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: […]
February’s free e-book is here! Check out Contemporary Plays by African American Women: Ten Complete Works edited by Sandra Adell before the month is over! African American women have increasingly […]
Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2025 National Women’s Studies Association conference! Use the promo code NWSA for 50% off of all books when ordering from our website, November 13-23, […]
November’s free e-book is here! Check out Carceral Liberalism: Feminist Voices against State Violence edited by Shreerekha Pillai before the month is over! Carceral liberalism emerges from the confluence of […]
Michele Eggers-Barison, author of Criminalization of Women: Abortion, Inequity, and Resistance in Chile, answers questions about her new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? This work […]
Marlee S. Bunch, author of Unlearning the Hush: Oral Histories of Black Female Educators in Mississippi in the Civil Rights Era, answers questions about her new book. Q: Why did […]
Leandra H. Hernández, Stevie M. Munz, and Jessica Pauly, editors of Queer, Women of Color, and Critical Approaches to Feminist Mentorship and Pedagogy, answer questions about their new book. Q: […]
July’s free e-book is here! Check out Money, Marriage, and Madness: The Life of Anna Ott by Kim E. Nielsen before the month is over! Anna Ott died in the […]
Nora Wendl, author of Almost Nothing: Reclaiming Edith Farnsworth, answers questions about her new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? I decided to write this book […]
Isis Nusair and Barbara L. Shaw, editors of Pedagogies of Interconnectedness: Feminist-Queer Collaborative Transformation, answers questions about their new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? We […]
Courtney M. Cox, author of Double Crossover: Gender, Media, and Politics in Global Basketball, answers questions about her new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? I […]
April’s free e-book is here! Check out Shadow Traces: Seeing Japanese/American and Ainu Women in Photographic Archives by Elena Tajima Creef before the month is over! Images of Japanese and […]