New Books in Women's History

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Discussions with scholars of women's history about their new books

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Sarah A. Bendall, "Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body and Women in Early Modern England" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Apr 28, 2024
Leigh Gilmore, "The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Apr 27, 2024
Stitching Freedom: Embroidery and Incarceration
Apr 25, 2024
Julie Peakman, "Libertine London: Sex in the Eighteenth-Century Metropolis" (Reaktion, 2024)
Apr 22, 2024
Diana Chapman Walsh, "The Claims of Life: A Memoir" (MIT Press, 2023)
Apr 21, 2024
Jessica Cox, "Confinement: The Hidden History of Maternal Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Britain" (The History Press, 2023)
Apr 21, 2024
Tanisha Ford, "Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement" (Amistad Press, 2024)
Apr 19, 2024
Eve Golden, "Strictly Dynamite: The Sensational Life of Lupe Velez" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
Apr 17, 2024
Philip Freeman, "Two Lives of Saint Brigid" (Four Courts Press, 2024)
Apr 17, 2024
Liz Tregenza, "Wholesale Couture: London and Beyond, 1930-70" (Bloombury, 2023)
Apr 17, 2024
Kerry Wallach, "Traces of a Jewish Artist: The Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Apr 16, 2024
Miss Tibet: Representing Tibet through Beauty Pageants
Apr 12, 2024
Xiaofei Kang, "Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942-1953" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Apr 09, 2024
Sarah Horowitz, "The Red Widow: The Scandal That Shook Paris and the Woman Behind It All" (Sourcebooks, 2022)
Apr 05, 2024
Leah Broad, "Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World" (Faber & Faber, 2023)
Apr 05, 2024
Naomi Cahn, et al., "Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
Apr 03, 2024
Marie de Vignerot, Richelieu's Forgotten Advisor and Heiress
Apr 02, 2024
Rina Verma Williams, "Marginalized, Mobilized, Incorporated: Women and Religious Nationalism in Indian Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Apr 02, 2024
Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt, "Boardinghouse Women: How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America" (UNC Press, 2023)
Mar 31, 2024
William W. Parsons and Regina M. Matheson, "The Pink Wave: Women Running for Office After Trump" (NYU Press, 2023)
Mar 26, 2024
Maggie Hennefeld, "Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Mar 25, 2024
Heather Akou, "On the Job: A History of American Work Uniforms" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Mar 21, 2024
Amy Absher, "Fritzie: The Invented Life and Violent Murder of a Flapper" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)
Mar 21, 2024
Coretta M. Pittman, "Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
Mar 19, 2024
The Pioneering Life of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Mar 18, 2024
Nancy Folbre, "The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems: An Intersectional Political Economy" (Verso, 2021)
Mar 18, 2024
Caitlin Davies, "Private Inquiries: The Secret History of Female Sleuths" (The History Press, 2023)
Mar 17, 2024
Tayo Agunbiade, "Untold Histories of Nigerian Women: Emerging from the Margins" (Cambridge Scholars, 2023)
Mar 14, 2024
Rebecca Rego Barry, "The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells" (Post Hill Press, 2024)
Mar 12, 2024
Judith Tick, "Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song" (Norton, 2023)
Mar 12, 2024
Sofia Rehman, "Gendering the Hadith Tradition: Recentering the Authority of Aisha, Mother of the Believers" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Mar 12, 2024
Sharon D. Wright Austin, "Political Black Girl Magic: The Elections and Governance of Black Female Mayors" (Temple UP, 2023)
Mar 11, 2024
Jad Adams, "Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
Mar 10, 2024
Raanan Rein and Susanne Zepp-Zwirner, "Untold Stories of the Spanish Civil War" (Routledge, 2024)
Mar 10, 2024
Edda Fields-Black, "Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 07, 2024
Ben Rothenberg, "Naomi Osaka: Her Journey to Finding Her Power and Her Voice" (Dutton, 2024)
Mar 07, 2024
Horace J. Maxile, Jr. and Kristen M. Turner, "Race and Gender in the Western Music History Survey: A Teacher's Guide" (Routledge, 2022)
Feb 27, 2024
Judith Pearson, "Crusade to Heal America: The Remarkable Life of Mary Lasker" (Mayo Clinic Press, 2023)
Feb 27, 2024
Angela Wanhalla, "Of Love and War: Pacific Brides of World War II" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Feb 25, 2024
Simon Partner, "Koume's World: The Life and Work of a Samurai Woman Before and After the Meiji Restoration" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Feb 22, 2024
Tom Hamilton, "A Widow's Vengeance After the Wars of Religion: Gender and Justice in Renaissance France" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Feb 19, 2024
Sarah Parry Myers, "Earning Their Wings: The WASPs of World War II and the Fight for Veteran Recognition" (UNC Press, 2023)
Feb 16, 2024
Alison M. Downham Moore, "The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women's Ageing" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 14, 2024
Anru Lee, "Haunted Modernities: Gender, Memory, and Placemaking in Postindustrial Taiwan" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
Feb 09, 2024
Brydie Kosmina, "Feminist Afterlives of the Witch: Popular Culture, Memory, Activism" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
Feb 06, 2024
Courtney Brannon Donoghue, "The Value Gap: Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Feb 04, 2024
Georgina Hickey, "Breaking the Gender Code: Women and Urban Public Space in the Twentieth-Century United States" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Feb 02, 2024
Robin Judd, "Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust" (UNC Press, 2023)
Feb 02, 2024
Emma Bridges, "Warriors' Wives: Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Experience" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Feb 01, 2024
Black Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education
Feb 01, 2024
Why are there more women in parliament than ever before, and does it matter?
Jan 31, 2024
Why are there more women in parliament than ever before, and does it matter?
Jan 31, 2024
Eviane Leidig, "The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Jan 31, 2024
Holly A. Baggett, "Making No Compromise: Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, and the Little Review" (Northern Illinois UP, 2023)
Jan 30, 2024
Caitlin Killian, "Failing Moms: Social Condemnation and Criminalization of Mothers" (Polity Press, 2023)
Jan 29, 2024
Elinor Cleghorn, "Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World" (Dutton, 2022)
Jan 28, 2024
David J. Brick, "Widows Under Hindu Law" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 25, 2024
Genevieve Alva Clutario, "Beauty Regimes: A History of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898-1941" (Duke UP, 2023)
Jan 25, 2024
Eugenio Refini, "Staging the Soul: Allegorical Drama as Spiritual Practice in Baroque Italy" (Legenda, 2022)
Jan 25, 2024
Catherine Powell-Warren, "Gender and Self-Fashioning at the Intersection of Art and Science: Agnes Block, Botany, and Networks in the Dutch 17th Century" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
Jan 22, 2024
Chelsea Schields, "Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean" (U California Press, 2023)
Jan 21, 2024
Jessica Goethals, "Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
Jan 20, 2024
Aimee Loiselle, "Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class" (UNC Press, 2023)
Jan 17, 2024
Sujin Lee, "Wombs of Empire: Population Discourses and Biopolitics in Modern Japan" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Jan 17, 2024
Emma Gleadhill, "Taking Travel Home: The Souvenir Culture of British Women Tourists, 1750-1830" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Jan 16, 2024
Elisabeth Gernerd, "The Modern Venus: Dress, Underwear and Accessories in the Late 18th-Century Atlantic World" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jan 14, 2024
Matthew Kennedy, "On Elizabeth Taylor: An Opinionated Guide" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jan 10, 2024
Ayelet Brinn, "A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press" (NYU Press, 2023)
Jan 09, 2024
Sara Rahnama, "The Future Is Feminist: Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Jan 07, 2024
Women and the Body in Buddhism
Jan 07, 2024
Amy Von Lintel, "Georgia O'Keeffe's Wartime Texas Letters" (Texas A&M UP, 2020)
Jan 06, 2024
Eileen Botting, "The Wollstonecraftian Mind" (Routledge, 2019)
Jan 06, 2024
Kate Kirkpatrick, "Becoming Beauvoir: A Life" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
Jan 05, 2024
Claire Myers Owens and the Banned Book
Jan 04, 2024
Nilima Chitgopekar, "Shakti: An Exploration of the Divine Feminine" (DK Publishing, 2022)
Jan 04, 2024
Margaret M. McGuinness, "Katharine Drexel and the Sisters Who Shared Her Vision" (Paulist Press, 2023)
Jan 03, 2024
Katherine M. Marino, "Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement" (UNC Press, 2019)
Jan 03, 2024
John Christopoulos, "Abortion in Early Modern Italy" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Jan 01, 2024
James Keating, "Distant Sisters: Australasian Women and the International Struggle for the Vote, 1880-1914" (Manchester UP, 2020)
Dec 31, 2023
Vanessa R. Sasson, "The Gathering: A Story of the First Buddhist Women" (Equinox, 2023)
Dec 30, 2023
Ralph H. Craig, "Dancing in My Dreams: A Spiritual Biography of Tina Turner" (Eerdmans, 2023)
Dec 29, 2023
Alice Collett, "Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns: Biographies as History" (Oxford UP, 2016)
Dec 26, 2023
Nobuko Ishitate-Okunomiya Yamasaki, "Prostitutes, Hostesses, and Actresses at the Edge of the Japanese Empire" (Routledge, 2023)
Dec 25, 2023
Michelle J. Manno, "Denied: Women, Sports, and the Contradictions of Identity" (NYU Press, 2023)
Dec 23, 2023
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin, "Charm Offensive: Commodifying Femininity in Postwar France" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
Dec 22, 2023
Adrienne E. Strong, "Documenting Death: Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania" (U California Press, 2020)
Dec 21, 2023
Helen Louise Cowie, "Victims of Fashion: Animal Commodities in Victorian Britain" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Dec 21, 2023
Elise Hu, "Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital" (Dutton, 2023)
Dec 21, 2023
Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff, "Basketball Empire: France and the Making of a Global NBA and WNBA" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Dec 19, 2023
Sara Chatfield, "In Her Own Name: The Politics of Women’s Rights Before Suffrage" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Dec 18, 2023
Sisterhood
Dec 16, 2023
Caroline J. Smith, "Season to Taste: Rewriting Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women's Food Memoirs" (U Mississippi Press, 2023)
Dec 14, 2023
Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez, "An American Icon in Puerto Rico: Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play" (Berghahn Books, 2022)
Dec 08, 2023
Self Help
Dec 07, 2023
Susan Blumberg-Kason, "Bernardine's Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China" (Post Hill Press, 2023)
Dec 07, 2023
Fae Dussart, "In the Service of Empire: Domestic Service and Mastery in Metropole and Colony" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Dec 07, 2023
Hidden No More: A Conversation with Space Suit Technician Sharon McDougle
Dec 07, 2023
Hannah Carlson, "Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close" (Algonquin Books, 2023)
Dec 06, 2023
Simon Joyce, "LGBT Victorians: Sexuality and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Archives" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Dec 05, 2023
Linda Eckert, "Enough: Because We Can Stop Cervical Cancer" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Dec 05, 2023
Jonathan D. Fitzgerald, "How the News Feels: The Empathic Power of Literary Journalists" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
Dec 04, 2023
Barbara D. Savage, "Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar" (Yale UP, 2023)
Dec 03, 2023
Charlotte Al-Khalili, "Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian Displacement, Time and Subjectivity (UCL Press, 2023)
Nov 28, 2023
E. T. Dailey, "Radegund: The Trials and Triumphs of a Merovingian Queen" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Nov 26, 2023
Diane Carol Fujino, "Nisei Radicals: The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake" (U Washington Press, 2020)
Nov 25, 2023
Sarah E. Stoller, "Inventing the Working Parent: Work, Gender, and Feminism in Neoliberal Britain" (MIT Press, 2023)
Nov 24, 2023
Tabitha Stanmore, "Love Spells and Lost Treasure: Service Magic in England from the Later Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 24, 2023
Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine et al., "When Will the Joy Come?: Black Women in the Ivory Tower" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
Nov 23, 2023
Amy Harris, "Being Single in Georgian England: Families, Households, and the Unmarried" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Nov 21, 2023
Heather Smith-Cannoy et al., "Sex Trafficking and Human Rights: The Status of Women and State Responses" (Georgetown UP, 2022)
Nov 16, 2023
Kimberley Ens Manning, "The Party Family: Revolutionary Attachments and the Gendered Origins of State Power in China" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Nov 16, 2023
Beatriz Nascimento, "The Dialectic Is in the Sea: The Black Radical Thought of Beatriz Nascimento" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Nov 15, 2023
Rebecca Hardie, "Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, and Women in Tenth-Century England" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2021)
Nov 14, 2023
Shelley Fraser Mickle, "White House Wild Child: How Alice Roosevelt Broke All the Rules and Won the Heart of America" (Imagine, 2023)
Nov 11, 2023
Ralph H. Craig III, "Dancing in My Dreams: A Spiritual Biography of Tina Turner" (Eerdmans, 2023)
Nov 10, 2023
Vanessa R. Sasson, "The Gathering: A Story of the First Buddhist Women" (Equinox, 2023)
Nov 08, 2023
Kathleen Mcphillips and Naomi Goldenberg, "The End of Religion: Feminist Reappraisals of the State" (Routledge, 2020)
Nov 08, 2023
Shannon McKenna Schmidt, "The First Lady of World War II: Eleanor Roosevelt's Daring Journey to the Frontlines and Back" (Sourcebooks, 2023)
Nov 06, 2023
David Alan Parnell, "Belisarius & Antonina: Love and War in the Age of Justinian" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Nov 04, 2023
Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale, "Why Men?: A Human History of Violence and Inequality" (Hurst, 2023)
Nov 03, 2023
Jacqueline R. Braitman, "She Damn Near Ran the Studio: The Extraordinary Lives of Ida R. Koverman" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
Nov 02, 2023
Sharony Green, "The Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Nov 01, 2023
Marion Gibson, "Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials" (Scribner, 2023)
Oct 31, 2023
Leonie Hannan, "A Culture of Curiosity: Science in the Eighteenth-Century Home" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Oct 30, 2023
Nikki M. Taylor, "Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Oct 28, 2023
Stuart McHardy, "The Nine Maidens: Priestesses of the Ancient World" (Luath Press, 2023)
Oct 26, 2023
Réka Máté, "Portrayals of Women in Pakistan: An Analysis of Fahmīdah Riyāẓ's Urdu Poetry" (de Gruyter, 2023)
Oct 26, 2023
Margaret K. Nelson, "Keeping Family Secrets: Shame and Silence in Memoirs from the 1950s" (NYU Press, 2022)
Oct 24, 2023
Özge Yaka, "Fighting for the River: Gender, Body, and Agency in Environmental Struggles" (U California Press, 2023)
Oct 23, 2023
Rosie Harte, "The Royal Wardrobe: Peek into the Wardrobes of History's Most Fashionable Royals" (Headline, 2023)
Oct 22, 2023
Livia Arndal Woods, "Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
Oct 18, 2023
Elena Serrano, "Ladies of Honor and Merit. Gender, Useful Knowledge, and Politics in Enlightened Spain" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)
Oct 18, 2023
Gina A. Zurlo, "Women in World Christianity: Building and Sustaining a Global Movement" (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023)
Oct 16, 2023
Victoria Houseman, "American Classicist: The Life and Loves of Edith Hamilton" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Oct 15, 2023
Kristen Green, "The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail" (Seal Press, 2022)
Oct 14, 2023
Anne Duggan, "The Lost Princess: Women Writers and the History of Classic Fairy Tales" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
Oct 14, 2023
Helen Rappaport, "In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Black Cultural Icon" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
Oct 13, 2023
Alejandra Dubcovsky, "Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South" (Yale UP, 2023)
Oct 13, 2023
Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, "The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn" (UNC Press, 2023)
Oct 10, 2023
Gültan Kışanak, "The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics: Women Politicians Write from Prison" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Oct 10, 2023
Oluwatomisin Olayinka Oredein, "The Theology of Mercy Amba Oduyoye: Ecumenism, Feminism, and Communal Practice" (U Notre Dame Press, 2023)
Oct 08, 2023
Stephanie R. Larson, "What It Feels Like: Visceral Rhetoric and the Politics of Rape Culture" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)
Oct 08, 2023
Chrissy Yee Lau, "New Women of Empire: Gendered Politics and Racial Uplift in Interwar Japanese America" (U Washington Press, 2022)
Oct 08, 2023
Arunima Datta, "Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Oct 07, 2023
Stephenie Foster and Susan A. Markham, "Feminist Foreign Policy in Theory and in Practice" (Routledge, 2023)
Oct 07, 2023
Charlotte Gray, "Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
Oct 07, 2023
Melissa Estes Blair, "Bringing Home the White House: The Hidden History of Women Who Shaped the Presidency in the Twentieth Century" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
Oct 06, 2023
James N. Druckman and Elizabeth A. Sharrow, "Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX's Policy Design Undermines Change to College Sports" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Oct 05, 2023
Laura Gowing, "Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Oct 05, 2023
Nan Turner, "Clothing Goes to War: Creativity Inspired by Scarcity in World War II" (Intellect Books, 2022)
Oct 05, 2023
Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar, "Against High-Caste Polygamy: An Annotated Translation" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Oct 04, 2023
Ronna Detrick, "Rewriting Eve: Rescuing Women’s Stories from the Bible and Reclaiming Them as Our Own" (She Writes Press, 2023)
Oct 03, 2023
Janet Somerville, "Yours, for Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love and War 1930-1949" (Firefly Books, 2022)
Oct 03, 2023
Rebecca J. Fraser, "Black Female Intellectuals in 19th Century America: Born to Bloom Unseen?" (Routledge, 2022)
Oct 01, 2023
Rachel Elior, "The Unknown History of Jewish Women Through the Ages: On Learning and Illiteracy, On Slavery and Liberty" (de Gruyter, 2023)
Sep 29, 2023
Karen Weingarten, "Pregnancy Test" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Sep 27, 2023
Sirpa Salenius, "An Abolitionist Abroad: Sarah Parker Remond in Cosmopolitan Europe" (U Massachusetts Press, 2016)
Sep 27, 2023
Jessica Lowell Mason and Nicole Crevar, "Madwomen in Social Justice Movements, Literatures, and Art" (Vernon Press, 2023)
Sep 26, 2023
Megan MacKenzie, "Good Soldiers Don't Rape: The Stories We Tell About Military Sexual Violence" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Sep 24, 2023
Iqra Shagufta Cheema, ed., "The Other #MeToos" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Sep 23, 2023
Jennifer D. Ortegren, "Middle-Class Dharma: Gender, Aspiration, and the Making of Contemporary Hinduism" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Sep 21, 2023
Molly Ladd-Taylor, "Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
Sep 20, 2023
Elyse Semerdjian, "Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Sep 20, 2023
Maria Smilios, "The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)
Sep 19, 2023
Deanne Williams, "Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Performance and Pedagogy" (Arden Shakespeare, 2023)
Sep 18, 2023
Margaret Galvan, "In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Sep 16, 2023
Brides of Christ (with Sr Mary Josefa of the Eucharist)
Sep 14, 2023
Gregory Cahill, "The Golden Voice: The Ballad of Cambodian Rock's Lost Queen" (Life Drawn, 2023)
Sep 14, 2023
Jo Shaw and Ben Fletcher-Watson, "The Art of Being Dangerous: Exploring Women and Danger through Creative Expression" (Leuven UP, 2021)
Sep 13, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
Sep 12, 2023
Robyn Muir, "The Disney Princess Phenomenon: A Feminist Analysis" (Bristol UP, 2023)
Sep 11, 2023
Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek, "After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time" (Verso, 2023)
Sep 06, 2023
Tomaz Jardim, "Ilse Koch on Trial: Making the 'Bitch of Buchenwald'" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Sep 06, 2023
Andrew Chan, "Why Mariah Carey Matters" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Sep 05, 2023
Kristal Brent Zook, "The Girl in the Yellow Poncho: A Memoir" (Duke UP, 2023)
Sep 05, 2023
Suzy Kim, "Among Women Across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Sep 04, 2023
Diana W. Anselmo, "A Queer Way of Feeling: Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood" (U California Press, 2023)
Sep 02, 2023
Heike Bauer et al., "Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and Borders" (Syracuse UP, 2022)
Sep 02, 2023
Sarah Clegg, "Women's Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi" (Apollo, 2023)
Sep 02, 2023
Anna Kathryn Grau and Lisa Colton, "Female-Voice Song and Women's Musical Agency in the Middle Ages" (Brill, 2022)
Sep 01, 2023
Marion Holmes Katz, "Wives and Work: Islamic Law and Ethics Before Modernity" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Sep 01, 2023
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, "Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality" (Knopf Doubleday, 2023)
Aug 30, 2023
Donna J. Drucker, "Fertility Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)
Aug 29, 2023
David Waldstreicher, "The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence" (FSG, 2023)
Aug 28, 2023
Chesya Burke, "Hero Me Not: The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female Superhero" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Aug 25, 2023
PostScript: The Barbie Movie: A Conversation about a Cinematic and Cultural Event
Aug 23, 2023
Corina Rodríguez Enríquez and Masaya Llavaneras Blanco, "Corporate Capture of Development: Public-Private Partnerships, Women’s Human Rights, and Global Resistance" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Aug 23, 2023
Brooke Kroeger, "Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism" (Knopf, 2023)
Aug 21, 2023
Tanya Evans, "Family History, Historical Consciousness and Citizenship: A New Social History" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Aug 20, 2023
Jamila Rodrigues, "Sufi Women, Embodiment and the 'Self': Gender in Islamic Ritual" (Routledge, 2023)
Aug 18, 2023
Sara Beam, "Trial of Jeanne Catherine: Infanticide in Early Modern Geneva" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
Aug 14, 2023
Marsha Gordon, "Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott" (U California Press, 2023)
Aug 13, 2023
Ashley Robertson Preston, "Mary Mcleod Bethune the Pan-Africanist" (UP of Florida, 2023)
Aug 12, 2023
Michell D. Jones and Elisabeth A. Nelson, "Besides, Who Would Believe a Prisoner?: Indiana Women's Carceral Institutions, 1848-1920" (New Press, 2023)
Aug 09, 2023
Sharon Thompson, "Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women's Association and Family Law" (Hart Publishing, 2022)
Aug 06, 2023
Michèle Miller Sigg, "Birthing Revival: Women and Mission in Nineteenth-Century France" (Baylor UP, 2022)
Aug 05, 2023
Falguni A. Sheth, "Unruly Women: Race, Neocolonialism, and the Hijab" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Aug 04, 2023
Olivier Burtin, "A Nation of Veterans: War, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Modern America" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Aug 03, 2023
Courtney Adams Wooten, "Childfree and Happy: Transforming the Rhetoric of Women's Reproductive Choices" (Utah State UP, 2023)
Aug 02, 2023
Alix Beeston and Stefan Solomon, "Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film" (U California Press, 2023)
Aug 02, 2023
Breaking Out: An Indian Woman's American Journey
Jul 31, 2023
Petra Bueskens, "Modern Motherhood and Women’s Dual Identities: Rewriting the Sexual Contract" (Routledge, 2018)
Jul 27, 2023
Michelle Dowd, "Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult--A Memoir" (Algonquin, 2023)
Jul 26, 2023
Nicole Evelina, "America's Forgotten Suffragists: Virginia and Francis Minor" (Two Dot Books, 2023)
Jul 26, 2023
Melissa Shew and Kimberly Garchar, "Philosophy for Girls: An Invitation to the Life of Thought" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jul 25, 2023
Kathleen Lubey, "What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest Since the Eighteenth Century" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Jul 24, 2023
Postscript: Is it Unconstitutional to Take Guns Away from Domestic Abusers?
