Belva Lockwood
The Woman Who Would be President

Jill Norgren

Foreword by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Exceptionally well-researched. Norgren's contribution is to situate Lockwood among a generation of female activists.Norgren is successful in moving the woman who would be president to her proper standing as a pioneering lawyer who would change America."
—Jean Baker, American Historical Review

The Rabbi's Wife
The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life

Shuly Rubin Schwartz

2006 National Jewish Book Award in the Modern Jewish Thought category

"In this fine book, Rubin Schwartz has succeeded in revising our understanding of American Jewish leadership even has she has illuminated important aspects of congregational life."
—American Historical Review

Gender Violence
Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Edited by Laura L. O'Toole, Jessica R. Schiffman, and Margie L. Kiter Edwards

"This collection provides the most insightful and influential analyses from the last two decades showing how violence against women and children is all too-well integrated into global politics and economics."
—Sandra Harding, editor of The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader

The Reproductive Rights Reader
Law, Medicine, and the Construction of Motherhood

Edited by Nancy Ehrenreich

"The Reproductive Rights Reader gives us a uniquely comprehensive and useful collection of the major court decisions, legal briefs and scholarly commentaries on the searing debates about reproductive politics in US public discourse over the past 40 years. And it does so not only through the lenses of the law, science and public health but also with a clear focus on the critical dimensions of gender, race, class, sexuality, poverty, social exclusion and social justice. It is an absolutely indispensable resource."
—Rosalind P. Petchesky, author of Abortion and Womans Choice

Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860-1920

Melissa R. Klapper

"Drawing on diaries and magazines, historian Klapper recreates the world of Jewish girls in late 19th- and early 20th-century America...This book's charm lies in its innovative and engaging focus on girlhood. Klapper...offers grace notes to a familiar narrative about the tensions between assimilation and tradition."
—Publishers Weekly

Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail
A History in the American West

Jeane E. Abrams

"Respected authority Abrams breaks new ground with this work broadly researched in newspapers, memoirs, correspondence, other archival materials, and a vast secondary literature."
—Choice

Getting Played
African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence

Jody Miller

"Miller gives us a detailed examination of the violence experienced by Black inner city girls whose victimization is based on multiple dimensions of their lives: because they are Black, because they live in extremely disadvantaged neighborhoods, and because they are women. Miller's careful, rich, detailed field work documents and analyzes the complex realities of these young women's lives that set the context for the struggles they routinely contend with. The voices of these young people have been ignored for too long. Getting Played has given them an opportunity to be heard that is long overdue."
—Robert Crutchfield, University of Washington

Fight Like a Girl
How to be a Fearless Feminist

Megan Seely

"The so-called third wave — the newest generation involved in the women's movement — faces an uphill battle in getting people to listen up, partly because of knee-jerk negative reactions to the f-word: feminist. In fact, says Seely, I'm not a feminist, but . . . has become a common qualifier among young people who support the principles of equality but don't want to be associated with words like militant or butch. Seely addresses this stumbling block and many others, including discord within the movement due to racial and generational differences. She provides an accessible overview of the women's movement, including timelines, suggested reading and numerous ways for young people to get active and make a difference."
—Newsday (How-To Book of the Week)

Stray Wives
Marital Conflict in Early National New England

Mary Beth Sievens

"Wonderful. . . . A fascinating and complex account of husbands struggling to assert their legal dominance in a changing cultural landscape, while law remained static. . . . Stray Wives is full of creative research and compelling new insights about marriage in early national America. Sievenss nuanced argument about power and interdependence within marriage is absolutely convincing. She also clearly demonstrates that legal change lagged behind cultural change, leaving husbands frustrated by their inability to rule."
—William & Mary Quarterly

Victory Girls, Khaki-Wackies, and Patriotutes
The Regulation of Female Sexuality during World War II

Marilyn E. Hegarty

"In this carefully crafted and highly readable history, Marilyn E. Hegarty reminds us of the multiple links between sexuality and war. She captures the contradictions and shows us how women's sexuality was both mobilized and policed."
—Joanne Meyerowitz, author of How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States