Davis explores the evolution of tomboyism from a Victorian ideal to a twenty-first century fashion statement, honoring the girls and women-and those who identify otherwise-who stomp all over archaic gender norms...

The Hindu tradition has held conflicting views on womanhood from its earliest texts—holding women aloft as goddesses to be worshipped on the one hand and remaining deeply suspicious about women’s sexuality on the other...

Wayne reveals the valuable work that women achieved in publishing, printing, writing and reading early modern English books...

Levenstein shows how American feminists joined a global women’s movement for women’s rights as human rights....

Pellum explores the glamorous history of African American beauty queens by using the stories of former contestants to address colorism and racism still prevalent in the industry.

In 1933, the Chicago Symphony performed the Symphony in E Minor by Florence B. Price. It was the first time a major American orchestra played a composition by an African American woman...

Women in the Bible aren't shy or retiring; they're fierce and funny and demanding and relevant to 21st-century people...

McLean depicts the rise of the African American middle class through the historical journey of Lucile and her family from slavery in northern Virginia to life in the American West...

Lottie Dod was the greatest female athlete of all time. And you've never heard of her...

In 1912, at age 24, Georgia O’Keeffe boarded a train in Virginia and headed west, to the prairies of the Texas Panhandle...

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...

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...

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...

Gruber explains how the women’s movement in America has shaped the law on domestic violence and sexual assault...

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.

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?

Zavella shows how reproductive justice organizations' collaborative work across racial lines provides a compelling model for other groups to successfully influence change...

Haeri offers a collection of captivating biographies of Muslim women rulers and political leaders...

What if the moral guardians of West African societies are postmenopausal women?

Betancourt explores what makes Judy Garland’s landmark album great, and why it holds such a central place in queer culture...

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...