In honor of Women's History Month we are offering a 40% discount on all our Women's studies titles. Browse the collection below to find titles in history, literature, religion, sociology, and psychology.
Women's History Month 2023
Carolee Schneemann
Over forty works spanning the career of pioneering painter, filmmaker, writer, and performance/installation artist Carolee Schneemann.
Ideologies of Forgetting
First book to study rape and sexual abuse of Vietnamese women by U. S. soldiers during the Vietnam War.
Governing the Female Body
A feminist and Foucauldian analysis of a variety of emerging gendered discourses.
My Life at the Gym
Personal accounts celebrating the place of exercise in women’s lives—and as the site of women’s community.
Speaking Lives, Authoring Texts
Critical edition of three women’s oral slave narratives.
Women Writers of the Provincetown Players
Thirteen short plays by women that were originally produced by the Provincetown Players.
Motherhood Misconceived
First collection of essays on cinematic motherhood.
Womanist Forefathers
Traces a lineage of pro-feminist black men to two early radical proponents of female equality.
The Suffering Will Not Be Televised
Explores how the suffering of African American women has been minimized and obscured in U.S. culture.
The Specter of Sex
Genealogy of the formation of race and gender hierarchies in the U.S.
Reform and Resistance
Explores the relationship between gender and identity in early medieval Germanic societies.
Naked Lives
Looks at the experience of being an exotic dancer in different kinds of strip clubs.
Go, Tell Michelle
Expanded audiobook edition of the widely praised collection of letters to Michelle Obama by African American women
The Body in Medical Culture
Engages critically with historical and contemporary representations of the medicalized human body.
Breaking into the All-Male Club
Women professors of educational administration share their personal stories of being female firsts.
Toward a Political Philosophy of Race
Examines how liberal society enables racism and other forms of discrimination.
Where We Find Ourselves
Explores the universal longing for home, illuminated through the essays, poetry, and fiction of forty Jewish women writers from around the world.
Feminine Look
Feminist and psychoanalytic analysis of spectatorship.
The Signifying Body
Applies the ideas of Heidegger, Irigaray, and Fanon to literature and film.
Imagining Law
Essays consider Drucilla Cornell’s contributions to philosophy, political theory, and legal studies.
Woman as Fire, Woman as Sage
Explores ideas on women and sexuality presented in the great Hindu epic, the Mahabharata.
Resilience
First collection of essays by queer scholars with working-class backgrounds.
The Oprah Affect
Essays explore the broad cultural impact of Oprah’s Book Club.
Feminist Mothering
Essays explore a wide range of contemporary feminist mothering practices.
Thought Knows No Sex
Grounded in student experiences at nineteenth-century Alfred University, this social history explores the origins of women’s higher education and the rural roots of reform.