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Women's Studies



link to catalog page BEAUVOIR, Political Writings Author: Simone de Beauvoir
Pub Date: 7/15/2012

New translations illustrate Beauvoir's political engagement and cultural critique   learn more...

Sex, Sickness, and Slavery

Defining Illness in the Antebellum South

Author: Marli F. Weiner
Pub Date: 7/15/2012

How white Southern doctors used science to defend slavery   learn more...

Author: Julie A. Gallagher
Pub Date: 6/1/2012

Black women as liberal reformers, from suffrage to civil rights   learn more...

Rape in Chicago

Race, Myth, and the Courts

Author: Dawn Rae Flood
Pub Date: 6/1/2012

Evolving strategies against rape in Chicago courts   learn more...

Child Care in Black and White

Working Parents and the History of Orphanages

Author: Jessie B. Ramey
Pub Date: 4/1/2012

Reconceptualizing the orphanage as day care   learn more...

link to catalog page GIDLOW, Obama, Clinton, Palin

Obama, Clinton, Palin

Making History in Election 2008

Author: Edited by Liette Gidlow
Pub Date: 2012

Taking the long view on a groundbreaking election   learn more...

link to catalog page REINEKE, Beauvoir and Her Sisters

Beauvoir and Her Sisters

The Politics of Women's Bodies in France

Author: Sandra Reineke
Pub Date: 2011

How women's writings brought together female readers to fight for reproductive rights   learn more...

link to catalog page HIGASHIDA, Black Internationalist Feminism

Black Internationalist Feminism

Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995

Author: Cheryl Higashida
Pub Date: 2011

Radicalism and Black feminism in postwar women's writing   learn more...

link to catalog page RAMIREZ, Chicanas of 18th Street

Chicanas of 18th Street

Narratives of a Movement from Latino Chicago

Author: Leonard G. Ramírez with Yenelli Flores, María Gamboa, Isaura González, Victoria Pérez, Magda Ramírez-Castañeda, and Cristina Vital
Pub Date: 2011

Dynamic stories from the Chicago Chicano movement   learn more...

link to catalog page MCLEOD, Daughter of the Empire State

Daughter of the Empire State

The Life of Judge Jane Bolin

Author: Jacqueline A. McLeod
Pub Date: 2011

The trailblazing work of the first African American woman judge   learn more...

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