July’s free ebook is here! For this entire month we are giving away Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC edited by Faith S. Holsaert, Martha […]
Category: women’s history
Q&A with Simidele Dosekun, author of Fashioning Postfeminism
Simidele Dosekun, author of Fashioning Postfeminism: Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture, answers questions about feminist influences, discoveries in Lagos, and what she wants readers to learn. Q: Why did you […]
Big Berks 2020 Virtual Exhibit
Welcome to our Big Berks 2020 Virtual Exhibit! Even though we might not be able to visit with you in person, you can still step inside our virtual booth and […]
Continuing to Reshape Women’s History: The Ongoing Story of Nontraditional Women Historians
The following is a guest post by Julie Gallagher and Barbara Winslow, co-editors of Reshaping Women’s History: Voices of Non-Traditional Women Historians. Julie Gallagher is an associate professor of history […]
Q&A with Kim E. Nielsen, author of Marriage, Money, and Madness
Kim E. Nielsen, author of Money, Marriage, and Madness: The Life of Anna Ott answers questions about writing her book, the interesting life of Anna Ott, and her small hometown […]
Get a Free eBook of Pink-Slipped by Jane M. Gaines
April’s free ebook is here! This time, we’re giving away Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries? by Jane M. Gaines: Women held more positions of power […]
Q&A with Dawn Durante, compiler of 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage
Dawn Durante is a senior acquisitions editor at the University of Illinois Press. In honor of Women’s History Month, we asked her some questions about her new anthology, 100 Years of […]
Suffragette Sale on all Women’s History Books! March 7-9, 2020
In honor of International Women’s Day, Women’s History Month and the centennial of the nineteenth amendment in 2020, we’re having a sale on all women’s history books! March 7-9 all […]
Essential Women’s Suffrage Reading List
2020 marked the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. To commemorate the anniversary, we put together a list of books and articles from our list that provide insightful analysis, and […]
Q&A with Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel, author of Reimagining Liberation
Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel is an assistant professor of French at the University of Michigan. She recently answered some questions about her book, Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French […]
1619 Project Reading List: Black Women’s Activism
This August marked the 400th anniversary of slaves arriving in America. To commemorate the anniversary, The New York Times Magazine launched the 1619 Project, a major initiative led by Nikole […]
Expanding Our Open Access Publishing
We are pleased to announce that we will make three timely books open access or partial access in the coming months. UIP has embraced open access publishing as part of its […]