Ghodsee addresses a telling gap in the historiography of women rights movements – the contributions of the Second World women rights activists...

Nickliss shows how Hearst came to exercise such power and the ways she uses it to advance the causes in which she believed...

Think running an insurance company or a bank is hard?  Try doing it as an African-American woman in the Jim Crow South...

Hill provides life stories of various fascinating and powerful female muqaddamas (or Sufi leaders) in Dakar and explores how they navigate the complexity of their gendered authority in religious, familial, and public domains...

Medeiros explores the women’s rich stories of desire, love, respect, suffering, strength, and transformation...

Stein re-emerges as a major twentieth-century rhetorician, not a spin doctor, as the word might suggest to some, but as someone who follows as sure as she remakes the rules of writing, expression, and language...

Marino follows the many Latin American and Caribbean women in the first half of the century who not only championed feminism for the continent but also contributed to defining the meaning of international human rights...

Rabinowitz, born in 1887 in Ukraine, described her experiences as an immigrant, factory worker, single mother by choice, and union organizer...

Jennifer Helgren traces the creation of a new internationalist girl citizenship in the first two decades following World War II by uncovering the activism of girls organizations including Camp Fire Girls, YWCA Y-Teens, and the Girl Scouts...

One of the first and most famous of Christian martyrs was Perpetua, who died in Carthage in the early 3rd century CE.

Grasso provides an in-depth look at O'Keeffe's ambivalent relationship with feminism from her early beginnings as a New Woman of the 1910s, to the support she received from women to become a national icon for feminism...

A free black woman from Connecticut, Jane Manning James positioned herself at the center of LDS history with uncanny precision...

The Bloomsbury Handbook is the most comprehensive available survey of the state of the art of contemporary feminist thought...

The author examines how 1970s right-wing women activists in the state of Indiana combined earlier political conspiracy theories, Cold War anti-communism and anti-ERA sentiment to cast feminism as threat to American democracy, free enterprise, and the family.

Though she died in 1847 at a young age, Marie Duplessis inspired one of the greatest operas ever composed...

Audrey Hepburn was justly known for her long acting career, yet her early life is largely unknown...

Jewish women have consistently played a vital and significant role in American history more broadly, and American Jewish history specifically...

Hong Fincher makes the case that the subjugation of women is a key component of the authoritarian state...

Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery...

Transnational feminist theory and practice is faced with a dilemma: how should we contest and resist gender-based oppression, while at the same time respecting cultural difference?

How can feminist theory help address the climate crisis?

Mary Magdalene’s story of conversion from sinner to saint is one of Christianity’s most compelling and controversial stories...

Though not as well known today as some of her literary contemporaries, Charlotte Lennox wrote numerous works during the mid-18th century that won her critical acclaim...

The book demonstrates the rich contribution of Jewish values and identity had on the women’s liberation movement and how in turn they changed Jewish life in America...

Boryczka explores the fraught position that women find themselves in as citizens of the United States...