Please join us in honoring women’s history every month and especially in March, as we celebrate with some of our highly anticipated women’s history publications.
Almost Nothing: Reclaiming Edith Farnsworth
Nora Wendl
Eloquent and confessional, Almost Nothing restores Edith Farnsworth to her place in architectural history and the masterpiece that bears her name.
Double Crossover: Gender, Media, and Politics in Global Basketball
Courtney M. Cox
Timely and original, Double Crossover takes readers into the lived world of women’s basketball to shed light on the struggles, triumphs, and contributions of today’s players and those around them.
Women, Gender, and Families of Color
Edited by: Jennifer F. Hamer and Ayesha Hardison
Women, Gender, and Families of Color is a multidisciplinary journal that centers on the study of Black, Latina, Indigenous, and Asian American women, gender, and families. Within this framework, the journal encourages theoretical and empirical research from history, the social and behavioral sciences, and humanities, including comparative and transnational research, and analyses of domestic social, political, economic, and cultural policies and practices within the United States.
The Keloids We Heal: Trauma, Spirituality, and Black Modernity in Literature
Sarah Soanirina Ohmer
Sarah Soanirina Ohmer traces the impact of colonization and enslavement on Black women and Black women’s contributions to colonial, nineteenth, and twentieth century literature in the US, Brazil, and West Indies.
Unmentionable Madness: Gender, Disability, and Shame in the Malaria Treatment of Neurosyphilis
Christin L. Hancock
Paying special attention to the patients’ voices and experiences, Unmentionable Madness offers a disability history that confronts the ethics of experimentation.
“’Mad Madge’: The Contribution of Margaret Cavendish to Animal Ethics” by Lauren Bestwick
Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673) was an aristocrat and author whose philosophical texts and poetry defended the rational capacity of nonhuman animals. Generally, society in 17th-century England did not consider nonhuman animals to have any intelligence or emotional capacity and treated them accordingly. In her works, Cavendish sheds a light on these commonly accepted views, providing arguments against them and indicating their inconsistencies.
Ogoni Women’s Activism: The Transnational Struggle for Justice against Big Oil and the State
Domale Dube
A rare account of Black women and transnational organizing for women’s, climate, and environmental justice that merges a history of their involvement with an in-depth analysis of the racial, gender, and ethnic dimensions of the Ogoni Struggle.
Edited by Layli Maparyan
Defiant and far-sighted, Womanism Rising takes readers on a journey into a new generation of concepts, ideas, and strategies for womanist studies.
“Forging Transnational Identities in Italian American Chick Lit: The Novels of Adriana Trigiani and the Ethnic Bildungsroman” by Clorinda Donato
The highly successful writing career of Italian American author Adriana Trigiani is examined from the perspective of diaspora theory and transnational studies to reveal how the abiding value of her work lies in its ability to offer a provocative new model of the ethnic Bildungsroman, or novel of education. This essay probes the seemingly facile label of “Chick Lit” often applied to Trigiani’s work to redefine the genre as a dynamic site of ethnic women’s empowerment, one that invites women to rediscover their salient role in the Italian American landscape.
Schooling the Nation: The Success of the Canterbury Academy for Black Women
Jennifer Rycenga
Insightful and provocative, Schooling the Nation tells the forgotten story of remarkable women and a collaboration across racial and gender lines.
The National Alliance of Black Feminists: A History
Ileana Nachescu
A rare in-depth look at an overlooked organization, The National Alliance of Black Feminists tells an untold story of Black women’s liberation in the Midwest.
“At the Pulpit: 185 Years of Discourses by Latter-day Saint Women” reviewed by Beverly Wilson Palmer
In At the Pulpit—an annotated collection of fifty-four discourses given by Mormon women between 1831 and 2016—editors Jennifer Reeder and Kate Holbrook clearly achieve their stated goal of “representing the varied ways that Mormon women have addressed public audiences” (p. xxvii).
Feminist Digital Humanities: Intersections in Practice
Edited by Lisa Marie Rhody and Susan Schreibman
Aimed at readers in and out of the classroom, Feminist Digital Humanities reveals the many ways scholars have pushed beyond critique to practice digital humanities in new ways.
Faithful Transformations: Islamic Self-Help in Contemporary Singapore
Nurhaizatul Jamil
A provocative and rich ethnography, Faithful Transformations tells the stories of Malay Muslim women desiring piety and self-improvement as minoritized subjects in contemporary Singapore while exploring the limitations of self-care.
“Between Divestment and Migration: Clothing Artifacts and Identity among Italian Immigrant Women, 1880s–1920s” by Francesca Canadé Sautman
During the great world migrations that took place between 1876 and World War I, when more than fourteen million Italians left their homeland (Donati 2013, 96), many Italian women brought with them components of their local dress. It is generally assumed that in the United States they ceased wearing them directly after arrival, because “traditional” or folk dress was so conspicuously marked as foreign that it would prevent integration into American life.