The Barbara DeGenevieve Memorial Library is a collection of books previously owned by Barbara DeGenevieve (1947–2014). Originally housed by Mana Contemporary and open to their community and the public, the collection is now housed at Ohklahomo.
In response to the exhibition, the SAIC Galleries and Flaxman Library at the School of the Art Institute collaborated on a bibliography for the semester including books from DeGenevieve’s library, syllabi, and visiting artists.
Ohklahomo:
Ohklahomo is an experimental performance, sound, art and language space located in Mark Jeffery and Lori Talley’s basement on Iowa Street in Chicago. As of 2023, the space began hosting the library of maverick Barbara DeGenevieve in an effort to allow for response, conversation and activation of her legacy.
Most of the books in the Memorial Library are nonfiction: texts she used as resources for her artwork, or for teaching classes in the department of photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The collection is organized thematically, separated by genres such as philosophy, art history, and gender studies. These themes were important components in research and production of DeGenevieve’s visual works. Her library showcases her thoughts, references, and sources of inspiration.
- The Activist’s Handbook by Randy Shaw
- Queer by William S. Burroughs
- Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
- Valis by Philip K. Dick
- Against the Grain (A Rebours) by J. K. Huysmans
- Dares to Speak: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Boy-Love edited Joseph Geraci
- The Practice of Love: Lesbian Sexuality and Perverse Desire by Teresa de Lauretis
- Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories edited by Diana Fuss
- Secret Publicity: Essays on Contemporary Art by Sven Lütticken
- The Sadomasochism of Everyday Life: Why We Hurt Ourselves—And Others—And How to Stop by John Munder
- The Critical Image: Essays on Contemporary Photography edited by Carol Squiers
- Words Without Pictures
- A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
- Poetry: An Introduction by Jeffrey D. Hoeper and James H. Pickering
- Bad Girls & Dirty Pictures: The Challenge to Reclaim Feminism by Alison Assiter & Avedon Carol
- The Freud Reader edited by Peter Gay
- Art and Morality edited by José Luis Bermúdez and Sebastian Gardner
- Taking It Like a Man: White Masculinity, Masochism, and Contemporary American Culture by David Savran
- The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader edited by Henry Abelove, Michèle Aina Barale, and David M. Halperin
- Photography: What’s the Law?: How the photographer and the user of photographs can protect themselves by Robert M. Cavallo and Stuart Kahan
- Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women’s Rights by Nadine Strossen
- Polysexuality edited by François Peraldi
- Fetishism as Cultural Discourse edited by Emily Apter & William Pietz
- The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty by Dave Hickey
- Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment by Jane Gallop
- Counter-Blast by Marshall McLuhan
- The Invention of Pornography: Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity, 1500-1800 edited Lynn Hunt
- Abuses by Alphonso Lingis
- Pornography and Difference by Berkeley Kaite
- Ecstasy Unlimited: On Sex, Capital, Gender, and Aesthetics by Laura Kipnis
- Bodies Under Siege: Self-mutilation in Culture and Psychiatry by Armando R. Favazza
- Social Text 37
- The Contest of Meaning: Critical Histories of Photography edited by Richard Bolton
- L‘Amour Fou: Photography & Surrealism by Rosalind Krauss and Jane Livingston
- Shock Treatment by Karen Finley
- The Age of Sex Crime by Jane Caputi
- Overexposed: Treating Sexual Perversion in America by Sylvère Lotringer
- Reality Isn’t What It Used To Be: Theatrical Politics, Ready-To-Wear Religion, Global Myths, Primitive Chic, and Other Wonders of the Postmodern World by Walter Truett Anderson
- Remarks on Colour by Ludwig Wittgenstein
- The Edge of The Bed: How Dirty Pictures Changed My Life by Lisa Palac
- Project Cheap
- The Classing Gaze: Sexuality, Class and Surveillance by Lynette Finch
- Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy: A Guide to America’s Censorship Wars by Marjorie Heins
- Spanking the Maid by Robert Coover
- Sexual Sameness: Textual Differences in Lesbian and Gay Writing edited by Joseph Bristow
- Performance & Cultural Politics edited by Elin Diamond
- Sin and Fear: The Emergence of a Western Guilt Culture 13th-18th Centuries by Jean Delumeau
- Personals: Portraits of Real People and Their Personal Ads!
- New Sexual Agendas edited by Lynne Segal
- The Sex Which Is Not One by Luce Irigaray
- Subversive Intent: Gender, Politics, and the Avant-Garde by Susan Rubin Suleiman
- A Century of Gay Erotica by Phil Andros, Samuel R. Delany, John Preston, Larry Townsend and Aaron Travis
- Dissemination by Jacques Derrida
- Sexual Dissidence: Augustine to Wilde, Freud to Foucault by Jonathan Dollimore
- Roland Barthes by Michael Moriarty
- Discontents: New Queer Writers edited by Dennis Cooper
- XY: On Masculine Identity by Elisabeth Badinter
- Global Sex by Dennis Altman
- The Subversive Imagination: Artists, Society, & Social Responsibility edited by Carol Becker (x2)
- Pornocopia: Porn, Sex, Technology and Desire by Laurence O’Toole
- Skin: A Natural History by Nina G. Jablonski
- Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations by bell hooks
- Female Nude: Art, Obscenity and Sexuality by Lynda Nead
- 120 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature by Nicholas J. Karolides, Margaret Bald, and Dawn B. Sova
- Feminism and Psychoanalysis edited by Richard Feldstein and Judith Roof
- Arts in Crisis: The National Endowment for the Arts Versus America by Joseph Wesley Zeigler
- Signs of the Flesh by Daniel Rancour-Laferriere
- The Censored War: American Visual Experience During World War Two by George H. Roeder, Jr.
