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Loretta Vandi, "Eufrasia Burlamacchi" (Getty Publications, 2025)
47 mins; April 06, 2025
Sally King, "Menstrual Myth Busting: The Case of the Hormonal Female" (Policy Press, 2025)
47 mins; April 02, 2025
D. D. Miller, "Eight-wheeled Freedom: The Derby Nerd's Short History of Flat Track Roller Derby" (Wolsak and Wynn, 2016)
64 hours 17 mins; March 30, 2025
Bruce L. Vernarde, "The Miracles of Mary in Twelfth-Century France" (Cornell UP, 2024)
69 hours 56 mins; March 28, 2025
Lucy Adlington, "Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust" (HarperCollins, 2025)
66 hours 43 mins; March 27, 2025
Farah Ahamed, "Period Matters: Menstruation in South Asia" (Pan Macmillan, 2022)
49 mins; March 26, 2025
Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy, "Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism" (Princeton UP, 2025)
65 hours 44 mins; March 24, 2025
Heather Akou, "Afterthought: A Family Story" (Indiana U Libraries, 2025)
55 mins; March 22, 2025
Amy Cox Hall, "The Taste of Nostalgia: Women, Race, and Culinary Longing in Peru" (U Texas Press, 2025)
51 mins; March 21, 2025
Holly Grout, "Playing Cleopatra: Inventing the Female Celebrity in Third Republic France" (LSU Press, 2024)
48 mins; March 19, 2025
Andrew Janiak, "The Enlightenment's Most Dangerous Woman: Émilie Du Chñtelet and the Making of Modern Philosophy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
47 mins; March 18, 2025
Ellen Scheible, "Body Politics in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction: The Literary Legacy of 'Mother Ireland'" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
87 hours 30 mins; March 17, 2025
Alexandra Verini, "English Women’s Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
31 mins; March 16, 2025
Chiara Faggella, "Becoming Couture: The Italian Fashion Industry after the Second World War" (Manchester UP, 2024)
47 mins; March 15, 2025
Fiona Handyside, "Girls' Hairstories: Sparkle and Resilience in Contemporary Screen Cultures" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
68 hours 0 mins; March 14, 2025
Patrick Beldio, "The Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram: Co-Creator of the Integral Yoga" (Lexington Books, 2024)
49 mins; March 13, 2025
Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall, "Ain't I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary Icon" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
75 hours 43 mins; March 11, 2025
Madalina Armie and Veronica Membrive, "Trauma, Memory and Silence of the Irish Woman in Contemporary Literature" (Routledge, 2023)
68 hours 59 mins; March 09, 2025
Lina-Maria Murillo, "Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands" (UNC Press, 2025)
71 hours 27 mins; March 09, 2025
Ariane Sherine, "The Real Sinéad O'Connor" (White Owl, 2024)
51 mins; March 08, 2025
Rachelle Bergstein, "The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us" (Atria, 2024)
47 mins; March 07, 2025
Teaching With Positive Psychology Skills
54 mins; March 06, 2025
Isabel Moreira, "Balthild of Francia: Anglo-Saxon Slave, Merovingian Queen, and Abolitionist Saint" (Oxford UP, 2024)
65 hours 32 mins; March 03, 2025
Hallie Franks, "Ancient Sculpture and Twentieth-Century American Womanhood: Venus Envy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
59 mins; March 02, 2025
Caroline Dunn, "Ladies-in-waiting in Medieval England" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
42 mins; March 02, 2025
Esha Niyogi De, "Women's Transborder Cinema: Authorship, Stardom, and Filmic Labor in South Asia" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
76 hours 44 mins; March 01, 2025
Gemma Hollman, "Women in the Middle Ages: Illuminating the World of Peasants, Nuns, and Queens" (Abbeville Press, 2024)
70 hours 52 mins; February 26, 2025
Florence Martin, "Farida Benlyazid and Moroccan Cinema" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
78 hours 38 mins; February 25, 2025
Blanche Bendahan, "Mazaltob: A Novel" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
68 hours 12 mins; February 24, 2025
Jenny Shaw, "The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery" (UNC Press, 2024)
54 mins; February 23, 2025
Megan Moran, "Gender and Family Networks in Early Modern Italy" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
50 mins; February 23, 2025
Susan Tate Ankeny, "American Flygirl" (Citadel Press, 2024)
29 mins; February 20, 2025
Xian Wang, "Gendered Memories: An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
