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New Books in Women's History

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Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick, "Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women" (Sandycove, 2023)

47 mins; May 16, 2023

Victoria Bateman, "Naked Feminism: Breaking the Cult of Female Modesty" (Polity Press, 2023)

66 hours 40 mins; May 16, 2023

Kate Clancy, "Period: The Real Story of Menstruation" (Princeton UP, 2023)

28 mins; May 15, 2023

Kim E. Nielsen, "Money, Marriage, and Madness: The Life of Anna Ott" (U Illinois Press, 2020)

14 mins; May 14, 2023

Naomi McDougall Jones, "The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood" (Beacon, 2020)

64 hours 24 mins; May 12, 2023

The Everyday Feminist with Latanya Mapp Frett

46 mins; May 11, 2023

Leah Phillips, "Female Heroes in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction: Reframing Myths of Adolescent Girlhood" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

60 hours 13 mins; May 11, 2023

Timothy Sandefur, "Freedom's Furies: How Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand Found Freedom in an Age of Darkness" (Cato Institute, 2022)

37 mins; May 11, 2023

Fiona Gregory, "Actresses and Mental Illness: Histrionic Heroines" (Routledge, 2018)

45 mins; May 09, 2023

Samantha Pickette, "Peak TV's Unapologetic Jewish Woman: Exploring Jewish Female Representation in Contemporary Television Comedy" (Lexington, 2022)

66 hours 9 mins; May 07, 2023

Elisabeth B. Armstrong, "Bury the Corpse of Colonialism: The Revolutionary Feminist Conference of 1949" (U California Press, 2023)

52 mins; May 06, 2023

Rupal Oza, "Semiotics of Rape: Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural India" (Duke UP, 2022)

49 mins; May 06, 2023

Shenila Khoja-Moolji, "Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality" (Oxford UP, 2023)

39 mins; May 05, 2023

Stéfanie von Hlatky, "Deploying Feminism: The Role of Gender in NATO Military Operations" (Oxford UP, 2022)

64 hours 38 mins; May 01, 2023

Jo Littler, "Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political" (Lawrence Wishart, 2023)

34 mins; May 01, 2023

Annie Zaleski, "Lady Gaga: Applause" (Palazzo Editions, 2022)

52 mins; April 30, 2023

Downeast Maine and the Unseen Story of Rural America: A Conversation with Gigi Georges

40 mins; April 28, 2023

The History of Contraception

15 mins; April 27, 2023

Nancy K. Miller and Tahneer Oksman. "Feminists Reclaim Mentorship" (SUNY Press, 2023)

76 hours 58 mins; April 26, 2023

Vanessa Wilkie, "A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England" (Atria Books, 2023)

81 hours 51 mins; April 22, 2023

Catherine Grant, "A Time of One's Own: Histories of Feminism in Contemporary Art" (Duke UP, 2022)

57 mins; April 22, 2023

Kerri Lynn Stone, "Panes of the Glass Ceiling: The Unspoken Beliefs Behind the Law's Failure to Help Women Achieve Professional Parity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

47 mins; April 21, 2023

Reading

22 mins; April 20, 2023

Kaitlin Sidorsky and Wendy J. Schiller, "Inequality across State Lines: How Policymakers Have Failed Domestic Violence Victims in the United States" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

50 mins; April 16, 2023

Shelly M. Jones, "Women Who Count: Honoring African American Women Mathematicians" (American Mathematical Society, 2019)

56 mins; April 16, 2023

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, "Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality" (Pantheon Books, 2022)

62 hours 46 mins; April 15, 2023

Gregory J. Kaliss, "Beyond the Black Power Salute: Athlete Activism in an Era of Change" (U Illinois Press, 2023)

60 hours 34 mins; April 14, 2023

Jeremy Richey, "Sylvia Kristel: From Emmanuelle to Chabrol" (Cult Epics, 2022)

61 hours 21 mins; April 13, 2023

Abortion and the Law

111 hours 59 mins; April 12, 2023

Kate Strasdin, "The Dress Diary: Secrets from a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe" (Pegasus Books, 2023)

52 mins; April 10, 2023

Jacques Dalarun et al., "A Female Apostle in Medieval Italy: The Life of Clare of Rimini" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

52 mins; April 10, 2023

Lauren Kay Johnson, "The Fine Art of Camouflage" (MilSpeak Books, 2023)

72 hours 58 mins; April 09, 2023

Bettina Judd, "Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought" (Northwestern UP, 2022)

46 mins; April 08, 2023

The Gospel According to Dorothy (with Kathryn Wehr)

