Jennifer Ring, author of the new book Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don’t Play Baseball, is quoted in the March 1, 2009, issue of The New York Times in an […]
Category: women’s history
The London Review of Books reviews “Emma Goldman”
The February 26, 2009, issue of London Review of Books includes a review of volumes 1 & 2 of Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, published late last year […]
SF Chronicle reviews Beauvoir’s “Wartime Diary”
Today’s San Francisco Chronicle includes Benjamin Ivry’s review of the new English translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s Wartime Diary. “In 1991, Such a Sweet Occupation by Gilbert Joseph pointed out […]
Indoctrination by Susan K. Freeman
Susan K. Freeman is author of the new book Sex Goes to School: Girls and Sex Education before the 1960s. ***** Virginity pledges and purity balls strike many of us […]
Publishers Weekly reviews Simone de Beauvoir’s “Wartime Diary”
The October 6, 2008, issue of Publishers Weekly includes a laudatory review of the forthcoming (December 2008) English translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s Wartime Diary. “What gives these notebooks additional […]
Just Landed: New books on soy, cinema studies, and women journalists
A handful of new books landed on my desk in the past week: –Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South by Michelle R. Scott (August 25, […]
“Sex Goes to School” at The Smart Set
Jessa Crispin, editor of Bookslut.com, includes Susan K. Freeman’s Sex Goes to School: Girls and Sex Education before the 1960s in her latest piece for The Smart Set. “It’s hard […]
Just Landed: Books on Chicago sports, Hong Kong cinema, and Illinois outlaws
A handful of new books landed on my desk in the past two weeks: –China Forever: The Shaw Brothers and Diasporic Cinema edited by Poshek Fu (August 11, 2008) –“Baad […]
“You’re under arrest, Sugah!” Ms. features Stephane Dunn
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Just Landed: Summer books
A handful of new books landed on my desk in the past two weeks: –William Grant Still by Catherine Parsons Smith (July 21, 2008) –About Bach edited by Gregory G. Butler, […]
UIP author’s play opens off-Broadway
Lisa Thompson, author of the forthcoming UIP book, Beyond the Black Lady: Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class, celebrates the opening of her play, Single Black Female, off-Broadway […]
Marrying Into Office by Lois Duke Whitaker
Voting in free and fair elections is an important part of maintaining our democracy. Voters will make a choice in November 2008 to determine our next president. The current presidential […]