Shakespeare’s Schoolroom–Now Available
12/21/2011
Shakespeare's Schoolroom: Rhetoric, Discipline, Emotion Lynn Enterline 208 pages | 6 x 9 | 3 Illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4378-9 | $45.00 | £29.50 "Lynn Enterline locates in the… READ MORE
Category: Gender and Sexuality Studies
Battling Miss Bolsheviki–Now Available
12/19/2011
Battling Miss Bolsheviki: The Origins of Female Conservatism in the United States Kirsten Marie Delegard 320 pages | 6 x 9 | 9 illus. Cloth Jan 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4366-6… READ MORE
From Human Trafficking to Human Rights–Now Available
11/29/2011
From Human Trafficking to Human Rights: Reframing Contemporary Slavery Edited by Alison Brysk and Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4382-6… READ MORE
Five Things Urban Planners Must Do to Foster Women’s Health
10/27/2011
What if your daughter couldn’t learn reading or math because it is unsafe to walk to school? What if your neighborhood had no clean running water, but it was your duty to serve healthy meals to your aging in-laws? What if the simple act of crossing the street in time to transfer from one bus to another put you and your children at risk because of poor transit system design? For many women in cities around the world, these “what ifs” are too real.
Women have first-hand knowledge of the particular ways that poorly lit streets, crowded subway cars, and bad or nonexistant infrastructure effect their well-being. And now there’s a growing body of research to back up what the proverbial grandmother could have told us.
The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell — Now Available
10/24/2011
The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell: Metaphor and Embodiment in the Lives of Pious Women, 200-1500 Dyan Elliott 472 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4358-1… READ MORE
Victoria Woodhull’s Sexual Revolution–Now in Paperback
10/03/2011
Victoria Woodhull's Sexual Revolution: Political Theater and the Popular Press in Nineteenth-Century America Amanda Frisken 240 pages | 6 x 9 | 39 illus. Cloth 2004 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3798-6 |… READ MORE
Bombshell — Now Available
09/30/2011
Bombshell: Women and Terrorism Mia Bloom 320 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4390-1 | $29.95 | £19.50 Not for sale outside the United States "Engrossing. …. READ MORE
Hope in a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture–A New Paperback Release
08/25/2011
Hope in a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture Kathy Peiss 352 pages | 6 x 9 | 78 illus. Paper 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2167-1 | $17.95 | £12.00… READ MORE
Lucretia Mott was no Mild Mannered Quaker
08/03/2011
Today the Religion in American History blog posted an essay by Carol Faulkner, author of Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America. In "Gender and the American… READ MORE
Women’s Health and the World’s Cities–Now Available
07/25/2011
Women's Health and the World's Cities Edited by Afaf Ibrahim Meleis, Eugenie L. Birch, and Susan M. Wachter 328 pages | 6 x 9 | 29 illus. Cloth 2011 |… READ MORE