Jul 24, 2023
Robert Payne, "Reimagining the Family: Lesbian Mothering in Contemporary French Literature" (Peter Lang, 2021)
Jul 23, 2023
Howard Fishman, "To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse" (Dutton, 2023)
Jul 22, 2023
Monica Liu, "Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides Under China's Global Rise" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Jul 19, 2023
Miranda Corcoran, "Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches" (U Wales Press, 2022)
Jul 19, 2023
African American Women on the American Railroad: A Conversation with Miriam Thaggert
Jul 17, 2023
Michele Meek, "Consent Culture and Teen Films: Adolescent Sexuality in US Movies" (Indiana UP, 2023)
Jul 17, 2023
Brianna Holt, "In Our Shoes: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So 'Post-Racial' America" (Plume Books, 2023)
Jul 16, 2023
Sara Moslener, "Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence" (Oxford UP, 2015)
Jul 15, 2023
Nikki M. Taylor, "Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jul 15, 2023
Jenna Grant, "Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh" (U Washington Press, 2022)
Jul 15, 2023
Dana Rubin, "Speaking While Female: 75 Extraordinary Speeches by American Women" (RealClear, 2023)
Jul 13, 2023
Kristina Horn Sheeler and Karrin Vasby Anderson, "Woman President: Confronting Postfeminist Political Culture" (Texas A&M Press, 2013)
Jul 06, 2023
Robin Steedman, "Creative Hustling: Women Making and Distributing Films from Nairobi" (MIT Press, 2023)
Jul 06, 2023
Sarah Banet-Weiser and Kathryn C. Higgins, "Believability: Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt" (Polity Press, 2023)
Jul 05, 2023
Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, "Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother" (Seal Press, 2023)
Jul 02, 2023
Anna Müller, "An Ordinary Life?: The Journeys of Tonia Lechtman, 1918-1996" (Ohio UP, 2023)
Jun 30, 2023
Lynsey Black, "Gender and Punishment in Ireland: Women, Murder and the Death Penalty, 1922-64" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Jun 27, 2023
Rebecca Whiteley, "Birth Figures: Early Modern Prints and the Pregnant Body" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Jun 26, 2023
The Singer Sewing Machine in Spain and Mexico: Multinational Business, Gender, and Technologies
Jun 26, 2023
Svetlana Kochkina, "Frances Burney’s 'Evelina': The Book, its History, and its Paratext" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
Jun 25, 2023
Lisabeth During, "The Chastity Plot" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Jun 21, 2023
Yue Du, "State and Family in China" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Jun 19, 2023
Anna Piela, "Wearing the Niqab: Muslim Women in the UK and the US" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Jun 16, 2023
Tanvi Srivastava, trans., "The War Diary of Asha-san: From Tokyo to Netaji's Indian National Army" (Harper Collins, 2022)
Jun 15, 2023
Judith Hicks Stiehm, "Janet Reno: A Life" (UP of Florida, 2023)
Jun 14, 2023
Alison S. Fell, "Warrior Women: The Cultural Politics of Armed Women, c.1850-1945" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jun 14, 2023
Payal Arora et al., "Feminist Futures of Work: Reimagining Labour in the Digital Economy" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
Jun 12, 2023
Jacqueline Beatty, "In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America" (NYU Press, 2023)
Jun 11, 2023
Randy Grigsby, "This Labyrinth of Darkness and Light: Henrietta Szold, the Rescue of Children from Hitler's Europe and Her Palestine Experience" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2022)
Jun 08, 2023
Athene Donald, "Not Just for the Boys: Why We Need More Women in Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jun 07, 2023
Feminism Against Progress: A Conversation with Mary Harrington
Jun 06, 2023
Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour, "The Politics of Survival: Black Women Social Welfare Beneficiaries in Brazil and the United States" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Jun 04, 2023
Amber Knight and Joshua Miller, "Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jun 01, 2023
Tazeen M. Ali, "The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority and Community in US Islam" (NYU Press, 2022)
May 28, 2023
Michaela Chamberlain, "Misogyny in Psychoanalysis" (Phoenix Publishing House, 2022)
May 27, 2023
Robert F. Trager and Joslyn N. Barnhart, "The Suffragist Peace: How Women's Votes Lead to Fewer Wars" (Oxford UP, 2022)
May 25, 2023
Heather Augustyn, "Rude Girls: Women in 2 Tone and One Step Beyond" (2023)
May 25, 2023
Baba Padmanji, "Yamuna's Journey" (Speaking Tiger Books, 2022)
May 25, 2023
Amanda Parrish Morgan, "Stroller" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
May 24, 2023
Sarah Mellors Rodriguez, "Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911-2021" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
May 24, 2023
After the Pill: A Conversation with Mary Eberstadt
May 23, 2023
Full Version: Lauren Fournier and McKenzie Wark on Autotheory
May 23, 2023
Reclaiming a Lost Vision of Feminism: A Conversation with Erika Bachiochi
May 23, 2023
Muse, Odalisque, Handmaiden: A Girl's Life in the Incredible String Band
May 22, 2023
Rebecca Brückmann, "Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood: White Women, Class, and Segregation" (U Georgia Press, 2021)
May 22, 2023
Srila Roy, "Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India" (Duke UP, 2022)
May 22, 2023
Christopher H. Evans, "Do Everything: The Biography of Frances Willard" (Oxford UP, 2022)
May 21, 2023
Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, "From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
May 21, 2023
Julia Serano, "Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back" (Seal Press, 2022)
May 20, 2023
Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of The Fern Loved Gully
May 19, 2023
Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism
May 19, 2023
America & Democracy Ep. 3: Carol A. Stabile on the Red Scare
May 18, 2023
Catherine Russell, "The Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck: Twenty-Six Short Essays on a Working Star" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
May 17, 2023
Victoria Bateman, "Naked Feminism: Breaking the Cult of Female Modesty" (Polity Press, 2023)
May 16, 2023
Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick, "Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women" (Sandycove, 2023)
May 16, 2023
Kate Clancy, "Period: The Real Story of Menstruation" (Princeton UP, 2023)
May 15, 2023
Kim E. Nielsen, "Money, Marriage, and Madness: The Life of Anna Ott" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
May 14, 2023
Naomi McDougall Jones, "The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood" (Beacon, 2020)
May 12, 2023
The Everyday Feminist with Latanya Mapp Frett
May 11, 2023
Timothy Sandefur, "Freedom's Furies: How Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand Found Freedom in an Age of Darkness" (Cato Institute, 2022)
May 11, 2023
Leah Phillips, "Female Heroes in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction: Reframing Myths of Adolescent Girlhood" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
May 11, 2023
Fiona Gregory, "Actresses and Mental Illness: Histrionic Heroines" (Routledge, 2018)
May 09, 2023
Samantha Pickette, "Peak TV's Unapologetic Jewish Woman: Exploring Jewish Female Representation in Contemporary Television Comedy" (Lexington, 2022)
May 07, 2023
Elisabeth B. Armstrong, "Bury the Corpse of Colonialism: The Revolutionary Feminist Conference of 1949" (U California Press, 2023)
May 06, 2023
Rupal Oza, "Semiotics of Rape: Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural India" (Duke UP, 2022)
May 06, 2023
Shenila Khoja-Moolji, "Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality" (Oxford UP, 2023)
May 05, 2023
Jo Littler, "Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political" (Lawrence Wishart, 2023)
May 01, 2023
Stéfanie von Hlatky, "Deploying Feminism: The Role of Gender in NATO Military Operations" (Oxford UP, 2022)
May 01, 2023
Annie Zaleski, "Lady Gaga: Applause" (Palazzo Editions, 2022)
Apr 30, 2023
Downeast Maine and the Unseen Story of Rural America: A Conversation with Gigi Georges
Apr 28, 2023
The History of Contraception
Apr 27, 2023
Nancy K. Miller and Tahneer Oksman. "Feminists Reclaim Mentorship" (SUNY Press, 2023)
Apr 26, 2023
Catherine Grant, "A Time of One's Own: Histories of Feminism in Contemporary Art" (Duke UP, 2022)
Apr 22, 2023
Vanessa Wilkie, "A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England" (Atria Books, 2023)
Apr 22, 2023
Kerri Lynn Stone, "Panes of the Glass Ceiling: The Unspoken Beliefs Behind the Law's Failure to Help Women Achieve Professional Parity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Apr 21, 2023
Reading
Apr 20, 2023
Shelly M. Jones, "Women Who Count: Honoring African American Women Mathematicians" (American Mathematical Society, 2019)
Apr 16, 2023
Kaitlin Sidorsky and Wendy J. Schiller, "Inequality across State Lines: How Policymakers Have Failed Domestic Violence Victims in the United States" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Apr 16, 2023
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, "Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality" (Pantheon Books, 2022)
Apr 15, 2023
Gregory J. Kaliss, "Beyond the Black Power Salute: Athlete Activism in an Era of Change" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Apr 14, 2023
Jeremy Richey, "Sylvia Kristel: From Emmanuelle to Chabrol" (Cult Epics, 2022)
Apr 13, 2023
Abortion and the Law
Apr 12, 2023
Jacques Dalarun et al., "A Female Apostle in Medieval Italy: The Life of Clare of Rimini" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Apr 10, 2023
Kate Strasdin, "The Dress Diary: Secrets from a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
Apr 10, 2023
Lauren Kay Johnson, "The Fine Art of Camouflage" (MilSpeak Books, 2023)
Apr 09, 2023
Bettina Judd, "Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
Apr 08, 2023
The Gospel According to Dorothy (with Kathryn Wehr)
Apr 06, 2023
Monica Liu, "Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides Under China's Global Rise" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Apr 02, 2023
Eva Hagberg, "When Eero Met His Match: Aline Louchheim Saarinen and the Making of an Architect" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Apr 01, 2023
Incognito: The Astounding Life of Alexandra David-Neel
Apr 01, 2023
School Authority, Parents' Rights: Rita Koganzon on Early Modern Education
Mar 30, 2023
School Authority, Parents' Rights: Rita Koganzon on Early Modern Education
Mar 30, 2023
Christina Rice, "Mean...Moody...Magnificent!: Jane Russell and the Marketing of a Hollywood Legend" (UP of Kentucky, 2021)
Mar 28, 2023
Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd, "Southern Beauty: Race, Ritual, and Memory in the Modern South" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
Mar 27, 2023
Andrea Friederici Ross, "Edith: The Rogue Rockefeller McCormick" (Southern Illinois UP, 2020)
Mar 27, 2023
Dominique A. Tobbell, "Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Mar 24, 2023
Margaret Chowning, "Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750–1940" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Mar 24, 2023
Robin M. Morris, "Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women: Gender, Georgia, and the Growth of the New Right" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
Mar 23, 2023
Woody Holton, "Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
Mar 21, 2023
Marissa A. Harrison, "Just as Deadly: The Psychology of Female Serial Killers" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Mar 20, 2023
Rose Marshack, "Play Like a Man: My Life in Poster Children" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Mar 20, 2023
Giusi Russo, "Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946-1975" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Mar 18, 2023
Mejdulene Bernard Shomali, "Between Banat: Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives" (Duke UP, 2023)
Mar 17, 2023
Jessica Wilson, "It's Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women's Bodies" (Hachette Go, 2023)
Mar 17, 2023
Book Talk 58: Vivian Gornick on Emma Goldman
Mar 17, 2023
Dalia Nassar and Kristin Gjesdal, "Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Mar 16, 2023
Sherine Tadros, "Taking Sides: A Memoir about Love, War, and Changing the World" (Scribe, 2023)
Mar 16, 2023
The Role of Global South Women in Shaping Global Governance
Mar 13, 2023
"Prettier Than They Used to Be”: Femininity, Fashion, and the Recasting of Radcliffe's Reputation, 1900-1950
Mar 12, 2023
Megan Buskey, "Ukraine Is Not Dead Yet: A Family Story of Exile and Return" (Ibidem-Verlag, 2023)
Mar 12, 2023
Susan J. Stanfield, "Rewriting Citizenship: Women, Race, and Nineteenth-Century Print Culture" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
Mar 12, 2023
Richard Thompson Ford, "Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History" (Simon & Schuster, 2021)
Mar 11, 2023
Robin L. Owens, "'My Faith in the Constitution Is Whole': Barbara Jordan and the Politics of Scriptures" (Georgetown UP, 2022)
Mar 11, 2023
Alison Stone, "Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 11, 2023
Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Mar 10, 2023
H. Yumi Kim, "Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Mar 08, 2023
Elizabeth Cobbs, "Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Mar 07, 2023
Lillian Colon, "Lilly: The First Latina Rockette" (Lilly Enterprises, 2021)
Mar 07, 2023
Joan Flores-Villalobos, "The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Mar 06, 2023
Caroline Rusterholz, "Women's Medicine: Family Planning and British Female Doctors in Transnational Perspective, 1920-70" (Manchester UP, 2021)
Mar 04, 2023
Melanie Heath et al., "Global Feminist Autoethnographies During COVID-19: Displacements and Disruptions" (Routledge, 2022)
Mar 04, 2023
Francine Lazarus, "A Hidden Jewish Child from Belgium: Survival, Scars and Healing" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2017)
Mar 03, 2023
Marilyn Migiel, "Veronica Franco in Dialogue" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
Mar 02, 2023
Kenneth R. Stow, "Anna and Tranquillo: Catholic Anxiety and Jewish Protest in the Age of Revolutions" (Yale UP, 2016)
Feb 28, 2023
Lara Gabrielle, "Captain of Her Soul: The Life of Marion Davies" (U California Press, 2022)
Feb 27, 2023
Jonathan W. White and Lydia J. Davis, ed., "My Work Among the Freedmen: The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of Harriet M. Buss" (U Virginia Press, 2021)
Feb 26, 2023
Jen B. Larson, "Hit Girls: Women of Punk in the USA, 1975-1983" (Feral House, 2022)
Feb 26, 2023
Anthony Bale, "Margery Kempe: A Mixed Life" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
Feb 25, 2023
Britni de la Cretaz and Lyndsey D'Arcangelo, "Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women's Football League" (Bold Type Books, 2021)
Feb 25, 2023
Ashley Brown, "Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Feb 24, 2023
Leonard C. Spitale, "Victorine Du Pont: The Force Behind the Family" (U Delaware Press, 2022)
Feb 24, 2023
Deborah Holt Larkin, "A Lovely Girl: The Tragedy of Olga Duncan and the Trial of California's Most Notorious Killer" (Pegasus Crime, 2022)
Feb 22, 2023
Elora Halim Chowdhury, "Ethical Encounters: Transnational Feminism, Human Rights, and War Cinema in Bangladesh" (Temple UP, 2022)
Feb 22, 2023
Jane Lasonder, "Red Alert: The Inside Story of Prostitution and Human Trafficking" (Scholten Uitgeverij BV, 2016)
Feb 22, 2023
Lynn Cullen, "The Woman with the Cure" (Berkley Books, 2023)
Feb 19, 2023
Patrick Bixby, "Unaccompanied Traveler: The Writings of Kathleen M. Murphy" (Syracuse UP, 2021)
Feb 18, 2023
Women and the History of the Vote in the Prairie Provinces
Feb 17, 2023
Hadia Mubarak, "Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands: Controversies in Modern Qur'anic Commentaries" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 17, 2023
Kevin Blackburn, "The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory" (National U of Singapore Press, 2022)
Feb 17, 2023
Elisabeth Eittreim, "Teaching Empire: Native Americans, Filipinos, and Us Imperial Education 1879-1918" (UP of Kansas, 2019)
Feb 16, 2023
Rhiannon Graybill, "Texts After Terror: Rape, Sexual Violence, and the Hebrew Bible" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Feb 15, 2023
Mary C. Flannery, "Practicing Shame: Female Honour in Later Medieval England" (Manchester UP, 2019)
Feb 15, 2023
The Lives of Canada’s War Women
Feb 14, 2023
Sara Petrosillo, "Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
Feb 12, 2023
Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago, "Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing" (Leuven UP, 2022)
Feb 12, 2023
Shailaja Paik, "The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Feb 12, 2023
Marvin N. Olasky and Leah Savas, "The Story of Abortion in America: A Street-Level History, 1652-2022" (Crossway, 2023)
Feb 11, 2023
Dianne M. Stewart, "Black Women, Black Love: America's War on African-American Marriage" (Seal Press, 2020)
Feb 08, 2023
Gloria Coppola et al., "Women Standing Strong Together: Stories of Surrendering to Your Authentic Self" (2019)
Feb 07, 2023
Rachel Adelman, "The Female Ruse: Women's Deception and Divine Sanction in the Hebrew Bible" (Sheffield Press, 2017)
Feb 05, 2023
Reclaiming a Lost Vision of Feminism: A Conversation with Erika Bachiochi
Feb 04, 2023
Catherine Ashton, "And Then What?: Stories from Twenty-First-Century Diplomacy" (Elliott & Thompson, 2023)
Feb 03, 2023
Ute Hüsken, "Laughter, Creativity, and Perseverance: Female Agency in Buddhism and Hinduism" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 02, 2023
Robert O'Mochain and Yuki Ueno, "Sexual Abuse and Education in Japan: In the (Inter)National Shadows" (Routledge, 2022)
Feb 01, 2023
Andrea Dara Cooper, "Gendering Modern Jewish Thought" (Indiana UP, 2021)
Jan 31, 2023
Book Talk 57: Anne Fernald and Rajgopal Saikumar on Virginia Woolf's "Three Guineas" (1938)
Jan 30, 2023
Vona Groarke, "Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O'Hara" (NYU Press, 2022)
Jan 29, 2023
Shailaja Paik, "The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Jan 28, 2023
Sheri Brenden, "Break Point: Two Minnesota Athletes and the Road to Title IX" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Jan 25, 2023
Oline Eaton, "Finding Jackie: The Second Act of America's First Lady" (Diversion Books, 2023)
Jan 24, 2023
Gregory Pfitzer, "'Fame Is Not Just for the Fellas': Female Renown and the Childhood of Famous Americans Series" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
Jan 24, 2023
Contextualizing the Iranian Protests: The Role of Women in Leading the Change
Jan 23, 2023
Wolfgang P. Müller, "Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 1215-1517" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Jan 21, 2023
Emily A. Owens, "Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans" (UNC Press, 2023)
Jan 19, 2023
We Shall Overcome: Sister Thea Bowman and the Black Catholic Experience
Jan 18, 2023
Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Jan 17, 2023
Marlene Schäfers, "Voices That Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Jan 16, 2023
Lisa Biggs, "The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
Jan 16, 2023
Benjamin Hegarty, "The Made-Up State: Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Jan 15, 2023
Holy Paradox and St. Teresa of Ávila: Mysticism in Sixteenth Century Spain
Jan 15, 2023
Donna Stein, "Archaeology of Metaphor: The Art of Gilah Yelin Hirsch" (Skira, 2022)
Jan 14, 2023
Marxists and Mystics: A Vatican Journalist Discusses her Biography of Madeleine Delbrêl and the New Papal Constitution
Jan 13, 2023
Kaiama L. Glover, "A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being" (Duke UP, 2021)
Jan 13, 2023
Sarah Imhoff, "The Lives of Jessie Sampter: Queer, Disabled, Zionist" (Duke UP, 2022)
Jan 11, 2023
Poverty, Race, and Rural Sanitation
Jan 10, 2023
Zen Chaplaincy, Activism, and Scholarship
Jan 09, 2023
The History of Household Technology from Open Hearth to the Microwave
Jan 09, 2023
Ellen Cassedy, "Working 9 to 5: A Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie" (Chicago Review Press, 2022)
Jan 06, 2023
The 'Queens of the Arabs' during the Neo-Assyrian Period
Jan 03, 2023
Divine Intoxication: A Discussion about Alcoholism, Grace, Sainthood, and Women in the Church
Jan 01, 2023
Felicity M. Turner, "Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America" (UNC Press, 2022)
Jan 01, 2023
Mairead Sullivan, "Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger Between Feminist and Queer" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Jan 01, 2023
Zachary Schrag, "The Princeton Guide to Historical Research" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Dec 31, 2022
Samsi, Queen of the Arabs
Dec 30, 2022
Eve Golden, "Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn't Help It" (UP of Kentucky, 2021)
Dec 25, 2022
Lauren N. Haumesser, "The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856-1861" (UNC Press, 2022)
Dec 23, 2022
Rumya Sree Putcha, "The Dancer's Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India" (Duke UP, 2022)
Dec 22, 2022
Lyzette Wanzer, "Trauma, Tresses, and Truth: Untangling Our Hair Through Personal Narratives" (Chicago Review Press, 2022)
