Margaret Washington’s new book, Sojourner Truth’s America, was one of two 2009 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award winners. Awarded annually by the Association of Black Women Historians, the competition […]
Category: women’s history
Divas on Screen author on screen
Mia Mask, author of the new book Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film, was interviewed on New York’s CBS affiliate WCBS-TV . […]
Sojourner Truth celebrated in the U.S. Capitol
CNN reports that a memorial bust of Sojourner Truth was unveiled in the U.S. Capitol today making Truth the first African-American woman to be so honored. To learn more about her life and times, […]
Diana Nyad reviews “Stolen Bases”
On Diana Nyad’s Score radio segment yesterday she reviewed Jennifer Ring’s new book Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don’t Play Baseball. “Jennifer Ring, has crafted a great read, replete with […]
Beauvoir’s daily routine
Daily Routines tells us about the typical schedule for Simone de Beauvoir. For more on Beauvoir, see The Beauvoir Series and other books from UIP. INTERVIEWER Do your writer friends have the same […]
“Stolen Bases” author in The New York Times
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 […]
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 […]