Anastasia C. Curwood’s vibrant biography of Shirley Chisholm reveals a tenacious congresswoman and presidential candidate. Curwood writes that Chisholm, the daughter of Caribbean immigrants and a Democratic party trailblazer, possessed... Read More

Sheri Brenden’s "Break Point" covers the politics and legal moves involved in the creation of women’s athletics programs. Peggy Brenden and Toni St. Pierre were raised in an era when people believed that girls neither had the... Read More

Chaucer scholar Marion Turner’s experimental work of literary criticism charts a character’s lasting influence on international culture. A character in Geoffrey Chaucer’s fourteenth-century masterpiece The Canterbury Tales, the... Read More

Anna Beer’s "Eve Bites Back" is a scrupulous study of the complicated creative realities of eight influential but often unheeded women writers. Beer notes that power dynamics of access and discourse make it challenging for women... Read More

Edited by Corinne T. Field and LaKisha Michelle Simmons, the essays collected in "The Global History of Black Girlhood" are groundbreaking, delivering history lessons with present-day implications. Drawing insights from research into the... Read More

Edited by Darien Hsu Gee and Carla Crujido, "Nonwhite and Woman" is an intimate, honest collection of microessays by women of color. These 131 essays distill the life experiences of one hundred women authors and poets. They spotlight the... Read More

Jessa Crispin’s voluble memoir "My Three Dads" entwines intense personal experiences with compelling social observations. Crispin, after renting a house in a blighted neighborhood of Kansas City, began to feel haunted. After meeting... Read More

In Caroline Kline’s "Mormon Women at the Crossroads", the stories of devout Mormon women in Mexico, Botswana, and the US are placed in conversation with church theology. The book is both about the interviewed women’s ways of thinking... Read More