Brumberg, J.J. (1998). The body project: An intimate history of American girls. New York: Vintage.
In today’s society, identity for women surround what they look like, but why is that? Through a historical perspective, this book shows where this image obsession comes from.

Chesler, P. (2005). Women and madness. (Rev. ed.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Through patient interviews and an analysis of women’s roles in society, Chesler asserts that there is a double standard in women psychology.  She discusses the issues of women and why this needs to be changed.

Chodorow, N. (1978). The reproduction of mothering: psychoanalysis and the sociology of gender. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Discusses the mother-daughter relationship and female psychology in a very thorough way allowing it to be chosen as one of the most influential books in the field.

Gilligan, C. (1993). In a different voice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
In an age when women are being realized as being different from men, psychology was still seeing them as the same until this book.

Jack, Dana Crowley. (1993). Silencing the self: Women and depression. New York, NY: Harper-Collins Publishers, Inc.
Using the stories of depressed women, the reasons why women are more likely than men to be depressed come through with the idea of relationships in these women’s lives.

Nolen- Hoeksema, S. (2002). Gender differences in depression. In Gotlib, I. & Hammen, C. (Eds.), Handbook of depression. New York: Guliford Press
A collection of scholarly opinions of the research and advances in clinical practice with depression, one chapter focusing on the issue of gender.

Orenstein, P. (1994). School girls: Young women, self-esteem and the confidence gap. New York: Doubleday.
The result of years of observation, research, and study of young women to try to determine why their self-esteem is low.

Wolf, N. (2002). The beauty myth: How images of beauty are used against women. New York: Perennial.
In the society today, women are subjected to what the “perfect” women looks like, and it is so unrealistic that many women’s insecurities are heightened due to this constant pressure from the world.