Women's History Month 2023

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.

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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

Edited by Jo Malin
Subjects: Gender And Sexuality

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

Edited by Judith E. Barlow
Subjects: Literature
Series: Excelsior Editions

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

Edited by Elizabeth Klaver
Subjects: Cultural Studies

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.

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.