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Equity Library
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The Women in Physics committee has put together a small 
library of books that address equity issues in Canada and the US, some 
focusing on science, others on society at large. We owe a special thanks 
to Auriane Canesse for seeing this project through from conception to 
reality.

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The library is on the new bookshelf in the Rutherford Lounge and the instructions are simple: borrow and read these books, 
try not to hang on to them for more than a month, borrow only one at a 
time. If you would like to suggest additional 
books, email our WiP Coordinator at women.coord@physics.mcgill.ca.

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This is a lending library, so please borrow books and read them at your 
leisure and bring them back when you're done. We have not yet added 
trigger warnings to these offerings, so if you have sensitivity around 
issues connected gender, race, sexual orientation, accessibility, or 
others, please do a quick check on the title of the book before you dive 
in.

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  • Pythagoras Trousers - Margaret Wertheim 

  • Inclusion Dividend: Why Investing in Diversity & Inclusion Pays off – Mark Kaplan 

  • Exile & Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation – Eli Clare 

  • Lab Girl – Hope Jahren  

  • Du côté des petites filles/Little Girls: Social Conditioning and Its Effects on the Stereotyped Role of Women During Infancy  - Elena Gianini Belotti

  • The Inclusion Imperative: How Real Inclusion Creates Better Business and Builds Better Societies – Stephen Frost 

  • Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia - Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. González, & Angela P. Harrisw 

  • The Souls of Black Folk – W.E.B. DuBois 

  • Makes Me Wanna Holler – Nathan McCall 

  • Everything You Know About Indians Is Wrong – Paul Chaat Smith 

  • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie 

  • Do Not Say We Have Nothing – Madeleine Thien 

  • On Beauty – Zadie Smith 

  • Notes from No Man's Land – Eula Biss 

  • Lord, Is This a Pslam? - Jack Agueros 

  • Waking Up White – Debby Irving 

  • Missoula,  Rape and the Justice System in a College Town– Jon Krakauer 

  • The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander 

  • Motherhood, The Elephant in the Laboratory – ed. Emily Monosson 

  • Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates 

  • An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire – Arundhati Roy 

  • The Vagina Monologues – Eve Ensler 

  • Seeing White – Halley, Eshleman, and Vijaya 

  • Ma réserve dans ma chair - Mélanie Loisel 

  • Racialization, Crime and Criminal Justice in Canada – Chan and Chunn 

  • The Warmth of Other Suns – Isabel Wilkerson 

  • The Hanging of Angelique - Afua Cooper 

  • The Glass Universe – Dava Sobel 
     

Titles in the library
Titles in the library
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  • Pythagoras Trousers - Margaret Wertheim 

  • Inclusion Dividend: Why Investing in Diversity & Inclusion Pays off – Mark Kaplan 

  • Exile & Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation – Eli Clare 

  • Lab Girl – Hope Jahren  

  • Du côté des petites filles/Little Girls: Social Conditioning and Its Effects on the Stereotyped Role of Women During Infancy  - Elena Gianini Belotti

  • The Inclusion Imperative: How Real Inclusion Creates Better Business and Builds Better Societies – Stephen Frost 

  • Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia - Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. González, & Angela P. Harrisw 

  • The Souls of Black Folk – W.E.B. DuBois 

  • Makes Me Wanna Holler – Nathan McCall 

  • Everything You Know About Indians Is Wrong – Paul Chaat Smith 

  • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie 

  • Do Not Say We Have Nothing – Madeleine Thien 

  • On Beauty – Zadie Smith 

  • Notes from No Man's Land – Eula Biss 

  • Lord, Is This a Pslam? - Jack Agueros 

  • Waking Up White – Debby Irving 

  • Missoula,  Rape and the Justice System in a College Town– Jon Krakauer 

  • The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander 

  • Motherhood, The Elephant in the Laboratory – ed. Emily Monosson 

  • Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates 

  • An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire – Arundhati Roy 

  • The Vagina Monologues – Eve Ensler 

  • Seeing White – Halley, Eshleman, and Vijaya 

  • Ma réserve dans ma chair - Mélanie Loisel 

  • Racialization, Crime and Criminal Justice in Canada – Chan and Chunn 

  • The Warmth of Other Suns – Isabel Wilkerson 

  • The Hanging of Angelique - Afua Cooper 

  • The Glass Universe – Dava Sobel 
     

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