The National Women’s Studies Association and the University of Illinois Press are pleased to announce a competition for the best dissertation or first book manuscript by a single author in […]
Tag: women’s studies
Great Recession, Great Depression
From “Women’s Work and Economic Crisis Revisited: Comparing the Great Recession and the Great Depression,” a new essay in Ruth Milkman’s 2016 collection On Gender, Labor, and Inequality. Overall, the […]
Dirty Words wins NCA Health Communication Award
Dirty Words: The Rhetoric of Public Sex Education, 1870-1924 by Robin E. Jensen has been awarded the 2015 NCA Health Communication Distinguished Book Award. In the book, Jensen details the approaches […]
NWSA First Book Prize entries being accepted
June 1, 2015, is the next application deadline for the NWSA/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize. From the NWSA press release: The National Women’s Studies Association and the University of […]
Hear Our Truths: Black Girl Genius Week November 3-8
Ruth Nicole Brown’s book Hear Our Truths: The Creative Potential of Black Girlhood examines how Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truths, or SOLHOT, a radical youth intervention, provides a space […]
Roberta Gold: tenants’ rights and equitable citizenship
Economic inequality has been making headlines, and so have mitigating measures like living wage bills, which have passed in several cities. There is no denying the importance of such reforms. […]
Brazil’s sex tourism perceptions and culture
Erica Lorraine Williams visited the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University to discuss her book Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements. In her talk, Williams examines the impact of […]
Q&A with Maya Market Women author S. Ashley Kistler
S. Ashley Kistler is an assistant professor of anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Rollins College. In her new book Maya Market Women: Power and Tradition in San Juan Chamelco, […]
Q&A with Autism and Gender author Jordynn Jack
Jordynn Jack is an associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She is the author of Autism and Gender: From Refrigerator Mothers to Computer Geeks. She recently answered […]
Ruth Nicole Brown: “Black girlhood is freedom”
Ruth Nicole Brown is an assistant professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of Hear Our Truths: The Creative Potential of […]
Q&A with Sex Tourism in Bahia author Erica Lorraine Williams
Erica Lorraine Williams is an assistant professor of anthropology at Spelman College. She answered some questions about her book Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements. Q: For your book research you […]
Applications now open for NWSA/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize
June 1, 2014, is the next application deadline for the NWSA/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize. From the NWSA press release: The National Women’s Studies Association and the University […]