From Abolition to Rights for All–Now Available
10/01/2007
From Abolition to Rights for All: The Making of a Reform Community in the Nineteenth Century John T. Cumbler 280 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4026-9… READ MORE
Category: Gender and Sexuality Studies
Delanceyplace.com Quotes Susan Smulyan on Legs
09/24/2007
Susan Smulyan’s discussion of the meaning of legs in Popular Ideologies has caught the attention of Delancyplace.
Revolutionary Backlash–Now Available
09/21/2007
Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic Rosemarie Zagarri 248 pages | 6 x 9 | 13 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4027-6 | $39.95 | £26.00… READ MORE
History Matters–Now in Paperback
08/30/2007
History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism Judith M. Bennett 224 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Cloth 2006 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3946-1 | $49.95 | £32.50 Paper 2007… READ MORE
ALA’s “Best of the Best” on C-SPAN’s BookTV
07/27/2007
The American Library Association’s "The Best of the Best of the University Presses: Books You Should Know About" presentation, which took place on June 24th at the annual ALA conference… READ MORE
Bardsley’s Venomous Tongues Takes Berks Book Prize
06/25/2007
Penn Press is proud to announce that Venomous Tongues: Speech and Gender in Late Medieval England is a co-winner of the 2006 First Book Prize of the Berkshire Conference of… READ MORE
Feminist Anthropology–Now in Paperback
06/20/2007
Feminist Anthropology: Past, Present, and Future Pamela L. Geller and Miranda K. Stockett, Editors. Foreword by Louise Lamphere 248 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2006 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3940-9 |… READ MORE
Abraham in Arms–Now in Paperback
06/20/2007
Abraham in Arms: War and Gender in Colonial New England Ann M. Little 272 pages | 6 x 9 | 17 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3965-2 | $45.00 |… READ MORE
American Ethnologist Review of Female Circumcision
06/11/2007
American Ethnologist calls Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives, edited by Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, "a provocative book, clearly written for both general and scholarly audiences" and "a respectful dialog that yet presses… READ MORE
Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life–Now Available
06/04/2007
Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life Deirdre David 376 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 35 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4023-8 | $39.95 | £26.00 "Fanny Kemble played… READ MORE
