New Books in Women's History

1576 Episodes

1. William Kuhn, “Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books” (Anchor Books, 2011)

   Published: 3/15/2012
2. Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, “Dorothy West’s Paradise: A Biography of Class and Color” (Rutgers UP, 2012)

   Published: 3/9/2012
3. Carolyn Burke, “No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf” (Knopf, 2011)

   Published: 3/1/2012
4. Mia Bay, “To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells” (Hill and Wang, 2009)

   Published: 2/24/2012
5. Vincent Carretta, “Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage” (University of Georgia Press, 2011)

   Published: 2/16/2012
6. Amanda Smith, “Newspaper Titan: The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson” (Knopf, 2011)

   Published: 2/1/2012
7. Jean H. Baker, “Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion” (Hill and Wang, 2011)

   Published: 12/22/2011
8. Niamh Reilly, “Women’s Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalizing Age” (Polity Press, 2009)

   Published: 12/20/2011
9. Alice Bag, “Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story” (Feral House, 2011)

   Published: 12/16/2011
10. Stacy Schiff, “Cleopatra: A Life” (Back Bay Books, 2011)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 6/20/2011