63 hours 6 mins; February 19, 2025
Mary Frances Phillips, "Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins" (NYU Press, 2025)
38 mins; February 17, 2025
Jessica A. Brockmole, "Pink Cars and Pocketbooks: How American Women Bought Their Way Into the Driver's Seat" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
66 hours 58 mins; February 16, 2025
Adam Pennington, "Henry VIII and the Plantagenet Poles: The Rise and Fall of a Dynasty" (Pen and Sword History, 2024)
48 mins; February 15, 2025
Pamela Allen Brown, "The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata" (Oxford UP, 2021)
61 hours 19 mins; February 14, 2025
Patricia Owens, "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (Princeton UP, 2025)
68 hours 44 mins; February 13, 2025
The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
72 hours 17 mins; February 13, 2025
Randall Fuller, "Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
57 mins; February 13, 2025
Laurel Victoria Gray, "Women’s Dance Traditions of Uzbekistan: Legacy of the Silk Road" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
34 mins; February 10, 2025
Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra
67 hours 44 mins; February 06, 2025
Alexis Wolf, "Transnational Women Writers in the Wilmot Coterie, 1798-1840" (Boydell Press, 2024)
38 mins; February 03, 2025
Blessin Adams, "Thou Savage Woman: Female Killers in Early Modern Britain" (HarperCollins, 2025)
32 mins; February 02, 2025
About Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
66 hours 55 mins; January 30, 2025
Carol Cleaveland and Michele Waslin. "Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum" (NYU Press, 2024)
41 mins; January 20, 2025
Monica A. Hershberger, "Women in American Operas of The 1950s: Undoing Gendered Archetypes" (U Rochester Press, 2023)
67 hours 1 min; January 20, 2025
Katharine E. McGregor, "Systemic Silencing: Activism, Memory, and Sexual Violence in Indonesia" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
48 mins; January 19, 2025
Amrita Narayanan, "Women's Sexuality and Modern India: In a Rapture of Distress" (Oxford UP, 2022)
55 mins; January 18, 2025
Valentina N. Glajar, "The Secret Police Dossier of Herta MĂŒller: A "File Story" of Cold War Surveillance" (Camden House, 2023)
100 hours 18 mins; January 17, 2025
Elizabeth L. Block, "Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing" (MIT Press, 2024)
38 mins; January 17, 2025
Emily Murdoch Perkins, "Regina: The Queens Who Could Have Been" (The History Press, 2024)
54 mins; January 14, 2025
Nancy Reddy, "The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
51 mins; January 13, 2025
Jennifer Greenburg, "At War with Women: Military Humanitarianism and Imperial Feminism in an Era of Permanent War" (Cornell UP, 2023)
46 mins; January 11, 2025
Sandy Ng, "Portrayals of Women in Early Twentieth-Century China" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
48 mins; January 10, 2025
Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany
59 mins; January 09, 2025
Sarah B. Rodriguez, "The Love Surgeon: A Story of Trust, Harm, and the Limits of Medical Regulation" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
47 mins; January 07, 2025
Judith Giesberg, “Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality” (UNC Press, 2017)
67 hours 48 mins; January 06, 2025
Amy Aronson, "Chrystal Eastman: A Revolutionary Life" (Oxford UP, 2019)
62 hours 54 mins; January 05, 2025
Lisa Doggett, "Up the Down Escalator: Medicine, Motherhood, and Multiple Sclerosis" (Health Communications, 2023)
35 mins; January 05, 2025
Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen, "Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility Among India’s Professional Elite" (Princeton UP, 2021)
72 hours 21 mins; January 03, 2025
Rachel Louise Moran, "Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
57 mins; January 02, 2025
Donna Tesiero, "A Revolutionary Woman: Elizabeth Freeman and the Abolition of Slavery in the North" (McFarland, 2024)
93 hours 12 mins; January 01, 2025
Caitlin Davies, "Queens of the Underworld: A Journey into the Lives of Female Crooks" (The History Press, 2021)
63 hours 26 mins; December 30, 2024
Sara Lodge, "The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective" (Yale UP, 2024)
45 mins; December 29, 2024
James Welker, "Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
56 mins; December 28, 2024
Antoinette Denapoli and June McDaniel, "Gurus, Priestesses, Saints, Mediums and Yoginis: Holy Women as Influencers in Hindu Culture" (MDPI, 2024)
