Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2025 National Women’s Studies Association conference! Use the promo code NWSA for 50% off of all books when ordering from our website, November 13-23, […]
NWSA 2025 Virtual Exhibit
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NWSA 2024 Virtual Exhibit
Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2024 National Women’s Studies Association annual conference! Explore our extensive collection of books, journals, blog posts, and more. Use […]
NWSA 2023 Virtual Exhibit
Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2023 National Women’s Studies Association annual conference! Explore our extensive collection of books, journals, blog posts, and more. Use […]
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 2023 Virtual Exhibit
Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2023 The Berkshire Conference on the History of Women triennial conference! Explore our extensive collection of books, journals, blog […]
NWSA 2022 Virtual Exhibit
Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2022 National Women’s Studies Association annual conference! Explore our extensive collection of books, journals, blog posts, and more. Use […]
Q&A With Alejandro Madrid, Author of Tania León’s Stride
Alejandro L. Madrid, author of Tania León’s Stride: A Polyrhythmic Life, answers questions on his scholarly influences, discoveries, and reader takeaways from his book. Q: Why did you decide to […]
Marian Wilson Kimber Awarded Sight and Sound Subvention Award
Marian Wilson Kimber’s book The Elocutionists reclaimed a forgotten performance genre. From the mid-1800s to the 1940s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to entertain audiences, in particular women’s […]
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 […]
Holly Welker on the radio
Holly Welker, author of Baring Witness, recently sat down for a radio interview with the National Public Radio affiliate in Phoenix. Want an enlightening look at the world of Mormon marriage from […]
Release Party: Baring Witness
One of the Press’s more eagerly awaited recent titles, and a runaway hit at this summer’s Book Expo in Chicago, Baring Witness is now on sale. Acclaimed author-editor Holly Welker and thirty-six […]
Trivia Friday
Answers below. 1. Alta Saunders (nee Gwinn) co-founded the U. of I. chapter of the Delta Gamma sorority. Along with her sister Delta Gammas, Alta spearheaded the purchase of the […]
Throwbacklist Thursday: Women’s Work
Well, less than 100 years after women won the right to vote, one of them is running for the White as the nominee of a major political party. Tonight, Hillary […]