Katherine Angel’s excellent academic study "Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again" concerns the politics of sexual expression. The book addresses consent, desire, arousal, and vulnerability in turn, explaining each in terms of their history,... Read More

Alison M. Parker’s salient academic biography of undersung civil rights and women’s rights activist Mary Eliza Church Terrell analyzes excerpts from Terrell’s diary, letters, and autobiography to depict how personal and public... Read More

Garments as holy relics, crime scene evidence, and archives that signal absent bodies: in Laura Levitt’s eloquent, moving, meditative book "The Objects That Remain", things stand in for human witnesses to trauma. Years after being... Read More

"Surrender" is a gripping and defiant memoir about personal identity and motherhood. In her captivating memoir "Surrender", Marylee MacDonald reflects on her life as an adoptee and how it influenced the relinquishment of her firstborn... Read More

Chris Dubbs’s "An Unladylike Profession" jumps into the trenches with the women reporters of World War I—groundbreaking journalists who explained the war to readers in the US, and who shared stories from the war’s brutal aftermath.... Read More

Energetic from the first, Kylie Cheung’s A Woman’s Place is blunt as it narrates the current political and social landscape with regard to women’s interests. Each chapter tackles a different aspect of women’s existences, and many... Read More

In "Feminist City", Leslie Kern shows how cities keep women “in their place” through hidden, understated means while favoring men’s needs and experiences. Wide-ranging urban plans often come together to influence how women move... Read More

"Women Who Knew Jesus" is a feminist theological text that focuses on the active participation of women in Jesus’s ministry. Episcopal priest Bonnie Ring’s probing study of sixteen biblical women, "Women Who Knew Jesus", focuses on... Read More