New Books in Women's History
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Jill Elaine Hasday, "We the Men: How Forgetting Women's Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality" (Oxford UP, 2025)
24 mins; October 05, 2025
Kathleen B. Casey, "The Things She Carried: A Cultural History of the Purse in America" (Oxford UP, 2025)
52 mins; October 02, 2025
Eibhear Walshe and Eleanor Fitzsimons, "Speranza: Poems by Jane Wilde" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
37 mins; October 01, 2025
Rosemary Admiral, "Living Law: Women and Legality in Marinid Morocco" (Syracuse UP, 2025)
49 mins; September 30, 2025
Branka Bogdan, "The New Yugoslav Woman: Reproductive Regulation in Socialist Yugoslavia" (Indiana UP, 2025)
50 mins; September 30, 2025
Gina Vale, "The Unforgotten Women of the Islamic State" (Oxford UP, 2024)
56 mins; September 29, 2025
Karen Stollznow, "Bitch: The Journey of a Word" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
29 mins; September 28, 2025
Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth, "Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Extraordinary Art Collector" (Lund Humphries, 2025)
62 hours 32 mins; September 27, 2025
Fiona J. Mackenzie, "The Cadence of a Song: The Life of Margaret Fay Shaw" (Birlinn, 2025)
46 mins; September 25, 2025
Debra Michals, "She's the Boss: The Rise of Women’s Entrepreneurship since World War II" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
43 mins; September 25, 2025
Kate Haulman, "The Mother of Washington in Nineteenth-Century America" (Oxford UP, 2025)
39 mins; September 23, 2025
Kenja McCray, "Essential Soldiers: Women Activists and Black Power Movement Leadership" (NYU Press, 2025)
69 hours 54 mins; September 22, 2025
Victoria Bateman, "Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth and Power" (Seal Press, 2025)
56 mins; September 20, 2025
Susan D. Stewart. "On the Rocks: Straight Talk about Women and Drinking" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
28 mins; September 20, 2025
Celene Reynolds, "Unlawful Advances: How Feminists Transformed Title IX" (Princeton UP, 2025)
45 mins; September 16, 2025
Katherine Eva Maich, "Bringing Law Home: Gender, Race, and Household Labor Rights" (Stanford UP, 2025)
48 mins; September 15, 2025
Martin Austin Nesvig, "The Women Who Threw Corn: Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
64 hours 49 mins; September 14, 2025
Keisha N. Blain, "Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights" (W.W. Norton, 2025)
40 mins; September 14, 2025
Deirdre F. Brady, "Literary Coteries and the Irish Women Writers' Club (1933-1958)" (Liverpool UP, 2021)
54 mins; September 11, 2025
Jumping Through Hoops: Performing Gender in the 19th Century Circus
34 mins; September 09, 2025
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, "Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
37 mins; September 05, 2025
Nicole Nehrig, "With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories" (W.W. Norton, 2025)
39 mins; September 03, 2025
Steven Veerapen, "Witches: A King's Obsession" (Birlin, 2025)
39 mins; September 03, 2025
Cordelia Fine, "Patriarchy Inc.: What We Get Wrong About Gender Equality – and Why Men Still Win at Work" (W.W. Norton, 2025)
69 hours 31 mins; September 01, 2025
Diana Souhami, "No Modernism Without Lesbians" (Head of Zeus Book, 2020)
38 mins; August 31, 2025
Lucy Delap, "Feminisms: A Global History" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
52 mins; August 31, 2025
Kathleen B. Casey, "The Things She Carried: A Cultural History of the Purse in America" (Oxford UP, 2025)
36 mins; August 29, 2025
Amy Von Lintel and Bonnie Roos, "Three Women Artists: Expanding Abstract Expressionism in the American West" (Texas A&M UP, 2022)
43 mins; August 27, 2025
Vanessa Diaz, "Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood" (Duke UP, 2020)
50 mins; August 26, 2025
LaShawn Harris, "Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City" (Beacon, 2025)
68 hours 3 mins; August 25, 2025
Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr., "Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune" (Ballantine, 2013)
57 mins; August 24, 2025
Lucia Sorbera, "Biography of a Revolution: The Feminist Roots of Human Rights in Egypt" (U of California Press, 2025)
43 mins; August 23, 2025
Gill Plain, "Agatha Christie: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2025)
57 mins; August 22, 2025
