New Books in Women's History

1407 Episodes

1. Stacy Schiff, “Cleopatra: A Life” (Back Bay Books, 2011)

   Published: 12/7/2011
2. Kitty Kelley, “Oprah: A Biography” (Three Rivers Press, 2011)

   Published: 11/15/2011
3. Yi-Li Wu’s book, “Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China” (University of California Press, 2010)

   Published: 11/1/2011
4. Jennifer Frost, “Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood: Celebrity Gossip and American Conservatism” (NYU Press, 2011)

   Published: 10/25/2011
5. Yasmin Saikia, “Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971” (Duke UP, 2011)

   Published: 10/17/2011
6. Jennifer Ring, “Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don’t Play Baseball” (University of Illinois Press, 2009)

   Published: 10/10/2011
7. Mara Hvistendahl, “Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men” (PublicAffairs, 2011)

   Published: 9/7/2011
8. Robert J. Corber, “Cold War Femme: Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema” (Duke University Press, 2011)

   Published: 8/4/2011
9. Deborah Whaley, “Disciplining Women: Alpha Kappa Alpha, Black Counterpublics, and the Cultural Politics of Black Sororities” (SUNY, 2010)

   Published: 7/15/2011
10. Don Van Natta, Jr., “Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias” (Little, Brown, and Company, 2011)

    Published: 6/23/2011
11. Lori Meeks, “Hokkeji and the Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern Japan” (University of Hawaii Press, 2010)

    Published: 6/20/2011
12. Carrie Pitzulo, “Bachelors and Bunnies: The Sexual Politics of Playboy” (University of Chicago Press, 2011)

    Published: 6/6/2011
13. Megan Marshall, “The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism” (Houghton Mifflin, 2005)

    Published: 4/15/2011
14. Pamela Cobrin, “From Winning the Vote to Directing on Broadway: The Emergence of Women on the New York Stage” (Delaware, 2009)

    Published: 4/6/2011
15. Benjamin Binstock, “Vermeer’s Family Secrets: Genius, Discovery, and the Unknown Apprentice” (Routledge, 2009)

    Published: 3/9/2011
16. Virginia Scharff, “The Women Jefferson Loved” (HarperCollins, 2010)

    Published: 2/11/2011
17. Elaine Tyler May, “America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation” (Basic Books, 2010)

    Published: 9/4/2010
18. Sarah Ross, “The Birth of Feminism: Woman as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and England” (Harvard UP, 2009)

    Published: 12/11/2009
19. Sally G. McMillen, “Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement” (Oxford, 2008)

    Published: 10/23/2009
20. Jennifer Burns, “Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right” (Oxford UP, 2009)

    Published: 10/9/2009