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Women's History
Interviews with scholars of women's history about their new books.
April 12, 2024
Miss Tibet: Representing Tibet through Beauty Pageants
What does the Miss Tibet beauty pageant tell us about what it means to be Tibetan in a globalized world? And what understandings of Tibetan culture do…
April 9, 2024
Enchanted Revolution
China’s communist revolution has an intricate relationship with gender and religion. In Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in …
April 5, 2024
Quartet
This is a story of four composers whose careers, lives and loves as women working in 20th century Britain have since been largely forgotten. Dr Leah …
April 5, 2024
The Red Widow
Sex. Lies. Murder. Sarah Horowitz's The Red Widow: The Scandal that Shook Paris and the Woman Behind It All (Sourcebooks, 2022) is a book I literally …
April 3, 2024
Fair Shake
A stirring, comprehensive look at the state of women in the workforce--why women's progress has stalled, how our economy fosters unproductive competit…
April 2, 2024
Marie de Vignerot, Richelieu's Forgotten Advisor and Heiress
Despite being one of the most influential women of 17th century France, Marie de Vignerot has been largely forgotten. The niece, heiress, and advisor …
April 2, 2024
Marginalized, Mobilized, Incorporated
How has the participation of women in Hindu nationalist politics in India changed over time? More broadly, what has their changing participation meant…
March 31, 2024
Boardinghouse Women
In Boardinghouse Women: How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America (UNC Press, 2023), Elizabeth Engelhardt argues…
March 26, 2024
The Pink Wave
How and why the election of Donald Trump inspired more women to enter politics. Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidentia…
March 25, 2024
Death by Laughter
Can you really die from laughing too hard? Between 1870 and 1920, hundreds of women suffered such a fate—or so a slew of sensationalist obituaries wou…
March 21, 2024
On the Job
Through a variety of archival documents, artefacts, illustrations, and references to primary and secondary literature, On the Job: A History of Americ…
March 21, 2024
Fritzie
One January day in 1923, a young boy came across the dead body of a twenty-year-old woman on a San Diego beach. When the police arrived on the scene, …
March 18, 2024
The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems
Nancy Folbre’s The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems: An Intersectional Political Economy (Verso, 2021) asks the questions of why and under what…
March 18, 2024
The Pioneering Life of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Manu Bhagavan and Ellen Chesler discuss Bhagavan’s latest book on Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (Penguin, 2023), admired sister of India’s founding Prime Mini…
March 17, 2024
Private Inquiries
Dismissed as ‘Mrs Sherlock Holmes’ or amateurish Miss Marples, mocked as private dicks or honey trappers, they have been investigating crime since the…
March 14, 2024
Untold Histories of Nigerian Women
Untold Histories of Nigerian Women: Emerging from the Margins (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023) is a curation of insightful and engaging narration…
March 12, 2024
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996) was one of America’s greatest musicians. In this major biography, Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer who Transforme…
March 12, 2024
The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells
The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells: Investigations into a Forgotten Mystery Author (PostHill Press, 2024) by Rebecca Rego Barry is the first biography of …
March 12, 2024
Gendering the Hadith Tradition
Gendering the Hadith Tradition: Recentering the Authority of Aisha, Mother of the Believers (Oxford UP, 2024) presents for the first time a partial tr…
March 11, 2024
Political Black Girl Magic
Political Black Girl Magic: The Elections and Governance of Black Female Mayors (Temple UP, 2023) explores black women's experiences as mayors in Amer…