New Books in Women's History

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

Books
History
Social Sciences
951
Ana María Reyes, "The Politics of Taste: Beatri...
Reyes examines the ways Colombian artist Beatriz González and Argentine-born art critic Marta Traba railed against international forms of modernism...
53 min
952
Martina Cvajner, "Soviet Signoras: Personal and...
Cvajner focuses on a group of women who migrated from areas in the former Soviet Union to northern Italy...
47 min
953
Ana María Reyes, "The Politics of Taste: Beatri...
Reyes examines the ways Colombian artist Beatriz González and Argentine-born art critic Marta Traba railed against international forms of modernism...
53 min
954
Tanya Harmer, "Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary...
Harmer explores how a young Chilean woman pursued her political commitments and navigated patriarchal strictures as a militant leftist...
53 min
955
Breanne Fahs, "Burn It Down: Feminist Manifesto...
Fahs has curated a comprehensive collection of feminist manifestos from the nineteenth century to today...
52 min
956
Anthony Valerio, "Semmelweis: The Women's Docto...
Though his advice has saved the lives of millions of people, the name Ignaz Semmelweis is not one commonly known today...
58 min
957
Pamela S. Nadell, "America’s Jewish Women: A Hi...
Nadell surveys varied experiences of Jewish women who made America their home. In elegant prose, she introduces readers to a fascinating cast of characters from the seventeenth century to the present day...
52 min
958
Kathleen Gallagher Elkins, "Mary, Mother of Mar...
Elkins examines ancient representations of mothers and children in the context of sociopolitical violence....
53 min
959
Jacqueline H. Fewkes, "Locating Maldivian Women...
What is a mosque? What are women's mosques specifically?
63 min
960
Ana Stevenson, "The Woman as Slave in Nineteent...
Stevenson explores the ubiquity of what she terms the “woman-slave analogy” in nineteenth-century US feminist discourse...
50 min
961
Nancy Mattina, "Uncommon Anthropologist: Gladys...
Mattina offers the first full biography of Reichard, and examines her pathbreaking work in the ethnography of ritual and mythology; Wiyot, Coeur d’Alene, and Navajo linguistics; folk art, gender, and language; and her exceptional career of teaching, editing, publishing, and mentoring...
62 min
962
Melissa R. Klapper, "Ballet Class: An American ...
For much of the last century, ballet class has been a rite of passage for millions of little girls in the United States.
36 min
963
Mallika Kaur, "Faith, Gender, and Activism in t...
Kaur unearths the stories of three people who found themselves at the center of Punjab’s human rights movement...
59 min
964
Fiona Vera-Gray, "The Right Amount of Panic: Ho...
Have you ever thought about how much energy goes into avoiding sexual violence?
51 min
965
Cynthia Orozco, "Agent of Change: Adela Sloss-V...
Orozco traces the life of Adela Sloss-Vento, a twentieth-century Mexican American woman civil rights activist in Texas...
61 min
966
Cassia Roth, "A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s...
Roth examines women's reproductive health in relation to legal and medical policy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...
69 min
967
Amy Koerber, “From Hysteria to Hormones: A Rhet...
Koerber shows that the boundary between older, nonscientific ways of understanding women’s bodies and newer, scientific understandings is much murkier than we might expect...
61 min
968
Kimberly A. Hamlin, "Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrag...
Hamlin offers a fascinating biography of a little-known suffrage leader...
55 min
969
Jin Y. Park, "Women and Buddhist Philosophy: En...
Park offers an account of the Korean Buddhist nun, Kim Iryŏp’s life and philosophy, which takes place from 1896-1971...
58 min
970
Jessica Wilkerson, "To Live Here, You Have to F...
Wilkerson discusses the recent history of feminist social justice activism in Appalachia...
35 min
971
Great Books: Julie Carlson on Mary Shelley's "F...
Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus when she was nineteen years old on a bet...
50 min
972
Joana Cook, "A Woman's Place: US Counterterrori...
Cook investigates how and why women have developed the roles they have, and interrogates US counterterrorism practices in key countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yemen...
44 min
973
Melissa Kravetz, "Women Doctors in Weimar and N...
Kravetz examines how German women physicians gained a foothold in the medical profession during the Weimar and Nazi periods,..
57 min
974
Nancy Sinkoff, "From Left to Right: Lucy S. Daw...
Sinkoff offers s the first comprehensive biography of Dawidowicz (1915-1990), a pioneer historian in the field that is now called "Holocaust Studies"..
56 min
975
Michael O’Sullivan, "Disruptive Power: Catholic...
How did Catholic mysticism shape politics and religion in 20th-century Germany?
75 min