New Books in Women's History

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

Books
History
Social Sciences
1026
Sharon T. Strocchia, "Forgotten Healers: Women ...
Strocchia continues the work of her career: recentering the discourse to include the formative contributions of women in the Italian Renaissance...
28 min
1027
Terry Baum, "One Dyke’s Theater: Selected Plays...
The plays range from outlandish comedies like Bride of Lesbostein to the historical drama Hick: A Love Story...
50 min
1028
Kat D. Williams, "Isabel 'Lefty' Alvarez: The I...
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...
42 min
1029
Amy Stanley, "Stranger in the Shogun's City: A ...
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....
38 min
1030
Jill Massino, "Ambiguous Transitions: Gender, t...
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...
72 min
1031
Steven M. Ortiz, "The Sport Marriage: Women Who...
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...
54 min
1032
Caroline Starkey, "Women in British Buddhism: C...
Based on detailed ethnographic research, this book explores the varied experiences of women who have converted to Buddhism in contemporary Britain....
66 min
1033
Tera W. Hunter, "Bound In Wedlock: Slave and Fr...
Hunter offers the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century....
65 min
1034
Gina Rippon, "Gender and Our Brains: How New Ne...
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...
64 min
1035
Judith G. Coffin, "Sex, Love, and Letters: Writ...
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...
37 min
1036
Anway Mukhopadhyay, “The Authority of Female Sp...
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...
35 min
1037
Bonny H. Miller, "Augusta Browne: Composer and ...
Born around 1820, Augusta Browne was a pianist, organist, composer, music pedagogue, entrepreneur, music critic, and writer...
53 min
1038
Ellen Wayland-Smith, "The Angel in the Marketpl...
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,,,
46 min
1039
Rachel Manekin, "The Rebellion of the Daughters...
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...
50 min
1040
Francesca Sobande, "The Digital Lives of Black ...
Sobande explores the experiences of Black women as producers and as consumers of digital media...
31 min
1041
Tamura Lomax, “Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Bl...
One of the central threads in the public discourse on Black womanhood is the idea of the “Jezebel"...
68 min
1042
Alexandra J. Finley, "An Intimate Economy: Ensl...
Finley examines the history of American slavery and capitalism by foregrounding women’s labor in the Antebellum slave trade...
42 min
1043
Jessica Zychowicz, "Superfluous Women: Art, Fem...
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...
54 min
1044
Julie Hardwick, "Sex in an Old Regime City: You...
How did young workers spend time together? When would they initiate sexual relationships outside of marriage?
57 min
1045
John Locke, "Queen of the Gangsters: Stories by...
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...
64 min
1046
Jill Richards, "The Fury Archives: Female Citiz...
Richards radically rewrites our understanding of first-wave feminism by demonstrating its proximity to international avant-garde movements including surrealism,..
49 min
1047
Sophie Richter-Devroe, "Women’s Political Activ...
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’...
42 min
1048
Abla Hasan, "Decoding the Egalitarianism of the...
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?
61 min
1049
Michele Goodwin, "Policing the Womb: Invisible ...
Goodwin offers a brilliant but shocking account of the criminalization of all aspects of reproduction, pregnancy, abortion, birth, and motherhood in the United States...
60 min
1050
Ariella Rotramel, "Pushing Back: Women of Color...
Rotramel explores women of color’s grassroots leadership in organizations that are not singularly identified with feminism....
94 min