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...

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...

Cook investigates how and why women have developed the roles they have, and interrogates US counterterrorism practices in key countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yemen...

Sinkoff offers s the first comprehensive biography of Dawidowicz (1915-1990), a pioneer historian in the field that is now called "Holocaust Studies"..

Kravetz examines how German women physicians gained a foothold in the medical profession during the Weimar and Nazi periods,..

Walker and Roberts discuss the field of documentary editing and how the personal writings of southern women reveal the broader history of life in the U.S. South during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...

How did Catholic mysticism shape politics and religion in 20th-century Germany?

Engstrom analyzes the various ways the series presented feminism as a positive force, such as the satirical portrayal of patriarchy...

Khan provides a rare and empirically rich view of queenship in early modern maritime Southeast Asia...

Twarog examines how working- and middle-class American housewives used their identity as housewives to protest the high cost of food. In doing so, housewives' relationships with the state evolved over the course of the century...

Edwards has produced the first comprehensive study in English of the history of African descendants outside of Buenos Aires in the late colonial and early republican periods...

Burke considers the relationship of sexual violence to lived time by reexamining and building upon the work of Simone de Beauvoir, and in conversation with Judith Butler, María Lugones, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and many others...