New Books in Women's History
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Aya Gruber, "The Feminist War on Crime: The Une...
Gruber explains how the women’s movement in America has shaped the law on domestic violence and sexual assault...
63 min
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Paulo Drinot, "The Sexual Question: A History o...
Drinot studies the interplay of sexuality, society, and the state in Peru in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...
59 min
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Theresa Kaminski, "Dr. Mary Walker's Civil War:...
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...
48 min
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R. K. Jefferson and H. B. Johnson, "Shortlisted...
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?
57 min
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Shahla Haeri, "The Unforgettable Queens of Isla...
Haeri offers a collection of captivating biographies of Muslim women rulers and political leaders...
68 min
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Patricia Zavella, "The Movement for Reproductiv...
Zavella shows how reproductive justice organizations' collaborative work across racial lines provides a compelling model for other groups to successfully influence change...
46 min
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Laura S. Grillo, "An Intimate Rebuke: Female Ge...
What if the moral guardians of West African societies are postmenopausal women?
77 min
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Manuel Betancourt, "Judy Garland's Judy at Carn...
Betancourt explores what makes Judy Garland’s landmark album great, and why it holds such a central place in queer culture...
60 min
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Amanda L. Scott, "The Basque Seroras: Local Rel...
Scott focuses on the Basque seroras, a category of uncloistered religious women that were employed by parishes to perform a wide variety of functions...
75 min
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Y. F. Niemann and G. Gutiérrez y Muhs, "Presume...
This book provides practical, specific, and insightful guidance to fight back, prevail, and thrive in challenging work environments...
78 min
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Sally Nuamah, "How Girls Achieve" (Harvard UP, ...
Nuamah makes the case for “feminist schools” that orient girls toward a lifetime of achievement...
67 min
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Yuhang Li, "Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion...
How did Buddhist women access religious experience and transcendence in a Confucian patriarchal system in imperial China?
56 min
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Jennifer L. Holland, "Tiny You: A Western Histo...
Holland tells the story of one of the most successful political movements of the twentieth century in the United States: the grassroots campaign against legalized abortion...
59 min
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Alyson McGregor, "Sex Matters: How Male-Centric...
The facts surrounding how male-centric medicine impacts women's health every day are chilling...
54 min
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Pernilla Myrne, "Female Sexuality in the Early ...
Contrary to popular and even scholarly expectations, medieval erotic literature emphasized female sexual satisfaction...
50 min
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Jean Halley, "Horse Crazy: Girls and the Lives ...
Part memoir, part heavy-hitting theoretical exploration, this delightfully readable book explores the relationship between horses and humans...
49 min
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J-B. Tchouta Mougoué, "Gender, Separatist Polit...
Tchouta Mougoue illuminates how issues of ideal womanhood shaped the Anglophone Cameroonian nationalist movement in the first decade of independence in Cameroon...
64 min
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M. A. Weitekamp and M. Delaney, "Smithsonian Am...
"Smithsonian American Women" is an inspiring and surprising celebration of U.S. women's history told through Smithsonian artifacts...
76 min
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Lucy Delap, "Feminisms: A Global History" (U Ch...
Delap takes a thematic approach to the topic of global feminist history to provide a unified vision that maintains appropriate nuance...
49 min
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Tsedale Melaku, "You Don’t Look Like a Lawyer: ...
What kind of discrimination do Black women face in the legal profession?
49 min
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Anya Jabour, "Sophonisba Breckinridge: Champion...
Jabour's rediscovers this groundbreaking American figure...
63 min
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Natalie Kimball, "An Open Secret: The History o...
Kimball argues that, despite stigma and continued legal prohibitions, practices and attitudes surrounding abortion have changed in urban Bolivia since the 1950s..
68 min
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Mariann Hardey, "The Culture of Women in Tech: ...
What is the culture of the tech industry?
40 min
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B. L. Johnson and M. M. Quinlan, "You’re Doing ...
Johnson and Quinlan investigates the storied history of mothering advice in the media...
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Teresa Bergman, "The Commemoration of Women in ...
Bergman examines the public memorialization of women in the US over the past century, with a particular focus on the late twentieth century and early twenty first...
64 min