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 […]
Category: women’s history
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 […]
Erika Falk Op-Ed in the Baltimore Sun
Today’s Baltimore Sun includes an Erika Falk opinion piece on Hillary Clinton’s status as the “first woman” to run for president. “I am worried that persistently framing women as ‘firsts’ […]
The Chicago Tribune’s “Sexism is dealing Clinton a bad hand”
An article about women for president that doesn’t mention Women for President. […]
Books for Understanding Voting & Elections
The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) has updated its list of Books for Understanding Voting & Elections. We have some current titles listed including Erika Falk’s just published Women for […]
Just Landed: “Mobilizing Minerva,” “Memories and Migrations,” and “Prosdocimo de’ Beldomandi’s ‘Plana musica & Musica speculativa'”
Three new books landed on my desk this week: –Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War by Kimberley Jensen (Publication date: February 18, 2008) –Memories and Migrations: Mapping Boricua […]