Category Archives: gender studies

January 7, 2019

To Live Here, You Have to Fight Receives a Grant from the Brooks Fund for Progressive Thought

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The University of Illinois Press is pleased to announce that To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice, has been selected as a grant recipient from the Howard D. and Marjorie I. Brooks … Continue reading →

November 5, 2018

Everything UIP You Need to Know at #NSWA2018

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Attending NWSA this week? So are we! We’ve got some awesome events happening at our booth this year and some excellent giveaways, so stop by and say hello! Treva Lindsey NWSA Authors Meet Critics Session, Atlanta, GA Fri, Nov 9, … Continue reading →

September 13, 2018

Teaching in the Time of “trumpism”: Reflections on Citizenship and Hospitality

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The most recent special issue of Women, Gender, and Families of Color titled “Trump’s America? Disquiet Campus? Marginalized College Students, Faculty, and Staff Reflect on Learning, Working, Living, and Engaging,” contains 25 articles from contributors who address the very tangible changes and … Continue reading →

August 3, 2018

3rd & FINAL IPad Giveaway

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The University of Illinois Press is celebrating its 100th Anniversary this year. In order to celebrate, we decided to do something special for our readers. In honor of 100 years, we have already given away two iPads pre-loaded with 100 UIP ebooks, … Continue reading →

June 20, 2018

Celebrating Pride Month

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To celebrate Pride Month throughout June, check out these five books that discuss important figures in the LGBTQ+ community and the issues surrounding the fight for gay rights. Lana and Lily Wachowski Cael M. Keegan Cáel M. Keegan views the … Continue reading →

April 23, 2018

2018 NWSA/UIP First Book Prize: Call for Papers

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Call for Papers for the 2018 NWSA/UIP First Book Prize The University of Illinois Press and the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) are pleased to continue the annual competition for the best dissertation or first book manuscript by a single … Continue reading →

March 15, 2018

New #PressforProgress Reading List: Essential books on Women in Music

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 In honor of Women’s History Month, UIP will be releasing weekly reading lists with some of our favorite women’s history books. We are joining the call to #PressforProgress for gender equality, and we will be updating our Little Free Library, … Continue reading →

November 15, 2017

5 Things You Need to Know at #NWSA2017

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Headed to NWSA this week? So are we! Here are five things you need know:  UIP is having a reception to celebrate our new series: Transformations: Womanist, Feminist, and Indigenous Studies edited by AnaLouise Keating. Join us in the exhibit … Continue reading →

June 7, 2017

Book Trailer for “Beyond Respectability”

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Film Credit: Bob Greenberg at Brainwaves

June 7, 2017

“Women Against Abortion” in The New York Review of Books”

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Women Against Abortion: Inside the Largest Moral Reform Movement of the Twentieth Century by Karissa Haugeberg was recently covered in The New York Review of Books in a review essay entitled “The Abortion Battlefield.” The reviewer called the book “excellent” and detailed its … Continue reading →