New Books in Women's History
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1401
Alicia Izharuddin, “Gender and Islam in Indones...
Izharuddin explores the development of the Islamic film genre with a specific focus on gender representation...
43 min
1402
John Launer, "Sex Versus Survival: The Life and...
Spielrein's life resembles a nodal point; she stood at the crossroads of extraordinary changes in world politics and psychoanalysis...
56 min
1403
Paula McQuade, "Catechisms and Women’s Writing ...
McQuade opens up an entirely new field for the study of early modern women’s writing,..
32 min
1404
Annabel L. Kim, "Unbecoming Language: Anti-Iden...
Kim tangles with the question of difference so central to French feminism, theory...
58 min
1405
Erica Armstrong Dunbar, "She Came to Slay: The ...
Harriet Tubman is best known as one of the most famous conductors on the Underground Railroad...
35 min
1406
Eileen Boris, "Making the Woman Worker: Precari...
Eileen Boris illuminates the ILO's transformation in the context of the long fight for social justice...
41 min
1407
Naleli Morojele, "Women Political Leaders in Rw...
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...
43 min
1408
C. Strachan and L. Poloni-Staudinger, "Why Don′...
"Why Don′t Women Rule the World?" is a comprehensive and useful addition to the established literature on women and politics...
37 min
1409
Susan Goodier, "Women Will Vote: Winning Suffra...
Goodier and Pastorello examine the many distinct, yet interconnected, groups that fought for women’s suffrage in New York State before 1917...
67 min
1410
Gerry Milligan, "Moral Combat: Women, Gender an...
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,..
52 min
1411
Zahra Ayubi, "Gendered Morality: Classical Isla...
How are notions of justice and equality constructed in Islamic virtue ethics (akhlaq)?
64 min
1412
Tammy R. Vigil, "Moms in Chief: The Rhetoric of...
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...
43 min
1413
Kate Kirkpatrick, "Becoming Beauvoir: A Life" (...
Beauvior is now celebrated, but during her life she was a controversial figure both by conventional and feminists’ standards...
52 min
1414
Hendrik Hartog, "The Trouble with Minna: A Case...
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...
23 min
1415
Katie Jarvis, "Politics in the Marketplace: Wor...
The king’s guards became increasingly nervous as they watched nearly 7,000 individuals march on Versailles on October 5, 1789...
47 min
1416
Cecilia Caballero et al. "The Chicana M(other)w...
The editors bring together a diverse collective of Women of Color Mother-Scholars to end the silence experienced by Mothers of Color in academia....
63 min
1417
Suzanne Scott, "Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender...
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...
37 min
1418
Nancy Lough and Andrea N. Geurin, "Routledge Ha...
Lough and Guerin bring together forty different authors to survey the status of women's sports in 2019.
75 min
1419
Belinda Stillion Southard, "How to Belong: Wome...
Southard examines the discourse of international women leaders seeking agency for women, the traditional subjects of violence across the global south...
51 min
1420
Mary-Elizabeth Murphy, "Jim Crow Capital: Women...
Though women’s roles in the black freedom struggle remain under-acknowledged, scholars continue to make their importance clear...
50 min
1421
Lisa Greenwald, "Daughters of 1968: Redefining ...
May ’68 marked a watershed moment in French society, culture, and political life...
50 min
1422
Polina Kroik, "Cultural Production and the Poli...
Kroik explores the relationship between work and gender in American culture...
48 min
1423
Kaitlin Sidorsky, "All Roads Lead to Power: The...
Sidorsky combines qualitative and quantitative research to examine appointed and elected state positions...
46 min
1424
Sharra L. Vostral, "Toxic Shock: A Social Histo...
In 1978, doctors in Denver, Colorado observed several healthy children who suddenly and mysteriously developed a serious, life-threatening illness with no visible source...
20 min
1425
Anne O’Brien, "Women, Inequality and Media Work...
How do women experience gender inequality in film and television production industries?
40 min