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In Her Hands

The Education of Jewish Girls in Tsarist Russia

Eliyana R. Adler

Illuminates the role that private schools for Jewish girls played in Russian Jewish society and documents their influence on contemporary political discourse and educational innovation.

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Available August 2024
ISBN: 9780814334928
$46.99
eBOOK
Available August 2024
ISBN: 9780814336854

Dear Department Chair

Letters from Black Women Leaders to the Next Generation

Edited by Stephanie Y. Evans, Stephanie Shonekan, and Stephanie G. Adams; Foreword by Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole

A wellspring of wisdom from Black women leaders in higher education for the next generation.

Paperback
Published: September 2023
ISBN: 9780814350744
$24.99
eBOOK
Published: September 2023
ISBN: 9780814350751

Memory Spaces

Visualizing Identity in Jewish Women's Graphic Narratives

Victoria Aarons

Jewish identity, memory, and place deftly revealed through the lens of Jewish women's graphic narratives.

Paperback
Published: May 2023
ISBN: 9780814349144
$38.99
Hardcover
Published: May 2023
ISBN: 9780814349151
$94.99
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Published: May 2023
ISBN: 9780814349168
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Jewish Women's History from Antiquity to the Present

Edited by Federica Francesconi and Rebecca Lynn Winer

A survey of Jewish women’s history from biblical times to the twenty-first century.

Paperback
Published: November 2021
ISBN: 9780814346310
$49.99
Hardcover
Published: November 2021
ISBN: 9780814346303
$99.99
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Published: November 2021
ISBN: 9780814346327

Heirs of Yesterday

Emma Wolf
Edited with an Introduction by Barbara Cantalupo and Lori Harrison-Kahan

A reissue of the controversial novel about middle-class Jewish life in Old San Francisco.

Paperback
Published: November 2020
ISBN: 9780814346686
$29.99
Hardcover
Published: November 2020
ISBN: 9780814346679
$84.99
eBOOK
Published: November 2020
ISBN: 9780814346693

The Golden Girls

Kate Browne

A feminist approach to America’s four best friends.

Paperback
Published: May 2020
ISBN: 9780814345641
$19.99
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Published: May 2020
ISBN: 9780814345658
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Northern Harvest

Twenty Michigan Women in Food and Farming

Emita Brady Hill

Pays tribute to the women behind the local, sustainable, and quality foods of northwestern Michigan.

Paperback
Published: May 2020
ISBN: 9780814347133
$26.99
eBOOK
Published: May 2020
ISBN: 9780814347140

The Superwoman and Other Writings by Miriam Michelson

Edited with an Introduction by Lori Harrison-Kahan

Collection of articles and fiction by pioneering journalist and turn-of-the-twentieth-century feminist, Miriam Michelson.

Paperback
Published: May 2019
ISBN: 9780814343579
$36.99
Hardcover
Published: May 2019
ISBN: 9780814346082
$84.99
eBOOK
Published: May 2019
ISBN: 9780814343586

Concrete Boxes

Mizrahi Women on Israel's Periphery

Pnina Motzafi-Haller
With a Foreword by Virginia R. Dominguez

Evocative feminist ethnography focused on the rarely documented lives of Mizrahi women in a marginalized Israeli community.

Paperback
Published: August 2018
ISBN: 9780814340592
$36.99
Hardcover
Published: August 2018
ISBN: 9780814344422
$64.99
eBOOK
Published: August 2018
ISBN: 9780814340608

Comic Venus

Women and Comedy in American Silent Film

Kristen Anderson Wagner

Examines the social and historical significance of women’s contributions to American silent film comedy.

Paperback
Published: March 2018
ISBN: 9780814341025
$29.99
Hardcover
Published: March 2018
ISBN: 9780814345290
$84.99
eBOOK
Published: March 2018
ISBN: 9780814341032

Warriors, Witches, Whores

Women in Israeli Cinema

Rachel S. Harris

Feminist reading of women’s representation and activism in Israeli cinema.

Paperback
Published: November 2017
ISBN: 9780814339671
$35.99
eBOOK
Published: November 2017
ISBN: 9780814339688

Cinderella across Cultures

New Directions and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Edited by Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère, Gillian Lathey, Monika Wozniak

Examines the tale of Cinderella as a fascinating, multilayered, and ever-changing story constantly reinvented in different media and traditions.

Paperback
Published: June 2016
ISBN: 9780814341551
$34.99
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Published: June 2016
ISBN: 9780814341568
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Great Girls in Michigan History

Patricia Majher

For young readers, a diverse collection of biographical sketches of twenty notable young women with ties to Michigan.

Paperback
Published: March 2015
ISBN: 9780814340738
$19.99
eBOOK
Published: March 2015
ISBN: 9780814340745

"To Tread on New Ground"

Selected Hebrew Writings of Hava Shapiro

Edited by Carole B. Balin and Wendy I. Zierler

A selection of the path-breaking feminist writings of Hava Shapiro (1878–1943), one of the first women writers to contribute to modern Hebrew literature.

Paperback
Published: December 2014
ISBN: 9780814338698
$36.99
eBOOK
Published: December 2014
ISBN: 9780814338704

Jewish Women Writers in Britain

Edited by Nadia Valman

Explores the long and rich history of Jewish women writers in Britain from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.

Paperback
Published: December 2014
ISBN: 9780814332382
$31.99
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Published: December 2014
ISBN: 9780814339145
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Erotic Infidelities

Love and Enchantment in Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber

Kimberly J. Lau

Explores the peculiar enchantments at the heart of Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Carter’s commitment to imagining unforeseen possibilities for heterosexual love and desire.

Paperback
Published: December 2014
ISBN: 9780814339336
$31.99
eBOOK
Published: December 2014
ISBN: 9780814339343

Aesthetics of Sorrow

The Wailing Culture of Yemenite Jewish Women

Tova Gamliel

Investigates the socio-cultural, psychological, and philosophical aspects of the Yemenite Jewish wailing tradition in modern Israel.

Hardcover
Published: April 2014
ISBN: 9780814334768
$56.99
eBOOK
Published: April 2014
ISBN: 9780814339756

The L Word

Margaret T. McFadden

Explores representational strategies in the groundbreaking series The L Word.

Paperback
Published: February 2014
ISBN: 9780814338247
$19.99
eBOOK
Published: February 2014
ISBN: 9780814338254

Reading, Translating, Rewriting

Angela Carter's Translational Poetics

Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère

Uncovers the neglected role of translation in Angela Carter's fairy-tale-inspired fiction.

Paperback
Published: November 2013
ISBN: 9780814336342
$31.99
eBOOK
Published: November 2013
ISBN: 9780814336359

Paths to Middle-Class Mobility among Second-Generation Moroccan Immigrant Women in Israel

Beverly Mizrachi

Investigates class mobility in a group of 40­­-50-year-old second-generation Moroccan immigrant women, members of a subordinate ethnic group in Israel.

Hardcover
Published: May 2013
ISBN: 9780814338810
$49.99
eBOOK
Published: May 2013
ISBN: 9780814338582

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