New Books in Women's History

1407 Episodes

1. Bob Spitz, “Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child” (Knopf, 2012)

   Published: 11/14/2012
2. Juliane Hammer, “American Muslim Women, Religious Authority, and Activism: More Than a Prayer” (University of Texas Press, 2012)

   Published: 11/11/2012
3. Andrei Markovits and Emily Albertson, “Sportista: Female Fandom in the United States” (Temple University Press, 2012)

   Published: 11/9/2012
4. Peggy Schwartz and Murray Schwartz, “The Dance Claimed Me: A Biography of Pearl Primus” (Yale UP, 2012)

   Published: 11/2/2012
5. Julietta Hua, “Trafficking Women’s Human Rights” (University of Minnesota Press, 2011)

   Published: 10/13/2012
6. Karen Ruffle, “Gender, Sainthood, and Everyday Practice in South Asian Shi’ism” (University of North Carolina Press, 2011)

   Published: 10/10/2012
7. Jennifer Guglielmo, “Living in Revolution: Italian Women’s Resistance and Radicalism in New York City” (UNC Press, 2010)

   Published: 10/10/2012
8. Amy Stanley, “Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan” (University of California Press, 2012)

   Published: 9/19/2012
9. Reiland Rabaka, “Hip Hop’s Inheritance: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip Hop Feminist Movement” (Lexington Books, 2011)

   Published: 9/11/2012
10. Janet Kourany, “Philosophy of Science After Feminism” (Oxford UP, 2010)

    Published: 9/10/2012
11. Brenda Dixon Gottschild, “Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance” (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011)

    Published: 8/29/2012
12. Marnie Anderson, “A Place in Public: Women’s Rights in Meiji Japan” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2010)

    Published: 8/24/2012
13. Lisa Bier, “Fighting the Current: The Rise of American Women’s Swimming, 1870-1926” (McFarland, 2011)

    Published: 8/10/2012
14. Anne Sebba, “That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor” (St. Martin’s Press, 2012)

    Published: 7/17/2012
15. Sara Marcus, “Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution” (Harper Perennial, 2010)

    Published: 7/3/2012
16. Elizabeth Goldsmith, “The King’s Mistresses” (PublicAffairs, 2012)

    Published: 6/29/2012
17. Nwando Achebe, “The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe” (Indiana University Press, 2011)

    Published: 6/29/2012
18. Timothy Grainey, “Beyond ‘Bend It Like Beckham’: The Global Phenomenon of Women’s Soccer” (University of Nebraska Press, 2012)

    Published: 6/22/2012
19. Trevor Getz and Liz Clarke, “Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History” (Oxford UP, 2012)

    Published: 6/8/2012
20. Sally Bedell Smith, “Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch” (Random House, 2012)

    Published: 6/1/2012