An interview with Martha S. Jones

Dunbar offers a powerful narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington’s runaway slave who risked everything to escape the nation’s capital and reach freedom...,

Sanyal covers the history of rape as well as of our divergent and misguided conceptions for it...

An interview with Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow

Barton shows how France welcomed foreign-born men and women, mobilizing naturalization, family law, social policy, and welfare assistance to ensure they would procreate, bearing French-assimilated children...

Lessie Jo Frazier contends that desire played a central role in the political culture of the modern Chilean state.,,,

Conely examines the over 1400 trials of women accused of homicide in London from 1674-1913,..

Valdini outlines a clear calculus to evaluate the various dimensions of the costs and benefits in terms of integrating women...

This book the ways women are made monstrous in popular culture...

Scott explores the lives of the devout laywomen who cared for and maintained churches and shrines in the Basque country...

Ruby follows the legal debates and public discussions that surrounded the proposed shari‘ah tribunals in Canada from 2003 to 2006...

Pető analyses the actions, background, connections and the eventual trials of Hungarian female perpetrators in the Second World War through the concept of invisibility.

In a bustling city-center of Seoul, women in yellow vests protesting over the “final” resettlement between the Japanese and Korean governments every Wednesday is an iconic sight, testifying to the strength and resilience of the “comfort women” movement...

Phillips adeptly tells the story of Martha Graham's role as diplomat, arts innovator, and dancer...

Vanessa Díaz examines the raced and gendered hierarchies and inequalities that are imbricated within the work of producing celebrity in Los Angeles...

Strocchia continues the work of her career: recentering the discourse to include the formative contributions of women in the Italian Renaissance...

In the 1890s Australian and New Zealand women became the first in the world to win the vote....

For many of its participants, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) offered them an opportunity to change their lives, yet few were as transformed as that of Isabel “Lefty” Alvarez...

The plays range from outlandish comedies like Bride of Lesbostein to the historical drama Hick: A Love Story...

Stanley Tsuneno’s life, from growing up in a rural community through her escape to the city of Edo, where she lives in the final decades of the Tokugawa Shogunate....

People did suffer under the Eastern European socialist regimes, the author says, and not only in prison and labour camps, but also juggling careers and family responsibilities, witnessing the gulf between the state’s delusional propaganda and reality...

Ortiz offers an in-depth analysis of and perceive insight into what is means to be an athlete’s wife in a male-dominated institution of professional sports...

Based on detailed ethnographic research, this book explores the varied experiences of women who have converted to Buddhism in contemporary Britain....

Hunter offers the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century....

Rippon presents the latest evidence which finally proves that brains are like mosaics comprised of both male and female components, and that they remain plastic, adapting throughout the course of a person’s life...

When Judith G. Coffin discovered a virtually unexplored treasure trove of letters to Simone de Beauvoir from Beauvoir's international readers, it inspired Coffin to explore the intimate bond between the famed author and her reading public...

Mukhopadhyay excavates numerous instances of the authority of female speech from Indian goddess traditions and relates them to the contemporary gender debates, especially to the issues of mansplaining and womansplaining...

Born around 1820, Augusta Browne was a pianist, organist, composer, music pedagogue, entrepreneur, music critic, and writer...

Wayland-Smith follows the career of adwoman Jean Wade Rindlaub who in the mid-twentieth century created the advertising campaigns selling consumer products to the average American housewife. More than products,,,

Sobande explores the experiences of Black women as producers and as consumers of digital media...

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, over three hundred young Jewish women from Orthodox, mostly Hasidic, homes in Western Galicia (now Poland) fled their communities and sought refuge in a Kraków convent, where many converted to Catholicism...

One of the central threads in the public discourse on Black womanhood is the idea of the “Jezebel"...

Finley examines the history of American slavery and capitalism by foregrounding women’s labor in the Antebellum slave trade...

Zychowicz tells the unique story of a generation of artists, feminists, and queer activists who emerged in Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union...

During the height of the 1930s gangster pulps, Harris wrote some of the roughest, toughest stories to be published in pulps such as Gangland Stories and Mobs...

How did young workers spend time together? When would they initiate sexual relationships outside of marriage?

Richards radically rewrites our understanding of first-wave feminism by demonstrating its proximity to international avant-garde movements including surrealism,..

Richter-Devroe offers an analysis of the forms assumed by women’s political resistance in Occupied Palestine and interrogates how an understanding of such activism might be expanded if one attends to the ‘everyday’...

Is it possible to interpret the Qur’an using the Qur’an alone? Is a feminist interpretation of controversial verses such as 4:34, the notorious “wife-beating” verse, possible?

Goodwin offers a brilliant but shocking account of the criminalization of all aspects of reproduction, pregnancy, abortion, birth, and motherhood in the United States...

Rotramel explores women of color’s grassroots leadership in organizations that are not singularly identified with feminism....

What happens when a woman seeking an abortion is turned away?

Saxena draws on her personal religious experiences and devotion to the Goddess Kali as a starting point to reflect on the absence of a Divine Feminine in Christianity and Judaism...