63 hours 39 mins; April 06, 2023

Monica Liu, "Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides Under China's Global Rise" (Stanford UP, 2022)

42 mins; April 02, 2023

Incognito: The Astounding Life of Alexandra David-Neel

48 mins; April 01, 2023

Eva Hagberg, "When Eero Met His Match: Aline Louchheim Saarinen and the Making of an Architect" (Princeton UP, 2022)

46 mins; April 01, 2023

School Authority, Parents' Rights: Rita Koganzon on Early Modern Education

60 hours 31 mins; March 30, 2023

School Authority, Parents' Rights: Rita Koganzon on Early Modern Education

60 hours 31 mins; March 30, 2023

Christina Rice, "Mean...Moody...Magnificent!: Jane Russell and the Marketing of a Hollywood Legend" (UP of Kentucky, 2021)

41 mins; March 28, 2023

Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd, "Southern Beauty: Race, Ritual, and Memory in the Modern South" (U Georgia Press, 2022)

64 hours 40 mins; March 27, 2023

Andrea Friederici Ross, "Edith: The Rogue Rockefeller McCormick" (Southern Illinois UP, 2020)

58 mins; March 27, 2023

Dominique A. Tobbell, "Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

52 mins; March 24, 2023

Margaret Chowning, "Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750–1940" (Princeton UP, 2023)

68 hours 18 mins; March 24, 2023

Robin M. Morris, "Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women: Gender, Georgia, and the Growth of the New Right" (U Georgia Press, 2022)

44 mins; March 23, 2023

Woody Holton, "Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)

53 mins; March 21, 2023

Rose Marshack, "Play Like a Man: My Life in Poster Children" (U Illinois Press, 2023)

54 mins; March 20, 2023

Marissa A. Harrison, "Just as Deadly: The Psychology of Female Serial Killers" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

35 mins; March 20, 2023

Giusi Russo, "Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946-1975" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

70 hours 55 mins; March 18, 2023

Mejdulene Bernard Shomali, "Between Banat: Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives" (Duke UP, 2023)

47 mins; March 17, 2023

Book Talk 58: Vivian Gornick on Emma Goldman

64 hours 10 mins; March 17, 2023

Jessica Wilson, "It's Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women's Bodies" (Hachette Go, 2023)

59 mins; March 17, 2023

Dalia Nassar and Kristin Gjesdal, "Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition" (Oxford UP, 2021)

63 hours 16 mins; March 16, 2023

Sherine Tadros, "Taking Sides: A Memoir about Love, War, and Changing the World" (Scribe, 2023)

78 hours 6 mins; March 16, 2023

The Role of Global South Women in Shaping Global Governance

49 mins; March 13, 2023

Megan Buskey, "Ukraine Is Not Dead Yet: A Family Story of Exile and Return" (Ibidem-Verlag, 2023)

57 mins; March 12, 2023

Susan J. Stanfield, "Rewriting Citizenship: Women, Race, and Nineteenth-Century Print Culture" (U Georgia Press, 2022)

127 hours 3 mins; March 12, 2023

"Prettier Than They Used to Be”: Femininity, Fashion, and the Recasting of Radcliffe's Reputation, 1900-1950

27 mins; March 12, 2023

Alison Stone, "Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)

56 mins; March 11, 2023

Richard Thompson Ford, "Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History" (Simon & Schuster, 2021)

63 hours 48 mins; March 11, 2023

Robin L. Owens, "'My Faith in the Constitution Is Whole': Barbara Jordan and the Politics of Scriptures" (Georgetown UP, 2022)

32 mins; March 11, 2023

Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)

45 mins; March 10, 2023

H. Yumi Kim, "Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan" (Oxford UP, 2022)

61 hours 20 mins; March 08, 2023

Lillian Colon, "Lilly: The First Latina Rockette" (Lilly Enterprises, 2021)

55 mins; March 07, 2023

Elizabeth Cobbs, "Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé" (Harvard UP, 2023)

67 hours 43 mins; March 07, 2023

Joan Flores-Villalobos, "The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

69 hours 0 mins; March 06, 2023

Melanie Heath et al., "Global Feminist Autoethnographies During COVID-19: Displacements and Disruptions" (Routledge, 2022)

44 mins; March 04, 2023

Caroline Rusterholz, "Women's Medicine: Family Planning and British Female Doctors in Transnational Perspective, 1920-70" (Manchester UP, 2021)

32 mins; March 04, 2023

Francine Lazarus, "A Hidden Jewish Child from Belgium: Survival, Scars and Healing" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2017)

101 hours 43 mins; March 03, 2023

Marilyn Migiel, "Veronica Franco in Dialogue" (U Toronto Press, 2022)

