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 […]
Category: women’s history
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 […]
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 […]