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Women's Studies



link to catalog page KOMAR, Reclaiming Klytemnestra

Reclaiming Klytemnestra

Revenge or Reconciliation

Author: Kathleen L. Komar
Pub Date: May 2003

The book explores why Klytemnestra, this very problematic female figure from ancient Greece, reemerges so insistently at the end of the last millennium and how late twentieth-century women writers reconceptualize the infamous queen.   learn more...

link to catalog page ADDAMS, The Selected Papers of Jane Addams

The Selected Papers of Jane Addams

vol. 1: Preparing to Lead, 1860-81

Author: Edited by Mary Lynn McCree Bryan, Barbara Bair, and Maree de Angury
Pub Date: December 2003

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link to catalog page PASSET, Sex Radicals and the Quest for Women's Equality Author: Joanne E. Passet
Pub Date: March 2003

The book is about nineteenth-century women and men who believed in and fought for women's social and economic equality and the right to reproductive choice   learn more...

link to catalog page TARKINGTON, The Turmoil Author: Booth Tarkington
Pub Date: 2003

Reissue of one of Tarkington’s best-selling novels.   learn more...

link to catalog page COSTIN, Two Sisters for Social Justice

Two Sisters for Social Justice

A Biography of Grace and Edith Abbott

Author: Lela B. Costin
Pub Date: 2003

Contemporaries of Jane Addams, tackled issues of suffrage, workers rights, child labor laws, juvenial deliquency, prostitution, and immigration. Grace worked with the U.S. Children’s Bureau and Edith helped found the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration.   learn more...

link to catalog page ADDAMS, Women at The Hague

Women at The Hague

The International Congress of Women and Its Results

Author: Jane Addams, Emily G. Balch, and Alice Hamilton
Pub Date: 2003

Examination of women’s involvement and influence during the World War I pacifist movement resulting from the 1915 Hague International Congress of Women.   learn more...

link to catalog page NASHAT, Women in Iran from the Rise of Islam to 1800 Author: Edited by Guity Nashat and Lois Beck
Pub Date: 2003

The history of the role of women in Iranian society and culture dispelling modern myths of women in Islamic Iran   learn more...

link to catalog page JOHNS, Women's Utopias of the Eighteenth Century Author: Alessa Johns
Pub Date: August 2003

Looks at Utopian novels written by women, how they incorporate emerging liberal ideas, their reservations about these ideas, and how Utopian societies can replicate.   learn more...

link to catalog page ROOF, All about Thelma and Eve

All about Thelma and Eve

Sidekicks and Third Wheels

Author: Judith Roof
Pub Date: 2002

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link to catalog page WARREN, American Cultural Studies Author: Edited by Catherine A. Warren and Mary Douglas Vavrus
Pub Date: 2002

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