Harriet Tubman is best known as one of the most famous conductors on the Underground Railroad...

Eileen Boris illuminates the ILO's transformation in the context of the long fight for social justice...

Rwanda and South Africa have some of the highest rates of women’s political representation in the world, with significant growth particularly in the last 20 years...

"Why Don′t Women Rule the World?" is a comprehensive and useful addition to the established literature on women and politics...

Goodier and Pastorello examine the many distinct, yet interconnected, groups that fought for women’s suffrage in New York State before 1917...

Milligan takes as its subject the woman warrior in early modern Italy as she was and as she was represented across varied types of texts,..

How are notions of justice and equality constructed in Islamic virtue ethics (akhlaq)?

Vigil’s analysis is particularly interesting and informative in how we think about the role of public women in our country, especially in relation to the White House and their unelected roles within the political sphere...

Beauvior is now celebrated, but during her life she was a controversial figure both by conventional and feminists’ standards...

Hendrik Hartog uses a forgotten 1840 case to explore the regime of gradual emancipation that took place in New Jersey over the first half of the nineteenth century...

The king’s guards became increasingly nervous as they watched nearly 7,000 individuals march on Versailles on October 5, 1789...

The editors bring together a diverse collective of Women of Color Mother-Scholars to end the silence experienced by Mothers of Color in academia....

Scott provides an overview of the convergence culture industry and the world of fandom while examining the role that gender and misogyny has played in understanding who is and is not considered an “authentic” fan...

Lough and Guerin bring together forty different authors to survey the status of women's sports in 2019.

Southard examines the discourse of international women leaders seeking agency for women, the traditional subjects of violence across the global south...

Though women’s roles in the black freedom struggle remain under-acknowledged, scholars continue to make their importance clear...

May ’68 marked a watershed moment in French society, culture, and political life...

Kroik explores the relationship between work and gender in American culture...

Sidorsky combines qualitative and quantitative research to examine appointed and elected state positions...

In 1978, doctors in Denver, Colorado observed several healthy children who suddenly and mysteriously developed a serious, life-threatening illness with no visible source...

How do women experience gender inequality in film and television production industries?

Karcher examines a critical time in the history and development of the feminist movement in Germany...

Artman tells the story of Kuhlman’s life and, in the process, relates the larger story of charismatic Christianity, particularly how it moved from the fringes of American society to the mainstream...

How do women -- especially poor and low-income women with histories of childhood sexual trauma and drug addiction -- respond to and deal with an HIV/AIDS diagnosis?

Mary McLeod Bethune was often called the "First Lady of Negro America," but she made significant contributions to the political climate of Florida as well...