New Books in Women's History
A podcast by New Books Network

1589 Episodes
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Xian Wang, "Gendered Memories: An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
Published: 2/19/2025 -
Mary Frances Phillips, "Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins" (NYU Press, 2025)
Published: 2/17/2025 -
Jessica A. Brockmole, "Pink Cars and Pocketbooks: How American Women Bought Their Way Into the Driver's Seat" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
Published: 2/16/2025 -
Adam Pennington, "Henry VIII and the Plantagenet Poles: The Rise and Fall of a Dynasty" (Pen and Sword History, 2024)
Published: 2/15/2025 -
Pamela Allen Brown, "The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Published: 2/14/2025 -
Randall Fuller, "Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Published: 2/13/2025 -
Patricia Owens, "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Published: 2/13/2025 -
The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
Published: 2/13/2025 -
Laurel Victoria Gray, "Women’s Dance Traditions of Uzbekistan: Legacy of the Silk Road" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Published: 2/10/2025 -
Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra
Published: 2/6/2025 -
Alexis Wolf, "Transnational Women Writers in the Wilmot Coterie, 1798-1840" (Boydell Press, 2024)
Published: 2/3/2025 -
Blessin Adams, "Thou Savage Woman: Female Killers in Early Modern Britain" (HarperCollins, 2025)
Published: 2/2/2025 -
About Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Published: 1/30/2025 -
Monica A. Hershberger, "Women in American Operas of The 1950s: Undoing Gendered Archetypes" (U Rochester Press, 2023)
Published: 1/20/2025 -
Carol Cleaveland and Michele Waslin. "Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum" (NYU Press, 2024)
Published: 1/20/2025 -
Katharine E. McGregor, "Systemic Silencing: Activism, Memory, and Sexual Violence in Indonesia" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
Published: 1/19/2025 -
Amrita Narayanan, "Women's Sexuality and Modern India: In a Rapture of Distress" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Published: 1/18/2025 -
Valentina N. Glajar, "The Secret Police Dossier of Herta Müller: A "File Story" of Cold War Surveillance" (Camden House, 2023)
Published: 1/17/2025 -
Elizabeth L. Block, "Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing" (MIT Press, 2024)
Published: 1/17/2025 -
Emily Murdoch Perkins, "Regina: The Queens Who Could Have Been" (The History Press, 2024)
Published: 1/14/2025
Discussions with scholars of women's history about their new books