What can a cultural history of the heartthrob teach us about women, desire, and social change?

Chrastil explores the most personal of women’s decisions from the 1500s on...

Collett delves into the lives of six of the best-known nuns from the period of early Buddhism...

A political and moral thinker and a forerunner to modern feminism, Wollstonecraft has not received attention on par with the wide breath of her ideas...

Seeking their fortunes in the North, Grace and Katharine Lumpkin reinvented themselves as radical thinkers whose literary works and organizing efforts brought the nation’s attention to issues of region, race, and labor.

Seeking their fortunes in the North, Grace and Katharine Lumpkin reinvented themselves as radical thinkers whose literary works and organizing efforts brought the nation’s attention to issues of region, race, and labor.

Ingrid Horrocks talks about the way women travelers, specifically women wanderers, are represented in late-eighteenth century literature, particularly in the work of women writers...

Weinbaum investigates the continuing resonances of Atlantic slavery in the cultures and politics of human reproduction that characterize contemporary biocapitalism...

“On or around December 1910, human character changed.”

In the aftermath of the February Revolution in 1917 Panina served on the Petrograd city council and as an assistant cabinet minister—the first female cabinet member in world history...

Utrata investigates what she calls a “quiet revolution” in the Russian family after the fall of the Soviet Union...

"Life" published two photo-essays highlighting Bourke-White’s photographs, but much of her South African work remained unpublished until now...

LeFlouria discusses the lives, labors, and legacies of incarcerated black women and the convict lease system in the early 20th century South...

Ali presents a detailed and fascinating account of Muslim feminist discourses and politics in modern Iraq...

Aronson gives us the life of a women’s rights activist, labor lawyer, radical pacifist, writer and co-founder of what became the Civil Liberties Union...

Free market capitalism has failed women...

What was the role of love and courtship in eighteenth-century English culture?

Kihato's book is about home and not-home, eloquently told about the hopes and dreams, fears and hardships of migrant women trying to make life and livelihoods in inner city Johannesburg....

After Napoleon occupied Egypt, Europeans became obsessed with the ancient cultures of the Nile...

Nineteenth-century composer Fanny Hensel is the subject of more published research than any other woman of the period, with the possible exception of Clara Schumann...

Theobald delivers a long-overdue, comprehensive history of Native women’s reproductive health, rights, and practices...

Haberland discusses the dynamics of gender, class, race and globalization in the southern apparel industry from the 1930s to today...

Bernstein provides an overview of feminist discourse on sex trafficking from its earliest incarnations,

Nobody should feel excited about the renewed relevance of Hannah Arendt's work today...

Gurumaa’s syncretic approach innovates Hindu religiosity, as does her progressive attitudes towards treatment of women...