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?

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

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...

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

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

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

"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?