New Books in Women's History

1576 Episodes

1. Marnie Anderson, “A Place in Public: Women’s Rights in Meiji Japan” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2010)

   Published: 8/24/2012
2. Lisa Bier, “Fighting the Current: The Rise of American Women’s Swimming, 1870-1926” (McFarland, 2011)

   Published: 8/10/2012
3. Anne Sebba, “That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor” (St. Martin’s Press, 2012)

   Published: 7/17/2012
4. Sara Marcus, “Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution” (Harper Perennial, 2010)

   Published: 7/3/2012
5. Elizabeth Goldsmith, “The King’s Mistresses” (PublicAffairs, 2012)

   Published: 6/29/2012
6. Nwando Achebe, “The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe” (Indiana University Press, 2011)

   Published: 6/29/2012
7. Timothy Grainey, “Beyond ‘Bend It Like Beckham’: The Global Phenomenon of Women’s Soccer” (University of Nebraska Press, 2012)

   Published: 6/22/2012
8. Trevor Getz and Liz Clarke, “Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History” (Oxford UP, 2012)

   Published: 6/8/2012
9. Sally Bedell Smith, “Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch” (Random House, 2012)

   Published: 6/1/2012
10. Erin D. Chapman, “Prove It On Me: New Negroes, Sex, and Popular Culture in the 1920s” (Oxford University Press, 2012)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 4/2/2012