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Emotions, Feelings, and Mindset
Auyoung, E. (2018). When Fiction Feels Real: Representation and the Reading Mind. New York: Oxford University Press.
Farley, M. (2008). Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Gender and Women's Bodies (Hormones, Menstrual Cycles, and more)
Boehm, M. (2021). The Wild Woman's Way: Reconnect to Your Body's Wisdom. United States: Atria/Enliven Books.
Brotto, L. A. (n.d.). Better Sex Through Mindfulness: How Women Can Cultivate Desire. United States: Greystone Books.
Cooper, B. (2018). Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower. United States: St. Martin's Publishing Group.
Gay, R. (2014). Bad Feminist: Essays. United States: HarperCollins.
Heiman, J., LoPiccolo, J. (1987). Becoming Orgasmic: A Sexual and Personal Growth Program for Women. United Kingdom: Atria Books.
Li, D., Zhang, L., & Wang, X. (2022). The Effect of Menstrual Cycle Phases on Approach-Avoidance Behaviors in Women: Evidence from Conscious and Unconscious Processes. Brain sciences, 12(10), 1417. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12101417
Mintz, L. (2017). Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters--And How to Get It. United States: HarperCollins.
Shimoda, R., Campbell, A., & Barton, R. A. (2018). Women’s emotional and sexual attraction to men across the menstrual cycle. Behavioral Ecology, 29(1), 51-59. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arx124
Gay, R. (2017). Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. United Kingdom: HarperCollins.
Learning and Cognition
Bashford, L., Rosenthal, I., Kellis, S., Pejsa, K., Kramer, D., Lee, B., Liu, C., & Andersen, R. A. (2021). The Neurophysiological Representation of Imagined Somatosensory Percepts in Human Cortex. The Journal of neuroscience: the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 41(10), 2177–2185. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2460-20.2021
Race, DEIBs, and Social Justice
Bowen, S. (2021). Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist. United States: HarperCollins.
Baldwin, J. (2013). Nobody Knows My Name. United States: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
DiAngelo, R. J., DiAngelo, D. R. (2018). White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. Germany: Beacon Press.
Doukhan, A. (2020). Womanist Wisdom in the Song of Songs: Secrets of an African Princess. Germany: Springer International Publishing.
Hill, J. (2022). Uphill: A Memoir. United Kingdom: Henry Holt and Company.
Kendi, I. X. (2019). How to Be an Antiracist. United States: Random House Publishing Group.
Mahdi, T. C. (2018). Membership vs. being of the community: A qualitative study of the Go-Go music-cultural community (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from http://tahiramahdi.com/a-qualitative-study-of-the-go-go-musiccultural-community/
Metzl, J. M. (2019). Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland. United States: Basic Books.
Roberts, D. (2014). Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty. United Kingdom: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
Spirituality (various Religious Traditions)
Li, D., Zhang, L., & Wang, X. (2022). The Effect of Menstrual Cycle Phases on Approach-Avoidance Behaviors in Women: Evidence from Conscious and Unconscious Processes. Brain sciences, 12(10), 1417. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12101417
Shimoda, R., Campbell, A., & Barton, R. A. (2018). Women’s emotional and sexual attraction to men across the menstrual cycle. Behavioral Ecology, 29(1), 51-59. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arx124