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 […]
Category: women’s history
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 […]
Hazel Dickens radio interview
NPR affiliate WJFF Radio Catskill will air a segment featuring an interview with Hazel Dickens at 12:00 noon eastern time on Tuesday, April 15, 2008. Listen live, or via the station […]
Erika Falk on C-Span’s Book TV
Erika Falk, author of Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns, will be featured this weekend on C-Span’s Book TV. The segment was filmed at Dr. Falk’s recent lecture at the […]
Erika Falk and the International Museum of Women
The International Museum of Women interviewed Erika Falk, author of Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns. “My research indicates that women are described physically four times as often […]
Barbara Christian celebration at Cody’s Books
Friends of Barbara Christian will be celebrating her life and work by reading from the new book New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985-2000 at Cody’s Books in Berkeley on May 4, 2008. Participants will […]
Just Landed: An array of new books
Eight new books recently landed on my desk! –Veil and Burn Poems by Laurie Clements Lambeth (March 31, 2008) –Mexican Chicago: Race, Identity, and Nation, 1916-39 by Gabriela F. Arredondo […]
Feminist Review reviews “Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign”
The Feminist Review blog recently reviewed Katherine Adams and Michael Keene’s new book Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign. “Unlike other, better-known figures of the women’s suffrage movement in this country […]
Just Landed: “Radical Sisters,” “California Polyphony,” “Follow Your Heart,” and “The Never-Ending Revival”
Four new books recently landed on my desk: Radical Sisters: Second-Wave Feminism and Black Liberation in Washington, D.C. by Anne M. Valk (March 31, 2008) California Polyphony: Ethnic Voices, Musical […]
Air America’s Thom Hartmann program to interview Erika Falk
Erika Falk, author of Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns, will appear on Thom Hartmann’s Air America radio program today at 12:30 p.m. EST. […]
“Alice Paul” co-author Katherine Adams to appear on NPR affiliate WILL
Katherine Adams, co-author of the new book Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign, will be interviewed today from 1:06-1:50 PM CST on WILL radio’s Afternoon Magazine. […]
In These Times features women for president
In These Times is featuring a new piece by Erika Falk, which was adapted from her book Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns. “Despite striking advances over the last century in women’s […]