Women's Studies

A very special collection of short biographies offers insightful sketches of the lives and accomplishments of 150 of history's most influential and brilliant women, including Clara Barton, the legendary Trung Sisters of medieval Vietnam, and many others.

Catherine Clinton present twenty-four short essays on American women beginning with Pocahontas and ending with Betty Friedan. The editors selected women who made "significant contributions in the public realm," be they in the areas of art, literature,political engagement, educational activities, or reform movements. Included here are portraits of such luminaries as Georgia O'Keeffe, Margaret Mead, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Anne Hutchinson, Phillis Wheatley, Margaret Fuller, and Rose Schneiderman, to name a few.

Named a notable book of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review, Chicago Tribune, Time, and The Guardian In eight highly praised treatises on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom turns her chosen form into a showcase for her critical dexterity, investigating everything from Saturday Night Live, LinkedIn, and BBQ Becky to sexual violence, infant mortality, and Trump rallies.

Colored No More’s Treva B. Lindsey presents New Negro womanhood as a multidimensional space that included race women, blues women, mothers, white collar professionals, beauticians, fortune tellers, sex workers, same-gender couples, artists, activists, and innovators. Drawing from these differing but interconnected African American women's spaces, Lindsey excavates a multifaceted urban and cultural history of struggle toward a vision of equality that could emerge and sustain itself.

The never-before-told story of the United States women's military corps. Using interviews, correspondence, and diaries, as well as archival material, Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee tell the remarkable story of America's few good women who today make up more than 15 percent of the U.S. armed forces and who serve alongside men in almost every capacity.

Introduction -- Structures of work and family -- The structure of a military career: organizational, cultural, and interpersonal challenges -- Career women in executive positions -- Women in the military -- Case study: Lieutenant General Claudia J. Kennedy, U.S. Army -- Methodology -- Who are the women who have broken through the brass ceiling? -- Perceptions of success by elite military women --