New Books in Women's History

1576 Episodes

1. Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, “Forging Freedom: Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston” (UNC Press, 2011)

   Published: 5/31/2013
2. Laina Dawes, “What are You Doing Here?: A Black Woman’s Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal” (Bazillion Points, 2012)

   Published: 4/25/2013
3. Barbara Engel, “Breaking the Ties that Bound: The Politics of Marital Strife in Late Imperial Russia” (Cornell UP, 2011)

   Published: 4/10/2013
4. Lisa Chaney, “Coco Chanel: An Intimate Life”

   Published: 4/1/2013
5. Melissa R. Klapper, “Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women’s Activism, 1890-1940” (NYU Press, 2013)

   Published: 3/18/2013
6. Peter Benjaminson, “Mary Wells: The Tumultuous Life of Motown’s First Superstar” (Chicago Review Press, 2012)

   Published: 3/9/2013
7. Reiland Rabaka, “Hip Hop’s Amnesia: From Blues and the Black Women’s Club Movement to Rap and the Hip Hop Movement” (Lexington Books, 2012)

   Published: 2/19/2013
8. Lois Rudnick, “The Suppressed Memoirs of Mabel Dodge Luhan” (University of New Mexico Press, 2012)

   Published: 1/29/2013
9. Yael Tamar Lewin, “Night’s Dancer: The Life of Janet Collins” (Wesleyan UP, 2011)

   Published: 1/11/2013
10. Bob Spitz, “Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child” (Knopf, 2012)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 9/10/2012
20. 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