Dec 21, 2022
Jane Freeland, "Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism in Divided Berlin, 1968-2002" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Dec 20, 2022
Sonya Y. Ramsey, "Bertha Maxwell-Roddey: A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership" (UP of Florida, 2022)
Dec 18, 2022
Neil Baldwin, "Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern" (Knopf, 2022)
Dec 17, 2022
Rebecca Ingram, "Women's Work: How Culinary Cultures Shaped Modern Spain" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
Dec 16, 2022
Ying-Chen Peng, "Artful Subversion: Empress Dowager Cixi's Image Making" (Yale UP, 2023)
Dec 15, 2022
Amanda Wangwright, "The Golden Key: Women Artists and Gender Negotiations in Republican China (1911-1949)" (Brill, 2020)
Dec 14, 2022
Natasha Lasky, "Britney Spears's Blackout" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Dec 11, 2022
Jane Stevenson, "Women and Latin in the Early Modern Period" (Brill, 2022)
Dec 10, 2022
On Virginia Woolf’s "Mrs Dalloway"
Dec 08, 2022
Inna Perheentupa, "Feminist Politics in Neoconservative Russia: An Ethnography of Resistance and Resources" (Policy Press, 2022)
Dec 08, 2022
Barbara E. Mattick, "Teaching in Black and White: The Sisters of St. Joseph in the American South" (Catholic U of America Press
Dec 07, 2022
Virginia L. Summey, "The Life of Elreta Melton Alexander: Activism within the Courts" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
Dec 07, 2022
Jasmine Calver, "Anti-Fascism, Gender, and International Communism: The Comité Mondial Des Femmes Contre la Guerre et Le Fascisme, 1934-1941" (Routledge, 2022)
Dec 05, 2022
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, "Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
Dec 05, 2022
Cathy McClive, "The Art of Childbirth: A Seventeenth-Century Midwife's Epistolary Treatise to Doctor Vallant" (Iter Press, 2022)
Dec 05, 2022
Jennifer Smith, "Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-De-Siècle Spain" (Vanderbilt UP, 2021)
Dec 03, 2022
Zaure Batayeva and Shelley Fairweather-Vega, "Amanat: Women's Writing from Kazakhstan" (Gaudy Boy, 2022)
Dec 02, 2022
On Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre"
Dec 02, 2022
Kwasi Konadu, "Many Black Women of this Fortress: Graça, Mónica and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal's African Empire" (Hurst, 2022)
Nov 28, 2022
Cornelia Spelman, "Missing" (Jackleg Press, 2022)
Nov 28, 2022
Stephen Galloway, "Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century" (Grand Central, 2022)
Nov 25, 2022
Tara T. Green, "Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Nov 25, 2022
Amina Wadud, "Once in a Lifetime" (Kantara Press, 2022)
Nov 25, 2022
Gregory Nobles, "The Education of Betsey Stockton: An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Nov 25, 2022
Catherine N. Wineinger, "Gendering the GOP: Intraparty Politics and Republican Women's Representation in Congress" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Nov 24, 2022
Jeanne Theoharis, "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" (Beacon Press, 2015)
Nov 23, 2022
Dawne Y. Curry, "Social Justice at Apartheid's Dawn: African Women Intellectuals and the Quest to Save the Nation" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Nov 21, 2022
Sophie Lewis, "Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation" (Verso, 2022)
Nov 18, 2022
Michael Frank, "One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
Nov 17, 2022
Riché Richardson, "Emancipation's Daughters: Re-Imagining Black Femininity and the National Body" (Duke UP, 2020)
Nov 17, 2022
Sisi Sung, "The Economics of Gender in China: Women, Work and the Glass Ceiling" (Routledge, 2022)
Nov 16, 2022
Rachael Hanel, "Not the Camilla We Knew: One Woman's Life from Small-Town America to the Symbionese Liberation Army" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Nov 11, 2022
John Darnell and Colleen Darnell, "Egypt's Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
Nov 11, 2022
Sofi Thanhauser, "Worn: A People's History of Clothing" (Vintage, 2022)
Nov 11, 2022
Nancy Woloch, "The Insider: A Life of Virginia C. Gildersleeve" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Nov 09, 2022
On Toni Morrison's "Beloved"
Nov 09, 2022
Katie Hickman, "Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West" (Spiegel & Grau, 2022)
Nov 09, 2022
Sarah Ifft Decker, "The Fruit of Her Hands: Jewish and Christian Women's Work in Medieval Catalan Cities" (Pennsylvania State, 2022)
Nov 07, 2022
Elizabeth Schroeder Schlabach, "Dream Books and Gamblers: Black Women's Work in Chicago's Policy Game" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Nov 07, 2022
Alma Zaragoza-Petty, "Chingona: Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice" (Broadleaf Books, 2022)
Nov 02, 2022
Annalisa Berta and Susan Turner, "Rebels, Scholars, Explorers: Women in Vertebrate Paleontology" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
Oct 28, 2022
Krystale E. Littlejohn, "Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics" (U California Press, 2021)
Oct 27, 2022
Saskia Warren, "British Muslim Women in the Cultural and Creative Industries" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Oct 26, 2022
Mallory Lewis and Nat Segaloff, "Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop: The Team That Changed Children's TV" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)
Oct 26, 2022
Kelisha B. Graves, ed., "Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Documentary Portrait of an Early Civil Rights Pioneer, 1900-1959" (U Notre Dame Press, 2019)
Oct 26, 2022
On Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex"
Oct 25, 2022
Rachel Schreiber, "Elaine Black Yoneda: Jewish Immigration, Labor Activism, and Japanese American Exclusion and Incarceration" (Temple UP, 2021)
Oct 25, 2022
Jennifer Lillian Lodine-Chaffey, "A Weak Woman in a Strong Battle: Women and Public Execution in Early Modern England" (U Alabama Press, 2022)
Oct 25, 2022
Miglena S. Todorova, "Unequal under Socialism: Race, Women, and Transnationalism in Bulgaria" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
Oct 24, 2022
Tracy Adams and Christine Adams, "The Creation of the French Royal Mistress: From Agnès Sorel to Madame Du Barry" (Penn State UP, 2020)
Oct 21, 2022
Sabine Frühstück, "Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Oct 21, 2022
Peace A. Medie, "Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence Against Women in Africa" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Oct 17, 2022
Radicalism, Humility, and Racism in America
Oct 17, 2022
Siobhan Lambert-Hurley et al., "Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women" (Indiana UP, 2022)
Oct 14, 2022
Sherry Boschert, "37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination" (New Press, 2022)
Oct 14, 2022
On Hannah Arendt's "Origins of Totalitarianism"
Oct 11, 2022
On the Life and Legacy of Queen Elizabeth II
Oct 06, 2022
Pamela Robertson Wojcik, "Gidget: Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise" (Routledge, 2022)
Oct 06, 2022
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink, "Fierce and Fearless: Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress" (NYU Press, 2022)
Oct 05, 2022
Martha Rampton, "Trafficking with Demons: Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Oct 05, 2022
Cinema’s First Nasty Women
Oct 04, 2022
Alison Melnick Dyer, "The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön: A Woman of Power and Privilege" (U Washington Press, 2022)
Oct 04, 2022
Johanna O. Zulueta, "Okinawan Women's Stories of Migration: From War Brides to Issei" (Routledge, 2022)
Sep 30, 2022
Usha Iyer, "Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Sep 30, 2022
Beverly Weintraub, "Wings of Gold: The Story of the First Women Naval Aviators" (Lyons Press, 2021)
Sep 28, 2022
The Women Who Transformed the National Gallery of Canada
Sep 28, 2022
Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean, "Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing" (Verso, 2022)
Sep 28, 2022
Julia Scheeres and Allison Gilbert, "Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America's Most-Read Woman" (Seal Press, 2022)
Sep 27, 2022
Kirsti Niskanen and Michael J. Barany, "Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Sep 26, 2022
Andrew Bomback, "Long Days, Short Years: A Cultural History of Modern Parenting" (MIT Press, 2022)
Sep 23, 2022
Takkara K. Brunson, "Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba" (U Florida Press, 2021)
Sep 22, 2022
Mary J. Magoulick, "The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture: A Feminist Critique" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
Sep 21, 2022
Fiona Crawford and Lee McGowan, "Never Say Die: The Hundred-Year Overnight Success of Australian Women's Football" (NewSouth Books, 2019)
Sep 21, 2022
Aria S. Halliday, "Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Sep 16, 2022
Tamar Biala, "Dirshuni: Contemporary Women's Midrash" (Brandeis UP, 2022)
Sep 13, 2022
Ethan Czuy Levine, "Rape by the Numbers: Producing and Contesting Scientific Knowledge about Sexual Violence" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Sep 13, 2022
Joanne Watson, "Empress Eugenie: A Footnote History, 1826-1920" (Grosvenor House, 2022)
Sep 12, 2022
Book Talk 55: Courtney B. Hodrick and Amir Eshel on Hannah Arendt's "Rachel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman"
Sep 12, 2022
Elizabeth Quay Hutchison, "Workers Like All the Rest of Them: Domestic Service and the Rights of Labor in Twentieth-Century Chile" (Duke UP, 2022)
Sep 12, 2022
Sarah Craze, "Atlantic Piracy in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Shocking Story of the Pirates and the Survivors of the Morning Star" (Boydell Press, 2022)
Sep 09, 2022
Julia Margaret Zulver, "High-Risk Feminism in Colombia: Women's Mobilization in Violent Contexts" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Sep 08, 2022
Kate Mangino, "Equal Partners: Improving Gender Equality at Home" (St. Martin’s Press, 2022)
Sep 07, 2022
Marissa R. Moss, "Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be" (Henry Holt, 2022)
Sep 07, 2022
Aria S. Halliday, "Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Sep 01, 2022
John M. Kinder and Jason A. Higgins, "Service Denied: Marginalized Veterans in Modern American History" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
Aug 31, 2022
Wendy L. Rouse, "Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement" (NYU Press, 2022)
Aug 29, 2022
Jennifer Jill Fellows and Lisa Smith, "Gender, Sex, and Tech!: An Intersectional Feminist Guide" (Canadian Scholars, 2022)
Aug 29, 2022
Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, "From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
Aug 24, 2022
On Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"
Aug 24, 2022
Monica De La Torre, "Feminista Frequencies: Community Building through Radio in the Yakima Valley" (U Washington Press, 2022)
Aug 24, 2022
Philip Nash, "Clare Boothe Luce: American Renaissance Woman" (Routledge, 2022)
Aug 23, 2022
Karen Bauer and Feras Hamza, "An Anthology of Qur'anic Commentaries (vol. 2): On Women" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Aug 19, 2022
Amy Von Lintel and Bonnie Roos, "Three Women Artists: Expanding Abstract Expressionism in the American West" (Texas A&M UP, 2022)
Aug 17, 2022
Linda Connolly and Tina O’Toole, "Documenting Irish Feminisms: The Second Wave" (Arlen House, 2022)
Aug 17, 2022
Meenal Shrivastava, "Amma’s Daughters: A Memoir" (Athabasca UP, 2018)
Aug 15, 2022
Sevgi Adak, "Anti-Veiling Campaigns in Turkey: State, Society and Gender in the Early Republic" (I. B. Tauris, 2022)
Aug 12, 2022
Joanna Bourke, "Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
Aug 12, 2022
Jane Juffer, "Millennial Feminism at Work: Bridging Theory and Practice" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Aug 11, 2022
Andrea Karnes, "Women Painting Women" (Delmonico Books, 2022)
Aug 11, 2022
Carolyn J. Eichner, "Feminism's Empire" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Aug 10, 2022
Carolyn J. Eichner, "Feminism's Empire" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Aug 10, 2022
On Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
Aug 09, 2022
Tara Nurin, "A Woman's Place Is in the Brewhouse: A Forgotten History of Alewives, Brewsters, Witches, and CEOs" (Chicago Review Press, 2021)
Aug 08, 2022
Miriam Thaggert, "Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Aug 08, 2022
John Callow, "The Last Witches of England: A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Aug 05, 2022
John Callow, "The Last Witches of England: A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Aug 05, 2022
Nina Rattner Gelbart, "Minerva's French Sisters: Women of Science in Enlightenment France" (Yale UP, 2021)
Aug 04, 2022
Charlie Jeffries, "Teenage Dreams: Girlhood Sexualities in the U.S. Culture Wars" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Aug 03, 2022
Book Talk 54: Anne Fernald on Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway"
Aug 03, 2022
Megan Threlkeld, "Citizens of the World: U. S. Women and Global Government" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Aug 02, 2022
Skye Cleary, "How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
Jul 27, 2022
Margarita R. Ochoa and Sara V. Guengerich, "Cacicas: The Indigenous Women Leaders of Spanish America, 1492-1825" (U Oklahoma Press, 2021)
Jul 26, 2022
Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg, "Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image" (MIT Press, 2022)
Jul 20, 2022
Gabrielle David, "Trailblazers: Black Women Who Helped Make America Great, American Firsts/American Icons" (2leaf Press, 2021)
Jul 20, 2022
Caryn Rose, "Why Patti Smith Matters" (U of Texas Press, 2022)
Jul 19, 2022
Melanie Bell, "Movie Workers: The Women Who Made British Cinema" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Jul 19, 2022
Joy Wiltenburg, "Laughing Histories: From the Renaissance Man to the Woman of Wit" (Routledge, 2022)
Jul 18, 2022
Beverley Chalmers, "Birth, Sex and Abuse: Women's Voices Under Nazi Rule" (Grosvenor House, 2015)
Jul 15, 2022
Hugh Ryan, "The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison" (Bold Type Books, 2022)
Jul 14, 2022
Karen Offen, "Debating the Woman Question in the French Third Republic, 1870-1920" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Jul 14, 2022
Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, "Second-Class Daughters: Black Brazilian Women and Informal Adoption as Modern Slavery" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jul 13, 2022
John F. Sears, "Refuge Must Be Given: Eleanor Roosevelt, the Jewish Plight, and the Founding of Israel" (Purdue UP, 2021)
Jul 12, 2022
Penny Jane Burke et al., "Gender in an Era of Post-truth Populism: Pedagogies, Challenges and Strategies" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Jul 11, 2022
Alexandra Apolloni, "Freedom Girls: Voicing Femininity in 1960s British Pop" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jul 11, 2022
Jennifer J. Hill, "Birthing the West: Mothers and Midwives in the Rockies and Plains" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
Jul 11, 2022
Shannen Dee Williams, "Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle" (Duke UP, 2022)
Jul 11, 2022
H. H. Leonards, "Rosa Parks Beyond the Bus: Life, Lessons, and Leadership" (R. H. Boyd, 2022)
Jul 08, 2022
B. J. Crawford and E. G. Waldman, "Menstruation Matters: Challenging the Law's Silence on Periods" (NYU Press, 2022)
Jul 08, 2022
Sarah Fox, "Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England" (U London Press, 2022)
Jul 07, 2022
Ashley Remer and Tiffany Isselhardt, "Exploring American Girlhood through 50 Historic Treasures" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)
Jul 06, 2022
Jasmina Tumbas, "I Am Jugoslovenka!: Feminist Performance Politics During and After Yugoslav Socialism" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Jul 01, 2022
Jason D. Spraitz and Kendra N. Bowen, "Institutional Sexual Abuse in the #metoo Era" (Southern Illinois UP, 2021)
Jul 01, 2022
Shannen Dee Williams, "Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle" (Duke UP, 2022)
Jun 30, 2022
Susan H. Brandt, "Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Jun 29, 2022
Claire Bellerjeau and Tiffany Yecke Brooks, "Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution: The True Story of Robert Townsend and Elizabeth" (Lyons Press, 2021)
Jun 28, 2022
Kirstin L. Squint ed., "Conversations with LeAnne Howe" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
Jun 28, 2022
Teresa Palomo Acosta, "Tejanaland: A Writing Life in Four Acts" (Texas A&M UP, 2021)
Jun 24, 2022
Anne Gray Fischer, "The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification" (UNC Press, 2022)
Jun 23, 2022
Natalie Lira, "Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900-1950s" (U California Press, 2021)
Jun 22, 2022
Carol A. Lipscomb, "The Lady Makes Boots: Enid Justin & the Nocona Boot Company" (Texas Tech UP, 2021)
Jun 21, 2022
Joshua Prager, "The Family Roe: An American Story" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
Jun 20, 2022
Elena Tajima Creef, "Shadow Traces: Seeing Japanese/American and Ainu Women in Photographic Archives" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Jun 17, 2022
Marga Vicedo, "Intelligent Love: The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother" (Beacon Press, 2021)
Jun 17, 2022
James Uden, "Worlds of Knowledge in Women's Travel Writing" (Ilex Foundation, 2022)
Jun 16, 2022
Mary Sarah Bilder, "Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution" (U Virginia Press, 2022)
Jun 15, 2022
Lilianne Milgrom, "L' Origine: The Secret Life of the World's Most Erotic Masterpiece" (Girl Friday Books, 2021)
Jun 15, 2022
Brandi Clay Brimmer, "Claiming Union Widowhood: Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South" (Duke UP, 2020)
Jun 14, 2022
Wanda M. Corn, "Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern" (Prestel Publishing, 2017)
Jun 14, 2022
Denisa Nesťáková and Katja Grosse-Sommer, "If This Is a Woman: Studies on Women and Gender in the Holocaust" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)
Jun 13, 2022
Treva B. Lindsey, "America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice" (U California Press, 2022)
Jun 09, 2022
Melissa Ford, "A Brick and a Bible: Black Women's Radical Activism in the Midwest During the Great Depression" (Southern Illinois UP, 2022)
Jun 06, 2022
Marc Raboy, "Looking for Alicia: The Unfinished Life of an Argentinian Rebel" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jun 02, 2022
Andrew Leon Hanna, "25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jun 01, 2022
Mary Franklin and Hannah Burton, "She Being Dead Yet Speaketh: The Franklin Family Papers" (Iter Press, 2019)
Jun 01, 2022
Shelley Puhak, "The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
May 31, 2022
Tracey Deutsch, "Building a Housewife's Paradise: Gender, Politics, and American Grocery Stores in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2010)
May 31, 2022
Katherine Pangonis, "Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
May 30, 2022
Stephen Vider, "The Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity After World War II" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
May 25, 2022
Catherine McCormack, "Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies" (Norton, 2021)
May 23, 2022
Jeanne Baker Guy, "You'll Never Find Us: A Memoir" (She Writes Press, 2021)
May 20, 2022
Shannon L. Walsh, "Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progressive Era: Watch Whiteness Workout" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
May 19, 2022
Hyaeweol Choi, "Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
May 18, 2022
Irune Gabiola, "Affect, Ecofeminism, and Intersectional Struggles in Latin America: A Tribute to Berta Cáceres" (Peter Lang, 2020)
May 18, 2022
On Women of Color in American Islam
May 16, 2022
The New Political Cry in South Korea?: The History of Feminist Activisms and Politics in South Korea
May 13, 2022
Ariela Freedman, "Lea" (Linda Leith Publishing, 2022)
May 10, 2022
Mila Zuo, "Vulgar Beauty: Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium" (Duke UP, 2022)
May 04, 2022
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, "Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time" (Princeton UP, 2022)
May 04, 2022
Julie Pfeiffer, "Transforming Girls: The Work of Nineteenth-Century Adolescence" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
May 03, 2022
Christian Dyogi Phillips, "Nowhere to Run: Race, Gender, and Immigration in American Elections" (Oxford UP, 2021)
May 02, 2022
Joan DeJean, "Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast" (Basic, 2022)
May 02, 2022
Ellen S. More, "The Transformation of American Sex Education: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health" (NYU Press, 2022)
Apr 29, 2022
Maia Weinstock, "Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus" (MIT Press, 2022)
Apr 29, 2022
Jennifer Forestal and Menaka Philips, "The Wives of Western Philosophy: Gender Politics in Intellectual Labor" (Routledge, 2020)
Apr 28, 2022
Emily Klancher Merchant, "Building the Population Bomb" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Apr 28, 2022
Robert Cliver, "Red Silk: Class, Gender, and Revolution in China's Yangzi Delta Silk Industry" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Apr 27, 2022
Lillian Faderman, "Woman: The American History of an Idea" (Yale UP, 2022)
Apr 26, 2022
