New Books in Women's History

1566 Episodes

1. Shu Yang, "Untamed Shrews: Negotiating New Womanhood in Modern China" (Cornell UP, 2023)

   Published: 5/2/2024
2. Katie Gee Salisbury, "Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong" (Dutton, 2024)

   Published: 5/2/2024
3. Nancy M. Martin, "Mirabai: The Making of a Saint" (Oxford UP, 2023)

   Published: 5/2/2024
4. Renée Bergland, "Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science" (Princeton UP, 2024)

   Published: 5/1/2024
5. Sarah A. Bendall, "Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body and Women in Early Modern England" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

   Published: 4/28/2024
6. Leigh Gilmore, "The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women" (Columbia UP, 2023)

   Published: 4/27/2024
7. Stitching Freedom: Embroidery and Incarceration

   Published: 4/25/2024
8. Julie Peakman, "Libertine London: Sex in the Eighteenth-Century Metropolis" (Reaktion, 2024)

   Published: 4/22/2024
9. Jessica Cox, "Confinement: The Hidden History of Maternal Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Britain" (The History Press, 2023)

   Published: 4/21/2024
10. Diana Chapman Walsh, "The Claims of Life: A Memoir" (MIT Press, 2023)

    Published: 4/21/2024
11. Tanisha Ford, "Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement" (Amistad Press, 2024)

    Published: 4/19/2024
12. Eve Golden, "Strictly Dynamite: The Sensational Life of Lupe Velez" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)

    Published: 4/17/2024
13. Liz Tregenza, "Wholesale Couture: London and Beyond, 1930-70" (Bloombury, 2023)

    Published: 4/17/2024
14. Philip Freeman, "Two Lives of Saint Brigid" (Four Courts Press, 2024)

    Published: 4/17/2024
15. Kerry Wallach, "Traces of a Jewish Artist: The Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit" (Penn State UP, 2024)

    Published: 4/16/2024
16. Miss Tibet: Representing Tibet through Beauty Pageants

    Published: 4/12/2024
17. Xiaofei Kang, "Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942-1953" (Oxford UP, 2023)

    Published: 4/9/2024
18. Sarah Horowitz, "The Red Widow: The Scandal That Shook Paris and the Woman Behind It All" (Sourcebooks, 2022)

    Published: 4/5/2024
19. Leah Broad, "Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World" (Faber & Faber, 2023)

    Published: 4/5/2024
20. Naomi Cahn, et al., "Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)

    Published: 4/3/2024