Office of the Gender and Woman's Studies Librarian

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1. Prolific Ground: Landscape and British Women's Writing, 1690–1790

Author: Nicolle Jordan
Publication date: 2025

2. Abortion in Mexico: A History

Author: Nora E. Jaffary
Publication date: 2024

3. Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish

Author: Francesca Peacock
Publication date: 2024

4. The Apothecary's Wife: The Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity

Author: Karen Bloom Gevirtz
Publication date: 2024

5. The Other Side: A Story of Women in Art and the Spirit World

Author: Jennifer Higgie
Publication date: 2024

6. Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance

Author: Nikki M. Taylor
Publication date: 2023

7. Histories of French Sexuality: From the Enlightenment to the Present

Editor: Nina Kushner and Andrew Israel Ross
Publication date: 2023

8. The Story of Art without Men

Author: Katy Hessel
Publication date: 2023

9. Women's Literary Education, 1690–1850

Editor: Jessica Lim and Louise Joy
Publication date: 2023

10. A History of Women in Medicine and Medical Research: Exploring the Trailblazers of STEM

Author: Dale DeBakcsy
Publication date: 2022

11. Woman: The American History of an Idea

Author: Lillian Faderman
Publication date: 2022

12. Women in Wartime: Theatrical Representations in the Long Eighteenth Century

Author: Paula R. Backscheider
Publication date: 2022

13. Cacicas: The Indigenous Women Leaders of Spanish America, 1492–1825

Editor: Margarita R. Ochoa and Sara Vicuña Guengerich
Publication date: 2021

14. Challenging Women's Agency and Activism in Early Modernity

Editor: Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Publication date: 2021

15. Embodiment, Identity, and Gender in the Early Modern Age

Editor: Amy E. Leonard and David M. Whitford
Publication date: 2021

16. Everyday Crime, Criminal Justice, and Gender in Early Modern Bologna

Author: Sanne Muurling
Publication date: 2021

17. Gender in American Literature and Culture

Editor: Jean M. Lutes and Jennifer Travis
Publication date: 2021

18. She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power, 1619 to 1969

Author: Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
Publication date: 2021

19. Telltale Women: Chronicling Gender in Early Modern Historiography

Author: Allison Machlis Meyer
Publication date: 2021

20. The Beauty of the Houri: Heavenly Virgins, Feminine Ideals

Author: Nerina Rustomji
Publication date: 2021

21. The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience: Five Hundred Years of Women's Self Portraits

Author: Jennifer Higgie
Publication date: 2021

22. The Trial of Jeanne Catherine: Infanticide in Early Modern Geneva

Editor: Sara Beam
Publication date: 2021

23. Women Artists, Their Patrons, and Their Publics in Early Modern Bologna

Author: Babette Bohn
Publication date: 2021

24. Women Writers and Experimental Narratives: Early Modern to Contemporary

Editor: Kate Aughterson and Deborah Philips
Publication date: 2021

25. Women at the Early Modern Swedish Court: Power, Risk, and Opportunity

Author: Fabian Persson
Publication date: 2021

26. Women in Ming China

Author: Bret Hinsch
Publication date: 2021

27. A Black Women's History of the United States

Author: Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
Publication date: 2020

