Category: Women’s Studies

March 22, 2022

Dr. Katie Gaddini on The Struggle to Stay: Why Single Evangelical Women Are Leaving the Church

Evangelical Christianity is often thought of as oppressive to women, yet more than thirty million women in the United States identify as evangelical. The Struggle to Stay: Why Single Evangelical Women Are Leaving the Church offers an intimate and insightful...

January 5, 2022

The Gender Problem in Economics: How Did We Get Here?

Ann Mari May, PhD

The American Economic Association and indeed the public at large are slowly awakening to the realization that the gender problem in the dismal science is profound and measurable. Women are underrepresented in all stages of the academic hierarchy. They receive...

May 20, 2020

Book Excerpt! Sewing Women, by Margaret M. Chin (introduction)

“A new and illuminating perspective on New York’s garment industry and the dynamics of work among today’s immigrants through a carefully argued and insightful comparison of Chinese- and Korean-owned garment shops and their Chinese and Hispanic workers. This richly-textured account,...

March 30, 2020

Sapphic Foucault

By Lynne Huffer

“Foucault’s Strange Eros challenges its readers to describe aptly, to touch delicately their seeking, mortal, embodied selves. The book elicits and sustains their interest. It rejoices on some pages to weep on others, but it is animated throughout by generous reading...

March 25, 2020

Book Excerpt! Emperor Wu Zhao and Her Pantheon of Devis, Divinities, and Dynastic Mothers, By N. Harry Rothschild

 “With painstaking research, unerring insights, rich prose, and a sense of humor, Rothschild lavishly illustrates the political genius of Wu Zhao, China’s only female emperor. Indicating her keen political instincts and expansive knowledge of China’s cultural traditions, Rothschild adeptly...

March 23, 2020

5 Ways That China’s First and Only Female Emperor Wu Zhao Reimagined Traditional Female Roles to Invent a Novel and Unique Vision of Emperorship!

Wu Zhao (624-705) was the first and only female emperor in Chinese history. Given the predominantly patriarchal and androcentric confines of medieval China, her singular ascendancy was wildly improbable. Even stranger, perhaps is one of the strategies she employed to...

March 19, 2020

Book Excerpt! Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy, By Phyllis Birnbaum (chapter 17)

“Richly illustrated with rare photos, and enlivened by numerous interviews, Phyllis Birnbaum’s book is a balanced, well-written biography of one of the most notorious figures to emerge in the early twentieth-century contest for empire in northeast Asia. Anyone interested in...

March 18, 2020

Book Excerpt! The Bearded Lady Project, edited by Lexi Jamieson Marsh and Ellen Currano (foreword)

“The portraits in The Bearded Lady Project intentionally cause double takes, forcing the viewer to look, then look again. But their real power lies in how they require us to look inward and see that antediluvian ideas about who can and...

March 16, 2020

It’s Not About the Beards

By Lexi Jamieson Marsh

“The Bearded Lady Project is a necessary novelty. It’s snarky, beautiful, and increasingly powerful in the evolution of its message: Don’t ever assume you know what a scientist looks like. These essays—critical, poignant examinations of societal and historical perceptions of genius—remind...

March 14, 2020

Book Excerpt! Sex and World Peace, By Valerie M. Hudson, Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Mary Caprioli, and Chad F. Emmett (chapter 1)

“This is an important, well written, and informative book that will serve a wide audience of graduate and undergraduate students, academics, and policymakers, as well as the interested public.” ~Helen M. Kinsella, Ethics and International Affairs We are excited to...

March 12, 2020

Book Excerpt! The Hillary Doctrine, by Valerie M. Hudson and Patricia Leidl (foreword and preface)

“From now on, no debate about national or global policy can proceed without reading The Hillary Doctrine by Valerie Hudson and Patricia Leidl. It is the first book about high level efforts to create a foreign policy as if women mattered.” ~Gloria Steinem...

March 12, 2020

Six Negative Effects of the Systematic Subordination of Women

“In The First Political Order, Hudson and her collaborators make the case that the subordination of women is irrefutably tied to the well-being of a nation. Skeptical? The hard data is here, drawn from an exhaustive survey of 176 countries in...