New Books in Women's History
A podcast by New Books Network
1574 Episodes
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Loki Mulholland, et.al. “She Stood for Freedom: The Untold Story of a Civil Rights Hero, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland” (Shadow Mountain, 2016)
Published: 9/8/2016 -
Ellen Fitzpatrick, “The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women’s Quest for the American Presidency” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Published: 9/2/2016 -
Carol McCabe Booker, ed. “Alone Atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan” (U. of Georgia Press, 2015)
Published: 9/2/2016 -
Anne Mac Lellan, “Dorothy Stopford Price: Rebel Doctor” (Irish Academic Press, 2014)
Published: 8/25/2016 -
Michelle Cruz Gonzales, “The Spitboy Rule: Tales of Xicana in a Female Punk Band” (PM Press, 2016)
Published: 8/12/2016 -
April R. Haynes, “Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America” (University of Chicago Press, 2015)
Published: 7/16/2016 -
Cassandra A. Good, “Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Published: 7/13/2016 -
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
Discussions with scholars of women's history about their new books