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: Health, Medicine & Caregiving
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
Alicia Ely Yamin: Why I am donating my book’s royalties to Partners in Health
09/24/2020
Today, we have a guest post from Alicia Ely Yamin, author of Power, Suffering, and the Struggle for Dignity: Human Rights Frameworks for Health and Why They Matter. Yamin's book… READ MORE
Challenging Inaction, Sustaining Life: South African HIV/AIDS Activism and the COVID-19 Pandemic
04/17/2020
Today, we have a guest post from Theodore Powers, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Global Health Studies Program at the University of Iowa and author of… READ MORE
A Silent Embrace of “The Middle Ages” Under COVID-19
03/24/2020
Today, we have a guest post from G. Geltner, Professor of History at the University of Amsterdam and author of Roads to Health: Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval… 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
Announcing Penn Press’s Fall 2019 catalog!
08/09/2019
Exciting new titles this season include: Her Neighbor’s Wife by Lauren Jae Gutterman, which traces the stories of hundreds of women who struggled to balance marriage and same-sex desire in… READ MORE
Getting Naked Outside to Feel Good Inside: Nude Summer Travel
08/06/2019
Today's guest post comes to us from Sarah Schrank, Professor of History at California State University, Long Beach and author of Free and Natural: Nudity and the American Cult of… READ MORE
Announcing Penn Press’s Spring 2019 catalog!
02/14/2019
Exciting new titles this season include: Force and Freedom by Kellie Carter Jackson, which provides the first historical analysis exclusively focused on the tactical use of violence among antebellum black… READ MORE
Nutrition Guidelines and “Nanny States”: Government Power and Citizen Health
05/30/2018
Today we have a guest post from Rachel Louise Moran, Assistant Professor in History at the University of North Texas and author of Governing Bodies: American Politics and the Shaping of the… READ MORE