Shennette Garrett-Scott, "Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal" (Columbia UP, 2019)
41 mins; August 20, 2025
Marlee S. Bunch, "Unlearning the Hush: Oral Histories of Black Female Educators in Mississippi in the Civil Rights Era"
64 hours 21 mins; August 19, 2025
Harriet Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" (Norton, 2025)
72 hours 40 mins; August 16, 2025
Sandra Hempel, "Controlling Women: The Untold Story of Britain's First Female Police Force" (Hurst, 2025)
39 mins; August 15, 2025
Domale Dube, "Ogoni Women's Activism: The Transnational Struggle for Justice" (University of Illinois Press, 2025)
33 mins; August 12, 2025
Stephanie McCurry, "Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the Civil War" (Harvard UP, 2019)
72 hours 50 mins; August 09, 2025
Melody Glenn, "Mother of Methadone: A Doctor's Quest, a Forgotten History, and a Modern-Day Crisis" (Beacon Press, 2025)
43 mins; August 06, 2025
Hannah Charnock, "Teenage intimacies: Young Women, Sex and Social Life in England, 1950-80" (Manchester UP, 2025)
42 mins; August 03, 2025
Camilla Fitzsimons, "Rethinking Feminism in Ireland" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
33 mins; August 02, 2025
Christa Kuljian, "Our Science, Ourselves: How Gender, Race, and Social Movements Shaped the Study of Science" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
65 hours 3 mins; July 30, 2025
Foluke Taylor, "Unruly Therapeutic: Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room" (Norton, 2023)
66 hours 33 mins; July 29, 2025
Marion Bower, "The Life and Work of Joan Riviere: Freud, Klein and Female Sexuality" (Routledge, 2018)
60 hours 8 mins; July 27, 2025
Regina Kazyulina, "Women Under Suspicion: Fraternization, Espionage, and Punishment in the Soviet Union During World War II" (U Wisconsin Press, 2025)
49 mins; July 23, 2025
Lost Women of Disco
49 mins; July 22, 2025
Ela Przybylo, "Ungendering Menstruation" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
41 mins; July 21, 2025
How ClioVis is Transforming Education and Historical Research
22 mins; July 19, 2025
Haley Cohen Gilliland, "A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
54 mins; July 16, 2025
Volha Bartash, Tomasz Kamusella, and Viktor Shapoval eds., "Papusza/Bronislawa Wajs. Tears of Blood: A Poet's Witness Account of the Nazi Genocide of Roma" (Brill, 2024)
69 hours 20 mins; July 16, 2025
Sonia C. Gomez, "Picture Bride, War Bride: The Role of Marriage in Shaping Japanese America" (NYU Press, 2024)
63 hours 46 mins; July 15, 2025
Andréa Becker, "Get It Out: On the Politics of Hysterectomy" (NYU Press, 2025)
29 mins; July 14, 2025
Rosemary Goring, "Exile: The Captive Years of Mary, Queen of Scots" (Berlinn, 2025)
37 mins; July 12, 2025
Phil Tiemeyer, "Women and the Jet Age: A Global History of Aviation and Flight Attendants" (Cornell UP, 2025)
55 mins; July 11, 2025
Kirstie Macleod, "The Red Dress: Conversations in Stitch" (Quickthorn, 2025)
32 mins; July 09, 2025
Margaret Cook Andersen, "Fertile Expectations: The Politics of Involuntary Childlessness in Twentieth-Century France" (Manchester UP, 2025)
45 mins; July 06, 2025
Angela Katrina Lewis-Maddox, "Disrupting Political Science: Black Women Reimagining the Discipline" (SUNY Press, 2025)
55 mins; July 03, 2025
Sarah Gold McBride "Whiskerology: The Culture of Hair in Nineteenth-Century America" (Harvard UP, 2025)
73 hours 20 mins; June 29, 2025
Wendy Doniger, "An American Girl in India: Letters and Recollections, 1963-64" (SUNY Press, 2023)
106 hours 15 mins; June 23, 2025
Kathryn L. Beasley, "The Proof Is in the Dough: Rural Southern Women, Extension, and Making Money" (University of Georgia Press, 2025)
75 hours 22 mins; June 22, 2025
Claire Pierson, "Women's Troubles: Gender and Feminist Politics in Post-Agreement Northern Ireland" (Manchester University Press, 2025)
55 mins; June 21, 2025
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays and Writings" (Harper, 2025)
44 mins; June 20, 2025
Emily Hauser, "Penelope’s Bones: A New History of Homer’s World through the Women Written Out of It" (Univ of Chicago Press, 2025)
55 mins; June 19, 2025
Soma Chaudhuri and Jane Ward, "The Witch Studies Reader" (Duke UP, 2025)
51 mins; June 18, 2025
Alexandria Russell, "Black Women Legacies: Public History Sites Seen and Unseen" (University of Illinois Press, 2024)
79 hours 10 mins; June 11, 2025
Questions: A Discussion with Leslie Butler and Holly Case