Ping Zhu and Hui Faye Xiao, "Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics" (Syracuse UP, 2021)
Apr 26, 2022
Mikaela Nyman and Rebecca Tobo Olul-Hossen, "Sista, Stanap Strong!: A Vanuatu Women's Anthology" (Te Herenaa Waka UP, 2021)
Apr 21, 2022
Nicole Elizabeth Barnes, "Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945" (U California Press, 2018)
Apr 21, 2022
Alice Jardine, "At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Apr 08, 2022
Kate Clifford Larson, "Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Apr 07, 2022
Albena Shkodrova, "Rebellious Cooks and Recipe Writing in Communist Bulgaria" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Apr 06, 2022
David Hajdu and John Carey, "A Revolution in Three Acts: The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Apr 06, 2022
Hilda Lloréns, "Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice" (U of Washington Press, 2021)
Apr 05, 2022
Chelsea Phillips, "Carrying All Before Her: Celebrity Pregnancy and the London Stage, 1689-1800" (U of Delaware Press, 2022)
Apr 04, 2022
Rebecca Cypess, "Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Apr 01, 2022
Paige Sweet, "The Politics of Surviving: How Women Navigate Domestic Violence and Its Aftermath" (U California Press, 2021)
Mar 31, 2022
Jessica P. Clark, "The Business of Beauty: Gender and the Body in Modern London" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Mar 31, 2022
Natali Valdez, "Weighing the Future: Race, Science, and Pregnancy Trials in the Postgenomic Era" (U California Press, 2022)
Mar 30, 2022
Rachel E. Gross, "Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
Mar 30, 2022
Kathleen Courtenay Stone, "They Called Us Girls: Stories of Female Ambition from Suffrage to Mad Men" (Cynren Press, 2022)
Mar 28, 2022
Eve Worth, "The Welfare State Generation: Women, Agency and Class in Britain Since 1945" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Mar 28, 2022
Lucy Ward, "The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus" (ONEWorld, 2022)
Mar 25, 2022
K. S. Batmanghelichi, "Revolutionary Bodies: Technologies of Gender, Sex, and Self in Contemporary Iran" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Mar 25, 2022
Elisabeth Ceppi, "Invisible Masters: Gender, Race, and the Economy of Service in Early New England" (Dartmouth College Press, 2018)
Mar 24, 2022
Liz Clarke, "The American Girl Goes to War: Women and National Identity in US Silent Film" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Mar 23, 2022
Nayma Qayum, "Village Ties: Women, NGOs, and Informal Institutions in Rural Bangladesh" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Mar 21, 2022
Joanna Mishtal, "The Politics of Morality: The Church, the State, and Reproductive Rights in Postsocialist Poland" (Ohio UP, 2015)
Mar 21, 2022
Carole Emberton, "To Walk about in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner" (Norton, 2022)
Mar 17, 2022
Annie Berke, "Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television" (U California Press, 2022)
Mar 16, 2022
Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant, "To Live More Abundantly: Black Collegiate Women, Howard University, and the Audacity of Dean Lucy Diggs Slowe" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
Mar 15, 2022
Poulomi Saha, "An Empire of Touch: Women's Political Labor and the Fabrication of East Bengal" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Mar 11, 2022
Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman, "Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life" (Doubleday, 2022)
Mar 10, 2022
Lynn Garafola, "La Nijinska: Choreographer of the Modern" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Mar 08, 2022
Eliza Reid, "Secrets of the Sprakkar: What the Outstanding Women of Iceland Know about Equality" (Sourcebooks, 2022)
Mar 08, 2022
Celia Stahr, "Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist" (St. Martin's Press, 2020)
Mar 07, 2022
Lu Ann Homza, "Village Infernos and Witches' Advocates: Witch-hunting in Navarre, 1608-1614" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2022)
Mar 02, 2022
Chase Burton, "Nicole Rafter" (Routledge, 2021)
Mar 02, 2022
Eva Fodor, "The Gender Regime of Anti-Liberal Hungary" (Palgrave, 2021)
Mar 02, 2022
Olivia Milburn, "The Empress in the Pepper Chamber: Zhao Feiyan in History and Fiction" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Mar 01, 2022
Erica Brown, "Esther: Power, Fate and Fragility in Exile" (Maggid, 2020)
Feb 25, 2022
Allison Schachter, "Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919–1939" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
Feb 24, 2022
Teresa Kulawik and Zhanna Kravchenko, "Borderlands in European Gender Studies: Beyond the East-West Frontier" (Routledge, 2020)
Feb 22, 2022
Kristina Wilson, "Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Feb 22, 2022
Catherine Ehrlich, "Irma's Passport: One Woman, Two World Wars, and a Legacy of Courage" (She Writes Press, 2021)
Feb 21, 2022
Michelle Christine Smith, "Utopian Genderscapes: Rhetorics of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Age" (Southern Illinois UP, 2021)
Feb 21, 2022
Irmgard Emmelhainz, "Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures: Feminist Living as Resistance" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
Feb 18, 2022
Michella M. Marino, "Roller Derby: The History of an American Sport" (U Texas Press, 2021)
Feb 17, 2022
Sara Matthiesen, "Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice After Roe V. Wade" (UC Press, 2021)
Feb 16, 2022
Patricia Tilburg, "Working Girls: Sex, Taste, and Reform in the Parisian Garment Trades, 1880-1919" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Feb 16, 2022
Michelle Millar Fisher and Amber Winick, "Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break Our Births" (MIT Press, 2021)
Feb 15, 2022
Rachel Marie-Crane Williams, "Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching" (Verso, 2021)
Feb 15, 2022
J. M. West, "Madame Bessie Jones: Her Life and Times" (Local History Press, 2021)
Feb 10, 2022
Susie S. Porter, "From Angel to Office Worker: Middle-Class Identity and Female Consciousness in Mexico, 1890-1950" (U Nebraska Press, 2018)
Feb 08, 2022
Elora Shehabuddin, "Sisters in the Mirror: A History of Muslim Women and the Global Politics of Feminism" (U California Press, 2021)
Feb 04, 2022
Tracy Collins, "Female Monasticism in Medieval Ireland: An Archaeology" (Cork UP, 2021)
Feb 04, 2022
Susan Gilson Miller, "Years of Glory: Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Feb 03, 2022
Sylvia Sellers-Garcia, "The Woman on the Windowsill: A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts" (Yale UP, 2020)
Feb 02, 2022
Joan L. Richards, "Generations of Reason: A Family's Search for Meaning in Post-Newtonian England" (Yale UP, 2021)
Feb 01, 2022
Mary J. Henold, "The Laywoman Project: Remaking Catholic Womanhood in the Vatican II Era" (UNC Press, 2020)
Feb 01, 2022
Erin Jessee et al., "Nyiragitwa: Daughter of Sacyega" (Mudacumura, 2021)
Jan 31, 2022
Jeffrey H. Jackson, "Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis" (Algonquin Books, 2020)
Jan 28, 2022
Midori Yamamura, "Yayoi Kusama: Inventing the Singular" (MIT Press, 2015)
Jan 28, 2022
Kirsten W. Larson, "A True Wonder: The Comic Book Hero Who Changed Everything" (Clarion Books, 2021)
Jan 27, 2022
Kristin Waters, "Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought" (U Mississippi Press, 2021)
Jan 21, 2022
Matthew C. Watson, "Afterlives of Affect: Science, Religion, and an Edgewalker’s Spirit" (Duke UP, 2020)
Jan 21, 2022
Georgia Cervin, "Degrees of Difficulty: How Women's Gymnastics Rose to Prominence and Fell from Grace" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Jan 20, 2022
Georgia Cervin, "Degrees of Difficulty: How Women's Gymnastics Rose to Prominence and Fell from Grace" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Jan 20, 2022
Marion Thompson, "The Marion Thompson Wright Reader" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Jan 18, 2022
Rebecca Corbett, "Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
Jan 17, 2022
Suzanne Cope, "Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement" (Lawrence Hill Books, 2021)
Jan 17, 2022
Vivian Kirkfield, "Making Their Voices Heard: The Inspiring Friendship of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe" (Little Bee Books, 2020)
Jan 13, 2022
Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, "Dressed for Freedom: The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Jan 07, 2022
Laurie R. Lambert, "Comrade Sister: Caribbean Feminist Revisions of the Grenada Revolution" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
Jan 06, 2022
Anna Watkins Fisher, "The Play in the System: The Art of Parasitical Resistance" (Duke UP, 2020)
Jan 06, 2022
D. Fairchild Ruggles, "Tree of Pearls: The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of the 13th-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen Shajar Al-Durr" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jan 05, 2022
Rosa Hawkins and Steve Bergsman, "Chapel of Love: The Story of New Orleans Girl Group the Dixie Cups" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
Jan 05, 2022
Lynn Stephen, "Stories That Make History: Mexico through Elena Poniatowska’s Crónicas" (Duke UP, 2021)
Dec 29, 2021
Winfrey Harris, "The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America" (Berrett-Koehler, 2021)
Dec 24, 2021
Lucie Fremlova, "Queer Roma" (Routledge, 2021)
Dec 24, 2021
Sarah S. Richardson, "The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Dec 21, 2021
David Clare et al., "The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights (1716-2016)" (Liverpool UP, 2021)
Dec 21, 2021
Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh, "Iranian Women and Gender in the Iran-Iraq War" (Syracuse UP, 2021)
Dec 20, 2021
Cassandra Lane, "We Are Bridges: A Memoir" (Feminist Press, 2021)
Dec 13, 2021
Jade S. Sasser, "On Infertile Ground: Population Control and Women's Rights in the Era of Climate Change" (NYU Press, 2018)
Dec 13, 2021
Postscript: SB-8, Dobbs, and the Politics of Abortion
Dec 10, 2021
Fiona Hill, "There Is Nothing for You Here: Opportunity in an Age of Decline" (Mariner Books, 2021)
Dec 09, 2021
Philip Larratt-Smith and Juliet Mitchell, "Louise Bourgeois, Freud's Daughter" (Yale UP, 2021)
Dec 08, 2021
Anne Hugon, "Etre mère en situation coloniale: Gold Coast (années 1910-1950)" (Editions de la Sorbonne, 2020)
Dec 06, 2021
Hadassah Lieberman, "Hadassah: An American Story" (Brandeis UP, 2021)
Nov 29, 2021
Rana M. Jaleel, "The Work of Rape" (Duke UP, 2021)
Nov 24, 2021
Nicole C. Bourbonnais, "Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean: Reproductive Politics and Practice on Four Islands, 1930–1970" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Nov 19, 2021
Tanya L. Roth, "Her Cold War: Women in the U.S. Military, 1945–1980" (UNC Press, 2021)
Nov 19, 2021
Amy Aisen Kallander, "Tunisia's Modern Woman: Nation-Building and State Feminism in the Global 1960s" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Nov 18, 2021
Karla Huebner, "Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
Nov 16, 2021
Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh, "The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South" (UNC Press, 2021)
Nov 15, 2021
Annabel Abbs, "Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women" (Tin House Books, 2021)
Nov 11, 2021
Andrea Warner, "Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography" (Graystone Books, 2018)
Nov 05, 2021
Samantha Durbin, "Raver Girl: Coming of Age in the 90s" (She Writes Press, 2021)
Nov 05, 2021
Zakiya Luna, "Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice" (NYU Press, 2020)
Nov 05, 2021
Machiko Ōgimachi, "In the Shelter of the Pine: A Memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu and Tokugawa Japan" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Nov 04, 2021
Genevieve Yue, "Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality" (Fordham UP, 2020)
Nov 03, 2021
Alice Collett, "I Hear Her Words: An Introduction to Women in Buddhism" (Windhorse, 2021)
Nov 02, 2021
Raphael Cormack, "Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt's Roaring 20s" (Norton, 2021)
Nov 02, 2021
Joan Marie Johnson, "Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women's Movement, 1870-1967" (UNC Press, 2020)
Oct 29, 2021
Sarah Eppler Janda and Patricia Loughlin, "This Land is Herland: Gendered Activism in Oklahoma, 1870-2010" (U Oklahoma Press, 2021)
Oct 28, 2021
Marilyn J. Westerkamp, "The Passion of Anne Hutchinson: An Extraordinary Woman, the Puritan Patriarchs, and the World They Made and Lost" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Oct 27, 2021
Silvia Marina Arrom, "La Güera Rodrígue: The Life and Legends of a Mexican Independence Heroine" (U California Press, 2021)
Oct 26, 2021
Rebecca DeWolf, "Gendered Citizenship: The Original Conflict Over the Equal Rights Amendment, 1920-1963" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
Oct 25, 2021
Viviana B. MacManus, "Disruptive Archives: Feminist Memories of Resistance in Latin America's Dirty Wars" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
Oct 22, 2021
Eileen Hunt Botting, "Portraits of Wollstonecraft" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Oct 22, 2021
Sam Wineburg, "Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone)" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Oct 21, 2021
Esther De Dauw, "Hot Pants and Spandex Suits: Gender Representation in American Superhero Comic" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Oct 21, 2021
Lindsey Stewart, "The Politics of Black Joy: Zora Neale Hurston and Neo-Abolitionism" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
Oct 20, 2021
Roger K. Thomas, "Counting Dreams: The Life and Writings of the Loyalist Nun Nomura Bōtō" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Oct 19, 2021
Catherine Knight Steele, "Digital Black Feminism" (NYU Press, 2021)
Oct 18, 2021
Claudia Goldin, "Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Oct 15, 2021
Erica R. Edwards, "The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of US Empire" (NYU Press, 2021)
Oct 14, 2021
Erika Bachiochi, "The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision" (Notre Dame UP, 2021)
Oct 12, 2021
M. E. J. Huff and Carole Ann King, "Alabama Quilts: Wilderness Through World War II, 1682-1950" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
Oct 12, 2021
Cait McKinney, "Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies" (Duke UP, 2020)
Oct 08, 2021
Christina Lane, "Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock" (Chicago Review Press, 2020)
Oct 07, 2021
Ivana Bajic-Hajdukovic, "Can You Run Away from Sorrow?: Mothers Left Behind in 1990s Belgrade" (Indiana UP, 2020)
Sep 29, 2021
Marnie Hughes-Warrington and Anne Martin, "Big and Little Histories: Sizing Up Ethics in Historiography" (Routledge, 2021)
Sep 24, 2021
Vanessa M. Holden, "Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner's Community" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Sep 24, 2021
Paul Shankman, "Margaret Mead" (Berghahn Books, 2021)
Sep 17, 2021
Sylvana Tomaselli, "Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Sep 15, 2021
Sara E. Lampert, "Starring Women: Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater, 1790-1851" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
Sep 10, 2021
Jan Bardsley, "Maiko Masquerade: Crafting Geisha Girlhood in Japan" (U California Press, 2021)
Sep 06, 2021
Karen Cook Bell, "Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Sep 02, 2021
Kate Manne, "Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women" (Penguin Random House, 2021)
Aug 31, 2021
Lorna N. Bracewell, "Why We Lost the Sex Wars: Sexual Freedom in the #MeToo Era" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Aug 26, 2021
Ella L. J. Bell Smith and Stella M. Nkomo, "Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity" (Harvard Business Press, 2021)
Aug 26, 2021
Gökten Dogangün, "Gender Politics in Turkey and Russia: From State Feminism to Authoritarian Rule" (I. B. Tauris, 2019)
Aug 23, 2021
Simonetta Calderini, "Women as Imams: Classical Islamic Sources and Modern Debates on Leading Prayer" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Aug 20, 2021
Sarah J. Zimmerman, "Militarizing Marriage: West African Soldiers' Conjugal Traditions in Modern French Empire" (Ohio UP, 2021)
Aug 20, 2021
Kristin Hanssen, "Women, Religion and the Body in South Asia: Living With Bengali Bauls" (Routledge, 2020)
Aug 19, 2021
Grace M. Cho, "Tastes Like War: A Memoir" (Feminist Press, 2021)
Aug 18, 2021
Martha Few et al., "Baptism Through Incision: The Postmortem Cesarean Operation in the Spanish Empire" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2020)
Aug 16, 2021
Tiffany A. Sippial, "Celia Sánchez Manduley: The Life and Legacy of a Cuban Revolutionary" (UNC Press, 2020)
Aug 06, 2021
John Christopoulos, "Abortion in Early Modern Italy" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Aug 05, 2021
Vijaya Nagarajan, "Feeding a Thousand Souls: Women, Ritual, and Ecology in India--an Exploration of the Kolam" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Aug 05, 2021
Patricia Owens and Katharina Rietzler, "Women's International Thought: A New History" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Aug 04, 2021
Chiara Bonfiglioli, "Women and Industry in the Balkans: The Rise and Fall of the Yugoslav Textile Sector" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)
Aug 03, 2021
Susan Lee Johnson, "Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West" (UNC Press, 2020)
Jul 30, 2021
Jessica Hopper, "The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic" (MCD x Fsg Originals, 2021)
Jul 30, 2021
Rafia Zakaria, "Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
Jul 27, 2021
Jack Green and Ros Henry, "Olga Tufnell’s 'Perfect Journey': Letters and Photographs of an Archaeologist in the Levant and Mediterranean" (UCL Press, 2021)
Jul 27, 2021
Eszter Varsa, "Protected Children, Regulated Mothers: Gender and the 'Gypsy Question' in State Care in Postwar Hungary, 1949–1956" (Central European UP, 2020)
Jul 26, 2021
Natasha Behl, "Gendered Citizenship: Understanding Gendered Violence in Democratic India" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jul 23, 2021
Meryl Altman, "Beauvoir in Time" (Brill, 2020)
Jul 23, 2021
Kailing Xie, "Embodying Middle Class Gender Aspirations: Perspectives from China’s Privileged Young Women" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Jul 21, 2021
Sokthan Yeng, "Buddhist Feminism: Transforming Anger against Patriarchy" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
Jul 20, 2021
Anna Reser and Leila McNeill, "Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science" (Frances Lincoln, 2021)
Jul 16, 2021
Lindy McDougall, "The Perfect Vagina: Cosmetic Surgery in the Twenty-First Century" (Indiana UP, 2021)
Jul 14, 2021
Candace Bailey, "Unbinding Gentility: Women Making Music in the Nineteenth-Century South" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Jul 13, 2021
Nafiseh Ghafournia, "Faith in Freedom: Muslim Immigrant Women Experiences of Domestic Violence" (Melbourne UP, 2019)
Jul 09, 2021
Funké Aladejebi, "Schooling the System: A History of Black Women Teachers" (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021)
Jul 07, 2021
Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen, "Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility Among India’s Professional Elite" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Jul 06, 2021
Heather Douglas, "Women, Intimate Partner Violence, and the Law" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jul 01, 2021
Katherine Pangonis, "Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule" (Hachette, 2021)
Jul 01, 2021
Carly S. Woods, "Debating Women: Gender, Education, and Spaces for Argument, 1835-1945" (Michigan State UP, 2018)
Jun 30, 2021
J. Laite, "Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens: Commercial Sex in London, 1885-1960" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012)
Jun 30, 2021
Carey Purcell, "From Aphra Behn to Fun Home: A Cultural History of Feminist Theater" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019)
Jun 25, 2021
Susan E. Kirtley, "Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
Jun 25, 2021
Gemma Commane, "Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies: Sex, Performance and Safe Femininity" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Jun 22, 2021
Natalie West and Tina Horn, "We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival" (Feminist Press, 2021)
Jun 21, 2021
Lavanya Vemsani, "Feminine Journeys of the Mahabharata: Hindu Women in History, Text, and Practice" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Jun 21, 2021
Wendy K. Z. Anderson, "Rebirthing a Nation: White Women, Identity Politics, and the Internet" (U Mississippi Press, 2021)
Jun 17, 2021
Rachel Hynson, "Laboring for the State : Women, Family, and Work in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959-1971" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Jun 17, 2021
Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, "Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper" (Duke UP, 2021)
Jun 17, 2021
Elizabeth Emery, "Reframing Japonisme: Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth-Century France, 1853-1914" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Jun 17, 2021
Alexander Nemerov, "Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York" (Penguin Press, 2021)
