New Books in Women's History
A podcast by New Books Network
1407 Episodes
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Sabine Arnaud, “On Hysteria: The Invention of a Medical Category between 1670 and 1820” (U. of Chicago Press, 2015)
Published: 7/5/2016 -
David Potter, “Theodora: Actress, Empress, Saint” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Published: 6/26/2016 -
Marlene Trestman, “Fair Labor Lawyer: The Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin” (Louisiana State UP, 2016)
Published: 6/26/2016 -
Srimati Basu, “The Trouble with Marriage: Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India” (U of California Press, 2015)
Published: 6/13/2016 -
Brooke Hauser, “Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman”
Published: 5/20/2016 -
Matthew H. Sommer, “Polyandry and Wife-Selling in Qing Dynasty China” (U of California Press, 2015)
Published: 5/4/2016 -
Peter L. Laurence, “Becoming Jane Jacobs” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)
Published: 4/30/2016 -
Kate Bolick, “Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own” (Crown, 2015)
Published: 4/19/2016 -
Elizabeth A. Wilson, “Gut Feminism” (Duke UP, 2015)
Published: 3/7/2016 -
Michelle Chase, “Revolution within the Revolution: Women and Gender Politics in Cuba, 1952-1962” (UNC Press, 2015)
Published: 2/3/2016 -
Domna Stanton, “The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France: Women Writ, Women Writing” (Ashgate, 2014)
Published: 1/28/2016 -
Anita Weiss, “Interpreting Islam, Modernity, and Women’s Rights in Pakistan” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
Published: 1/26/2016 -
Jennifer Bain, “Hildegard of Bingen and Musical Reception: The Modern Revival of Medieval Composer” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Published: 1/19/2016 -
Joan Judge, “Republican Lens: Gender, Visuality, and Experience in the Early Chinese Periodical Press” (U of California Press, 2015)
Published: 1/19/2016 -
Aisha Durham, “Home With Hip Hop Feminism” (Peter Lang, 2014)
Published: 1/14/2016 -
Alice J. Kang, “Bargaining for Women’s Rights: Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy” (U of Minnesota Press, 2015)
Published: 12/16/2015 -
Christine Hong, “Identity, Youth, and Gender in the Korean American Church” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
Published: 12/12/2015 -
Nanxiu Qian, “Politics, Poetics, and Gender in Late Qing China: Xue Shaohui and the Era of Reform” (Stanford UP, 2015)
Published: 12/11/2015 -
Laura Sjoberg, “Gender, War, and Conflict” (Polity Press, 2014)
Published: 12/1/2015 -
Nancy Bauer, “How to Do Things With Pornography” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Published: 11/15/2015
Discussions with scholars of women's history about their new books