How did Buddhist women access religious experience and transcendence in a Confucian patriarchal system in imperial China?

Nuamah makes the case for “feminist schools” that orient girls toward a lifetime of achievement...

Holland tells the story of one of the most successful political movements of the twentieth century in the United States: the grassroots campaign against legalized abortion...

The facts surrounding how male-centric medicine impacts women's health every day are chilling...

Contrary to popular and even scholarly expectations, medieval erotic literature emphasized female sexual satisfaction...

Part memoir, part heavy-hitting theoretical exploration, this delightfully readable book explores the relationship between horses and humans...

Tchouta Mougoue illuminates how issues of ideal womanhood shaped the Anglophone Cameroonian nationalist movement in the first decade of independence in Cameroon...

"Smithsonian American Women" is an inspiring and surprising celebration of U.S. women's history told through Smithsonian artifacts...

Delap takes a thematic approach to the topic of global feminist history to provide a unified vision that maintains appropriate nuance...

What kind of discrimination do Black women face in the legal profession?

Jabour's rediscovers this groundbreaking American figure...

Kimball argues that, despite stigma and continued legal prohibitions, practices and attitudes surrounding abortion have changed in urban Bolivia since the 1950s..

What is the culture of the tech industry?

Johnson and Quinlan investigates the storied history of mothering advice in the media...

Bergman examines the public memorialization of women in the US over the past century, with a particular focus on the late twentieth century and early twenty first...

The authors draw on seven years of fieldwork to illuminate the important role that women have played in mobilizing a grassroots response to political and social pressures at the heart of Detroit’s ongoing renewal and development project....

Haenn tells the stories of five women in rural Mexico, each navigating the tricky terrain that is men’s international migration...

Risman uses her gender structure theory to tackle the question about whether today’s young people, Millennials, are pushing forward the gender revolution or backing away from it...

Baumgartner offers an intellectual and cultural history of the educational activism of African American women and girls in the long nineteenth century...

Siegel explores the previously neglected history of a diverse group of women from around the world who fought for women’s rights as male politicians forged a new world order...

In 1883, a young woman named Anandi Joshi set out from her native India to the United States to study medicine..,

"Valkyrie” is skillfully arranged around the skeleton of the life cycle of a woman—from birth through childhood, adolescence, marriage, and old age.

This book provides a wealth of information and analysis of the reasons why women (and men) choose to run for public office and what that path looks like in terms of training, support, obstacles, and advantages...

Lappas unearths the story of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in Indian country...

The authors draw on eight years of feminist participatory action research conducted with fifty-four Q’eqchi’, Kaqchikel, Chuj, and Mam women to explore Mayan women’s agency in their search for truth, justice, and reparation...