Jun 14, 2021
Manon Garcia, "We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Jun 11, 2021
Donna Stein, "The Empress and I: How an Ancient Empire Collected, Rejected and Rediscovered Modern Art" (Skira, 2020)
Jun 09, 2021
Mary D. Garrard, "Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
Jun 08, 2021
Martha Moffitt Peacock, "Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives: Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age" (Brill, 2020)
Jun 08, 2021
Sertaç Sehlikoglu, "Working Out Desire: Women, Sport, and Self-Making in Istanbul" (Syracuse UP, 2020)
Jun 08, 2021
Heather Berg, "Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism" (UNC Press, 2021)
Jun 03, 2021
Michèle Hayeur Smith, "The Valkyries' Loom: The Archaeology of Cloth Production and Female Power in the North Atlantic" (UP of Florida, 2020)
Jun 01, 2021
Julia Laite, "The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey: A true story of sex, crime and the meaning of justice" (Profile Books, 2021)
May 31, 2021
Hsiao-wen Cheng, "Divine, Demonic, and Disordered: Women Without Men in Song Dynasty China" (U Washington Press, 2021)
May 28, 2021
Nadia E. Brown and Danielle Casarez Lemi, "Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites" (Oxford UP, 2021)
May 24, 2021
Naminata Diabate, "Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa" (Duke UP, 2020)
May 24, 2021
Christine Walker, "Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire" (UNC Press, 2020)
May 21, 2021
L. Ayu Saraswati, "Pain Generation: Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie" (NYU Press, 2021)
May 19, 2021
Moya Bailey, "Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance" (NYU Press, 2021)
May 17, 2021
Diana Souhami, "No Modernism Without Lesbians" (Head of Zeus Book, 2020)
May 13, 2021
Meggan Watterson, "Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet" (Hay House, 2019)
May 11, 2021
Poulami Roychowdhury, "Capable Women, Incapable States: Negotiating Violence and Rights in India" (Oxford UP, 2020)
May 11, 2021
Alison M. Parker, "Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell" (UNC Press, 2020)
May 10, 2021
Susan Lee Johnson, "Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West" (UNC Press, 2020)
May 07, 2021
Pallavi Guha, "Hear #metoo in India: News, Social Media, and Anti-Rape and Sexual Harassment Activism" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
May 07, 2021
Ora Szekely, et al., "Insurgent Women: Female Combatants in Civil Wars" (Georgetown UP, 2019)
May 07, 2021
B. Gramlich-Oka and A. Walthall, "Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
May 07, 2021
Lindsay Gardner, "Why We Cook: Women on Food, Identity, and Connection" (Workman, 2021)
May 07, 2021
Maureen Mahon, "Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll" (Duke UP, 2020)
May 04, 2021
Adam Hochschild, "Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020)
May 04, 2021
Dorothy Cobble, "For the Many: American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality" (Princeton UP, 2021)
May 03, 2021
Carol Dyhouse, "Love Lives: From Cinderella to Frozen" (Oxford UP, 2021)
May 03, 2021
Catherine E. McKinley, "The African Lookbook: A Visual History of 100 Years of African Womanhood" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Apr 29, 2021
Susan Ware, "American Women's Suffrage: Voices from the Long Struggle for the Vote, 1776-1965" (Library of America, 2020)
Apr 28, 2021
Mytheli Sreenivas, "Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Apr 28, 2021
Bernadette Barton, "The Pornification of America: How Raunch Culture Is Ruining Our Society" (NYU Press, 2021)
Apr 23, 2021
Lorna N. Bracewell, "Why We Lost the Sex Wars: Sexual Freedom in the #MeToo Era" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Apr 21, 2021
Jane Little Botkin, "The Girl Who Dared to Defy: Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver" (U Oklahoma Press, 2021)
Apr 20, 2021
Dana Mills, "Rosa Luxemburg" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
Apr 15, 2021
Oksana Kis, "Survival As Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Apr 14, 2021
Allison B. Wolf, "Just Immigration in the Americas: A Feminist Account" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020)
Apr 13, 2021
Takeshi Watanabe, "Flowering Tales: Women Exorcising History in Heian Japan" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Apr 13, 2021
Tiffany N. Florvil, "Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
Apr 12, 2021
R. Harde and J. Wesselius, "Consumption and the Literary Cookbook" (Routledge, 2020)
Apr 08, 2021
Nicola Pratt, "Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon" (U California Press, 2020)
Apr 07, 2021
Siobhán Hearne, "Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Apr 07, 2021
Arunima Datta, "Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Apr 05, 2021
Daina R. Berry and Kali N. Gross, "A Black Women's History of the United States" (Beacon Press, 2020)
Apr 01, 2021
Banu Gökarıksel, et al., "Feminist Geography Unbound: Discount, Bodies, and Prefigured Futures" (West Virginia UP, 2021)
Mar 30, 2021
Sara Ritchey, "Acts of Care: Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Mar 29, 2021
Karen Woods Weierman, "The Case of the Slave-Child, Med: Free Soil in Antislavery Boston" (U Massachusetts Press, 2019)
Mar 26, 2021
Angela Firkus, "America's Early Women Celebrities: The Famous and Scorned from Martha Washington to Silent Film Star Mary Fuller" (McFarland, 2021)
Mar 23, 2021
Hawraa Al Hassan, "Women, Writing and the Iraqi Ba'thist State" (U Edinburgh Press, 2020)
Mar 22, 2021
Natasha Varner, "La Raza Cosmética: Beauty, Identity, and Settler Colonialism in Postrevolutionary Mexico" (U Arizona Press, 2020)
Mar 22, 2021
Erica Ball et al., "As if She Were Free" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Mar 22, 2021
Nevin Reda and Yasmin Amin, "Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice: Processes of Canonization Subversion and Change" (McGill Queens UP, 2020)
Mar 19, 2021
Carol J. Adams, "The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory" (Bloomsbury, 2015)
Mar 19, 2021
Vanessa R. Sasson, "Yasodhara and the Buddha" (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020)
Mar 18, 2021
Arnold W. Rachman, "Elizabeth Severn: The 'Evil Genius' of Psychoanalysis" (Routledge, 2017)
Mar 16, 2021
Elizabeth Becker, "You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War" (PublicAffairs, 2021)
Mar 10, 2021
Peter Hudis, ed., "The Letters Of Rosa Luxemburg" (Verso, 2013)
Mar 09, 2021
Karen Jones, "Calamity: The Many Lives of Calamity Jane" (Yale UP, 2020)
Mar 08, 2021
Frances Galt, "Women’s Activism Behind the Screens: Trade Unions and Gender Inequality in the British Film and Television Industries" (Bristol UP, 2020)
Mar 05, 2021
Anke Gilleir, "Strategic Imaginations: Women and the Gender of Sovereignty in European Culture" (Leuven UP, 2020)
Mar 02, 2021
Stephanie Russo, "The Afterlife of Anne Boleyn: Representations of Anne Boleyn in Fiction and on the Screen" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Mar 01, 2021
L. Cox Han and C. Heldman, "Madam President?: Gender and Politics on the Road to the White House" (Lynne Rienner, 2020)
Feb 25, 2021
Stephanie McCurry, "Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the Civil War" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Feb 23, 2021
Daphne A. Brooks, "Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Feb 23, 2021
Anne Eakin Moss, "Only Among Women, "Philosophies of Community in the Russian and Soviet Imagination, 1860–1940" (Northwestern UP, 2019)
Feb 22, 2021
Naomi Seidman, "Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement: A Revolution in the Name of Tradition" (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2019)
Feb 19, 2021
Elesha J. Coffman, "Margaret Mead: A Twentieth-Century Faith" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Feb 19, 2021
Paola Bonifazio, "The Photoromance: A Feminist Reading of Popular Culture" (MIT Press, 2020)
Feb 19, 2021
Celene Ibrahim, "Women and Gender in the Qur'an" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Feb 19, 2021
Mona Lena Krook, "Violence Against Women in Politics" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Feb 18, 2021
Eika Tai, "Comfort Women Activism: Critical Voices from the Perpetrator State" (Hong Kong UP, 2020)
Feb 17, 2021
Alison Phipps, "Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism" (Manchester UP, 2020)
Feb 16, 2021
Jacqueline Mitton and Simon Mitton, "Vera Rubin: A Life" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Feb 16, 2021
Meenakshi Gigi Durham, "MeToo: How Rape Culture in the Media Impacts Us All" (Polity, 2021)
Feb 15, 2021
Cathleen D. Cahill, "Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement" (U North Carolina Press, 2020)
Feb 15, 2021
Robert J. Mrazek, "The Indomitable Florence Finch: The Untold Story of a War Widow Turned Resistance Fighter and Savior of American POWs" (Hachette, 2020)
Feb 10, 2021
Arlin C. Migliazzo, "Mother of American Evangelicalism: The Life and Legacy of Henrietta Mears" (Eerdmans, 2020)
Feb 03, 2021
Tiffany N. Florvil, "Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
Feb 03, 2021
Rachelle Hope Saltzman, "Pussy Hats, Politics, and Public Protest" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
Jan 25, 2021
Fanny Söderbäck, "Revolutionary Time: On Time and Difference in Kristeva and Irigaray" (SUNY Press, 2019)
Jan 20, 2021
David Chaffetz, "Three Asian Divas: Women, Art and Culture In Shiraz, Delhi and Yangzhou" (Abbreviated Press, 2019)
Jan 14, 2021
Katharine Massam, "A Bridge Between: Spanish Benedictine Missionary Women in Australia" (ANU Press, 2020)
Jan 11, 2021
Laura Hyun Yi Kang, "Traffic in Asian Women" (Duke UP, 2020)
Jan 07, 2021
Courtenay Stallings, "Laura's Ghost: Women Speak about Twin Peaks" (Fayetteville Mafia Press, 2020)
Jan 06, 2021
Lauren Jae Gutterman, "Her Neighbor's Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
Jan 04, 2021
Robin Mitchell, "Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France" (U Georgia Press, 2020)
Dec 29, 2020
Jenn Shapland, "My Autobiography of Carson Mccullers: A Memoir" (Tin House Books, 2020)
Dec 28, 2020
Justine Howe, "The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender" (Routledge, 2020)
Dec 24, 2020
Miriam Kalman Friedman, "Rivers of Light: The Life of Claire Myers Owens" (Syracuse UP, 2019)
Dec 23, 2020
Kim T. Gallon, "Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
Dec 22, 2020
Stanley J. Rabinowitz, "And Then Came Dance: The Women Who Led Volynsky to Ballet's Magic Kingdom" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Dec 18, 2020
Michal S. Raucher, "Conceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority Among Haredi Women" (Indiana UP, 2020)
Dec 17, 2020
Martha S. Jones, "Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All" (Basic Books, 2020)
Dec 16, 2020
Erica Armstrong Dunbar, "Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge" (Simon and Schuster, 2017)
Dec 16, 2020
Mithu Sanyal, "Rape: From Lucretia to #MeToo" (Verso, 2019)
Dec 11, 2020
Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow, "Suffrage at 100: Women in American Politics since 1920" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
Dec 10, 2020
Nimisha Barton, "Reproductive Citizens: Gender, Immigration, and the State in Modern France, 1880–1945" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Dec 08, 2020
Lessie Jo Frazier, "Desired States: Sex, Gender, and Political Culture in Chile" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Dec 07, 2020
Carolyn Conley, "Debauched, Desperate, Deranged: Women Who Killed, London 1674-1913" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Dec 04, 2020
Melody E. Valdini, "The Inclusion Calculation: Why Men Appropriate Women's Representation" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Dec 03, 2020
Amanda L. Scott, "The Basque Seroras: Local Religion, Gender, and Power in Northern Iberia, 1550–1800" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Dec 02, 2020
Samantha Langsdale and Elizabeth Rae Coody, "Monstrous Women in Comics" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
Dec 02, 2020
Tabassum Fahim Ruby, "Muslim Women's Rights: Contesting Liberal-Secular Sensibilities in Canada" (Routledge, 2019)
Nov 27, 2020
Andrea Pető, "The Women of the Arrow Cross Party: Invisible Hungarian Perpetrators in the Second World War" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Nov 27, 2020
Elizabeth Son, "Embodied Reckonings: 'Comfort Women,' Performance, and Transpacific Redress" (U Michigan Press, 2018)
Nov 25, 2020
Victoria Phillips, "Martha Graham's Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Nov 24, 2020
Vanessa Diaz, "Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood" (Duke UP, 2020)
Nov 18, 2020
James Keating, "Distant Sisters: Australasian Women and the International Struggle for the Vote, 1880-1914" (Manchester UP, 2020)
Nov 17, 2020
Sharon T. Strocchia, "Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Nov 17, 2020
Terry Baum, "One Dyke’s Theater: Selected Plays 1975-2014" (Exit Press, 2019)
Nov 16, 2020
Kat D. Williams, "Isabel 'Lefty' Alvarez: The Improbable Life of a Cuban American Baseball Star" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
Nov 16, 2020
Amy Stanley, "Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World" (Scribner, 2020)
Nov 12, 2020
Jill Massino, "Ambiguous Transitions: Gender, the State, and Everyday Life in Socialist and Postsocialist Romania" (Berghahn, 2019)
Nov 10, 2020
Caroline Starkey, "Women in British Buddhism: Commitment, Connection, Community" (Routledge, 2019)
Nov 06, 2020
Steven M. Ortiz, "The Sport Marriage: Women Who Make It Work" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
Nov 06, 2020
Tera W. Hunter, "Bound In Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century" (Harvard UP, 2017)
Nov 05, 2020
Gina Rippon, "Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds" (Vintage, 2020)
Oct 27, 2020
Bonny H. Miller, "Augusta Browne: Composer and Woman of Letters in Nineteenth-Century America" (U Rochester Press, 2020)
Oct 26, 2020
Judith G. Coffin, "Sex, Love, and Letters: Writing Simone de Beauvoir" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Oct 26, 2020
Anway Mukhopadhyay, “The Authority of Female Speech in Indian Goddess Traditions” (Palgrave, 2020)
Oct 26, 2020
Ellen Wayland-Smith, "The Angel in the Marketplace: Adwoman Jean Wade Rindlaub and the Selling of America" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Oct 23, 2020
Francesca Sobande, "The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain" (Palgrave, 2020)
Oct 21, 2020
Rachel Manekin, "The Rebellion of the Daughters: Jewish Women Runaways in Habsburg Galicia" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Oct 21, 2020
Tamura Lomax, “Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture” (Duke UP, 2018)
Oct 19, 2020
Jessica Zychowicz, "Superfluous Women: Art, Feminism, and Revolution in Twenty-First Century Ukraine" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
Oct 16, 2020
Alexandra J. Finley, "An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America’s Domestic Slave Trade" (UNC Press, 2020)
Oct 16, 2020
Julie Hardwick, "Sex in an Old Regime City: Young Workers and Intimacy in France, 1660-1789" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Oct 13, 2020
John Locke, "Queen of the Gangsters: Stories by Margie Harris" (Off-Trail Publications, 2011)
Oct 13, 2020
Jill Richards, "The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Oct 08, 2020
Sophie Richter-Devroe, "Women’s Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival" (U Illinois Press, 2018)
Oct 05, 2020
Abla Hasan, "Decoding the Egalitarianism of the Qur’an: Retrieving Lost Voices on Gender" (Lexington Books, 2020)
Oct 02, 2020
Michele Goodwin, "Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Sep 30, 2020
Ariella Rotramel, "Pushing Back: Women of Color-Led Grassroots Activism in New York City" (U Georgia Press, 2020)
Sep 29, 2020
Diana Greene Foster, "The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having—or Being Denied—an Abortion" (Scribner, 2020)
Sep 22, 2020
Neela Bhattacharya Saxena, "Absent Mother God of the West: A Kali Lover's Journey into Christianity and Judaism" (Rowman, 2015)
Sep 22, 2020
Karen E. H. Skinazi, "Women of Valor: Orthodox Jewish Troll Fighters, Crime Writers, and Rock Stars in Contemporary Literature and Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2018)
Sep 21, 2020
Rachel V. González, "Quinceañera Style: Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities"
Sep 18, 2020
Jody A. Forrester, "Guns Under the Bed: Memories of a Young Revolutionary" (Odyssey Books, 2020)
Sep 18, 2020
Ann-elise Lewallen, "The Fabric of Indigeneity: Ainu Identity, Gender, and Settler Colonialism in Japan" (U New Mexico Press, 2016)
Sep 17, 2020
Matty Weingast, "The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns" (Shambhala, 2020)
Sep 14, 2020
Meg Heckman, "Political Godmother: Nackey Scripps Loeb and the Newspaper That Shook the Republican Party" (Potomac Books, 2020)
Sep 11, 2020
Hettie V. Williams, "Bury My Heart in a Free Land: Black Women Intellectuals in Modern U.S. History" (Praeger, 2018)
Sep 10, 2020
Roundtable Discussion of Jennifer Morgan's "Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery" (UPenn Press, 2004)
Sep 10, 2020
Jennifer L. Morgan, "Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2004)
Sep 09, 2020
Wendy Moore, "No Man’s Land: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain's Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I (Basic Books, 2020)
Sep 07, 2020
Postscript: Shirley Chisholm as Principled Political Strategist
Sep 07, 2020
Marion Bower, "The Life and Work of Joan Riviere: Freud, Klein and Female Sexuality" (Routledge, 2018)
Sep 02, 2020
Philip Nash, "Breaking Protocol: America's First Female Ambassadors, 1933-1964" (UP of Kentucky, 2020)
Sep 01, 2020
Jessica Marie Johnson, "Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
Aug 28, 2020
S. Grayzel and T. Proctor, "Gender and the Great War" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Aug 28, 2020
Lisa Selin Davis, "Tomboy: The Surprising History and Future of Girls Who Dare to Be Different" (Hachette Go, 2020)
Aug 27, 2020
Arti Dhand, "Woman as Fire, Woman as Sage: Sexual Ideology in the Mahabharata" (SUNY Press, 2008)
Aug 24, 2020
Valerie Wayne, "Women’s Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Aug 20, 2020
Lisa Levenstein, "They Didn’t See Us Coming: The Hidden History of Feminism in the Nineties" (Basic Books, 2020)
Aug 19, 2020
Kimberly Brown Pellum, "Black Beauties: African American Pageant Queens in the Segregated South" (History Press, 2020)
Aug 17, 2020
Alice Connor, "Fierce: Women of the Bible and Their Stories of Violence, Mercy, Bravery, Wisdom, Sex, and Salvation" (Fortress, 2017)
Aug 14, 2020
Rae Linda Brown, "Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
Aug 14, 2020
Polly E. Bugros McLean, "Remembering Lucile: A Virginia Family's Rise from Slavery and a Legacy Forged a Mile High" (UP of Colorado, 2018)
Aug 12, 2020
Sasha Abramsky, "Little Wonder: The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dod, the World’s First Female Sports Superstar" (Akashic Books, 2020)
Aug 12, 2020
Amy Von Lintel, "Georgia O'Keeffe's Wartime Texas Letters" (Texas A&M UP, 2020)
Aug 11, 2020
Nwando Achebe, "Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa" (Ohio UP, 2020)
Aug 10, 2020
Monica Coleman, "Bipolar Faith: A Black Woman’s Journey with Depression and Faith" (Fortress Press, 2016)
Aug 10, 2020
N. Achebe and C. Robertson, "Holding the World Together: African Women in Changing Perspective (U Wisconsin Press, 2019)
Aug 05, 2020
Asma Barlas, "Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’an" (U Texas Press, 2019)
Aug 03, 2020
Aya Gruber, "The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women’s Liberation in Mass Incarceration" (U California Press, 2020)
Jul 31, 2020
Sunny Stalter-Pace, "Imitation Artist: Gertrude Hoffman’s Life in Vaudeville and Dance" (Northwestern UP, 2020)
Jul 31, 2020
Paulo Drinot, "The Sexual Question: A History of Prostitution in Peru, 1850s-1950s" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Jul 29, 2020
Theresa Kaminski, "Dr. Mary Walker's Civil War: One Woman's Journey to the Medal of Honor and the Fight for Women's Rights" (Lyons Press, 2020)
Jul 28, 2020
R. K. Jefferson and H. B. Johnson, "Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court (NYU Press, 2020)
Jul 27, 2020
Patricia Zavella, "The Movement for Reproductive Justice: Empowering Women of Color through Social Activism" (NYU Press, 2020)
Jul 24, 2020
Shahla Haeri, "The Unforgettable Queens of Islam: Succession, Authority and Gender" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Jul 24, 2020
Manuel Betancourt, "Judy Garland's Judy at Carnegie Hall" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)
Jul 23, 2020
Laura S. Grillo, "An Intimate Rebuke: Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa" (Duke UP, 2018)
Jul 23, 2020
Amanda L. Scott, "The Basque Seroras: Local Religion, Gender, and Power in Northern Iberia, 1550-1800" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Jul 21, 2020
Y. F. Niemann and G. Gutiérrez y Muhs, "Presumed Incompetent II: Race, Class, Power, and Resistance of Women in Academia" (Utah State UP, 2019)
Jul 16, 2020
Yuhang Li, "Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Jul 14, 2020
Sally Nuamah, "How Girls Achieve" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Jul 14, 2020
