Sisterhood in Sports reveals what drives the female athlete: communication, camaraderie, competition, collaboration, and......more

In this wide-ranging study of women’s and gender issues in the pre- and post-1989 Czech Republic, contributors engage wi......more

"The Jewess Pallas Athena"--a line from a poem by Paul Celan. It is a provocative phrase, cutting across cultures and tr......more

Between 1887 and 1920, the humble hatpin went from an unremarkable item in every woman’s wardrobe, to a fashion necessit......more

Female athletes are too often perceived as interlopers in the historically male-dominated world of sports. Obstacles spe......more

In the turbulent decades following the Mexican Revolution, Mexico City saw a drastic influx of female migrants seeking e......more

Our Lives to Live: Putting a Woman’s Face to Change in Singapore explores and documents how women’s roles, choices, and ......more

Taking stock of Yiddish literature in 1939, critic Shmuel Niger highlighted the increasing number and importance of wome......more

Daughter of Good Fortune tells the story of Chen Huiqin and her family through the tumultuous 20th century in China. She......more

Women Pioneers of the Louisiana Environmental Movement provides a window into the passion and significance of thirty-eig......more

Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) produced a relatively small body of fiction, but she wrote thousands and thousands of ......more

"Calling in the Soul" (Hu Plig) is the chant the Hmong use to guide the soul of a newborn baby into its body on the thir......more

An argument against treating our bodies as commodities No one wants to be treated like an object, regarded as an item of......more

Contributions by Laura F. Edwards, Crystal Feimster, Glenda E. Gilmore, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Darlene Clark Hine, Mary Ke......more

"You must be from the North," was a common, derogatory reaction to the activities of white women throughout the South, w......more

Beauty pageants are wildly popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands, outnumbering any other single performance event and captu......more

Stories of Oprah is a collection of essays that explores Oprah Winfrey’s broad reach as an industry and media brand. Con......more

In a much-publicized and much-maligned 2003 New York Times article, "The Opt-Out Revolution," the journalist Lisa Belkin......more

The first decade of the twenty-first century witnessed a passionate engagement with the losses of the past. Rites of Ret......more

Following in the path of her distinguished Puritan forebears, Hannah Mather Crocker used her skills as a writer primaril......more

Troubling Violence: A Performance Project follows the collaboration between performance studies professor M. Heather Car......more

This engaging publication is a pioneering work on the experiences of Grenadian women over two centuries of British colon......more

Suffragist, lecturer, eugenicist, businesswoman, free lover, and the first woman to run for president of the United Stat......more

This volume builds on and extends current discussions of the construction of gendered identities and the networks throug......more

This revealing work looks at representations of motherhood from a wide range of pop culture sources to explore larger qu......more

Through a lyrical narrative of her journey to Tibet in 2007, activist Canyon Sam contemplates modern history from the pe......more

Queen Latifah’s lyrics tout female superiority. Salt ’n’ Pepa energize with eroticism. Julie Brown’s unsettling version ......more

The argument posed in this analysis is that the poetic excesses of several major female poets, excesses that have been t......more

Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe examines the important roles of women who campaigned with armies from ......more

They are in different countries but share the same hell. Maria is one of 14 women lured from Mexico to Seattle, Washingt......more

Throughout the twentieth century women have made significant contributions to the creation of American musical theatre. ......more

Religion plays a central role in Thai society with Buddhism intertwined in the daily lives of the people. Religion also ......more

The Caribbean "market woman" is ingrained in the popular imagination as the archetype of black womanhood in countries th......more

In recent years an exciting new branch of scholarship has contributed to revising our understanding of politics and hist......more

Between the 1920s and the 1970s, American economic culture began to emphasize the value of consumption over production. ......more

The books in The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe series chronicle the heretofore neglected stories of women between 1......more

With this purported new "era of high-profile, mega successful, black women who are changing the face of every major fiel......more

By analyzing testimonial writing, works of fiction, and critical theory, Joanna R. Bartow examines the self-representati......more

When it originally appeared, this groundbreaking ethnography was one of the first works to focus on gender in anthropolo......more

Beginning in 1963 with the publication of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique and reaching a high pitch ten years late......more

This impressively researched book tells the important but little-known story of elite southern white women’s successful ......more

Writer, teacher, and public intellectual, Betty Friedan has been in the spotlight almost continuously since the publicat......more

American soul music of the 1960s is one of the most creative and influential musical forms of the twentieth century. Wit......more

Angela Davis, Assata Shakur (a.k.a. JoAnne Chesimard), and Elaine Brown are the only women activists of the Black Power ......more

Interpretations of women in the antebellum period have long dwelt upon the notion of public versus private gender sphere......more

Autobiography, as evidenced by best-seller lists, is one of the most popular literary genres. However, because critics h......more

The subject of midlife has been dominated by the woes of aging--menopause, divorce, hormone replacement therapies, aging......more

This book explores sexual violence against Victorian working women. The author examines how gendered notions inform both......more

Between 1892 and 1920 nearly thirty Arabic periodicals by, for, and about women were produced in Egypt for circulation t......more

The majority of American women supported the Allied cause during World War II. and made sacrifices on the home front to ......more

The first time a villain ever tied someone to the railroad tracks, in a nineteenth-century play entitled Under the Gasli......more

These essays analyze and interpret studies on women’s roles in the American West....more

Sellers and Servants is a welcome addition to research on a neglected subject, that of poverty-stricken Peruvian women w......more

A great deal has been written about the bond between mothers and daughters and fathers and daughters. This book explores......more

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The Communist revolution promised Chinese women an end to thousands of years of subjugation, an equality with men in all......more

A fine collection . . . this is a volume every person with interests in the social sciences and/or Latin America should ......more

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Studies of Chinese society commonly emphasizze men’s roles and functions, a not unreasonable approach to a society with ......more

In a nation whose Constitution purports to speak for "We the People," too many of the stories that powerful Americans te......more

The wives of Woodrow Wilson were strikingly different from each other. Ellen Axson Wilson, quiet and intellectual, died ......more

In Mismatched Women, author Jennifer Fleeger introduces readers to a lineage of women whose voices do not "match" their ......more

Women remain dramatically underrepresented in elective office, including in entry-level political offices. While they en......more

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Whether related by biology, marriage, circumstance, or choice, aunts embody a uniquely flexible familial role. The aunt-......more

Scholars of film history and feminist studies will appreciate the breadth of work in this volume....more

Whether they are rich or poor, tall or short, liberal or conservative, most young American women have one thing in commo......more

A unique combination of the activist and the academic, Feminist Review has an acclaimed place within women’s studies cou......more

Bringing into historical perspective the critical conflict between woman s right to equality of opportunity and the dema......more

Statistics show that women live longer than men, and that they constitute a substantial majority of the North American p......more

In 1972, Ruthellen Josselson was a young psychologist fascinated by the riddle of how a woman creates an identity and ch......more

Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life presents selections from the writings of two dozen representative black ......more

The most complete collection of works by the nineteenth century’s most famous and groundbreaking woman journalist. In th......more

Where Social Identities Converge examines adolescent girlhood as a metaphorical site in Latin American and Latinx film. ......more

Rewriting Citizenship provides an interdisciplinary approach to antebellum citizenship. Interpreting citizenship, partic......more