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Women's History
Interviews with scholars of women's history about their new books.
April 18, 2026
I Will Not Abandon You
I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany (Aevo UTP, 2026) brings to life the unrelenting defiance of queer women in fascist Germany. In hi…
April 16, 2026
Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy
Using the analytical framework of reproductive justice, Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy: Migrant Women’s Experiences of Pregnancy and Maternity Ca…
April 7, 2026
Sarah Wambaugh and the Plebiscite
In Sarah Wambaugh and the Plebiscite: The Turbulent History of a Democratic Alternative to War (Cambridge UP, 2026) Dr. Andrew Park tells the story of…
April 5, 2026
Charlotte Brontë's Life Through Clothes
Eleanor Houghton, in conversation with Duncan McCargo and Alexis Wolf Meet the real, thinking, feeling woman that was Charlotte Brontë, as told in …
April 5, 2026
After Liberation
War offers opportunities for women to liberate their communities and build a better life for themselves. When women join rebel groups, they often take…
April 4, 2026
Women Will Vote
The book, Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State (Cornell UP, 2017) is Susan Goodier and Karen Pastorello’s efforts to account for the or…
April 3, 2026
Atomic Bombshells
Bullet bras, bazookas, bombshells, bikinis. In Atomic Bombshells: How Plastics Shaped Postwar Bodies (Duke UP, 2026), Dr. Isabelle Held challenges the…
April 2, 2026
The Club
In Belle Époque Paris, the Eiffel Tower was newly built, France was experiencing remarkable political stability, and American women were painting the …
March 28, 2026
British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical
At the turn of the nineteenth century, British women novelists were publishing more fiction than their male counterparts, yet their place in literary …
March 26, 2026
For the Love of Labor
My guest today is Cathryn J. Prince the author of For the Love of Labor: The Life of Pauline Newman (U Illinois Press, 2026). From her start as one of…
March 25, 2026
Colonial Caregivers
Colonial Caregivers: Ayahs and the Gendered History of Race and Caste in British India (Cambridge UP, 2025) offers a compelling cultural and social hi…
March 18, 2026
Women in Hollywood's Dream Factory
The #MeToo revelations put a twenty-first-century stamp on the age-old story of women’s mistreatment in Hollywood. In Women in Hollywood's Dream Facto…
March 18, 2026
The Inattention Economy
The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet (U Minnesota Press, 2026) by Dr. Lisa Nakamura challenges the widespread myth that the …
March 18, 2026
A Woman of No Consequence: Memory, Letters and Resistance in Madras
In this intimate, yet simultaneously anthropological, exploration of the life of her maternal grandmother Pankajam (1911–2007), Kalpana Karunakaran ac…
March 13, 2026
Hitler and My Mother-In-Law
Hitler and My Mother-in-Law (OR Books, 2025) is a riveting memoir that explores the intersection of truth—both familial and political—through the colo…
March 9, 2026
Reproductive Rights in Modern France
The introduction of the principle of women's reproductive liberty in France, tentatively by the family planning movement after 1960 and explicitly by …
March 6, 2026
Killers of Roe
In Killers of Roe: My Investigation Into the Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights (Legacy Lit, 2026) reporter Amy Littlefield investigates the secret k…
March 5, 2026
Living Diaper to Diaper
Many of us take diapers for granted. Yet diaper insecurity is a common, often hidden consequence of poverty in the US, where nearly half of American f…
March 4, 2026
Single Mothers in Twentieth-century Ireland and Britain
Throughout the twentieth century, many women in Ireland and Britain endured shame and institutionalisation for becoming pregnant outside of marriage. …
March 2, 2026
Radegund
A princess born to the Thuringian royal house. A captive in war, forced to marry the Frankish king who killed her family. A queen, who renounced her p…