Gender and Sexuality
Over the Rooftops of Time
Wide-ranging and poignant reflections on literature, art, science, and memory.
Mill Girls and Strangers
A comparative history of single women's independent migration to the textile cities of Preston, England; Lowell, Massachusetts; and Paisley, Scotland.
Methodology in Religious Studies
Explores the impact of women's studies on methodology in religious studies.
Democracy Growing Up
The first sustained feminist interpretation of Tocqueville’s classic, Democracy in America.
The Marked Body
Discusses portrayals of domestic violence in six major works of mid-nineteenth-century literature.
Two Paths to Equality
A comprehensive look at the ERA debates of the 1920s.
The Retreat from Organization
Offers critical assessments of feminism from the 1960s to the present.
Uncrowned Queens, Volume 1
Biographies of African American women community leaders in New York state.
The Annual Review of Women in World Religions
This interdisciplinary consideration of women in world religions features new scholarship across traditions and approaches.
Femicidal Fears
Argues that contemporary female Gothic novels of death can, in fact, breathe new life into feminist debates about victimization, essentialism, agency, and the body.
Beyond Romance
Critiques the predominant romantic ideal.
Taste and the Household
Shows how lousy food, cheesy clothes, and dingy homes can ruin our lives.
Looking Beyond the Mask
Interviews with women in cross-cultural marriages, offering a unique insight into Japanese life.
Double Jeopardy
Enables teachers and other school personnel working with students with disabilities to provide a gender equitable educational experience.
Rebellious Hearts
Examines the full spectrum of women's participation in the social, economic, religious, and poetic debates surrounding the French Revolution.
Rescuing Haya
The story of an Israeli woman's struggle to forge her personal and professional identity.
A Group of Their Own
A fascinating story of the first generations of women who went to college to learn to be writers and then launched their careers writing poetry and prose.
The Promised Land?
Analyzes East German feminism for an American audience through an exploration of their women writers.
What Men Owe to Women
Men from a wide range of traditions discuss gender justice in world religions.
Literary Trauma
Examines representations of political, psychological, and sexual violence in seven novels by American women.
Outspeak
Examines the pleasures, perils, and promises of professing one's sexual identity.
Mothering from the Inside
Explores how women in prison manage to mother their children from behind bars.
Women Saints in World Religions
Presents stories and commentaries on women saints from the Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Jewish, Islamic, and Christian traditions.
Women, Patronage, and Self-Representation in Islamic Societies
A rare look at female empowerment in the Muslim world.
Dreaming the Actual
This anthology of contemporary fiction and poetry by Israeli women writers includes works originally written in Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, and English.