Library and Printed Resources

The Women's Center Library is open to all faculty, staff and students. You are invited to review our collection of books, magazines, resource guides, periodicals, pamphlets, and brochures. The library has been built through donations from faculty and staff, and purchases by the Women's Center. The Library carries a variety of best-selling novels, self-help, and inspirational books that include:

• Domestic Violence: Why Women Stay
• Feminism & Families
• I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
• My Mother Myself: The Daughter's Search for Identity
• New Passage: Mapping Your Life Across Time
• One Day My Soul Just Opened Up
• Scared to Leave: Afraid to Stay: Paths from Family Violence to Safety
• The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women: A Portable Mentor
• The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
• The Unofficial Guide to Managing Eating Disorders
• The Vagina Monologues
• The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize It and How to Respond
• Woman: An Intimate Geography

Books, magazines, videos, CDs and cassettes can be reviewed at the Center. The Center has a supply of brochures on sexual assault, women's health, eating disorders, gender issues, business development, substance abuse treatment, and various other resources that are free to visitors. Also, the Center has published a Women's Resource Directory that provides information about valuable resources within Philadelphia and its surrounding counties.