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...

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....

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

Baumgartner offers an intellectual and cultural history of the educational activism of African American women and girls in the long nineteenth century...

Risman uses her gender structure theory to tackle the question about whether today’s young people, Millennials, are pushing forward the gender revolution or backing away from it...

Siegel explores the previously neglected history of a diverse group of women from around the world who fought for women’s rights as male politicians forged a new world order...

In 1883, a young woman named Anandi Joshi set out from her native India to the United States to study medicine..,

"Valkyrie” is skillfully arranged around the skeleton of the life cycle of a woman—from birth through childhood, adolescence, marriage, and old age.

This book provides a wealth of information and analysis of the reasons why women (and men) choose to run for public office and what that path looks like in terms of training, support, obstacles, and advantages...

Lappas unearths the story of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in Indian country...

The authors draw on eight years of feminist participatory action research conducted with fifty-four Q’eqchi’, Kaqchikel, Chuj, and Mam women to explore Mayan women’s agency in their search for truth, justice, and reparation...

Reyes examines the ways Colombian artist Beatriz González and Argentine-born art critic Marta Traba railed against international forms of modernism...

Reyes examines the ways Colombian artist Beatriz González and Argentine-born art critic Marta Traba railed against international forms of modernism...

Cvajner focuses on a group of women who migrated from areas in the former Soviet Union to northern Italy...

Fahs has curated a comprehensive collection of feminist manifestos from the nineteenth century to today...

Harmer explores how a young Chilean woman pursued her political commitments and navigated patriarchal strictures as a militant leftist...

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...

Though his advice has saved the lives of millions of people, the name Ignaz Semmelweis is not one commonly known today...

Elkins examines ancient representations of mothers and children in the context of sociopolitical violence....

What is a mosque? What are women's mosques specifically?

Stevenson explores the ubiquity of what she terms the “woman-slave analogy” in nineteenth-century US feminist discourse...