28. A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery, and Resistance

Author: Stella Dadzie
Publication date: 2020

29. Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China

Author: Yuhang Li
Publication date: 2020

30. Crime, Gender, and Social Control in Early Modern Frankfurt am Main

Author: Jeannette Kamp
Publication date: 2020

31. Debauched, Desperate, Deranged: Women Who Killed, London 1674–1913

Author: Carolyn Conley
Publication date: 2020

32. Ethnopornography: Sexuality, Colonialism, and Archival Knowledge

Editor: Pete Sigal, Zeb Tortorici, and Neil L. Whitehead
Publication date: 2020

33. Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic

Author: Erika Denise Edwards
Publication date: 2020

34. Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales

Author: Bronwyn Reddan
Publication date: 2020

35. Spectrums of Shakespearean Crossdressing: The Art of Performing Women

Author: Courtney Bailey Parker
Publication date: 2020

36. The Creation of the French Royal Mistress: From Agnès Sorel to Madame du Barry

Author: Tracy Adams and Christine Adams
Publication date: 2020

37. The Season: A Social History of the Debutante

Author: Kristen Richardson
Publication date: 2020

38. The Virtuous and Violent Women of Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts

Author: Emily C. K. Romeo
Publication date: 2020

39. Women Warriors and National Heroes: Global Histories

Editor: Boyd Cothran, Joan Judge, and Adrian Shubert
Publication date: 2020

40. Women's Criminality in Europe, 1600–1914

Editor: Manon van der Heijden, Marion Pluskota, and Sanne Muurling
Publication date: 2020

41. America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today

Author: Pamela S. Nadell
Publication date: 2019

42. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

Author: Sabrina Strings
Publication date: 2019

43. Good Queen Anne: Appraising the Life and Reign of the Last Stuart Monarch

Author: Judith Lissauer Cromwell
Publication date: 2019

44. Hearing Voices: Aurality and New Spanish Sound Culture in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Author: Sarah Finley
Publication date: 2019

45. Holding the World Together: African Women in Changing Perspective

Editor: Nwando Achebe and Claire Robertson
Publication date: 2019

46. Mother Is a Verb: An Unconventional History

Author: Sarah Knott
Publication date: 2019

47. No Stopping Us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History

Author: Gail Collins
Publication date: 2019

48. She-Merchants, Buccaneers, and Gentlewomen: British Women in India

Author: Katie Hickman
Publication date: 2019

49. The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery: Biocapitalism and Black Feminism's Philosophy of History

Author: Alys Eve Weinbaum
Publication date: 2019

50. The Jamestown Brides: The Story of England's "Maids for Virginia"

Author: Jennifer Potter
Publication date: 2019

51. The Voices of Nîmes: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc

Author: Suzannah Lipscomb
Publication date: 2019

52. A History of Early Modern Women's Writing

Editor: Patricia Phillippy
Publication date: 2018

53. A History of Modern Irish Women's Literature

Editor: Heather Ingman and Clíona Ó Gallchoir
Publication date: 2018

54. Abortion Politics

Author: Ziad Munson
Publication date: 2018

55. Courage and Grief: Women and Sweden's Thirty Years' War

Author: Mary Elizabeth Ailes
Publication date: 2018

56. Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan

Author: Rebecca Corbett
Publication date: 2018

57. Divided Loyalties?: Pushing the Boundaries of Gender and Lay Roles in the Catholic Church, 1534–1829

Author: Lisa McClain
Publication date: 2018

58. Early Modern Women on Metaphysics

Editor: Emily Thomas
Publication date: 2018

59. Early Professional Women in Northern Europe, c. 1650–1850

Editor: Johanna Ilmakunnas, Marjatta Rahikainen, and Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen
Publication date: 2018

60. Editing Women's Writing, 1670–1840

Editor: Amy Culley and Anna M. Fitzer
Publication date: 2018

61. Embodying the Sacred: Women Mystics in Seventeenth-Century Lima

Author: Nancy E. van Deusen
Publication date: 2018

62. Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan

Author: Ruby Lal
Publication date: 2018

63. Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest: Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690–1792

Author: Susan Sleeper-Smith
Publication date: 2018

64. Intimate Memory: Gender and Mourning in Late Imperial China

Author: Martin W. Huang
Publication date: 2018

65. Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain

Author: Nadine Akkerman
Publication date: 2018

66. Osage Women and Empire: Gender and Power

Author: Tai S. Edwards
Publication date: 2018

67. Rhetoric, Medicine, and the Woman Writer, 1600–1700

Author: Lyn Bennett
Publication date: 2018

68. The Action-Adventure Heroine: Rediscovering an American Literary Character, 1697–1895

Author: Sandra Wilson Smith
Publication date: 2018

69. The Routledge Research Companion to Early Modern Spanish Women Writers

Editor: Nieves Baranda and Anne J. Cruz
Publication date: 2018

70. Women and Jewish Marriage Negotiations in Early Modern Italy: For Love and Money

Author: Howard Tzvi Adelman
Publication date: 2018

71. Women at War in the Borderlands of the Early American Northeast

Author: Gina M. Martino
Publication date: 2018

72. Women's Deliberation: The Heroine in Early Modern French Women's Theater (1650–1750)

Author: Theresa Varney Kennedy
Publication date: 2018

73. Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1690–1820s: The Long Eighteenth Century

