The following book review from H-Disability may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Encarnación Juárez Almendros
Reviewer:
Kristy Wilson Bowers
Encarnación Juárez Almendros. Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature: Prostitutes, Aging Women and Saints. Cambridge: Liverpool University Press, 2018. 216 pp. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78694-078-0.
The following book review from H-Japan may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Laura Miller, Rebecca L. Copeland, eds.
Reviewer:
E. T. Atkins
Laura Miller, Rebecca L. Copeland, eds. Diva Nation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018. xvii + 242 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-29773-9.
The following book review from H-Poland may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Sophie Hodorowicz Knab
Reviewer:
Daniel Logemann
Sophie Hodorowicz Knab. Wearing the Letter P: Polish Women as Forced Laborers in Nazi Germany, 1939-1945. New York: Hippocrene Books, 2016. ix + 293 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7818-1359-4.
The following book review from H-Socialisms may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
Reviewer:
Jack A W Bowman
Siobhan Lambert-Hurley. Elusive Lives: Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia. South Asia in Motion Series. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018. 296 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-0651-7; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-0480-3.
The following book review from JHistory may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Karen Roggenkamp
Reviewer:
Randall Sumpter
Karen Roggenkamp. Sympathy, Madness, and Crime: How Four Nineteenth-Century Journalists Made the Newspaper Women's Business. Kent: Kent State University Press, 2016. 184 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-60635-287-8.
Reviewed by Randall Sumpter (Texas A&M University) Published on Jhistory (July, 2019) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
The following book review from H-Early-America may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Jeanne E. Abrams
Reviewer:
Joanne S. Grasso
Jeanne E. Abrams. First Ladies of the Republic: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the Creation of an Iconic American Role.New York: New York University Press, 2018. 328 pp. $28.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4798-8653-1.
The following book review from H-War may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Margaret D. Sankey
Reviewer:
Heather M. Stur
Margaret D. Sankey. Women and War in the 21st Century: A Country-by-Country Guide. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2018. xxxiii + 319 pp. $61.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4408-5765-2; $61.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4408-5766-9.
The following book review from H-AMCA may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Sylvia Agémian
Reviewer:
Kareem Estefan
Sylvia Agémian. Afaf Zurayk: Journeys. Beirut: Twig Collaborative/Saleh Barakat Gallery, 2019. 96 pp.
Reviewed by Kareem Estefan (Brown University)
Published on H-AMCA (May, 2019)
Commissioned by Jessica Gerschultz (University of Kansas)
The following book review from H-Nationalism may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Mehammed Amadeus Mack
Reviewer:
Bogdan Popa
Mehammed Amadeus Mack. Sexagon: Muslims, France, and the Sexualization of National Culture. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017. 344 pp. $27.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8232-7461-1; $100.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8232-7460-4.
The following book review from H-Disability may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Asha Hans, ed.
Reviewer:
Shubhangi G. Mehrotra
Asha Hans, ed. Disability, Gender, and the Trajectories of Power. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2015. 292 pp. $16.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-93-5150123-7.
Reviewed by Shubhangi G. Mehrotra (University at Buffalo SUNY) Published on H-Disability (April, 2019) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)
The following book review from H-War may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Antony Eastmond
Reviewer:
Karen Carr
Antony Eastmond. Tamta's World: The Life and Encounters of a Medieval Noblewoman from the Middle East to Mongolia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 480 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-16756-8.
Reviewed by Karen Carr (Portland State University) Published on H-War (April, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)
The following book review from H-Empire may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Sumita Mukherjee
Reviewer:
Tracey Rizzo
Sumita Mukherjee. Indian Suffragettes: Female Identities and Transnational Networks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xvi + 292 pages. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-948421-8.
The following book review from H-War may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Andrew Orr
Reviewer:
Abigail Lewis
Andrew Orr. Women and the French Army during the World Wars, 1914-1940. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017. xxvi + 192 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-02677-4; $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-02630-9.
The following book review from H-War may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Mary Elizabeth Ailes
Reviewer:
Lauren Swift
Mary Elizabeth Ailes. Courage and Grief: Women and Sweden's Thirty Years' War. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017. 234 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4962-0086-0.
Reviewed by Lauren Swift (Rutgers) Published on H-War (February, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)
Although Kroeger's book is the only one to focus in entirety on men, esp. the Men’s League for Women’s Suffrage, two other books from 2017, have chapters where they situate the topic in larger studies of suffrage in New York (2017 marked the 100th anniversary of suffrage referendum passing in NY).
