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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

Mattina offers the first full biography of Reichard, and examines her pathbreaking work in the ethnography of ritual and mythology; Wiyot, Coeur d’Alene, and Navajo linguistics; folk art, gender, and language; and her exceptional career of teaching, editing, publishing, and mentoring...

For much of the last century, ballet class has been a rite of passage for millions of little girls in the United States.

Kaur unearths the stories of three people who found themselves at the center of Punjab’s human rights movement...

Have you ever thought about how much energy goes into avoiding sexual violence?

Orozco traces the life of Adela Sloss-Vento, a twentieth-century Mexican American woman civil rights activist in Texas...

Roth examines women's reproductive health in relation to legal and medical policy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...

Koerber shows that the boundary between older, nonscientific ways of understanding women’s bodies and newer, scientific understandings is much murkier than we might expect...

Hamlin offers a fascinating biography of a little-known suffrage leader...

Park offers an account of the Korean Buddhist nun, Kim Iryŏp’s life and philosophy, which takes place from 1896-1971...

Wilkerson discusses the recent history of feminist social justice activism in Appalachia...

Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus when she was nineteen years old on a bet...