10 Books About Gender Inclusion
Gender equality and inclusion are key themes in Global Sustainable Development. This reading list highlights ten books that explore gender, identity and social justice, helping students connect these issues to sustainability challenges and the GSD curriculum.
1. Butler, J. (2006)Gender trouble: feminism and the subversion of identity. 2nd ed. London: Routledge.
The classic book on gender. In this book, Butler proposes that gender is a social construct, a performance. Although it doesn’t relate directly to GSD, reading this will give you a solid understanding of the social underpinning of gender that will be necessary to investigate this topic beyond just binary genders.