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24 titles for readers of When I Knew by Robert Trachtenberg, selected for shared themes: Gender Studies and Social Science.

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Queer Communication Pedagogy — Ahmet Atay

Queer Communication Pedagogy

Themes: Gender Studies • Social Science

The Fear of the Feminine and Other Essays on Feminine Psychology — Erich Neumann

The Fear of the Feminine and Other Essays on Feminine Psychology

Themes: Gender Studies • Social Science

Negotiating Marriage, Family and Work Experiences of Middle Class Egyptian Women — Dahlia Tawhid Roque

Negotiating Marriage, Family and Work Experiences of Middle Class Egyptian Women

Dahlia Tawhid Roque

Themes: Gender Studies • Social Science

Conjugal Rights Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon — Rachel Jean-Baptiste

Conjugal Rights Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon

Rachel Jean-Baptiste

Themes: Gender Studies • Social Science

Inventing the American Woman: To 1877 — Glenda Riley

Inventing the American Woman: To 1877

Themes: Gender Studies • Social Science

Women’s Political Representation in Iran and Turkey Demanding a Seat at the Table — Mona Tajali

Women’s Political Representation in Iran and Turkey Demanding a Seat at the Table

Themes: Gender Studies • Social Science

Women, Politics and the Public Sphere — Ann Brooks

Women, Politics and the Public Sphere

Themes: Gender Studies • Social Science

Lesbian Rabbis The First Generation — Rebecca Trachtenberg Alpert

Lesbian Rabbis The First Generation

Rebecca Trachtenberg Alpert

Themes: Gender Studies • Social Science

Woman An Intimate Geography — Natalie Angier

Woman An Intimate Geography

Themes: Gender Studies • Social Science

Outrageous Practices How Gender Bias Threatens Women’s Health — Leslie Laurence

Outrageous Practices How Gender Bias Threatens Women’s Health

Leslie Laurence

Themes: Gender Studies • Social Science

Guyland The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men — Michael Kimmel

Guyland The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men

Themes: Gender Studies • Social Science

Perverse Romanticism Aesthetics and Sexuality in Britain, 1750–1832 — Richard C. Sha

Perverse Romanticism Aesthetics and Sexuality in Britain, 1750–1832

Themes: Gender Studies • Social Science

Race, Gender, and Identity in American Equine Art 1832 to the Present — Jessica Dallow

Race, Gender, and Identity in American Equine Art 1832 to the Present

Themes: Gender Studies • Social Science

Women, Men, and Society — Claire M. Renzetti

Women, Men, and Society

Claire M. Renzetti

Themes: Gender Studies • Social Science

The Riddle Of Gender Science, Activism, And Transgender Rights — Deborah Rudacille

The Riddle Of Gender Science, Activism, And Transgender Rights

Deborah Rudacille

Themes: Gender Studies • Social Science

The Apartment Plot Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975 — Pamela Robertson Wojcik

The Apartment Plot Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975

Pamela Robertson Wojcik

Themes: Gender Studies • Social Science

Beyond Romance — M. C. Dillon

Themes: Gender Studies • Social Science

Rereading Sex Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America — Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

Rereading Sex Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

Themes: Gender Studies • Social Science

Gender-play in the Hebrew Bible The Ways the Bible Challenges Its Gender Norms — Amy Kalmanofsky

Gender-play in the Hebrew Bible The Ways the Bible Challenges Its Gender Norms

Amy Kalmanofsky

Themes: Gender Studies • Social Science

Women Writers and the English Nation in the 1790s Romantic Belongings — Angela Keane

Women Writers and the English Nation in the 1790s Romantic Belongings

Themes: Gender Studies • Social Science

Reproductive Disruptions Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millennium — Marcia C. Inhorn

Reproductive Disruptions Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millennium

Marcia C. Inhorn

Themes: Gender Studies • Social Science

Mismatch The Growing Gulf Between Women and Men — Andrew Hacker

Mismatch The Growing Gulf Between Women and Men

Themes: Gender Studies • Social Science

Yuming’s The 14th Moon — Lasse Lehtonen

Yuming’s The 14th Moon

Themes: Gender Studies • Social Science

Women’s Rights in the USA Policy Debates and Gender Roles — Dorothy E. McBride

Women’s Rights in the USA Policy Debates and Gender Roles

Dorothy E. McBride

Themes: Gender Studies • Social Science

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Gender Studies, Social Science — the same threads that run through When I Knew by Robert Trachtenberg. Among the authors featured: Ahmet Atay, Erich Neumann, Dahlia Tawhid Roque, Rachel Jean-Baptiste, and others.

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