56 mins; December 26, 2024
Jennifer C. Nash, "How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory" (Duke UP, 2024)
41 mins; December 25, 2024
Linda M. Clemmons, "Unrepentant Dakota Woman: Angelique Renville & the Struggle for Indigenous Identity, 1845-1876" (SDHS Press, 2023)
57 mins; December 22, 2024
Paul French, "Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
48 mins; December 19, 2024
Alissa Klots, "Domestic Service in the Soviet Union; Women's Emancipation and the Gendered Hierarchy of Labor" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
66 hours 31 mins; December 15, 2024
Antoinette Burton, "Gender History: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2024)
37 mins; December 15, 2024
Dianne Ashton and Melissa R. Klapper, "The Civil War Diary of Emma Mordecai" (NYU Press, 2024)
58 mins; December 15, 2024
Katya Motyl, "Embodied Histories: New Womanhood in Vienna, 1894–1934" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
53 mins; December 14, 2024
Meanings of Identity of the Post-2000s Inland Tibet Class
28 mins; December 13, 2024
Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
57 mins; December 12, 2024
Rebecca Brenner Graham, "Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany" (Citadel Press, 2025)
45 mins; December 10, 2024
Reem Hilu, "Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s: The Intimate Life of Computers" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
29 mins; December 10, 2024
Mie Nakachi, "Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union" (Oxford UP, 2021)
71 hours 6 mins; December 10, 2024
F. K. Clementi, "South of My Dreams: Finding My American Home, A Memoir" (U South Carolina Press, 2024)
55 mins; December 09, 2024
Victoria Sturtevant, "It's All in the Delivery: Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy" (U Texas Press, 2024)
54 mins; December 08, 2024
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, "Women and the Reformations: A Global History" (Yale UP, 2024)
74 hours 41 mins; December 06, 2024
Elyse Ona Singer, "Lawful Sins: Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2022)
50 mins; December 06, 2024
Jane Austen's Darkness: A Conversation with Julia Yost
54 mins; December 04, 2024
Carrie N. Baker, "Abortion Pills: US History and Politics" (Amherst College Press, 2024)
64 hours 2 mins; December 03, 2024
Sam Langsdale, "Searching for Feminist Superheroes: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics" (U Texas Press, 2024)
56 mins; November 30, 2024
Karen Lystra, "Love and the Working Class: The Inner Worlds of Nineteenth Century Americans" (Oxford UP, 2024)
68 hours 55 mins; November 30, 2024
Elliot R. Wolfson, "Nocturnal Seeing: Hopelessness of Hope and Philosophical Gnosis in Susan Taubes, Gillian Rose, and Edith Wyschogrod" (Stanford UP, 2024)
45 mins; November 30, 2024
Caroline SĂ©quin, "Desiring Whiteness: A Racial History of Prostitution in France and Colonial Senegal, 1848-1950" (Cornell UP, 2024)
100 hours 21 mins; November 29, 2024
Mary Ellen Curtin, "She Changed the Nation: Barbara Jordan's Life and Legacy in Black Politics" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
72 hours 57 mins; November 28, 2024
Sabrina Strings, "The End of Love: Racism, Sexism, and the Death of Romance" (Beacon Press, 2024)
37 mins; November 27, 2024
Steve J. Shone, "Dangerous Anarchist Strikers" (Brill, 2023)
47 mins; November 25, 2024
Julia Kelto Lillis, "Virgin Territory: Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity" (U California Press, 2022)
64 hours 3 mins; November 25, 2024
Elizabeth Garner Masarik, "The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
66 hours 22 mins; November 24, 2024
Robin Phillips and Joshua Pauling, "Are We All Cyborgs Now?: Reclaiming Our Humanity from the Machine" (Basilian Media, 2024)
63 hours 9 mins; November 22, 2024
Serene Khader, "Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop" (Beacon Press, 2024)
64 hours 33 mins; November 21, 2024
Ramie Targoff, "Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance" (Knopf, 2024)
39 mins; November 20, 2024
Park Jeong-Mi, "The State's Sexuality: Prostitution and Postcolonial Nation Building in South Korea" (U California Press, 2024)
63 hours 30 mins; November 19, 2024
Laura F. Edwards, "Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States" (Oxford UP, 2022)
55 mins; November 18, 2024
Connie DeNave, "The Image Maker: Shattering Rock and Roll's Glass" (2023)
54 mins; November 18, 2024
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