See:
Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites who Fought for Women's Right to Vote by Johanna Neuman--by a former journalist (so well written). @JohannaWriter
and
Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State by Susan Goodier and Karen Pastorello
The following book review from H-LatAm may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Jessica L. Delgado
Reviewer:
Karen Graubart
Jessica L. Delgado. Laywomen and the Making of Colonial Catholicism in New Spain, 1630-1790. Cambridge Latin American Studies Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xiii + 278 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-19940-8.
The following book review from H-SHGAPE may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Brooke Kroeger
Reviewer:
Kristina Graves
Brooke Kroeger. The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote. Albany: Excelsior Editions, 2017. 390 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-6629-3; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4384-6630-9.
The following book review from H-SHGAPE may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Roger Gilles
Reviewer:
Samantha White
Roger Gilles. Women on the Move: The Forgotten Era of Women's Bicycle Racing. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018. Illustrations. 360 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4962-0417-2; $29.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4962-1041-8.
The following book review from H-SAWH may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Leigh Fought
Reviewer:
Stephanie J. Richmond
Leigh Fought. Women in the World of Frederick Douglass. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 424 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-978237-6.
The following book review from H-Italy may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Brian S. Pullan
Reviewer:
Thomas J. Kuehn
Brian S. Pullan. Tolerance, Regulation and Rescue: Dishonoured Women and Abandoned Children in Italy, 1300-1800. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016. x + 240 pp. $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78499-129-6.
The following book review from H-War may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Eileen Rivers
Reviewer:
Tanya L. Roth
Eileen Rivers. Beyond the Call: Three Women on the Front Lines in Afghanistan. New York: Da Capo Press, 2018. 288 pp. $27.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-306-90307-6.
Reviewed by Tanya L. Roth (Independent Scholar) Published on H-War (January, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)
The following book review from JHistory may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Judith Ann Giesberg
Reviewer:
Eric Walls
Judith Ann Giesberg. Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 152 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-3127-1.
Reviewed by Eric Walls (East Carolina University) Published on Jhistory (January, 2019) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe
The following book review from JHistory may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Elizabeth Groeneveld
Reviewer:
Donna Harrington-Lueker
Elizabeth Groeneveld. Making Feminist Media: Third-Wave Magazines on the Cusp of the Digital Age. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2015. 250 pp. $36.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-77112-120-0.
The following book review from H-SHGAPE may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Lynn Dumenil
Reviewer:
Kara Dixon Vuic
Lynn Dumenil. The Second Line of Defense: American Women and World War I. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 360 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-3121-9.
The following book review from H-Texas may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Debbie M. Liles, Angela Boswell, eds.
Reviewer:
Rebekah Crowe
Debbie M. Liles, Angela Boswell, eds. Women in Civil War Texas: Diversity and Dissidence in the Trans-Mississippi. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2016. Illustrations, maps. 336 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57441-651-0.
The following book review from H-War may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Leslie Peirce
Reviewer:
Gemma Masson
Leslie Peirce. Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire. New York: Basic Books, 2017. 368 pp. $32.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-03251-8.
The following book review from H-War may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Sarah Gristwood
Reviewer:
Nikki Shepardson
Sarah Gristwood. Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe. New York: Basic Books, 2016. Illustrations. 400 pp. $28.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-09678-7.
The following book review from H-SHERA may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Hannah Priest, ed.
Reviewer:
Svitlana Krys
Hannah Priest, ed. She-wolf: A Cultural History of Female Werewolves. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. 231 pp. $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5261-1689-5.
The following book review from H-Disability may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Ilana Löwy
Reviewer:
Marion Schmidt
Ilana Löwy. Imperfect Pregnancies: A History of Birth Defects and Prenatal Diagnosis. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. pp. (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-4214-2363-0.
The following book review from H-HistSex may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Martin Ingram
Reviewer:
Brodie Waddell
Martin Ingram. Carnal Knowledge: Regulating Sex in England, 1470-1600. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 340 pp. $34.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-316-63173-7.
The following book review from H-LatAm may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Lorraine Bayard de Volo
Reviewer:
Jennifer Triplett
Lorraine Bayard de Volo. Women and the Cuban Insurrection: How Gender Shaped Castro's Victory. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xi + 272 pp. $24.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-316-63084-6.
The following book review from H-Judiac may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Maddy Carey
Reviewer:
Bjorn Krondorfer
Maddy Carey. Jewish Masculinity in the Holocaust: Between Destruction and Construction. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. 224 pp. $114.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-350-00806-9.
The following book review from JHistory may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Jane M. Gaines
Reviewer:
Marisa Stickel
Jane M. Gaines. Pink-Slipped: What Happened to the Women in the Silent Film Industries? Women and Film History International Series. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018. Illustrations. 328 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-08343-3; $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-04181-5.
