Yndia Lorick-Wilmot and Natasha Gordon-Chipembere, editors of Tengo Sed: An Anthology of Works Celebrating Black Voices, Identities, and Personhood, answer questions about their new book. Q: Why did you decide […]
Q&A with the author of TENGO SED
Category: women & gender studies
Q&A with the author of DO MY HEART GOOD
Cleve Francis, author of Do My Heart Good: My Odyssey Through Country Music, Medicine, and History, answers questions about his new book, co-published with Country Music Foundation Press. Q: Why […]
Free E-book Giveaway: CHICAGO LATINA TRAILBLAZERS
September’s free e-book is here! Check out Chicago Latina Trailblazers: Testimonios of Political Activism edited by Rita D. Hernández, Leticia Villarreal Sosa, and Elena R. Gutiérrez before the month is […]
Free E-book Giveaway: TO ADVANCE THE RACE
August’s free e-book is here! Check out To Advance the Race: Black Women’s Higher Education from the Antebellum Era to the 1960s by Linda M. Perkins before the month is […]
Free E-book Giveaway: THE POLITICS OF EMPIRE
June’s free e-book is here! Check out The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti by Erin L. Durban before the month is over! Evangelical Christians and members of […]
Q&A with the author of ARROWS TIPPED WITH FLOWERS
Julie Geredien, author of Arrows Tipped with Flowers: Threshold Theory for Transformative Learning, answers questions about her new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? Although much of my early training […]
2026 Women’s History Month Reading List: Women in Labor
For the Love of Labor: The Life of Pauline Newman Cathryn J. Prince From her start as one of the youngest activists in US history, Pauline Newman helped shape the […]
2026 Women’s History Month Reading List: Women in Philosophy & Religion
When the Good Life Goes Bad: The US and Its Seven Deadly Sins Stacey M. Floyd-ThomasForeword by Michael Eric Dyson The Seven Deadly Sins have become the seven markers of […]
2026 Women’s History Month Reading List: Women in Music
Sallie Martin, Mother of Gospel Music Kay Norton Sallie Martin combined fame as a performer with a far-sighted business acumen that brought Black gospel music to a national audience and […]
2026 Women’s History Month Reading List: Women in Art
Black Women’s Art Ecosystems: Sites of Wellness and Self-Care Tanisha M. Jackson It is not an uncommon burden but rather a choice that Black women artists embrace creating art as […]
Free E-book Giveaway: MEAN GIRL FEMINISM
March’s free e-book is here! Check out Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss by Kim Hong Nguyen before the month is over! Mean girl feminism encourages […]
Winner of the 2025 NWSA/ University of Illinois Press First Book Prize
National Women’s Studies Association and the University of Illinois Press are pleased to announce the winner of the 2025 First Book Prize! Vivian D. Rodríguez-Rocha Project title: Countertopographies of Care: […]