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Alexandra M. Nickliss, “Phoebe Apperson Hearst: A Life of Power and Politics” (Bison Books, 2018)
Alexandra M. Nickliss
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
A Life of Power and Politics
Bison Books, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in BiographyNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network June 19, 2019 Mark Klobas

Though not as well known today as her husband George or her son William Randolph, Phoebe Apperson Hearst was a woman who rose beyond the gender norms of her age to exert considerable influence both within her community and nationally. In Phoebe Apperson Hearst: A Life of Power and Politics... Read More
Shennette Garrett-Scott, “Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal” (Columbia UP, 2019)
Shennette Garrett-Scott
Banking on Freedom
Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal
Columbia University Press, 2019

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in FinanceNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network June 19, 2019 Daniel Peris

Think running an insurance company or a bank is hard?  Try doing it as an African-American woman in the Jim Crow South.  Shennette Garrett-Scott‘s new book, Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal (Columbia University Press, 2019) tells the fascinating story of just such an... Read More
Joseph Hill, “Wrapping Authority: Women Islamic Leaders in a Sufi Movement in Dakar, Senegal” (U Toronto Press, 2018)
Joseph Hill
Wrapping Authority
Women Islamic Leaders in a Sufi Movement in Dakar, Senegal
University of Toronto Press, 2018

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network June 19, 2019 Shobhana Xavier

Joseph Hill‘s new book Wrapping Authority: Women Islamic Leaders in a Sufi Movement in Dakar, Senegal (University of Toronto Press, 2018), is an ethnographic study of women Sufi leaders in the Taalibe Baay or Fayda branch of the Tijaniyya. Hill provides life stories of various fascinating and powerful female muqaddamas... Read More
Melanie A. Medeiros, “Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil: Black Women’s Perspectives on Love, Respect, and Kinship” (Rutgers UP, 2018)
Melanie A. Medeiros
Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil
Black Women’s Perspectives on Love, Respect, and Kinship
Rutgers University Press, 2018

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network June 18, 2019 Lee Pierce

On this episode, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)–Asst. Prof. of Rhetoric at SUNY Geneseo–interviews Dr. Melanie Medeiros (she/hers)–Asst. Prof. of Cultural Anthropology at SUNY Geneseo–on the cutting-edge research presented in Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil: Black Women’s Perspectives on Love, Respect, and Kinship from Rutgers University Press (2018). We... Read More
Anne Cushman, “The Mama Sutra: A Story of Love, Loss, and the Path of Motherhood” (Shambhala, 2019)
Anne Cushman
The Mama Sutra
A Story of Love, Loss, and the Path of Motherhood
Shambhala, 2019

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in BiographyNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in LiteratureNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in Spiritual Practice and MindfulnessNew Books Network June 17, 2019 Elizabeth Cronin

Sutra is the Sanskrit name for a short spiritual teaching, and it comes from the same root as the English word suture, or stitch. This story of motherhood as a path to awakening is, says yoga and meditation teacher Anne Cushman, “an homage to the long threads that run through all human... Read More
Sharon Kirsch, “Gertrude Stein and the Reinvention of Rhetoric” (U Alabama Press, 2014)
Sharon Kirsch
Gertrude Stein and the Reinvention of Rhetoric

University of Alabama Press, 2014

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in BiographyNew Books in CommunicationsNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network June 17, 2019 Lee Pierce

On this episode, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)–Asst. Prof. of Rhetoric at SUNY Geneseo–interviews Dr. Sharon Kirsch (she/hers)–Associate Prof. of English and rhetorical studies in the New College at Arizona State University–on the scintillating and beautifully written Gertrude Stein and the Reinvention of Rhetoric from University of Alabama Press (2014). This... Read More
Katherine M. Marino, “Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement” (UNC Press, 2019)
Katherine M. Marino
Feminism for the Americas
The Making of an International Human Rights Movement
University of North Carolina Press, 2019

New Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network June 14, 2019 Lilian Calles Barger

Katherine M. Marino is an assistant professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles. Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement (University of North Carolina Press, 2019) follows the many Latin American and Caribbean women in the first half of the century who... Read More