Alyson McGregor, "Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women's Health" (Hachette, 2020)
Jul 13, 2020
Jennifer L. Holland, "Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement" (U California Press, 2020)
Jul 13, 2020
Pernilla Myrne, "Female Sexuality in the Early Medieval Islamic World: Gender and Sex in Arabic Literature" (I. B. Tauris, 2020)
Jul 10, 2020
J-B. Tchouta Mougoué, "Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon" (U Michigan Press, 2019)
Jul 07, 2020
Jean Halley, "Horse Crazy: Girls and the Lives of Horses" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Jul 07, 2020
M. A. Weitekamp and M. Delaney, "Smithsonian American Women" (Smithsonian Books, 2019)
Jul 03, 2020
Lucy Delap, "Feminisms: A Global History" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Jul 01, 2020
Tsedale Melaku, "You Don’t Look Like a Lawyer: Black Women and Systemic Gendered Racism" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
Jun 29, 2020
Anya Jabour, "Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women's Activism in Modern America" (U Illinois Press, 2019)
Jun 25, 2020
Natalie Kimball, "An Open Secret: The History of Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in Modern Bolivia" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Jun 23, 2020
Mariann Hardey, "The Culture of Women in Tech: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman" (Emerald, 2019)
Jun 22, 2020
B. L. Johnson and M. M. Quinlan, "You’re Doing it Wrong! Mothering, Media and Medical Expertise" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
Jun 19, 2020
Teresa Bergman, "The Commemoration of Women in the United States" (Routledge, 2019)
Jun 18, 2020
Nora Haenn, "Marriage after Migration: An Ethnography of Money, Romance, and Gender in Globalizing Mexico" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jun 17, 2020
R. Farrugia and K. D. Hay, "Women Rapping Revolution: Hip Hop and Community Building in Detroit" (U California Press, 2020)
Jun 17, 2020
Kabria Baumgartner, "In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America" (NYU Press, 2019)
Jun 16, 2020
Barbara J. Risman, "Where the Millennials Will Take Us: A New Generation Wrestles with the Gender Structure" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Jun 16, 2020
Mona L. Siegel, "Peace on Our Terms: The Global Battle for Women’s Rights After the First World" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Jun 15, 2020
Nandini Patwardhan, "Radical Spirits: India’s First Woman Doctor and Her American Champions" (Story Artisan Press, 2020)
Jun 12, 2020
Shauna L. Shames et al., "Good Reason to Run: Women and Political Candidacy" (Temple UP, 2020)
Jun 11, 2020
Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir, "Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Jun 11, 2020
A. D. Crosby and M. B. Lykes, "In Beyond Repair? Mayan Women’s Protagonism in the Aftermath of Genocidal Harm" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
Jun 10, 2020
Thomas John Lappas, "In League Against King Alcohol" (U Oklahoma Press, 2020)
Jun 10, 2020
Martina Cvajner, "Soviet Signoras: Personal and Collective Transformations in Eastern European Migration" (U Chicago, 2019)
Jun 09, 2020
Ana María Reyes, "The Politics of Taste: Beatriz González and Cold War Aesthetics" (Duke UP, 2019)
Jun 09, 2020
Ana María Reyes, "The Politics of Taste: Beatriz González and Cold War Aesthetics" (Duke UP, 2019)
Jun 09, 2020
Breanne Fahs, "Burn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution" (Verso, 2020)
Jun 03, 2020
Tanya Harmer, "Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America" (UNC Press, 2020)
Jun 03, 2020
Anthony Valerio, "Semmelweis: The Women's Doctor" (Zantedeschi Books, 2019)
Jun 01, 2020
Pamela S. Nadell, "America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today" (Norton, 2019)
Jun 01, 2020
Kathleen Gallagher Elkins, "Mary, Mother of Martyrs" (FSR, 2018)
May 19, 2020
Jacqueline H. Fewkes, "Locating Maldivian Women's Mosques in Global Discourses" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
May 15, 2020
Ana Stevenson, "The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth-Century American Social Movements" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
May 13, 2020
Nancy Mattina, "Uncommon Anthropologist: Gladys Reichard and Western Native American Culture" (U Oklahoma Press, 2019)
May 13, 2020
Melissa R. Klapper, "Ballet Class: An American History" (Oxford UP, 2020)
May 12, 2020
Mallika Kaur, "Faith, Gender, and Activism in the Punjab Conflict: The Wheat Fields Still Whisper" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
May 05, 2020
Fiona Vera-Gray, "The Right Amount of Panic: How Women Trade Freedom for Safety" (Policy Press, 2018)
Apr 29, 2020
Cynthia Orozco, "Agent of Change: Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American Civil Rights Activist and Texas Feminist" (U Texas Press, 2020)
Apr 16, 2020
Cassia Roth, "A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Apr 10, 2020
Amy Koerber, “From Hysteria to Hormones: A Rhetorical History" (Penn State UP, 2018)
Apr 07, 2020
Kimberly A. Hamlin, "Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener" (Norton, 2020)
Apr 01, 2020
Jin Y. Park, "Women and Buddhist Philosophy: Engaging Zen Master Kim Iryŏp" (U of Hawaii Press, 2017)
Mar 31, 2020
Jessica Wilkerson, "To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice" (U Illinois Press, 2018)
Mar 27, 2020
Joana Cook, "A Woman's Place: US Counterterrorism Since 9/11" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Mar 24, 2020
Great Books: Julie Carlson on Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"
Mar 24, 2020
Nancy Sinkoff, "From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History" (Wayne State UP, 2020)
Mar 17, 2020
Melissa Kravetz, "Women Doctors in Weimar and Nazi Germany: Maternalism, Eugenics and Professional Identity" (U Toronto Press, 2019)
Mar 17, 2020
Melissa Walker and Giselle Roberts, "Women’s Diaries and Letters of the South" (U South Carolina Press)
Mar 13, 2020
Michael O’Sullivan, "Disruptive Power: Catholic Women, Miracles, and Politics in Modern Germany, 1918-1965" (U Toronto Press, 2018)
Mar 13, 2020
Erika Engstrom, "Feminism, Gender, and Politics in NBC’s Parks and Recreation" (Peter Lang, 2017)
Mar 03, 2020
Sher Banu Khan, "Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom: The Sultanahs of Aceh, 1641-1699" (Cornell UP, 2018)
Feb 28, 2020
Emily E. LB. Twarog, "Politics of the Pantry: Housewives, Food, and Consumer Protest in Twentieth-Century America" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Feb 26, 2020
Erika Denise Edwards, "Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic" (U Alabama Press, 2020)
Feb 21, 2020
Megan Burke, "When Time Warps: The Lived Experience of Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
Feb 20, 2020
Robin Pickering-Iazzi, "Dead Silent: Life Stories of Girls and Women Killed by the Italian Mafias, 1878-2018" (U Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2019)
Feb 14, 2020
S. Bergès, E. Hunt Botting, A. Coffee, "The Wollstonecraftian Mind" (Routledge, 2019)
Feb 14, 2020
Roger Gilles, "Women on the Move: The Forgotten Era of Women’s Bicycle Racing" (U Nebraska Press, 2018)
Feb 11, 2020
Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider, "Why Does Patriarchy Persist?" (Polity, 2018)
Feb 10, 2020
Blain Roberts, "Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South" (UNC Press, 2016)
Feb 07, 2020
D. J. Taylor, "The Lost Girls: Love and Literature in Wartime London" (Pegasus Books, 2020)
Feb 04, 2020
Great Books: Catherine Stimpson on de Beauvior's "The Second Sex"
Jan 28, 2020
Helen Taylor, "Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jan 27, 2020
Carol Dyhouse, "Hearthrobs: A History of Women and Desire" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Jan 24, 2020
Rachel Chrastil, "How to Be Childless: A History and Philosophy of Life Without Children" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jan 21, 2020
Dr. Alice Collett, "Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns: Biographies as History" (Oxford UP, 2016)
Jan 16, 2020
Eileen Botting, "The Wollstonecraftian Mind" (Routledge, 2019)
Jan 15, 2020
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, "Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America" (W. W. Norton, 2019)
Jan 14, 2020
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, "Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America" (W. W. Norton, 2019)
Jan 14, 2020
Ingrid Horrocks, "Women Wanderers and the Writing of Mobility, 1784–1814" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Jan 10, 2020
Alys Eve Weinbaum, "The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery: Biocapitalism and Black Feminism’s Philosophy of History" (Duke UP, 2019)
Jan 07, 2020
Great Books: Jared Stark on Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse"
Jan 07, 2020
Adele Lindenmeyr, "Citizen Countess: Sofia Panina and the Fate of Revolutionary Russia" (U Wisconsin Press, 2019)
Dec 31, 2019
Alex Lichtenstein, "Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid" (Indiana UP, 2016)
Dec 27, 2019
Jennifer Utrata, "Women without Men: Single Mothers and Family Change in the New Russia" (Cornell UP, 2015)
Dec 27, 2019
Talitha LeFlouria, "Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South" (UNC Press, 2016)
Dec 20, 2019
Zahra Ali, "Women and Gender in Iraq: Between Nation-Building and Fragmentation" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Dec 16, 2019
Amy Aronson, "Chrystal Eastman: A Revolutionary Life" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Dec 11, 2019
Vicky Pryce, "Women vs. Capitalism: Why We Can't Have It All in a Free Market Economy" (Hurst, 2019)
Dec 10, 2019
Sally Holloway, "The Game of Love in Georgian England: Courtship, Emotions, and Material Culture" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Dec 03, 2019
Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, "Migrant Women of Johannesburg: Everyday Life in an In-Between City" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
Dec 02, 2019
Kathleen Sheppard, "The Life of Margaret Alice Murray: A Woman’s Work in Archaeology" (Lexington, 2017)
Nov 29, 2019
Laura K. T. Stokes, "Fanny Hensel: A Research and Information Guide" (Routledge, 2019)
Nov 28, 2019
Brianna Theobald, "Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2019)
Nov 25, 2019
Michelle Haberland, "Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930-2000" (U Georgia Press, 2015)
Nov 22, 2019
Elizabeth Bernstein, "Brokered Subjects: Sex, Trafficking and the Politics of Freedom" (U Chicago, 2018)
Nov 21, 2019
Angela Rudert, "Shakti's New Voice: Guru Devotion in a Women-Led Spiritual Movement" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
Nov 20, 2019
Richard J. Bernstein, "Why Read Hannah Arendt Now" (Polity, 2018)
Nov 20, 2019
Dana Fisher, "American Resistance: From the Women's March to the Blue Wave" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Nov 14, 2019
Alicia Izharuddin, “Gender and Islam in Indonesian Cinema” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
Nov 12, 2019
John Launer, "Sex Versus Survival: The Life and Ideas of Sabina Spielrein" (Henry N. Abrams, 2017)
Nov 11, 2019
Paula McQuade, "Catechisms and Women’s Writing in Seventeenth-Century England" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Nov 08, 2019
Annabel L. Kim, "Unbecoming Language: Anti-Identitarian French Feminist Fictions" (Ohio State UP, 2018)
Nov 06, 2019
Erica Armstrong Dunbar, "She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman" (37 Ink, 2019)
Nov 05, 2019
Eileen Boris, "Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919-2019" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Nov 01, 2019
Naleli Morojele, "Women Political Leaders in Rwanda and South Africa: Narratives of Triumph and Loss" (Barbara Budrich 2016)
Oct 23, 2019
C. Strachan and L. Poloni-Staudinger, "Why Don′t Women Rule the World?: Understanding Women′s Civic and Political Choices" (Sage, 2019)
Oct 09, 2019
Susan Goodier, "Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State" (Cornell UP, 2017)
Oct 03, 2019
Gerry Milligan, "Moral Combat: Women, Gender and War in Italian Renaissance Literature" (U Toronto Press, 2018)
Oct 01, 2019
Zahra Ayubi, "Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Sep 20, 2019
Tammy R. Vigil, "Moms in Chief: The Rhetoric of Republican Motherhood and the Spouses of Presidential Nominees, 1992-2016" (U Kansas Press, 2019)
Sep 12, 2019
Kate Kirkpatrick, "Becoming Beauvoir: A Life" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
Sep 10, 2019
Hendrik Hartog, "The Trouble with Minna: A Case of Slavery and Emancipation in the Antebellum North" (UNC Press, 2018)
Sep 05, 2019
Katie Jarvis, "Politics in the Marketplace: Work, Gender, and Citizenship in Revolutionary France" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Sep 04, 2019
Cecilia Caballero et al. "The Chicana M(other)work Anthology: Porque Sin Madres No Hay Revolucion" (U Arizona Press, 2019)
Aug 28, 2019
Suzanne Scott, "Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry" (NYU Press, 2019)
Aug 26, 2019
Nancy Lough and Andrea N. Geurin, "Routledge Handbook of the Business of Women's Sport" (Routledge, 2019)
Aug 21, 2019
Belinda Stillion Southard, "How to Belong: Women’s Agency in a Transnational World" (Penn State UP, 2018)
Aug 20, 2019
Mary-Elizabeth Murphy, "Jim Crow Capital: Women and Black Freedom Struggles in Washington, DC, 1920-1945" (UNC Press, 2018)
Aug 16, 2019
Lisa Greenwald, "Daughters of 1968: Redefining French Feminism and the Women’s Liberation Movement" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
Aug 15, 2019
Polina Kroik, "Cultural Production and the Politics of Women’s Work in American Film and Literature" (Routledge, 2019)
Aug 12, 2019
Kaitlin Sidorsky, "All Roads Lead to Power: The Appointed and Elected Paths to Public Office for US Women" (UP Kansas, 2019)
Aug 08, 2019
Sharra L. Vostral, "Toxic Shock: A Social History" (NYU Press, 2018)
Aug 02, 2019
Anne O’Brien, "Women, Inequality and Media Work" (Routledge, 2019)
Aug 02, 2019
Amy Collier Artman, "The Miracle Lady: Kathryn Kuhlman and the Transformation of Charismatic Christianity" (Eerdmans, 2019)
Jul 31, 2019
Katharina Karcher, "Sisters in Arms: Militant Feminisms in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1968" (Berghahn, 2017)
Jul 31, 2019
Celeste Watkins-Hayes, "Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality" (U California Press, 2019)
Jul 26, 2019
Ashley Robertson, "Mary McLeod Bethune in Florida: Bringing Social Justice to the Sunshine State" (The History Press, 2015)
Jul 25, 2019
Courtney Pace, "Freedom Faith: The Womanist Vision of Prathia Hall" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Jul 24, 2019
Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, "This Is Really War: The Incredible True Story of a Navy Nurse POW in the Occupied Philippines" (Chicago Review Press, 2019)
Jul 19, 2019
Maria Cotera, "Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era" (U of Texas Press, 2018)
Jul 17, 2019
Tanisha C. Ford, "Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion" (St. Martins Press, 2019)
Jul 10, 2019
Emily S. Johnson, "This Is Our Message: Women's Leadership in the New Christian Right" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jul 08, 2019
Tiffany Gill, "To Turn the Whole World Over: Black Women and Internationalism" (U Illinois Press, 2019)
Jul 05, 2019
Joan Wallach Scott, "Sex and Secularism" (Princeton UP, 2017)
Jul 02, 2019
Caitlyn Collins, "Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Jun 28, 2019
Nancy Mirabal, "Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957" (NYU Press, 2017)
Jun 27, 2019
Amanda Littauer, "Bad Girls: Young Women, Sex, and Rebellion before the Sixties" (UNC Press, 2015)
Jun 26, 2019
Candace L. Bailey, "Charleston Belles Abroad: The Music Collections of Harriet Lowndes, Henrietta Aiken, and Louisa Rebecca McCord" (U South Carolina Press, 2019)
Jun 26, 2019
Brenda Elsey and Joshua Nadel, "Futbolera: A History of Women and Sports in Latin America" (U Texas Press, 2019)
Jun 25, 2019
Heather Mayer, "Beyond the Rebel Girl: Women and the Industrial Workers of the World in the Pacific Northwest, 1905-1924" (Oregon State UP, 2018)
Jun 20, 2019
Kristen R. Ghodsee, "Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women's Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War" (Duke UP, 2019)
Jun 20, 2019
Alexandra M. Nickliss, "Phoebe Apperson Hearst: A Life of Power and Politics" (Bison Books, 2018)
Jun 19, 2019
Joseph Hill, "Wrapping Authority: Women Islamic Leaders in a Sufi Movement in Dakar, Senegal" (U Toronto Press, 2018)
Jun 19, 2019
Shennette Garrett-Scott, "Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Jun 19, 2019
Melanie A. Medeiros, "Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil: Black Women’s Perspectives on Love, Respect, and Kinship" (Rutgers UP, 2018)
Jun 18, 2019
Sharon Kirsch, "Gertrude Stein and the Reinvention of Rhetoric" (U Alabama Press, 2014)
Jun 17, 2019
Katherine M. Marino, "Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement" (UNC Press, 2019)
Jun 14, 2019
Matilda Rabinowitz, "Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman: A Memoir from the Early Twentieth Century" (ILR Press, 2017)
Jun 13, 2019
Jennifer Helgren, "American Girls and Global Responsibility: A New Relation to the World during the Early Cold War" (Rutgers UP, 2017)
Jun 04, 2019
Barbara K. Gold, "Perpetua: Athlete of God" (Oxford UP, 2018)
May 29, 2019
Linda M. Grasso, "Equal under the Sky: Georgia O’Keeffe and Twentieth-Century Feminism" (U New Mexico Press, 2017)
May 27, 2019
Quincy D. Newell, "Your Sister in the Gospel: The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon" (Oxford UP, 2019)
May 21, 2019
Robin Truth Goodman, "The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
May 10, 2019
Erin M. Kempker, "Big Sister: Feminism, Conservatism and Conspiracy in the Heartland" (U Illinois, 2018)
May 03, 2019
René Weis, "The Real Traviata: The Song of Marie Duplessis" (Oxford UP, 2015)
Apr 22, 2019
Robert Matzen, "Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II" (GoodKnight Books, 2019)
Apr 16, 2019
Pamela S. Nadell, "America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today" (Norton, 2019)
Apr 16, 2019
Leta Hong Fincher, "Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China" (Verso, 2018)
Apr 12, 2019
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, "They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South" (Yale UP, 2019)
Mar 29, 2019
Serene J. Khader, "Decolonizing Universalism: A Transnational Feminist Ethic" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Mar 25, 2019
Tina Sikka, "Climate Technology, Gender, and Justice: The Standpoint of the Vulnerable" (Springer, 2019)
Mar 21, 2019
Margaret Arnold, "The Magdalene in the Reformation" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Mar 20, 2019
Joyce Antler, "Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women’s Liberation Movement" (NYU Press, 2018)
Mar 06, 2019
Susan Carlile, "Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind" (U Toronto Press, 2018)
Mar 06, 2019
Jocelyn M. Boryczka, "Suspect Citizens: Women, Virtue, and Vice in Backlash Politics" (Temple UP, 2012)
Feb 27, 2019
Bianca Williams, “The Pursuit of Happiness: Black Women, Diasporic Dreams, and the Politics of Emotional Transnationalism" (Duke UP, 2018)
Feb 15, 2019
Jessica Trisko Darden, Alexis Henshaw, and Ora Szekley, "Insurgent Women: Female Combatants in Civil Wars" (Georgetown UP, 2019)
Feb 11, 2019
Marcia Morgan, "Black Women Prison Employees: The Intersectionality of Gender and Race" (Edwin Mellen Press, 2018)
Jan 23, 2019
Katherine K. Preston, "Opera for the People: English-Language Opera and Women Managers in Late 19th-Century America" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Dec 21, 2018
Sarah Banet-Weiser, "Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny" (Duke UP, 2018)
Dec 10, 2018
Sara Egge, “Woman Suffrage and Citizenship in the Midwest, 1870-1920” (U Iowa Press, 2018)
Nov 27, 2018
Alicia Malone, “The Female Gaze: Essential Movies Made by Women” (Mango Publishing Group, 2018)
Nov 16, 2018
Smadar Lavie, “Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture (Revised Edition)” (U Nebraska Press, 2018)
Oct 23, 2018
Victoria Lamont, “Westerns: A Women’s History” (U Nebraska Press, 2016)
Oct 19, 2018
Ivan Simic, “Soviet Influences on Postwar Yugoslav Gender Policies” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
Oct 18, 2018
Sylvia Chan-Malik, “Being Muslim: A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam” (NYU Press, 2018)
Oct 17, 2018
Jacqueline Rose ,”Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018)
Oct 10, 2018
Rachel Harris, “Warriors, Witches, Whores: Women in Israeli Cinema” (Wayne State UP, 2017)
Oct 10, 2018
K. Dittmar, K. Sanbonmatsu, and S. Carroll, “A Seat at the Table: Congresswomen’s Perspectives on Why Their Presence Matters” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Oct 08, 2018
Treva Lindsey, “Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington D.C.” (U Illinois, 2017)
Oct 08, 2018
Shelley Tremain, “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability” (U Michigan Press, 2017)
Sep 11, 2018
Tessa Fontaine, “The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts” (FSG, 2018)
Aug 27, 2018
Becky Aikman, “Off the Cliff: How the Making of ‘Thelma & Louise’ Drove Hollywood to the Edge” (Penguin, 2018)
Aug 23, 2018
