Silverberg, Cory and Fiona Smyth. Sex is a Funny Word.
  • Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth. What Makes a Baby.
  • Silverberg, Cory and Fiona Smyth. You Know, Sex.
  • Sturino, Katie. Body Talk: How to Embrace Your Body and Start Living Your Best Life
  • Taylor, Sonya Renee. The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
  • Trace, Kaleigh:
Hot Wet & Shaking: How I learned to Talk About Sex

  • Wong, Allison. Disability Visibility: First-person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
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Consent

  • Angel, Katherine. Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again.
  • Creative Interventions Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Stop Interpersonal Violence
  • Friedman, Jaclyn and Valenti, Jessica Eds. Yes Means Yes.
  • Grigoriadis, Vanessa. Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, & Consent on Campus
  • Harper, Faith G. PhD. LPC-S, ACS, ACN. UNF*CK Your Boundaries: Build Better Relationships through Consent, Communication, and Expressing Your Needs
  • Princenthal, Nancy. Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s.
  • Solnit, Rebecca. Men Explain Things to Me.
  • Starblanket, Tamara. Suffer the Little Children: Genocide, Indigenous Nations and the Canadian State.
  • Stryker, Kitty. ASK: Building Consent Culture.
  • Traister, Rebecca. Entitled Men: How Male Privilege Hurts Women.
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Control

  • Chen, Constance M. The sex side of life: Mary Ware Dennett’s pioneering battle for birth control and sex education. New York: New Press, c1996.

  • Gay, Roxane, Not That Bad.

  • Herzog, Dagmar. Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in a Post-Nazi Europe.

  • Hill, Sarah E., PhD. This is Your Brain on Birth Control: How the Pill Changes Everything.

  • Owens, Deirdre Cooper. Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology.

  • Parker, Willie. Life’s Work: A Moral Argument for Choice. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017.

  • Roberts, Dorothy. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty.

  • Ross, Loretta J. and Rickie Solinger. Reproductive Justice: An Introduction

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Identity

  • Anderson, Dianna E. In Transit: Being Non-Binary in a World of Dichotomies

  • Barker, Meg-John and Jules Scheele. QUEER: A Graphic History.

  • Belcourt, Billy-Ray. A History of My Brief Body.

  • Belge, Kathy and Marke Bieschke. QUEER: The Ultimate LGBTQ Guide for Teens (2nd Edition).

  • Binaohan, b. Decolonizing trans/gender 101

  • Bornstein, Kate and S. Bear Bergman. Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation.

  • Brammer, John Paul. ¡Hola Papi!

  • Decker, Julie Sondra. The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality.

  • Feinberg, Leslie. Drag King Dreams

  • Fosss, Sonja K., Domenico, Mary E., and Foss, Karen A. Gender Stories: Negotiating Identity in a Binary World.

  • Freeman, Susan Kathleen. Sex goes to school: girls and sex education before the 1960s. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008.

  • Gay, Roxane. The Selected Works of Audre Lorde.

  • Gottlieb, Iris. Seeing Gender: An Illustrated Guide to Identity and Expression

  • hooks, bell. Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics.

  • Lorde, Audre. Sister Outsider.

  • Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi. OUR WORK IS EVERYWHERE: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer & Trans Resistance.

  • Mans, Jasmine. Black Girl, Call Home-Poems.

  • McBee, Thomas Page: Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man.

  • Miller, Jessie and Barbara Bakos. Rooster Wore Skinny Jeans.

  • Moore, Darnell L. No Ashes in the Fire.

  • Muldoon, Molly and Will Hernandez. A Quick & Easy Guide to Asexuality.

  • Nutt, Amy Ellis. Becoming Nicole

  • Orenstein, Peggy. Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture. New York: Harpers Collins Publishers, 2011.

  • Orenstein, Peggy. Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape. New York: Harpers Collins Publishers, 2016.

  • Patterson, Kevin A. M.ED. Love’s Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities

  • Plante, Rebecca F. Sexualities in Context: A Social Perspective.

  • Petrushevskaya, Ludmilla. The New Adventures of Helen: Magical Tales

  • Podgurski, Dr. Mary Jo: Nonnie Talks about Gender


  • Serano, Julia. Excluded.


  • Serano, Julia. Sexed Up

  • Serano, Julia. Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity.

  • Shaw, Julia. Bi: The Hidden, Culture, history, and science of bisexuality.

  • Sicardi, Arabelle. Queer Heroes: Meet 52 LGBTQ Heroes from Past & Present!

  • Solnit, Rebecca. Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir.

  • Steinke, Rene: Holy Skirts

  • Stombler, Mindy. Sex Matters: The Sexuality and Society Reader (2nd Edition).
“The education of Shelby Knox: sex, lies & education / Incite Pictures presents”; producers, Marion Lipschutz, Rose Rosenblatt ; directors, Dennis Lee, Marion Lipschutz, Rose Rosenblatt.

  • Traister, Rebecca. Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger.

  • Vaid-Menon, Alok. Beyond the Gender Binary

  • Vergés, Francoise. A Decolonial Feminism.

  • West, Lindy. Shrill

  • Williamson, Lisa. The Art of Being Normal. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2016.—Young Adult Fiction

  • Wolf, Tikva. Ask Me About Polyamory! The Best of Kimchi Cuddles.

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Pleasure

  • Allison, Anne. NIGHT WORK: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club

  • Brooks, Siobhan. Unequal Desires: Race and Erotic Capital in the Stripping Industry.

  • Brown, Adrienne Maree. Pleasure Activism: The politics of Feeling Good.

  • Bussel, Rachel Kramer. Curvy Girls: Erotica for Women.

  • Duvert, Tony: Good Sex Illustrated


  • Easton/Hardy: The Ethical Slut

  • Foucault, Michel. Sexuality, Vol. 2: The Use of Pleasure.


  • Harper, Faith G., PHD, LPC-S, ACS, ACN. UNF*CK YOUR INTIMACY: Using Science for Better Relashiops, Sex and Dating.

  • Kwon, R.O. and Garth Greenwell. Kink Stories

  • Mahadev, Ana. A mouthful of Sky.

  • Martin, Ellis and Zach Ozma. We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan- 1961-1991.

  • Troeller, Linda and Marion Schneider. The Erotic Lives of Women

  • Troeller, Linda and Marion Schneider. ORGASM: Photographs and Interviews.

  • Waxman, Jamye. Getting Off: A Woman’s Guide to Masturbation.

  • Winston, Sheri with Carl Frankel. Succulent Sex Craft: Your Hands-on Guide to Erotic Play and Practice for Men and Women, Singles and Partners.

  • Winston, Sheri. Women’s Anatomy of Arousal: Secret Map to Buried Pleasure

  • Young, Madison: Daddy: A Memoir

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