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...

"American Resistance" follows activists from the streets back to their congressional districts around the country...

Izharuddin explores the development of the Islamic film genre with a specific focus on gender representation...

Spielrein's life resembles a nodal point; she stood at the crossroads of extraordinary changes in world politics and psychoanalysis...

McQuade opens up an entirely new field for the study of early modern women’s writing,..

Kim tangles with the question of difference so central to French feminism, theory...

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...