New Books in Women's History

1407 Episodes

1. Erin D. Chapman, “Prove It On Me: New Negroes, Sex, and Popular Culture in the 1920s” (Oxford University Press, 2012)

   Published: 5/29/2012
2. Gail Hershatter, “The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past” (University of California Press, 2011)

   Published: 5/23/2012
3. Kathryn Lofton, “Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon” (University of California Press, 2011)

   Published: 5/17/2012
4. Ellen F. Brown and John Wiley, Jr., “Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind” (Taylor Trade Publishing, 2011)

   Published: 5/15/2012
5. Matthew Dennis, “Seneca Possessed: Indians, Witchcraft, and Power in the Early American Republic” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010)

   Published: 5/1/2012
6. Anna Krylova, “Soviet Women in Combat: A History of Violence on the Eastern Front” (Cambridge UP, 2010)

   Published: 4/27/2012
7. Leslie Brody, “Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford” (Counterpoint Press, 2010)

   Published: 4/16/2012
8. Heather Munro Prescott, “The Morning After: A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States” (Rutgers UP, 2011)

   Published: 4/16/2012
9. Charlotte Witt, “The Metaphysics of Gender” (Oxford University Press, 2011)

   Published: 4/15/2012
10. Elizabeth West, “African Spirituality in Black Women’s Fiction: Threaded Visions of Memory, Community, Nature, and Being” (Lexington Books, 2011)

    Published: 4/9/2012
11. Karen Abbott, “American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee” (Random House, 2012)

    Published: 4/2/2012
12. William Kuhn, “Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books” (Anchor Books, 2011)

    Published: 3/15/2012
13. Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, “Dorothy West’s Paradise: A Biography of Class and Color” (Rutgers UP, 2012)

    Published: 3/9/2012
14. Carolyn Burke, “No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf” (Knopf, 2011)

    Published: 3/1/2012
15. Mia Bay, “To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells” (Hill and Wang, 2009)

    Published: 2/24/2012
16. Vincent Carretta, “Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage” (University of Georgia Press, 2011)

    Published: 2/16/2012
17. Amanda Smith, “Newspaper Titan: The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson” (Knopf, 2011)

    Published: 2/1/2012
18. Jean H. Baker, “Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion” (Hill and Wang, 2011)

    Published: 12/22/2011
19. Niamh Reilly, “Women’s Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalizing Age” (Polity Press, 2009)

    Published: 12/20/2011
20. Alice Bag, “Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story” (Feral House, 2011)

    Published: 12/16/2011