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March 15, 2019

Roundup: Nancy K. Miller and My Brilliant Friends

This week we’ve been featuring Nancy K. Miller’s My Brilliant Friends: Our Lives in Feminism in honor of Women’s History Month. If you haven’t been following us, set the FOMO aside. We’ve got your back with today’s roundup post of this week’s post and previous media...

March 14, 2019

“Carolyn Heilbrun”

“They will know that there are books waiting for them as there were no books for me.” ~ Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Women’s lives: The View from the Threshold Read the first section of Carolyn from Nancy K. Miller’s My Brilliant...

March 13, 2019

“The Art of Losing”

“In My Brilliant Friends, Nancy K. Miller depicts the life-altering importance of deep and nourishing friendships between and among women. Through vivid details and Miller’s singular point of view, we witness her transformative relationships with Carolyn Heilbrun, Naomi Schor, and Diane...

March 11, 2019

Q&A: Nancy K. Miller on My Brilliant Friends

“In this astute, passionate, rigorously honest book about her friendships with three extraordinary women, Miller delineates the mysterious geography of those attachments we are not born into, but choose freely. The longing, pain, confusion, envy, and joy that inhabit the...

March 8, 2019

#WomanUP for International Women’s Day!

University Presses across the country have banded together to showcase each other’s works for International Women’s Day. Take a look at some of our faves! Follow #WomanUP up Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to see more from our peer presses. Enter our...

March 8, 2019

Roundup: Shani Orgad and Heading Home

We kicked off Women’s History Month with Heading Home: Motherhood, Work, and the Failed Promise of Equality, by Shani Orgad. In case you missed them, here’s a roundup of this week’s blog posts and other media coverage related to Orgad and...

March 6, 2019

Book Excerpt! Heading Home: Motherhood, Work, and the Failed Promise of Equality (chapter 4)

Read an excerpt from chapter 4 “Aberrant Mothers/Captive Wives” of Heading Home: Motherhood, Work, and the Failed Promise of Equality, by Shani Orgad. In this chapter, Orgad illustrate this work of cover-up. It starts with the personal stories women tell themselves...

March 1, 2019

Join us in Celebrating Women’s History Month 2019

Today begins our celebration of Women’s History Month. If you’ve been following us, you likely know that Columbia has been a leader in the publication of gender studies and feminist theory since the 1980s. You’re probably familiar with Joan Wallach...

April 18, 2018

Columbia University Press Authors Awarded the 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship!

We are proud to announce that several of our authors were awarded the 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship. They were among the 173 recipients, selected from almost 3,000 applicants. We are honored to be their publisher and congratulate each of them on their exceptional...

March 30, 2018

Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Search for an Adequate Witness: An Excerpt

Although their humble beginnings inspired comparison, Thomas’s upbringing was defined by paternal abandonment, and Hill’s, by a large and supportive family. Whereas Thomas is recalled as a boisterous consumer of porn and something of the “class clown” in his needling of straitlaced colleagues in...

March 29, 2018

Gender, Race, and Credibility in the Age of Trump

This narrative of individual healing, effort, and ultimate success is available primarily to white women, who have historically been constructed as precious and thus worthy of protection from hard manual labor, economic discomfort, and sexual violation (however ineffective that narrative...