Highlights from Our Women’s History Month Collection!
03/15/2023
March is Women’s History Month, and Penn Press is marking the occasion by offering 40% off all books in our collection of books in women’s history and studies that we have… READ MORE
Category: Gender and Sexuality Studies
“Don’t Say Gay” and the History of Privacy
06/10/2022
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride Month is currently celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan. In observance of… READ MORE
Women Healers: Always Essential Medical Workers
03/08/2022
In honor of Women’s History Month, Penn Press is excited to share a new blog post from Susan Brandt, author of Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia. Coming this… READ MORE
Announcing Penn Press’s Spring 2021 catalog!
03/04/2021
Exciting new titles this season include: • An Illustrated Business History of the United States by Richard Vague, a sweeping, lively, and highly approachable history of American business from the nation’s… READ MORE
Announcing Penn Press’s Fall 2020 catalog!
09/02/2020
Exciting new titles this season include: • In Defense of Populism by Donald T. Critchlow, which argues, contrary to contemporary warnings about the dangers of populism, that grassroots activism is essential… READ MORE
The Real Housewives of Medieval France
02/18/2020
Today, we have a guest post from Noah D. Guynn, Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis and author of Pure Filth: Ethics, Politics, and… READ MORE
Announcing Penn Press’s Spring 2020 catalog!
02/14/2020
Exciting new titles this season include: Bank Notes and Shinplasters by Joshua R. Greenberg, which shows how Americans accumulated and wielded monetary information in order to navigate the early republic's… READ MORE
The Secret History of Lesbian Desire in Postwar American Marriage
01/14/2020
Today we have a guest post from Lauren Jae Gutterman, who teaches American studies at the University of Texas at Austin and is author of Her Neighbor's Wife: A History… READ MORE
Exploring the Politics of Marriage in the Nineteenth Century
12/02/2019
Today, we have an exciting and topical guest post from Carol Faulkner, Professor of History at Syracuse University and author of Unfaithful: Love, Adultery, and Marriage Reform in Nineteenth-Century America…. READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: New books for fall
09/26/2019
With fall weather slowly creeping in and the school year starting up, it's the perfect time to check out Penn Press's new releases in fields like literature, American history, legal… READ MORE
