Category Archives: women’s history

March 1, 2013

Women’s History Month $2.99 e-book sale

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For the month of March we have lowered the e-book list price of six Women’s History titles in the University of Illinois Press catalog to $2.99. The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America by Linda … Continue reading →

February 21, 2013

Q & A with One Woman in a Hundred author Mary Sue Welsh

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Mary Sue Welsh is a former executive director of the Bach Festival of Philadelphia, where she worked with its chair Edna Phillips.  She answered our questions about her new University of Illinois Press book One Woman in a Hundred: Edna Phillips … Continue reading →

October 2, 2012

The Beauvoir Series Q&A

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On August 6, 2012, we published Political Writings, the fifth volume in The Beauvoir Series.  Co-editor Margaret Simons answered our questions about the new book. Q:  The previous books in The Beauvoir Series cover Simone de Beauvoir’s philosophical writings, student & wartime … Continue reading →

August 30, 2012

Framing Insanity

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We have a selection of new titles that examine the different ways the U.S. legal system has defined insanity, especially in relation to gender. All of these books look at and try to answer the questions: Who defines the narratives? … Continue reading →

August 9, 2012

New in paperback: Hands on the Freedom Plow

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On August 27, 2012, we will publish a paperback edition of Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC, edited by Faith S. Holsaert, Martha Prescod Norman Noonan, Judy Richardson, Betty Garman Robinson, Jean Smith Young, and Dorothy … Continue reading →

June 12, 2012

Q&A with Julie A. Gallagher, author of Black Women & Politics in New York City

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On June 18, 2012, we will publish Black Women & Politics in New York City by Julie A. Gallagher, assistant professor of history at Pennsylvania State University, Brandywine.  Professor Gallagher took time recently to answer our questions about her new … Continue reading →

February 22, 2012

The Catholic Church vs. Birth Control: The Sanger Papers Feature Early Rounds in this Epic Battle by Peter C. Engelman

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The current debate over the mandate for employers to cover contraception in health insurance plans harks back to earlier confrontations between the Catholic Church and family planning advocates. From the early 1920s until the early 1960s, Margaret Sanger was usually in … Continue reading →

January 10, 2012

NPR explores Beauty Shop Politics

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NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with Tiffany Gill, author of the University of Illinois Press book Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry on the December 28, 2011, edition of Tell Me More. MARTIN: Well, you know, … Continue reading →

November 30, 2011

Q&A with Daughter of the Empire State author Jacqueline A. McLeod

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On December 5, 2011, we will publish Daughter of the Empire State: The Life of Judge Jane Bolin, a biography of the nation’s first African American woman judge.  Author Jacqueline A. McLeod, an associate professor of history and African & African … Continue reading →

October 13, 2011

Hands on the Freedom Plow wins a Letitia Woods Brown Book Award

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Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in the SNCC was selected as one of this year’s winners of the Letitia Woods Brown Book Award, sponsored by the Association of Black Women Historians. Any monograph, anthology or scholarly article … Continue reading →