78 hours 22 mins; March 02, 2023

Kenneth R. Stow, "Anna and Tranquillo: Catholic Anxiety and Jewish Protest in the Age of Revolutions" (Yale UP, 2016)

86 hours 9 mins; February 28, 2023

Lara Gabrielle, "Captain of Her Soul: The Life of Marion Davies" (U California Press, 2022)

49 mins; February 27, 2023

Jen B. Larson, "Hit Girls: Women of Punk in the USA, 1975-1983" (Feral House, 2022)

59 mins; February 26, 2023

Jonathan W. White and Lydia J. Davis, ed., "My Work Among the Freedmen: The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of Harriet M. Buss" (U Virginia Press, 2021)

41 mins; February 26, 2023

Anthony Bale, "Margery Kempe: A Mixed Life" (Reaktion Books, 2022)

81 hours 10 mins; February 25, 2023

Britni de la Cretaz and Lyndsey D'Arcangelo, "Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women's Football League" (Bold Type Books, 2021)

68 hours 19 mins; February 25, 2023

Leonard C. Spitale, "Victorine Du Pont: The Force Behind the Family" (U Delaware Press, 2022)

49 mins; February 24, 2023

Ashley Brown, "Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson" (Oxford UP, 2023)

45 mins; February 24, 2023

Elora Halim Chowdhury, "Ethical Encounters: Transnational Feminism, Human Rights, and War Cinema in Bangladesh" (Temple UP, 2022)

54 mins; February 22, 2023

Jane Lasonder, "Red Alert: The Inside Story of Prostitution and Human Trafficking" (Scholten Uitgeverij BV, 2016)

62 hours 39 mins; February 22, 2023

Deborah Holt Larkin, "A Lovely Girl: The Tragedy of Olga Duncan and the Trial of California's Most Notorious Killer" (Pegasus Crime, 2022)

47 mins; February 22, 2023

Lynn Cullen, "The Woman with the Cure" (Berkley Books, 2023)

40 mins; February 19, 2023

Patrick Bixby, "Unaccompanied Traveler: The Writings of Kathleen M. Murphy" (Syracuse UP, 2021)

54 mins; February 18, 2023

Hadia Mubarak, "Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands: Controversies in Modern Qur'anic Commentaries" (Oxford UP, 2022)

82 hours 56 mins; February 17, 2023

Women and the History of the Vote in the Prairie Provinces

31 mins; February 17, 2023

Kevin Blackburn, "The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory" (National U of Singapore Press, 2022)

44 mins; February 17, 2023

Elisabeth Eittreim, "Teaching Empire: Native Americans, Filipinos, and Us Imperial Education 1879-1918" (UP of Kansas, 2019)

35 mins; February 16, 2023

Mary C. Flannery, "Practicing Shame: Female Honour in Later Medieval England" (Manchester UP, 2019)

43 mins; February 15, 2023

Rhiannon Graybill, "Texts After Terror: Rape, Sexual Violence, and the Hebrew Bible" (Oxford UP, 2021)

51 mins; February 15, 2023

The Lives of Canada’s War Women

22 mins; February 14, 2023

Sara Petrosillo, "Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture" (Ohio State UP, 2023)

51 mins; February 12, 2023

Shailaja Paik, "The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India" (Stanford UP, 2022)

48 mins; February 12, 2023

Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago, "Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing" (Leuven UP, 2022)

53 mins; February 12, 2023

Marvin N. Olasky and Leah Savas, "The Story of Abortion in America: A Street-Level History, 1652-2022" (Crossway, 2023)

59 mins; February 11, 2023

Dianne M. Stewart, "Black Women, Black Love: America's War on African-American Marriage" (Seal Press, 2020)

65 hours 3 mins; February 08, 2023

Gloria Coppola et al., "Women Standing Strong Together: Stories of Surrendering to Your Authentic Self" (2019)

57 mins; February 07, 2023

Rachel Adelman, "The Female Ruse: Women's Deception and Divine Sanction in the Hebrew Bible" (Sheffield Press, 2017)

29 mins; February 05, 2023

Reclaiming a Lost Vision of Feminism: A Conversation with Erika Bachiochi

55 mins; February 04, 2023

Catherine Ashton, "And Then What?: Stories from Twenty-First-Century Diplomacy" (Elliott & Thompson, 2023)

51 mins; February 03, 2023

Ute Hüsken, "Laughter, Creativity, and Perseverance: Female Agency in Buddhism and Hinduism" (Oxford UP, 2022)

47 mins; February 02, 2023

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