The following book review from H-Poland may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Keely Stauter-Halsted
Reviewer:
David Petruccelli
Keely Stauter-Halsted. The Devil's Chain: Prostitution and Social Control in Partitioned Poland. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015. 392 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8014-5419-6.
The following book review from H-War may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Ada Gobetti
Reviewer:
Allison Belzer
Ada Gobetti. Partisan Diary: A Woman's Life in the Italian Resistance. Translated and edited by Jomarie Alano. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 358 pp. $38.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-938054-1.
The following book review from H-Diplo may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci
Reviewer:
Aya Homei
Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci. Contraceptive Diplomacy: Reproductive Politics and Imperial Ambitions in the United States and Japan. Asian America Series. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018. 336 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-0440-7; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-0225-0.
The following book review from H-LatAm may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Lisa Sousa
Reviewer:
Susana E. Matallana Peláez
Lisa Sousa. The Woman Who Turned into a Jaguar, and Other Narratives of Native Women in Archives of Colonial Mexico. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017. 424 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-5640-2.
The following book review from H-Diplo may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Jerri Bell, Tracy Crow, eds.
Reviewer:
Tanya L. Roth
Jerri Bell, Tracy Crow, eds. It's My Country Too: Women's Military Stories from the American Revolution to Afghanistan. Potomac Books, 2017. xxi + 330 pp. Illustrations. $32.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61234-831-5.
The following book review from H-German may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Zoë Waxman
Reviewer:
Laura J. Hilton
Zoë Waxman. Women in the Holocaust: A Feminist History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 181 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-960868-3.
Reviewed by Laura J. Hilton (Muskingum University) Published on H-German (October, 2018) Commissioned by Nathan N. Orgill
The following book review from H-Socialisms may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
David A. Rubin
Reviewer:
Andrija Filipovic
David A. Rubin. Intersex Matters: Biomedical Embodiment, Gender Regulation, and Transnational Activism. Albany: State University of New York Press (SUNY), 2017. 224 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-6755-9.
The following book review from H-Disability may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Eunjung Kim
Reviewer:
Shu Wan
Eunjung Kim. Curative Violence: Rehabilitating Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Korea. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. Illustrations. xii + 300 pp. $25.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-6288-3; $99.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-6277-7.
The following book review from H-LatAm may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Nancy E. Van Deusen
Reviewer:
Gabrielle Greenlee
Nancy E. Van Deusen. Embodying the Sacred: Women Mystics in Seventeenth-Century Lima. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. 280 pp. $94.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-6989-9; $25.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-6995-0.
The following book review from H-Midwest may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Sara Egge
Reviewer:
Chelsea Griffis
Sara Egge. Woman Suffrage and Citizenship in the Midwest, 1870-1920. Iowa City: University Of Iowa Press, 2018. 242 pp. $85.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-60938-557-6.
Reviewed by Chelsea Griffis (University of Toledo) Published on H-Midwest (September, 2018) Commissioned by Dustin McLochlin (Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums)
The following book review from H-Diplo may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Keisha N. Blain
Reviewer:
Nicholas Grant
Keisha N. Blain. Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom. Politics and Culture in Modern America Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 264 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-4988-0.
The following book review from H-War may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Dawson on Malcolmson and Malcolmson, 'A Shop Assistant in Wartime: The Dewsbury Diary of Kathleen Hey, 1941-1945'Author:
Patricia Malcolmson, Robert Malcolmson, eds.
Reviewer:
Sandra Dawson
The following book review from H-Judaic may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Rachel S. Harris
Reviewer:
David Hadar
Rachel S. Harris. Warriors, Witches, Whores: Women in Israeli Cinema. Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies Series. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2017. 336 pp. $35.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8143-3967-1.
The following book review from H-Asia may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
Jairam Ramesh
Reviewer:
Vinita Damodaran
Jairam Ramesh. Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature. New Delhi: Simon & Shuster, 2017. 464 pp. $28.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-81-933552-4-4.
Reviewed by Vinita Damodaran (University of Sussex) Published on H-Asia (August, 2018) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
The following book review from H-California may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Author:
J. E. Smyth
Reviewer:
Amanda Konkle
J. E. Smyth. Nobody's Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 328 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-084082-2.
Reviewed by Amanda Konkle (Georgia Southern University) Published on H-California (August, 2018) Commissioned by Khal Schneider
The following book review from H-Empire may be of interest to some H-Women list members.
Beatty on Rizzo and Gerontakis, 'Intimate Empires: Body, Race, and Gender in the Modern World'Author:
Tracey Rizzo, Steven Gerontakis, eds.
Reviewer:
Aidan Beatty
Tracey Rizzo, Steven Gerontakis, eds. Intimate Empires: Body, Race, and Gender in the Modern World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 424 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-997834-2.