Duane W. Roller, “Cleopatra’s Daughter: And Other Royal Women of the Augustan Era” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Aug 10, 2018
Eve Krakowski, “Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Women’s Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture” (Princeton UP, 2017)
Aug 09, 2018
Rachel Morley, “Performing Femininity: Woman as Performer in Early Russian Cinema” (I. B. Tauris, 2016)
Aug 01, 2018
Susan Sleeper-Smith, “Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest: Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792” (UNC Press, 2018)
Jul 26, 2018
John Bushnell, “Russian Peasant Women Who Refused to Marry: Spasovite Old Believers in the 18th-19th Centuries” (Indiana UP, 2017)
Jul 20, 2018
Rebekah J. Buchanan, “Writing a Riot: Riot Grrrl Zines and Feminist Rhetorics” (Peter Lang, 2018)
Jul 09, 2018
Sumita Mukherjee, “Indian Suffragettes: Female Identities and Transnational Networks” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Jun 26, 2018
Denise Von Glahn, “Libby Larsen: Composing an American Life” (U Illinois Press,
Jun 26, 2018
Natalie Robins, “The Untold Journey: The Life of Diana Trilling” (Columbia UP, 2017)
Jun 22, 2018
Jacqueline Jones, “Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical” (Basic Books, 2017)
Jun 18, 2018
Lisa Walters, “Margaret Cavendish: Gender, Science, and Politics” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
Jun 12, 2018
Yasemin Besen-Cassino, “The Cost of Being a Girl: Working Teens and the Origins of the Gender Wage Gap” (Temple UP, 2017)
Jun 11, 2018
Nicole Von Germeten, “Profit and Passion: Transactional Sex in Colonial Mexico” (U California Press, 2018)
Jun 07, 2018
Kyla Schuller, “The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century” (Duke UP, 2017)
Jun 01, 2018
Christina Scharff, “Gender, Subjectivity, and Cultural Work: The Classical Music Profession” (Routledge, 2018)
May 29, 2018
Jenny Coleman, “Polly Plum: A Firm and Earnest Woman’s Advocate, Mary Ann Colclough, 1836–1885” (Otago UP, 2017)
May 25, 2018
Gillian B. Fleming, “Juana I: Legitimacy and Conflict in Sixteenth-Century Castile” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
May 17, 2018
Sophia Rose Arjana, “Veiled Superheroes: Islam, Feminism, and Popular Culture” (Lexington Books, 2017)
May 14, 2018
Jason Linkins, “Schoolhouse Wreck: The Betsy DeVos Story” (Strong Arm Press, 2018)
May 07, 2018
Emilie Lucchesi, “Ugly Prey: An Innocent Woman and the Death Sentence That Scandalized Jazz-Age Chicago” (Chicago Review, 2017)
May 02, 2018
Marie E. Berry, “War, Women, and Power: From Violence to Mobilization in Rwanda and Bosnia Herzegovina” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Apr 30, 2018
Leah Bassel and Akwugo Emejulu, “Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain” (Policy Press, 2017)
Apr 27, 2018
Catherine Layton, “The Life and Times of Mary, Dowager Duchess of Sutherland” (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2018)
Apr 26, 2018
Keisha N. Blain, “Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom” (U Penn Press, 2018)
Apr 26, 2018
Jannica Budde, “Turkish Women Writers in German Cities” (Königshausen and Neumann, 2017)
Apr 25, 2018
Koritha Mitchell, ed., “Iola Leroy Or, Shadows Uplifted” by Frances E.W. Harper (Broadview Editions, 2018)
Apr 20, 2018
Lisa Ze Winters, “The Mulatta Concubine: Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic” (U Georgia Press, 2016)
Apr 20, 2018
Nadia Yaqub and Rula Quawas, “Bad Girls of the Arab World” (U Texas Press, 2017)
Apr 16, 2018
Kimberly A. Francis, “Teaching Stravinsky: Nadia Boulanger and the Consecration of a Modernist Icon” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Apr 11, 2018
Debarati Sen, “Everyday Sustainability: Gender Justice and Fair Trade Tea in Darjeeling” (SUNY Press, 2017)
Apr 06, 2018
June Purvis, “Christabel Pankhurst: A Biography” (Routledge, 2018)
Apr 03, 2018
Bonnie Anderson, “The Rabbi’s Atheist Daughter: Ernestine Rose, International Feminist Pioneer” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Mar 26, 2018
Motti Inbari, “Jewish Radical Ultra-Orthodoxy Confronts Modernity, Zionism, and Women’s Equality” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Mar 23, 2018
Anna Muller, “If the Walls Could Speak: Inside a Women’s Prison in Communist Poland (Oxford University Press, 2017)
Mar 22, 2018
Ada Rapoport-Albert, “Hasidic Studies: Essays in History and Gender” (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2018)
Mar 20, 2018
Tatyana V. Bakhmetyeva, “Mother of the Church” (Northern Illinois UP, 2016)
Mar 14, 2018
Didem Havlioglu, “Mihri Hatun: Performance, Gender-Bending, and Subversion in Ottoman Intellectual History” (Syracuse UP, 2017)
Mar 13, 2018
Marian Wilson Kimber, “The Elocutionists: Women, Music, and the Spoken Word” (U Illinois Press, 2017)
Mar 13, 2018
Christine Arce, “Mexico’s Nobodies: The Cultural Legacy of the Soldadera and Afro-Mexican Women” (SUNY Press, 2017)
Mar 09, 2018
Jean R. Freedman, “Peggy Seeger: A Life of Music, Love, and Politics” (U Illinois Press, 2017)
Mar 08, 2018
Amy Langenberg, “Birth in Buddhism: The Suffering Fetus and Female Freedom” (Routledge, 2017)
Feb 27, 2018
Jerry Flores, “Caught Up: Girls, Surveillance, and Wrap-Around Incarceration” (U California Press, 2016)
Feb 23, 2018
D. Harris and P. Guiffre, “Taking the Heat: Women Chefs and Gender Inequality in the Professional Kitchen” (Rutgers UP, 2015)
Feb 22, 2018
Sasha Turner, “Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing and Slavery in Jamaica” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2017)
Feb 16, 2018
Sasha Turner, “Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Child-Rearing, and Slavery in Jamaica” (Penn Press, 2017)
Feb 08, 2018
What Role Did World War I Play in Women Gaining the Right to Vote?
Jan 23, 2018
Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp, “Muslim Women in French Cinema: Voices of Maghrebi Migrants in France” (Liverpool UP, 2016)
Jan 18, 2018
Ula Yvette Taylor, “The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam” (UNC Press, 2017)
Jan 11, 2018
Vanya E. Bellinger, “Marie von Clausewitz: The Woman Behind the Making of On War” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Jan 03, 2018
Elizabeth McRae, “Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Jan 01, 2018
Elizabeth Bucar, “Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress” (Harvard UP, 2017)
Dec 25, 2017
Kate Manne, “Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Dec 25, 2017
Ashley D. Farmer, “Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era” (UNC Press, 2017)
Dec 21, 2017
Anthony J. La Vopa, “The Labor of the Mind: Intellect and Gender in Enlightenment Cultures” (Penn Press, 2017)
Dec 19, 2017
Hilary Matfess, “Women and the War on Boko Haram: Wives, Weapons, Witnesses” (Zed Books, 2017)
Dec 18, 2017
Luisa Del Giudice, ed. “On Second Thought: Learned Women Reflect on Profession, Community, and Purpose” (U. Utah Press, 2017)
Dec 08, 2017
Nikki M. Taylor, “Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio” (Ohio U. Press, 2016)
Dec 05, 2017
Marie Grace Brown, “Khartoum at Night: Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan” (Stanford UP, 2017)
Dec 04, 2017
Carolyn Sufrin, “Jailcare: Finding the Safety Net for Women behind Bars” (U. Cal Press, 2017)
Dec 01, 2017
Sara E. Brown, “Gender and the Genocide in Rwanda: Women as Rescuers and Perpetrators” (Routledge, 2017)
Nov 28, 2017
Mary Tomsic, “Beyond the Silver Screen: A History of Women, Filmmaking and Film Culture in Australia, 1920-1990” (Melbourne UP, 2017)
Nov 17, 2017
Regine Jean-Charles, “Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary” (OSU Press, 2014)
Oct 26, 2017
Claudia Leeb, “Power and Feminist Agency in Capitalism: Towards a New Theory of the Political Subject” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Oct 26, 2017
Andrea L. Turpin, “A New Moral Vision: Gender, Religion and the Changing Purposes of American Higher Education, 1837-1917” (Cornell UP, 2017)
Oct 16, 2017
Linda Simon, “Lost Girls: The Invention of the Flapper” (Reaktion Books, 2017)
Oct 02, 2017
Paige Bowers, “The General’s Niece: The Little-Known de Gaulle Who Fought to Free Occupied France” (Chicago Review Press, 2017)
Sep 19, 2017
Joanna Dee Das, “Katherine Dunham: Dance and the African Diaspora” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Sep 07, 2017
Tracy A. Thomas, “Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundations of Family Law” (NYU Press, 2016)
Sep 06, 2017
Rosemary Lucy Hill, “Gender, Metal and the Media: Women Fans and the Gendered Experience of Music” (Palgrave Macmillan 2016)
Sep 05, 2017
Hanna Tervanotko, “Denying Her Voice: The Figure of Miriam in Ancient Jewish Literature” (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016)
Aug 29, 2017
Mengia Hong Tschalaer, “Muslim Women’s Quest for Justice: Gender, Law and Activism in India” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Aug 27, 2017
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, “Bricktop’s Paris: African American Women in Paris between the Two World Wars (SUNY Press, 2015)
Aug 26, 2017
Jocelyn Olcott, “International Women’s Year: The Greatest Consciousness-raising Event in History” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Aug 25, 2017
Marcia Walker-McWilliams, “Reverend Addie: Faith and the Fight for Labor, Gender, and Racial Equality (U. Illinois Press, 2016)
Aug 22, 2017
Lori Marso, “Politics with Beauvoir: Freedom in the Encounter” (Duke UP, 2017)
Aug 21, 2017
Jennifer Fleeger, “Mismatched Women: The Siren’s Song Through the Machine” (Oxford UP, 2014)
Aug 13, 2017
Julia Mickenberg, “American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the American Dream” (U of Chicago Press, 2017)
Aug 13, 2017
Rosalind Rosenberg, “Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Aug 06, 2017
Joyce Salisbury, “Rome’s Christian Empress: Galla Placidia Rules at the Twilight of the Empire” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2015)
Aug 06, 2017
Leigh Fought, “Women in the World of Frederick Douglass” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Jul 16, 2017
Sverre Molland, “The Perfect Business? Anti-Trafficking and the Sex Trade along the Mekong” (U. Hawaii Press, 2012)
Jun 30, 2017
Brittney C. Cooper, “Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women” (U. Illinois Press, 2017)
Jun 26, 2017
Ana Miskovska Kajevska, “Feminist Activism at War: Belgrade and Zagreb Feminists in the 1990s” (Routledge, 2017)
Jun 01, 2017
Linda Heywood, “Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen” (Harvard University Press, 2017)
May 19, 2017
Julie Gottlieb, “‘Guilty Women’: Foreign Policy and Appeasement in Inter-War Britain” (Palgrave Macmilan, 2015)
May 18, 2017
Jeanette Jouili, “Pious Practice and Secular Constraints: Women in the Islamic Revival in Europe” (Stanford UP, 2016)
May 15, 2017
Marcia Yonemoto, “The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan” (U of California Press, 2016)
Apr 25, 2017
Kathleen Collins, “Dr. Joyce Brothers: The Founding Mother of TV Psychology” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)
Apr 22, 2017
Lynn Dumenil, “The Second Line of Defense: American Women and World War I” (UNC Press, 2017)
Apr 18, 2017
Holly Hurlburt, “Daughter of Venice: Caterina Corner, Queen of Cyprus and Woman of the Renaissance” (Yale UP, 2015)
Mar 30, 2017
Mia Mask, “Divas on the Screen: Black Women in American Film” (U. of Illinois Press, 2009)
Mar 29, 2017
Marie Hicks, “Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing” (MIT Press, 2017)
Mar 28, 2017
Kate Murphy, “Behind the Wireless: A History of Early Women at the BBC” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
Mar 22, 2017
James McGrath Morris, “Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press” (Amistad, Reprint Edition, 2017)
Mar 22, 2017
Stephen H. Grant, “Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2014)
Mar 21, 2017
Kelly Belanger, “Invisible Seasons: Title IX and the Fight for Equity in College Sports” (Syracuse UP, 2016)
Mar 20, 2017
Emily K. Hobson, “Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left” (U. Cal Press, 2016)
Mar 16, 2017
Liz Conor, “Skin Deep: Settler Impressions of Aboriginal Women (UWA Publishing, 2016)
Mar 16, 2017
Elizabeth Hayes Alvarez, “The Valiant Woman: The Virgin Mary in Nineteenth-Century American Culture” (UNC Press, 2016)
Mar 16, 2017
Meredith K. Ray, “Margherita Sarrocchi’s Letters to Galileo: Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in 17th-Century Italy” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
Mar 13, 2017
Ericka Johnson, ed. “Gendering Drugs: Feminist Studies of Pharmaceuticals” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
Feb 24, 2017
Kathleen Dolan, “When Does Gender Matter? Women Candidates and Gender Stereotypes in American Elections” (Oxford UP, 2014)
Feb 21, 2017
Helen Glew, “Gender, Rhetoric and Regulation: Women’s Work in the Civil Service and the London County Council, 1900-1955” (Manchester UP, 2016)
Feb 18, 2017
Tamar Carroll, “Mobilizing New York: AIDS, Antipoverty and Feminist Activism” (U. North Carolina Press, 2015)
Feb 14, 2017
Richard Etulain, “The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane” (U. Oklahoma Press, 2014)
Feb 06, 2017
Robyn C. Spencer, “The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender and the Black Panther Party in Oakland” (Duke UP, 2016)
Feb 01, 2017
Alexandra Deutsch, “A Woman of Two Worlds: Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte” (Maryland Historical Society, 2016)
Jan 21, 2017
Laura J. Olson and Svetlana Adonyeva, “The Worlds of Russian Village Women: Tradition, Transgression, Compromise” (U. Wisconsin Press, 2013)
Jan 09, 2017
Marcia Aldrich, “Waveform: 21st-Century Essays by Women” (U of Georgia Press, 2016)
Jan 04, 2017
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, “Enduring Truths: Sojourner’s Shadows and Substance” (U. of Chicago Press, 2015)
Nov 29, 2016
J. Kevin Corder and Christina Wolbrecht, “Counting Women’s Ballots: Female Voters from Suffrage through the New Deal” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Nov 07, 2016
LaShawn Harris, “Sex Workers, Psychics and Number Runners: Black Women in New York City’s Underground Economy” (U. of Illinois Press, 2016)
Nov 03, 2016
Daniel Moran,”Creating Flannery O’Connor: Her Critics, Her Publishers, Her Readers” (U. of Georgia Press, 2016)
Nov 01, 2016
Jelena Batinic, “Women and Yugoslav Partisans: A History of World War II Resistance” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Nov 01, 2016
James D. Boys, “Hillary Rising: The Politics, Persona, and Policies of a New American Dynasty” (Biteback Publishing, 2016)
Oct 31, 2016
April Dammann, “Corita Kent: Art and Soul: The Biography” (Angel City Press, 2015)
Oct 21, 2016
Gail Hornstein, “To Redeem One Person Is to Redeem the World: The Life of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann” (Other Books, 2005)
Oct 13, 2016
Ellen Widmer, “Fiction’s Family: Zhan Xi, Zhan Kai, and the Business of Women in Late-Qing China” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Sep 21, 2016
Marisa J. Fuentes, “Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence and the Archive” (U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)
Sep 19, 2016
Ellen Mayock, “Gender Shrapnel in the Academic Workplace” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
Sep 13, 2016
Loki Mulholland, et.al. “She Stood for Freedom: The Untold Story of a Civil Rights Hero, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland” (Shadow Mountain, 2016)
Sep 08, 2016
Ellen Fitzpatrick, “The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women’s Quest for the American Presidency” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Sep 02, 2016
Carol McCabe Booker, ed. “Alone Atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan” (U. of Georgia Press, 2015)
Sep 02, 2016
Anne Mac Lellan, “Dorothy Stopford Price: Rebel Doctor” (Irish Academic Press, 2014)
Aug 25, 2016
Michelle Cruz Gonzales, “The Spitboy Rule: Tales of Xicana in a Female Punk Band” (PM Press, 2016)
Aug 12, 2016
April R. Haynes, “Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America” (University of Chicago Press, 2015)
Jul 16, 2016
Cassandra A. Good, “Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Jul 13, 2016
Sabine Arnaud, “On Hysteria: The Invention of a Medical Category between 1670 and 1820” (U. of Chicago Press, 2015)
Jul 05, 2016
David Potter, “Theodora: Actress, Empress, Saint” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Jun 26, 2016
Marlene Trestman, “Fair Labor Lawyer: The Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin” (Louisiana State UP, 2016)
Jun 26, 2016
Srimati Basu, “The Trouble with Marriage: Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India” (U of California Press, 2015)
Jun 13, 2016
Brooke Hauser, “Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman”
May 20, 2016
Matthew H. Sommer, “Polyandry and Wife-Selling in Qing Dynasty China” (U of California Press, 2015)
May 04, 2016
Peter L. Laurence, “Becoming Jane Jacobs” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)
Apr 30, 2016
Kate Bolick, “Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own” (Crown, 2015)
Apr 19, 2016
Elizabeth A. Wilson, “Gut Feminism” (Duke UP, 2015)
Mar 07, 2016
Michelle Chase, “Revolution within the Revolution: Women and Gender Politics in Cuba, 1952-1962” (UNC Press, 2015)
Feb 03, 2016
Domna Stanton, “The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France: Women Writ, Women Writing” (Ashgate, 2014)
Jan 28, 2016
Anita Weiss, “Interpreting Islam, Modernity, and Women’s Rights in Pakistan” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
Jan 26, 2016
Jennifer Bain, “Hildegard of Bingen and Musical Reception: The Modern Revival of Medieval Composer” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Jan 19, 2016
Joan Judge, “Republican Lens: Gender, Visuality, and Experience in the Early Chinese Periodical Press” (U of California Press, 2015)
Jan 19, 2016
Aisha Durham, “Home With Hip Hop Feminism” (Peter Lang, 2014)
Jan 14, 2016
Alice J. Kang, “Bargaining for Women’s Rights: Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy” (U of Minnesota Press, 2015)
Dec 16, 2015
Christine Hong, “Identity, Youth, and Gender in the Korean American Church” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
Dec 12, 2015
Nanxiu Qian, “Politics, Poetics, and Gender in Late Qing China: Xue Shaohui and the Era of Reform” (Stanford UP, 2015)
Dec 11, 2015
Laura Sjoberg, “Gender, War, and Conflict” (Polity Press, 2014)
Dec 01, 2015
Nancy Bauer, “How to Do Things With Pornography” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Nov 15, 2015
Richard H. King, “Arendt and America” (U of Chicago, 2015)
Nov 08, 2015
Megan Marshall, “Margaret Fuller: A New American Life” (Mariner Books, 2013)
Nov 08, 2015
Juanita De Barros, “Reproducing the British Caribbean: Sex, Gender, and Population Politics after Slavery” (UNC Press, 2014)
Oct 06, 2015
Debra Majeed, “Polygyny: What it Means When African American Muslim Women Share Their Husbands” (UP of Florida, 2015)
Sep 30, 2015
Sarah H. Jacoby, “Love and Liberation: Autobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro” (Columbia UP, 2014)
Sep 26, 2015
Amanda Lucia, “Reflections of Amma: Devotees in a Global Embrace” (University of California Press, 2014)
Sep 26, 2015
Shelly Cline, “Women at Work: The SS Aufseherin and the Gendered Perpetration of the Holocaust” (Ph. D. Diss, U of Kansas, 2014)
Sep 22, 2015
Aysha Hidayatullah, “Feminist Edges of the Qur’an” (Oxford UP, 2014)
Sep 09, 2015
Sarah Helm, “Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women” (Nan A. Talese, 2015)
Aug 01, 2015
Mia E. Bay, et al., “Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women” (UNC Press, 2015)
Jul 26, 2015
Daisy Hay, “Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli: A Strange Romance” (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2015)
Jul 25, 2015
Megan Threlkeld, “Pan-American Women: U.S. Internationalists and Revolutionary Mexico” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)
Jul 21, 2015
Jonathan Eig, “The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution” (Norton, 2014)
Jul 03, 2015
Claire Virginia Eby, “Until Choice Do Us Part: Marriage Reform in the Progressive Era” (U of Chicago Press, 2014)
Jun 23, 2015
Sally G. McMillen, “Lucy Stone: An Unapologetic Life” (Oxford University Press, 2015)
Jun 14, 2015
Julie Billaud, “Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
Jun 10, 2015
Meryle Secrest, “Elsa Schiaparelli: A Biography” (Knopf, 2014)
Jun 02, 2015
Marion Holmes Katz, “Women in the Mosque: A History of Legal Thought and Social Practice” Columbia University Press, 2014
Jun 02, 2015
Asma Sayeed, “Women and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Islam” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
May 22, 2015
Torild Skard, “Women of Power” (Policy Press, 2015)
Apr 26, 2015
Melissa Dabakis, “A Sisterhood of Sculptors: American Artists in Nineteenth-Century Rome (Penn State UP, 2014)
Apr 20, 2015
Carol Faulkner, “Lucretia Mott’s Heresy” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2011)
Apr 13, 2015
Paula Kane, “Sister Thorn and Catholic Mysticism in Modern America” (UNC Press, 2013)
Mar 31, 2015
Dorothy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon, Astrid Henry, “A Short, Surprising History of American Women’s Movements” (Liveright, 2014)
Mar 21, 2015
Michelle Nickerson, “Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right” (Princeton UP, 2012)
Mar 18, 2015
Victoria Hesford, “Feeling Women’s Liberation” (Duke University Press, 2013).
