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 […]
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Category: women & gender studies
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: […]
Free E-book Giveaway: CONTEMPORARY PLAYS BY AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN
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 […]
NWSA 2025 Virtual Exhibit
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, […]
Free E-book Giveaway: CARCERAL LIBERALISM
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 […]
Q&A with the author of CRIMINALIZATION OF WOMEN
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 […]