Johnson examines the lives and work of four well-known women-evangelical marriage advice author Marabel Morgan, singer and anti-gay-rights activist Anita Bryant, author and political lobbyist Beverly LaHaye, and televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker...

Annette Joseph-Gabriel talks with Tiffany Gill about the history of African American travel in the late twentieth century and its significance to Black communities across the lines of class and gender...

"Sex and Secularism" is a compelling analysis of the discourse of secularism in the modern democratic (imperial) nation-states of “the West”.

Where in the world do working moms have it best?

Mirabal details New York Cuban diasporic history between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with keen attention to how political debates about the potential future, visibility, and belonging in Cuba played out along issues of race and gender...

Bailey uses a close reading of the music owned and performed by three prominent women in antebellum Charleston to demonstrate the varied experiences and perspectives of figures who also had much in common...

Amanda Littauer traces the origins of the "sexual revolution" of the 1960s...

Elsey and Nadel uncover the hidden history of the arrival of physical education for girls in the late-nineteenth century,

Mayer finds women played a crucial role in the politics of the union...

Ghodsee addresses a telling gap in the historiography of women rights movements – the contributions of the Second World women rights activists...

Think running an insurance company or a bank is hard?  Try doing it as an African-American woman in the Jim Crow South...

Hill provides life stories of various fascinating and powerful female muqaddamas (or Sufi leaders) in Dakar and explores how they navigate the complexity of their gendered authority in religious, familial, and public domains...

Nickliss shows how Hearst came to exercise such power and the ways she uses it to advance the causes in which she believed...

Medeiros explores the women’s rich stories of desire, love, respect, suffering, strength, and transformation...

Stein re-emerges as a major twentieth-century rhetorician, not a spin doctor, as the word might suggest to some, but as someone who follows as sure as she remakes the rules of writing, expression, and language...

Marino follows the many Latin American and Caribbean women in the first half of the century who not only championed feminism for the continent but also contributed to defining the meaning of international human rights...

Rabinowitz, born in 1887 in Ukraine, described her experiences as an immigrant, factory worker, single mother by choice, and union organizer...

Jennifer Helgren traces the creation of a new internationalist girl citizenship in the first two decades following World War II by uncovering the activism of girls organizations including Camp Fire Girls, YWCA Y-Teens, and the Girl Scouts...

One of the first and most famous of Christian martyrs was Perpetua, who died in Carthage in the early 3rd century CE.

Grasso provides an in-depth look at O'Keeffe's ambivalent relationship with feminism from her early beginnings as a New Woman of the 1910s, to the support she received from women to become a national icon for feminism...

A free black woman from Connecticut, Jane Manning James positioned herself at the center of LDS history with uncanny precision...

The Bloomsbury Handbook is the most comprehensive available survey of the state of the art of contemporary feminist thought...

The author examines how 1970s right-wing women activists in the state of Indiana combined earlier political conspiracy theories, Cold War anti-communism and anti-ERA sentiment to cast feminism as threat to American democracy, free enterprise, and the family.

Though she died in 1847 at a young age, Marie Duplessis inspired one of the greatest operas ever composed...

Audrey Hepburn was justly known for her long acting career, yet her early life is largely unknown...