Mar 06, 2015
Norma Jones, Maja-Bajac-Carter, Bob Batchelor, “Heroines of Film and Television: Portrayals in Popular Culture” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)
Feb 25, 2015
Kimberly A. Hamlin, “From Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women’s Rights in Gilded Age America” (U Chicago Press, 2014)
Feb 23, 2015
Lisa Tetrault, “The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898” (UNC Press, 2014)
Feb 12, 2015
Stephanie Coontz, “A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s” (Basic Books, 2014)
Feb 06, 2015
Jenny Kaminer, “Women with a Thirst for Destruction: The Bad Mother in Russian Culture” (Northwestern UP, 2014)
Jan 20, 2015
Laura Mattoon D’Amore, “Smart Chicks on Screen” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)
Nov 25, 2014
Wai-yee Li, “Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature” (Harvard Asia Center, 2014)
Nov 24, 2014
Harleen Singh, “The Rani of Jhansi: Gender, History, and Fable in India” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
Nov 18, 2014
Amy Evrard, “The Moroccan Women’s Rights Movement” (Syracuse University Press, 2014)
Oct 30, 2014
Janet Sims-Wood, “Dorothy Porter Wesley at Howard University” (The History Press, 2014)
Oct 15, 2014
Rebecca Rogers, “A Frenchwoman’s Imperial Story” (Stanford UP, 2013)
Oct 02, 2014
Adrienne Trier-Bieniek, “Sing Us a Song, Piano Woman: Female Fans and the Music of Tori Amos” (The Scarecrow Press, 2013)
Sep 30, 2014
Brooke Erin Duffy, "Remake, Remodel: Women's Magazines in the Digital Age" (U Illinois Press, 2013)
Sep 18, 2014
Melanie C. Hawthorne, "Finding the Woman Who Didn't Exist: The Curious Life of Gisele d'Estoc" (U Nebraska Press, 2014)
Aug 11, 2014
Shabana Mir, “Muslim American Women on Campus: Undergraduate Social Life and Identity” (UNC, 2014)
Aug 04, 2014
Tine M. Gammeltoft, “Haunting Images: A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction in Vietnam” (University of California Press, 2014)
Jul 22, 2014
Christina Laffin, “Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women” (University of Hawaii Press, 2013)
Jul 15, 2014
Wendy Lower, “Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013)
Jul 07, 2014
Rachel Rinaldo, “Mobilizing Piety: Islam and Feminism in Indonesia” (Oxford UP, 2013)
Jun 23, 2014
Tina Santi Flaherty, “What Jackie Taught Us” (Perigree Paperback, 2014)
May 20, 2014
Paula A. Michaels, “Lamaze: An International History” (Oxford UP, 2014)
May 16, 2014
Sa’diyya Shaikh, “Sufi Narratives of Intimacy: Ibn Arabi, Gender and Sexuality” (University of North Carolina Press, 2012)
Apr 29, 2014
Lynne Huffer, “Are the Lips a Grave? A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex” (Columbia University Press, 2013)
Apr 23, 2014
Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, “HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton” (Crown Publishers, 2014).
Apr 07, 2014
Ayesha Chaudhry, “Domestic Violence and the Islamic Tradition” (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Mar 29, 2014
Will Swift, “Pat and Dick: The Nixons, an Intimate Portrait of a Marriage” (Threshold Editions, 2014)
Mar 05, 2014
Clare Mulley, “The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville” (St. Martin’s, 2013)
Jan 31, 2014
Cindy Hooper, “Conflict: African American Women and the New Dilemma of Race and Gender Politics” (Praeger Press, 2012)
Jan 29, 2014
Kristin A. Goss, “The Paradox of Gender Equality: How American Women’s Groups Gained and Lost Their Public Voice” (University of Michigan Press 2013)
Jan 27, 2014
Kathleen Wellman, “Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France” (Yale UP, 2013)
Jan 21, 2014
Susan Ware, “Game, Set, Match: Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women’s Sports” (UNC Press, 2011)
Jan 17, 2014
Jennie Burnet, “Genocide Lives in Us: Women, Memory and Silence in Rwanda” (University of Wisconsin Press, 2012)
Dec 27, 2013
Julie Berebitsky, “Sex and the Office: A History of Gender, Power and Desire” (Yale University Press, 2012)
Dec 11, 2013
Jonathan D. Wells, “Women Writers and Journalists in the Nineteenth-Century South” (Cambridge UP, 2011)
Oct 23, 2013
Elizabeth Winder, “Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953” (Harper, 2013)
Oct 18, 2013
Mishuana Goeman, “Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations” (University of Minnesota Press, 2013)
Sep 02, 2013
Sikivu Hutchinson, “Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels” (Infidel Books, 2013)
Aug 12, 2013
Charlene M. Boyer Lewis, “Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte: An American Aristocrat in the Early Republic” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012)
Aug 10, 2013
Gayle K. Brunelle and Annette Finley-Croswhite, “Murder in the Metro: Laetitia Toureaux and the Cagoule in 1930s France” (LSU Press, 2013)
Jul 31, 2013
Barbara Palmer and Dennis Simon, “Women and Congressional Elections: A Century of Change” (Lynne Rienner, 2012)
Jul 22, 2013
Alisha Rankin, “Panaceia’s Daughters: Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Germany” (U. Chicago Press, 2013)
Jul 18, 2013
Anne-Marie O’Connor, “The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer” (Knopf, 2012)
Jul 12, 2013
Beverly Bossler, “Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity” (Harvard-Yenching Institute, 2013)
Jul 11, 2013
Amanda MacKenzie Stuart, “Empress of Fashion: Diana Vreeland, A Life”
Jun 26, 2013
Kathryn Livingston, “Lilly: Palm Beach, Tropical Glamour, and the Birth of a Fashion Legend” (Wiley, 2012)
Jun 02, 2013
Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, “Forging Freedom: Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston” (UNC Press, 2011)
May 31, 2013
Laina Dawes, “What are You Doing Here?: A Black Woman’s Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal” (Bazillion Points, 2012)
Apr 25, 2013
Barbara Engel, “Breaking the Ties that Bound: The Politics of Marital Strife in Late Imperial Russia” (Cornell UP, 2011)
Apr 10, 2013
Lisa Chaney, “Coco Chanel: An Intimate Life”
Apr 01, 2013
Melissa R. Klapper, “Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women’s Activism, 1890-1940” (NYU Press, 2013)
Mar 18, 2013
Peter Benjaminson, “Mary Wells: The Tumultuous Life of Motown’s First Superstar” (Chicago Review Press, 2012)
Mar 09, 2013
Reiland Rabaka, “Hip Hop’s Amnesia: From Blues and the Black Women’s Club Movement to Rap and the Hip Hop Movement” (Lexington Books, 2012)
Feb 19, 2013
Lois Rudnick, “The Suppressed Memoirs of Mabel Dodge Luhan” (University of New Mexico Press, 2012)
Jan 29, 2013
Yael Tamar Lewin, “Night’s Dancer: The Life of Janet Collins” (Wesleyan UP, 2011)
Jan 11, 2013
Bob Spitz, “Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child” (Knopf, 2012)
Nov 14, 2012
Juliane Hammer, “American Muslim Women, Religious Authority, and Activism: More Than a Prayer” (University of Texas Press, 2012)
Nov 11, 2012
Andrei Markovits and Emily Albertson, “Sportista: Female Fandom in the United States” (Temple University Press, 2012)
Nov 09, 2012
Peggy Schwartz and Murray Schwartz, “The Dance Claimed Me: A Biography of Pearl Primus” (Yale UP, 2012)
Nov 02, 2012
Julietta Hua, “Trafficking Women’s Human Rights” (University of Minnesota Press, 2011)
Oct 13, 2012
Karen Ruffle, “Gender, Sainthood, and Everyday Practice in South Asian Shi’ism” (University of North Carolina Press, 2011)
Oct 10, 2012
Jennifer Guglielmo, “Living in Revolution: Italian Women’s Resistance and Radicalism in New York City” (UNC Press, 2010)
Oct 10, 2012
Amy Stanley, “Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan” (University of California Press, 2012)
Sep 19, 2012
Reiland Rabaka, “Hip Hop’s Inheritance: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip Hop Feminist Movement” (Lexington Books, 2011)
Sep 11, 2012
Janet Kourany, “Philosophy of Science After Feminism” (Oxford UP, 2010)
Sep 10, 2012
Brenda Dixon Gottschild, “Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance” (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011)
Aug 29, 2012
Marnie Anderson, “A Place in Public: Women’s Rights in Meiji Japan” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2010)
Aug 24, 2012
Lisa Bier, “Fighting the Current: The Rise of American Women’s Swimming, 1870-1926” (McFarland, 2011)
Aug 10, 2012
Anne Sebba, “That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor” (St. Martin’s Press, 2012)
Jul 17, 2012
Sara Marcus, “Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution” (Harper Perennial, 2010)
Jul 03, 2012
Elizabeth Goldsmith, “The King’s Mistresses” (PublicAffairs, 2012)
Jun 29, 2012
Nwando Achebe, “The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe” (Indiana University Press, 2011)
Jun 29, 2012
Timothy Grainey, “Beyond ‘Bend It Like Beckham’: The Global Phenomenon of Women’s Soccer” (University of Nebraska Press, 2012)
Jun 22, 2012
Trevor Getz and Liz Clarke, “Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History” (Oxford UP, 2012)
Jun 08, 2012
Sally Bedell Smith, “Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch” (Random House, 2012)
Jun 01, 2012
Erin D. Chapman, “Prove It On Me: New Negroes, Sex, and Popular Culture in the 1920s” (Oxford University Press, 2012)
May 29, 2012
Gail Hershatter, “The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past” (University of California Press, 2011)
May 23, 2012
Kathryn Lofton, “Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon” (University of California Press, 2011)
May 17, 2012
Ellen F. Brown and John Wiley, Jr., “Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind” (Taylor Trade Publishing, 2011)
May 15, 2012
Matthew Dennis, “Seneca Possessed: Indians, Witchcraft, and Power in the Early American Republic” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010)
May 01, 2012
Anna Krylova, “Soviet Women in Combat: A History of Violence on the Eastern Front” (Cambridge UP, 2010)
Apr 27, 2012
Leslie Brody, “Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford” (Counterpoint Press, 2010)
Apr 16, 2012
Heather Munro Prescott, “The Morning After: A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States” (Rutgers UP, 2011)
Apr 16, 2012
Charlotte Witt, “The Metaphysics of Gender” (Oxford University Press, 2011)
Apr 15, 2012
Elizabeth West, “African Spirituality in Black Women’s Fiction: Threaded Visions of Memory, Community, Nature, and Being” (Lexington Books, 2011)
Apr 09, 2012
Karen Abbott, “American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee” (Random House, 2012)
Apr 02, 2012
William Kuhn, “Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books” (Anchor Books, 2011)
Mar 15, 2012
Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, “Dorothy West’s Paradise: A Biography of Class and Color” (Rutgers UP, 2012)
Mar 09, 2012
Carolyn Burke, “No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf” (Knopf, 2011)
Mar 01, 2012
Mia Bay, “To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells” (Hill and Wang, 2009)
Feb 24, 2012
Vincent Carretta, “Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage” (University of Georgia Press, 2011)
Feb 16, 2012
Amanda Smith, “Newspaper Titan: The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson” (Knopf, 2011)
Feb 01, 2012
Jean H. Baker, “Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion” (Hill and Wang, 2011)
Dec 22, 2011
Niamh Reilly, “Women’s Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalizing Age” (Polity Press, 2009)
Dec 20, 2011
Alice Bag, “Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story” (Feral House, 2011)
Dec 16, 2011
Stacy Schiff, “Cleopatra: A Life” (Back Bay Books, 2011)
Dec 07, 2011
Kitty Kelley, “Oprah: A Biography” (Three Rivers Press, 2011)
Nov 15, 2011
Yi-Li Wu’s book, “Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China” (University of California Press, 2010)
Nov 01, 2011
Jennifer Frost, “Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood: Celebrity Gossip and American Conservatism” (NYU Press, 2011)
Oct 25, 2011
Yasmin Saikia, “Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971” (Duke UP, 2011)
Oct 17, 2011
Jennifer Ring, “Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don’t Play Baseball” (University of Illinois Press, 2009)
Oct 10, 2011
Mara Hvistendahl, “Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men” (PublicAffairs, 2011)
Sep 07, 2011
Robert J. Corber, “Cold War Femme: Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema” (Duke University Press, 2011)
Aug 04, 2011
Deborah Whaley, “Disciplining Women: Alpha Kappa Alpha, Black Counterpublics, and the Cultural Politics of Black Sororities” (SUNY, 2010)
Jul 15, 2011
Don Van Natta, Jr., “Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias” (Little, Brown, and Company, 2011)
Jun 23, 2011
Lori Meeks, “Hokkeji and the Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern Japan” (University of Hawaii Press, 2010)
Jun 20, 2011
Carrie Pitzulo, “Bachelors and Bunnies: The Sexual Politics of Playboy” (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
Jun 06, 2011
Megan Marshall, “The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism” (Houghton Mifflin, 2005)
Apr 15, 2011
Pamela Cobrin, “From Winning the Vote to Directing on Broadway: The Emergence of Women on the New York Stage” (Delaware, 2009)
Apr 06, 2011
Benjamin Binstock, “Vermeer’s Family Secrets: Genius, Discovery, and the Unknown Apprentice” (Routledge, 2009)
Mar 09, 2011
Virginia Scharff, “The Women Jefferson Loved” (HarperCollins, 2010)
Feb 11, 2011
Elaine Tyler May, “America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation” (Basic Books, 2010)
Sep 04, 2010
Sarah Ross, “The Birth of Feminism: Woman as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and England” (Harvard UP, 2009)
Dec 11, 2009
Sally G. McMillen, “Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement” (Oxford, 2008)
Oct 23, 2009
Jennifer Burns, “Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right” (Oxford UP, 2009)
Oct 09, 2009
Vicki Ruiz, “From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America” (Oxford UP, 2008)
Dec 12, 2008
Katherine Jellison, “It’s Our Day: America’s Love Affair with the White Wedding” (University of Kansas Press, 2008)
Nov 21, 2008
Joyce Tyldesley, “Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt” (Basic Books, 2008)
Sep 05, 2008
Katy Turton, “Forgotten Lives: The Role of Lenin’s Sisters in the Russian Revolution, 1864-1937” (Palgrave-McMillan, 2007)
Jun 05, 2008
Kimberly Jensen, “Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War” (University of Illinois Press, 2008)
May 31, 2008
Eric Gardner, “Jennie Carter: A Black Journalist of the Early West” (University Press of Mississippi, 2008)
Apr 09, 2008
Matt Wasniewski, “Women in Congress, 1917-2006” (U.S. House of Representatives, 2007)
Mar 03, 2008