Editor: Jennie Batchelor and Manushag N. Powell
Publication date: 2018

74. Women, Land Rights, and Rural Development: How Much Land Does a Woman Need?

Author: Esther Kingston-Mann
Publication date: 2018

75. A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen: Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts, 1500–1650

Editor: Carole Levin, Anna Riehl Bertolet, and Jo Eldridge Carney
Publication date: 2017

76. Anna of Denmark and Henrietta Maria: Virgins, Witches, and Catholic Queens

Author: Susan Dunn-Hensley
Publication date: 2017

77. Before Salem: Witch Hunting in the Connecticut River Valley, 1647–1663

Author: Richard S. Ross III
Publication date: 2017

78. Beyond Spain's Borders: Women Players in Early Modern National Theaters

Editor: Anne J. Cruz and María Cristina Quintero
Publication date: 2017

79. Charlotte de La Trémoïlle, the Notorious Countess of Derby

Author: Sandy Riley
Publication date: 2017

80. Colonization, Piracy, and Trade in Early Modern Europe: The Roles of Powerful Women and Queens

Editor: Estelle Paranque, Nate Probasco, and Claire Jowitt
Publication date: 2017

81. Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History

Editor: Matthew S. Gordon and Kathryn A. Hain
Publication date: 2017

82. Conversions: Gender and Religious Change in Early Modern Europe

Editor: Simon Ditchfield and Helen Smith
Publication date: 2017

83. Corpus Linguistics and 17th-Century Prostitution: Computational Linguistics and History

Author: Anthony McEnery and Helen Baker
Publication date: 2017

84. Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature: Prostitutes, Aging Women, and Saints

Author: Encarnación Juárez-Almendros
Publication date: 2017

85. Early Modern Women's Writing: Domesticity, Privacy, and the Public Sphere in England and the Dutch Republic

Author: Martine van Elk
Publication date: 2017

86. English Benedictine Nuns in Exile in the Seventeenth Century: Living Spirituality

Author: Laurence Lux-Sterritt
Publication date: 2017

87. Framing Premodern Desires: The Transformation of Sexual Ideas, Attitudes, and Practices in Europe

Editor: Satu Lidman, Meri Heinonen, Tom Linkinen, and Kaartinen Marjo
Publication date: 2017

88. Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1400–1800

Editor: James Daybell and Svante Norrhem
Publication date: 2017

89. Gender, Authorship, and Early Modern Women's Collaboration

Editor: Patricia Pender
Publication date: 2017

90. Gender, Culture, and Politics in England, 1560–1640: Turning the World Upside Down

Author: Susan D. Amussen and David E. Underdown
Publication date: 2017

91. Gender, Otherness, and Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Art

Editor: Carlee A. Bradbury and Michelle Moseley-Christian
Publication date: 2017

92. Gender, Speech, and Audience Reception in Early Modern England

Author: Kathleen Kalpin Smith
Publication date: 2017

93. Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages

Author: Tanya Pollard
Publication date: 2017

94. Infertility in Early Modern England

Author: Daphna Oren-Magidor
Publication date: 2017

95. Love, Madness, and Scandal: The Life of Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck

Author: Johanna Luthman
Publication date: 2017

96. Mademoiselle de Montpensier: Writings, Châteaux, and Female Self-Construction in Early Modern France

Author: Sophie Maríñez
Publication date: 2017

97. Margaret Fell, Letters, and the Making of Quakerism

Author: Marjon Ames
Publication date: 2017

98. Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior Queen

Author: Linda M. Heywood
Publication date: 2017

99. Nuns Navigating the Spanish Empire

Author: Sarah E. Owens
Publication date: 2017

100. Preserving on Paper: Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen's Receipt Books

Editor: Kristine Kowalchuk
Publication date: 2017