New Books in Women's History
A podcast by New Books Network
1574 Episodes
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Claire Virginia Eby, “Until Choice Do Us Part: Marriage Reform in the Progressive Era” (U of Chicago Press, 2014)
Published: 6/23/2015 -
Sally G. McMillen, “Lucy Stone: An Unapologetic Life” (Oxford University Press, 2015)
Published: 6/14/2015 -
Julie Billaud, “Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
Published: 6/10/2015 -
Meryle Secrest, “Elsa Schiaparelli: A Biography” (Knopf, 2014)
Published: 6/2/2015 -
Marion Holmes Katz, “Women in the Mosque: A History of Legal Thought and Social Practice” Columbia University Press, 2014
Published: 6/2/2015 -
Asma Sayeed, “Women and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Islam” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
Published: 5/22/2015 -
Torild Skard, “Women of Power” (Policy Press, 2015)
Published: 4/26/2015 -
Melissa Dabakis, “A Sisterhood of Sculptors: American Artists in Nineteenth-Century Rome (Penn State UP, 2014)
Published: 4/20/2015 -
Carol Faulkner, “Lucretia Mott’s Heresy” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2011)
Published: 4/13/2015 -
Paula Kane, “Sister Thorn and Catholic Mysticism in Modern America” (UNC Press, 2013)
Published: 3/31/2015 -
Dorothy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon, Astrid Henry, “A Short, Surprising History of American Women’s Movements” (Liveright, 2014)
Published: 3/21/2015 -
Michelle Nickerson, “Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right” (Princeton UP, 2012)
Published: 3/18/2015 -
Victoria Hesford, “Feeling Women’s Liberation” (Duke University Press, 2013).
Published: 3/6/2015 -
Norma Jones, Maja-Bajac-Carter, Bob Batchelor, “Heroines of Film and Television: Portrayals in Popular Culture” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)
Published: 2/25/2015 -
Kimberly A. Hamlin, “From Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women’s Rights in Gilded Age America” (U Chicago Press, 2014)
Published: 2/23/2015 -
Lisa Tetrault, “The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898” (UNC Press, 2014)
Published: 2/12/2015 -
Stephanie Coontz, “A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s” (Basic Books, 2014)
Published: 2/6/2015 -
Jenny Kaminer, “Women with a Thirst for Destruction: The Bad Mother in Russian Culture” (Northwestern UP, 2014)
Published: 1/20/2015 -
Laura Mattoon D’Amore, “Smart Chicks on Screen” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)
Published: 11/25/2014 -
Wai-yee Li, “Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature” (Harvard Asia Center, 2014)
Published: 11/24/2014
Discussions with scholars of women's history about their new books