96 hours 39 mins; June 06, 2025
Bonnie Yochelson, "Too Good to Get Married: The Life and Photographs of Miss Alice Austen" (Fordham UP, 2025)
62 hours 25 mins; June 03, 2025
Victoria Bynum, "Deep Roots, Broken Branches: A History and Memoir" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
57 mins; June 01, 2025
Nneka D. Dennie, "Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth Century Black Radical Feminist" (Oxford UP, 2023)
62 hours 32 mins; May 30, 2025
Jane Elizabeth Dougherty, "Narrating Irish Female Development, 1916-2018" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
49 mins; May 28, 2025
Hannah Jeans, "Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England" (U London Press, 2025)
50 mins; May 27, 2025
Lori Jo Marso, "Feminism and the Cinema of Experience" (Duke UP, 2024)
50 mins; May 26, 2025
Emily Colbert Cairns and Nieves Romero-Diaz, "Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
48 mins; May 25, 2025
Carrie Helms Tippen, "Unpalatable: Stories of Pain and Pleasure in Southern Cookbooks" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
77 hours 9 mins; May 24, 2025
Jennifer Lynn Gross, "Sisterhood of the Lost Cause: Confederate Widows in the New South" (LSU Press, 2025)
59 mins; May 23, 2025
Kevin Smokler, "Break the Frame: Conversations with Women Filmmakers" (Oxford UP, 2025)
51 mins; May 22, 2025
Lucia Soriano, "Embodying Normalcy: Women's Work in Neoliberal Times" (Lexington Books, 2024)
55 mins; May 21, 2025
Mayukh Sen, "Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star" (Norton, 2025)
57 mins; May 20, 2025
Guo Quan Seng, "Strangers in the Family: Gender, Patriliny, and the Chinese in Colonial Indonesia" (SAPP, 2023)
55 mins; May 19, 2025
Guo Quan Seng, "Strangers in the Family: Gender, Patriliny, and the Chinese in Colonial Indonesia" (SAPP, 2023)
55 mins; May 18, 2025
Rochelle Rojas, "Bad Christians and Hanging Toads: Witch Crafting in Northern Spain, 1525–1675" (Cornell UP, 2025)
45 mins; May 17, 2025
Annie Zaleski, "I Got You Babe: A Celebration of Cher" (Running Press Adult, 2025)
54 mins; May 16, 2025
Vincent L Stephens, "Broads, Sisters, Exes: Feminist Millennial Television" (Wayne State UP, 2025)
69 hours 41 mins; May 15, 2025
Anna Wainwright, "Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in the Italian Renaissance" (U Delaware Press, 2025)
55 mins; May 14, 2025
Claire McNulty, "Edinburgh's Unruly Women: Gender, Discipline, and Power, 1560-1660" (Routledge, 2024)
36 mins; May 13, 2025
Courtney M. Cox, "Double Crossover: Gender, Media, and Politics in Global Basketball" (U Illinois Press, 2025)
65 hours 6 mins; May 10, 2025
Nechama Birnbaum, "The Redhead of Auschwitz: A True Story" (Amsterdam Publishers, 2021)
53 mins; May 07, 2025
Becky Aikman, "Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger during World War II" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
34 mins; May 07, 2025
Cynthia Enloe, "Twelve Feminist Lessons of War" (U California Press, 2023)
74 hours 32 mins; May 06, 2025
Lucy Adlington, "The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive" (HarperCollins, 2021)
71 hours 34 mins; May 04, 2025
Andrea Pappas, "Embroidering the Landscape: Women, Art and the Environment in British North America, 1740-1770" (Lund Humphries, 2023)
48 mins; May 04, 2025
"I have not Finished...": Rokahya Diallo on being Black, Muslim, and frequently interrupted (Emilie Diouf, JP)
48 mins; May 02, 2025
Vanessa Priya Daniel, "Unrig the Game: What Women of Color Can Teach Everyone About Winning" (Random House, 2025)
53 mins; May 01, 2025
Caitlin Killian, "Understanding Reproduction in Social Contexts" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
67 hours 52 mins; April 28, 2025
Emma Casey, "The Return of the Housewife: Why Women Are Still Cleaning Up" (Manchester UP, 2025)
36 mins; April 26, 2025
Alexander Stoffel, "Eros and Empire: The Transnational Struggle for Sexual Freedom in the United States" (Stanford UP, 2025)
63 hours 33 mins; April 25, 2025
Tadashi Ishikawa, "Geographies of Gender: Family and Law in Imperial Japan and Colonial Taiwan" (Cambridge UP., 2024)
66 hours 35 mins; April 23, 2025
Akiko Takenaka, "Mothers Against War: Gender, Motherhood, and Peace Activism in Cold War Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2025)
57 mins; April 17, 2025
Martha A. Sandweiss, "The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West" (Princeton UP, 2025)
50 mins; April 15, 2025