Category Archives: women’s history

January 16, 2018

Q&A with Sandra M. Bolzenius, author of “Glory in Their Spirit”

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Sandra M. Bolzenius is a former instructor at The Ohio State University and served as a transportation specialist in the United States Army. She recently answered some questions about her forthcoming book Glory in Their Spirit: How Four Black Women Took … Continue reading →

December 12, 2017

UI Press Books Win 2017 MLA Prizes

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  We are pleased to announce that Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism by GerShun Avilez has won the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association (MLA). The prize is given to an outstanding scholarly study of African … Continue reading →

December 12, 2017

Celebrating Jane Addams Day

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In December 1931, Jane Addams became the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Jane Addams Day (December 10) celebrates that achievement and provides an opportunity to once again recognize the many remarkable achievements of Addams’s life. Want … Continue reading →

November 27, 2017

Holiday Gift Guide 2017

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Everyone knows that books make the best gifts. Especially for yourself! Stock up on these books for all your gift giving needs this holiday season. Now through December 1, 2017, use code WINTER17 on our site to get 30% off!  For … Continue reading →

October 26, 2017

NWSA/ University of Illinois Press 2017 First Book Prize Winner

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NWSA and University of Illinois Press are pleased to announce the winners of the 2017 First Book Prize! Congratulations to Nicosia M. Shakes who has won first prize for her book  “Gender, Race and Performance Space: Women’s Activism in Jamaican … Continue reading →

August 7, 2017

Helen Jacobs and the wearing of shorts

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Yesterday marked the birthday of tennis champion Helen Jacobs. Born in 1908, Jacobs learned her trade in Berkeley, California before going on to a term as the world’s top-ranked player and the winner of nine Grand Slams. Jacobs was best … Continue reading →

June 12, 2017

Authors on Issues: Valerie Francisco on “My Family’s Slave”

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  This is the inaugural post of our new series, Authors on Issues, in which UIP authors weigh in on current events. Valerie Francisco, author of The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age, responded to the recent … Continue reading →

June 7, 2017

“Women Against Abortion” in The New York Review of Books”

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Women Against Abortion: Inside the Largest Moral Reform Movement of the Twentieth Century by Karissa Haugeberg was recently covered in The New York Review of Books in a review essay entitled “The Abortion Battlefield.” The reviewer called the book “excellent” and detailed its … Continue reading →

June 7, 2017

“Beyond Respectability” on NPR

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Brittney C. Cooper’s new book Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women was recently reviewed on NPR! The reviewer described it “a work of crucial cultural study. . . . [Beyond Respectability] lays out the complicated history of black woman as … Continue reading →

May 5, 2017

“Women Against Abortion” mentioned in The New Yorker

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Karissa Haugeberg’s book Women Against Abortion: Inside the Largest Moral Reform Movement of the Twentieth Century was recently mentioned in an article in The New Yorker that examines the history of abortion legislation and the anti-abortion movement. Read more here. … Continue reading →