Featured Items
These works examine gender issues in previous centuries.
- Author
- Eleanor Janega
- Description
- Focuses on how gender roles are socially constructed and the medieval perspectives that have and have not been discarded.
- Year
- 2023
- Editor
- Margarita R. Ochoa and Sara Vicuña Guengerich
- Description
- Considers women's activism as political influence that shaped identity, new concepts of leadership, and succession.
- Year
- 2021
- Author
- Jessica Hinchy
- Description
- Focuses on how disapproval from British colonialists and middle-class Indians led to criminalization of behaviors of the transgender hijra.
- Year
- 2019
- Author
- Roland Betancourt
- Description
- Examines topics including disabilities, racial identities, sexual consent, sexual shaming, and transgender history through art and texts.
- Year
- 2020
- Author
- Bret Hinsch
- Description
- Covers topics including emotions, families, inheritance, political power, religious roles, and social status.
- Year
- 2021
- Author
- Jessica Marie Johnson
- Description
- Focuses on Cuba, Haiti, New Orleans and the North American gulf coast, and Senegambia in western Africa during the 18th century.
- Year
- 2020
- Author
- Kathryn L. Reyerson
- Description
- Biography and history of how widowhood and guardianship of boys for the urban mercantile class offered opportunities for women to engage in business, commerce, industry, and real estate in 14th-century France.
- Year
- 2018
- Author
- Candace Wellman
- Description
- Focuses on four indigenous women who married white settlers and helped establish collaborative communities during the 18th century along Bellingham Bay in the Pacific Northwest.
- Year
- 2019
- Author
- Stephanie McCurry
- Description
- Focuses on the active role of women in the Civil War by featuring Clara Judd, a Confederate spy imprisoned for treason; enslaved women who sought freedom by crossing Union battle lines; and Gertrude Thomas, a slaveholder who grappled with her change in status.
- Year
- 2019
- Author
- Flora Fraser
- Description
- Biography of the Scotswoman who aided Prince Charles Edward Stuart (better known as Bonnie Prince Charlie) as he fled the Jacobite rising in 1746, was charged with treason, was heralded in stories and songs, and later sought greater economic security in North Carolina before the American Revolution forced her return to Scotland.
- Year
- 2023