Skinazi delves beyond this stereotype to identify a powerful tradition of feminist literary portrayals of Orthodox women, often created by Orthodox women themselves...

It is 1969 and Jody A. Forrester is in her late teens, transitioning from a Sixties love child to pacifist anti-Vietnam War activist to an ardent revolutionary...

A quinceañera is a traditional fifteenth birthday celebration for young women (though in contemporary times, it can also be for young men) in many Latinx communities...

Combining ethnographic fieldwork in contemporary Ainu communities and organizations with museum and archival research, Dr. Lewallen shows how Ainu women engage in the “self-craft” of identities and cultural viability through clothwork...

A radical and vivid rendering of poetry from the first Buddhist nuns that brings a new immediacy to their voices...

Despite her nearly two decades as the publisher of the largest newspaper in a politically pivotal state, the role of Nackey Scripps Loeb in American political and media history has been unjustly forgotten...

Black women intellectuals have traditionally been overlooked in the academic study of American intellectual history...

I enlisted a few #Blktwitterstorians to pull up to the pod and discuss the importance of Dr. Morgan’s Laboring Women to the field of slavery studies,

"Laboring Women" was the first historical text to focus on Black women’s reproductive labor under New World slavery in the early modern period...

A hospital run by two suffragette doctors, Louisa Garrett Anderson and Flora Murray...

What is the political and intellectual legacy of Shirley Chisholm?

Joan Riviere (1883-1962) is best known for her role in promoting the ideas of others. She came to prominence in the world of psychoanalysis as Freud’s favorite translator and Melanie Klein’s earliest and most loyal supporter...

Nash examines the history of the "Big Six" and how they carved out their rightful place in history..

Johnson explores the nature of these complicated intimate and kinship ties and how they were used by black women to construct freedom in the Atlantic world....

The centenary of the First World War from 2014 to 2018 offered an opportunity to reflect upon the role of gender history in shaping our understanding of this pivotal international event. From the moment of its outbreak...

Davis explores the evolution of tomboyism from a Victorian ideal to a twenty-first century fashion statement, honoring the girls and women-and those who identify otherwise-who stomp all over archaic gender norms...

The Hindu tradition has held conflicting views on womanhood from its earliest texts—holding women aloft as goddesses to be worshipped on the one hand and remaining deeply suspicious about women’s sexuality on the other...

Wayne reveals the valuable work that women achieved in publishing, printing, writing and reading early modern English books...

Levenstein shows how American feminists joined a global women’s movement for women’s rights as human rights....

Pellum explores the glamorous history of African American beauty queens by using the stories of former contestants to address colorism and racism still prevalent in the industry.

In 1933, the Chicago Symphony performed the Symphony in E Minor by Florence B. Price. It was the first time a major American orchestra played a composition by an African American woman...

Women in the Bible aren't shy or retiring; they're fierce and funny and demanding and relevant to 21st-century people...

Lottie Dod was the greatest female athlete of all time. And you've never heard of her...

McLean depicts the rise of the African American middle class through the historical journey of Lucile and her family from slavery in northern Virginia to life in the American West...

In 1912, at age 24, Georgia O’Keeffe boarded a train in Virginia and headed west, to the prairies of the Texas Panhandle...

Monica A. Coleman's great-grandfather asked his two young sons to lift him up and pull out the chair when he hanged himself, and that noose stayed in the family shed for years...

Nwando Achebe considers the diverse forms and systems of female leadership in both the physical and spiritual worlds, as well as the complexities of female power in a multiplicity of distinct African societies...

The contributors explore everything from issues of representation in novels and cinema, to political organizing, religious fundamentalism, slavery, love, and sexuality....

Barlas demonstrates how a Muslim believer can fully adopt an antipatriarchal reading of the Qur’anic text while maintaining belief in its Divine Providence...

Gertrude Hoffman is one of many entertainers who were big stars in vaudeville before World War I, but whose celebrity faded as the American public was seduced by radio and film after the Great War.

Gruber explains how the women’s movement in America has shaped the law on domestic violence and sexual assault...

Drinot studies the interplay of sexuality, society, and the state in Peru in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...

Among the tens of thousands of Americans who volunteered their services during the Civil War was Mary Walker, a daring young woman who was one of the handful of female doctors in the nation at that time...

Before Ronald Reagan appointed Sandra Day O’Connor to the Supreme Court in 1981, nine highly qualified women were on the shortlist. What do the stories of these women tell us about the judiciary? Gender? Feminism? Race?

Haeri offers a collection of captivating biographies of Muslim women rulers and political leaders...

Zavella shows how reproductive justice organizations' collaborative work across racial lines provides a compelling model for other groups to successfully influence change...

Betancourt explores what makes Judy Garland’s landmark album great, and why it holds such a central place in queer culture...

What if the moral guardians of West African societies are postmenopausal women?

Scott focuses on the Basque seroras, a category of uncloistered religious women that were employed by parishes to perform a wide variety of functions...

This book provides practical, specific, and insightful guidance to fight back, prevail, and thrive in challenging work environments...

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

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

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...

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

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....