- Latent Image: The Discovery of Photography by Beaumont Newhall
- Feminist Theory: The Intellectual Traditions of American Feminism by Josephine Donovan
- Bodies of Work: Essays by Kathy Acker
- Appropriation edited by David Evans
- Lustmord: The Writings and Artifacts of Murders edited by Brian King
- Nova Express by William S. Burroughs
- Push Comes to Shove: New Images of Aggressive Women by Maud Lavin
- Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic by Terry Eagleton
- How Class Works: Power and Social Movement by Stanley Aronowitz
- Laughing Screaming: Modern Hollywood Horror & Comedy by William Paul
- With Pleasure: Thoughts on the Nature of Human Sexuality by Paul R. Abramson and Steven D. Pinkerton
- Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art by Julia Kristeva, edited by Leon S. Roudiez
- Storytown: Stories by Susan Daitch
- One of the Guys: Women as Aggressors and Tortures edited by Tara McKelvey
- Good Looking: Essays on the Virtue of Images by Barbara Maria Stafford
- A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud
- Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays by Stephen Hawking
- Dirty Looks: Women, Pornography, Power edited by Pamela Church Gibson and Roma Gibson
- Risk/Riesgo 2, no. 3
- Violence and the Sacred by René Girard
- The Desire to Desire: The Woman’s Film of the 1940’s by Mary Ann Doane
- Thinking the Body by Jane Gallop
- A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis by David M. Friedman
- Veronica’s Revenge: Contemporary Perspectives on Photography edited by Elizabeth Janus
- Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children From Sex by Judith Levine
- 100 Years of Erotica: A Pornographic Portfolio of Mainstream American Culture from 1845-1945 by Paul Aratow
- Between the Body and the Flesh by Lynda Hart
- In the Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification by Victoria Pitts
- The Body and The Lens: Photography 1839 to the Present by John Pultz
- The Man Question: Visions of Subjectivity in Feminist Theory by Kathy E. Ferguson
- Sexual Meanings: The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality by Sherry B. Ortner and Harriet Whitehead
- The Invention of Heterosexuality by Jonathan Ned Katz
- Feminists Theorize the Political edited by Judith Butler and Joan W. Scott
- Her Tongue on My Theory: Images, Essays, and Fantasies by Kiss & Tell
- The Cult of Information: The Folklore of Computers and the True Art of Thinking by Theodore Roszak
- Supposing the Subject edited by Joan Copjec
- Naked Ambition: Women Who Are Changing Pornography edited by Carly Milne
- Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting by James R. Kincaid
- Male Subjectivity at the Margins by Kaja Silverman
- Running Scared: Masculinity and the Representation of the Male Body by Peter Lehman
- Sexual Consent by David Archard
- Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
- The Art Lover by Carole Maso
- Body Guards: The Cultural Politics of Gender Ambiguity edited by Julia Epstein and Kristina Straub
- Virtual Gender: Fantasies of Subjectivity and Embodiment edited by Mary Ann O’Farrell & Lynne Vallone
- Arguing with the Phallus: Feminist, Queer, and Postcolonial Theory by Jan Campbell
- Body Transformations: Evolutions and Atavisms in Culture by Alphonso Lingis
- Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture by Jonathan Crary
- Erotic Faculties by Joanna Frueh
- Naked Las Vegas by Greg Friedler
- The Aesthetics of Disappearance by Paul Virilio
- Body Art/Performing the Subject by Amelia Jones
- Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life
- The Woman in Question edited by Parveen Adams and Elizabeth Cowie
- Sex Exposed: Sexuality and the Pornography Debate edited by Lynne Segal and Mary McIntosh
- Feminism & Pornography by Drucilla Cornell
- Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
- The Hysterical Male: New Feminist Theory edited by Arthur Kroker and Marilouise Kroker
- Sublime Surrender: Male Masochism at the Fin-De-Siècle by Suzanne R. Stewart
- Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
- Sex & Sensibility: Reflections on Forbidden Mirrors and the Will to Censor by Marcia Pally
- The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography by Angela Carter
- Discourses of Sexuality: From Aristotle to AIDS edited by Domna C. Stanton
- Fatal Women: Lesbian Sexuality and the Mark of Aggression by Lynda Hart
- Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century by John Boswell
- Building Bodies edited Pamela L. Moore
- White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art by Maurice Berger
- Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race by K. Anthony Appiah and may Gutmann
- Am I Black Enough for You?: Popular Culture From the ‘Hood and Beyond by Todd Boyd
- Feminism Without Women: Culture and Criticism in a ‘Postfeminist’ Age by Tania Modleski
- The Sexual Brain by Simon LeVay
- Pornography: Film and Culture edited by Peter Lehman
- Prosthetic Culture: Photography, Memory and Identity by Celia Lury
- From Mastery to Analysis: Theories of Gender in Psychoanalytic Feminism by Patricia Elliot
- The Pornography of Power by Lionel Rubinoff
- Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
- The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution by Shulamith Firestone
- Child-Loving: The Erotic Child and Victorian Culture by James R. Kincaid
- Sex, Laws, and Cyberspace: Freedom and Censorship on the Frontiers of the Online Revolution by Jonathan Wallace and Mark Mangan
- Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex” by Judith Butler
- Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory by Toril Moi
- Pornified: How Pornography is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families by Pamela Paul
- Grotesque: Natural Historical & Formaldehyde Photography
- The Dictionary of Feminist Theory by Maggie Humm
- The Feminine Sublime: Gender and Excess in Women’s Fiction by Barbara Claire Freeman
- XXX: A Woman’s Right to Pornography by Wendy McElroy
- Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings by Marquis De Sade